The Bizarre Country is a 1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

 former Yugoslav drama

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

/fantasy

Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 based on the satirical

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

s Stradija and Danga, written by Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n writer Radoje Domanović

Radoje Domanovic

Radoje Domanović was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories. His few remaining years were a constant fight against consumption...

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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 wonders 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 Ristovski
  Lazar "Laza" Ristovski is a Serbian actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly in lead roles.-Biography:...
  
   as The Traveler
• Jasmina Avramović as The Blackhaired Girl
• Dragan Maksimović as The Painter
• Enver Petrovci
  Enver Petrovci
  Enver Petrovci is a Kosovar actor, writer and director. He went to high school in Pristina and completed acting school in Belgrade....
  
   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 Zablacanski
  Milenko Zablaćanski, , , was a Serbian actor, director, and playwright.-Career:...
  
   as The Guitarist
• Branislav Platiša as The Violinist
• Žika Milenković as The Minister of Agriculture
• Branko Pleša as The Minister of the Foreign Affairs
• Dragoljub Milosavljević as The Minister of Finance
• Spiro Guberina as The Minister of The Inner Affairs
• Gordana Gadžić as The Painter's Sister
• Mihajlo Viktorović as The Minister of Economy
• Karlo Molnar as The Courier of the Ministry