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''Reflections'' ( sh, Već viđeno, Already seen; also known as ''Deja Vu'') is a 1987 Yugoslav
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drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
film directed by
Goran Marković Goran Marković ( sr-cyr, Горан Марковић, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. ...
and starring
Mustafa Nadarević Mustafa Nadarević (2 May 1943 – 22 November 2020) was a Bosnian and Croatian actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors from the former Yugoslavia, he starred in over 70 films, including ''The Smell of Quinces'' (1982), ''When Father ...
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Anica Dobra Anica Dobra ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Добра; born June 3, 1963) is a Serbian film and theatre actress. Early life and education Dobra was born on June 3, 1963, in Belgrade, where she completed primary education before moving to Frankfurt on M ...
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Milorad Mandić Milorad Mandić Manda ( sr-cyr, Милорад Мандић; 3 May 1961 – 15 June 2016) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films during his career. Biography At the age of 21, he became a member of the Belgrade Amateur Exper ...
and
Petar Božović Petar "Pera" Božović ( sr, Петар Божовић; born 22 May 1946) is a Serbian actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theat ...
. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
at the
60th Academy Awards The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time Zone, PDT. During the ceremon ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.


Plot

A mentally disturbed middle-aged musician falls in love with an attractive young girl. Mihailo, once a brilliant young
pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
, is now a piano teacher at an educational center. His colleagues consider him an oddball, but they leave him alone to live his lonely life. Everything changes when a young girl appears at his school. Contact with her, a new, erotically intense life, causes a strange phenomenon in him - as he has seen it all once before. Namely, the situations he experiences seem repeated to him. His trauma, the piano, causes painful emotions and pathological fear, a fusion of past and present, pushing him into tragedy.


Legacy

The film was listed as one of the
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's top 100 European horror films.


See also

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List of submissions to the 60th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 60th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
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List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film This is the list of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture pr ...


References


External links


Deja Vu Trailer
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