KUD PLOVI OVAJ BROD

Yugoslavia - Slovenia - Hungary 1998 / 35 mm / Color / 91 min.

WANDERLUST Giuseppe has retired after working many years in Italy and Germany. He returns to his mother's house in Istria. He is lonely and his mother urges him to get married. She dresses him in his father's old Austro-Hungarian army uniform and he sets off eastwards hoping that as an Italian he will be given a warm welcome. He travels across Hungary and Yugoslavia but the only people he meets want something from him. In Budapest he finds accommodation in a private guest-house whose landlady immediately sees him as a marriage opportunity. Atilla, a con artist who promises jobs and work permits in the Western countries, is also interested, and another businessman wants to start a travel agency with Giuseppe in Montenegro. Giuseppe is willing to go, He is interested in seeing the palace of King Nikola, whose daughter Elena was married to Victor Emmanuel III, the last king of Italy. There Giuseppe falls in love with a lady who works as a museum guard, but the relationship lasts only until she finds out he served in Mussolini's army during World War II. Giuseppe returns to Hungary, gets into trouble with Atilla, and crosses the border into northern Yugoslavia with his new friend Djordje, one of Atilla's victims. Once again Giuseppe falls in love -- with Djordje's ex-wife. The trio set off for Istria where Djordje will be given Giuseppe's vineyard in exchange for Djordje's ex-wife. At least that's the plan. But Giuseppe's plans have a habit of going seriously awry...

Script:  Zelimir Zilnik.    Phot.:  Miodrag Milosevic.    Ed.:  Branislav Klasnja.    Mus.:  The Tiger Lillies.^MInt./Cast: Giuseppe Pastorchich, Jovan Kiselicki, Gordana Kamenarovic, Zoran Hajduk Veljkovic, Ljubica Rakic, Branislav Popovic, Jelena Jovanovic Zigon, Hanibal Kovac, Tamara Popovic, Emma Doro.    Prod.:  Zelimir Zilnik, Sarita Matijevic,Terra Film, Futoska 66, 21000 Novi Sad (Yougoslavie), t�l.: (38-1) 21 20 992, fax: (38-1) 21 20 992, e-mail: [email protected] / VP Kregar, Kranoceva Cesta 22, 1000 Ljubljana (Slov�nie), t�l.: (38-6) 61 236 28    41, fax:  (38-6) 61 23 62 890, e-mail: [email protected] / Teresianum b.t., Budapest    Sales:  Terra Film.

Zelimir Zilnik Born in Nis, Yugoslavia in 1942, Zelimir Zilnik studied law, began making amateur films, and then apprenticed as assistant director to Dusan Makavejev. After a few short documentaries (including Unemployed People, which won the grand prize at Oberhausen in 1968), Zilnik directed his first fiction feature, EARLY WORKS which won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1969, but was banned in Yugoslavia. He worked for independent companies in Europe, in the theatre and in various video media. Among his features are: FREEDOM OF COMICS (1971), THE PARADISE (1976), THE SECOND GENERATION (1983), PRETTY WOMEN WALKING THROUGH THE TOWN (1986), HOW THE STEEL WAS TEMPERED (1988) and MARBLE ASS (1995), shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.

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