''The Bizarre Country'' ( sr, italic=yes, Neka čudna zemlja, Нека чудна земља) is a

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former Yugoslav Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

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 ...

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

based on the

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or e ...

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...

s ''Stradija'' and ''Danga'', written by

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n writer

Radoje Domanović Radoje Domanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радоје Домановић; February 16, 1873 – August 17, 1908) was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories. His adult years were a constant fight against tuberculosis. ...

Plot

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wanders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.

Cast

Lazar Ristovski Lazar "Laza" Ristovski ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Ристовски, born 26 October 1952) is a Serbian retired actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4,000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, ...

as The Traveler * Jasmina Avramović as The Blackhaired Girl *

Dragan Maksimović Dragan Maksimović ( sr-cyr, Драган Максимовић; 7 February 1949 – 4 February 2001) was a Serbian actor. Biography Maksimović (nicknamed Maks) performed in more than sixty theatrical plays, movies and TV productions, between 19 ...

as The Painter *

Enver Petrovci Enver Petrovci (born 28 February 1954 in Pristina) is a Kosovo-Albanian actor, writer and director. He went to high school in Prishtina and completed acting school in Belgrade. He played as Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Cesar and other famous Shake ...

as The New Chief of Police * Milija Vuković as The Old Chief of Police * Milutin Butković as The Higher Clerk of the Ministry *

Milenko Zablaćanski Milenko Zablaćanski, ( sr-cyr, Миленко Заблаћански), (Bogatić, Serbia, — Belgrade, Serbia, ), was a Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter. Career Zablaćanski graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Belgr ...

as The Guitarist * Branislav Platiša as The Violinist *

Živojin Milenković Živojin "Žika" Milenković ( sr-cyr, Живојин "Жика" Миленковић: 26 January 1928 - 18 March 2008) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1959 to 2004. Selected filmography References Exte ...

as The Minister of Agriculture *

Branko Pleša Branko Pleša ( sr-cyr, Бранко Плеша; 6 March 1926 – 9 June 2001) was a Serbian actor and theatre director. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1949 to 1998. Filmography References External links * 1926 births 2001 ...

as The Minister of the Foreign Affairs *

Dragoljub Milosavljević Dragoljub ( sr-cyr, Драгољуб) is a Serbian masculine given name, derived from Slavic ''-drag, drag-'' ("dear, beloved") and ''ljub'' ("love, to like"), both very common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "dear love". It may refer ...

as The Minister of Finance * Spiro Guberina as The Minister of The Inner Affairs *

Gordana Gadžić Gordana Gadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Гордана Гаџић; born 21 August 1955) is a Serbian actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * 1955 births Living people Actre ...

as The Painter's Sister *

Mihajlo Viktorović Mihajlo ( sr-cyr, Михајло) is the Serbian variant of the name ''Michael'', predominantly borne by ethnic Serbs. It is also spelled Mihailo (Михаило) and Mijailo (Мијаило). ;Science *Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian physicist *Mihajlo ...

as The Minister of Economy * Karlo Molnar as The Courier of the Ministry

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* 1988 films Serbian fantasy drama films 1980s Serbian-language films 1980s fantasy drama films Yugoslav fantasy drama films 1988 drama films {{fantasy-film-stub

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