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Cabaret Balkan

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On a harsh winter night in Belgrade, Serbia, an ex-con working as a taxi driver (Nebojsa Glogovac) has a series of bizarre encounters with tragic passengers from all walks of life, each a part of a patchwork of stories. Elsewhere, Ana (Mirjana Jokovic) survives a bus hijacking, only to find herself caught between a drug dealer and an angry boyfriend. And on the other side of town, passionate showman Boris (Nikola Ristanovski) struggles to entertain a tough crowd in a smoky cabaret.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Susan Stark Detroit News Rated: 3/4 Jun 18, 2002 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 3/4 Mar 19, 2002 Full Review Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Some vignettes work better than others, but their collective effect is nothing short of powerful. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 4, 2010 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid One of the most powerful movies of 1999. May 26, 2006 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 4/5 Aug 8, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Interrelated midnight stories about a bunch of unlikeable Balkan swines unfold simultaneously in the 1998 winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival. A heavy dose of tragedy, black humor, exaggerated drama, jealousy, crime and a rebellious youth rising against the system imposed over a long-time repressed nation explode (sometimes literally) while we are just taken aboard an unusual ride of unpredictable proportions and unbelievable moments featuring the endless, multifaceted idiocy of humankind. It's like a humble mashup of <i>Slacker</i> (1991), <i>Pulp Fiction</i> (1994) and Kusturica's chronological disorder, but with a smaller scope. It never mattered how theatrical or fantastical it began to get; at the end of the day, irrevocably, everything felt very human. 86/100 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member 100 minutes full of bloody delirums and explosions that the director would contraband as a complaint against the war in Yugoslavia or the alienation of the contemporary man...Unbearably boring after 30 minutes...Really not good sign for critics that most of them liked it... Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member "balkanlar dunyanin anusudur... surekli sicarlar"... ilginc bir ozelestiri... Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Another character-driven comedy by Paskaljevic that shows how the Balkans are a fucked up place. I should know, I live in Greece, right? More dark than his previous movies and smart as always. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Very well-acted and written, but directed with a heavy hand and shot in a way that makes me claustrophobic. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member one of those movies with no story to follow just short scenes focussing on different characters living in the city of belgrade (i had to look this up to discover it was in serbia!!) none of the characters are nice people and it's quite violent which i guess is an effect from all the wars; nobody really knows who to trust and everyone lashes out. the train scene freaked me out, but it was quite funny at times with the boxing, and the river scenes. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis On a harsh winter night in Belgrade, Serbia, an ex-con working as a taxi driver (Nebojsa Glogovac) has a series of bizarre encounters with tragic passengers from all walks of life, each a part of a patchwork of stories. Elsewhere, Ana (Mirjana Jokovic) survives a bus hijacking, only to find herself caught between a drug dealer and an angry boyfriend. And on the other side of town, passionate showman Boris (Nikola Ristanovski) struggles to entertain a tough crowd in a smoky cabaret.
Director
Goran Paskaljevic
Screenwriter
Dejan Dukovski, Goran Paskaljevic, Filip David, Zoran Andric
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Serbian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 23, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$108.1K
Runtime
1h 42m
Sound Mix
Surround
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