Vladimir
Films in Serbia 2: „Ko to tamo peva?“ (“Who's Singing Over There?”)

„Vozi Miško!“ (Drive on, Miško!) is a well known replica from the film. Serbian people use it almost daily, especially when they talk with a car or bus driver.

Miško is a not so bright young men, but a very good bus driver. His father and he own transportation enterprise ”Firma Krstić i sin” (Krstic and son enterprise), actually an old worn-out bus with coal engine.

On 5th of April, 1941, their bus with several passengers are trying to get to Belgrade. The people are very interesting: two Gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, a hunter with a rifle, a priest, and a pair of young newlyweds.

They are faced with numerous difficulties but they finally reach Belgrade at dawn of 6th April, only to be caught in the middle of the Luftwaffe raid.

Dusan Kovacevic, who wrote the screenplay for the film said: “This film is inspired by a true story. It is really a history fact that the bus arrived in Belgrade that day and it’s passengers had similar fate because they were determined to arrive in Belgrade.”

However, the true value of the film is the fact that people in Serbia are showed exactly as they are: they don’t like Gypsies and think all Gypsies are thieves; some people hate Germans, but the others adore them. Many of us don’t like to pay for a ticket, but at the same time we like to show off, even if that means we would pay much more than normally, and so on.

 

Sep 20, 2015 6:55 PM