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Placmajstori - Market People (1977) |
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Yugoslavia,
1977, 30 min, 16 mm, color
written and directed by: Zelimir Zilnik
camera: Ljubomir Becejski
edited by: Slobodan Jandric
production: TV Novi Sad
Fair in Šabac - the biggest of its kind in Yugoslavia, is a typical
Balkan celebration, lasting 3 days and 3 nights. Buying and selling of
cattle, cars, clothes, vine and brandy, surrounded by a chaos made of
folk music bands, singers and trumpeters. There is also a circus with
lions and elephants, magicians, gamblers, fortune tellers and frauds.
Zilniks portrays this world, showing both tragic and comic side of the culture
which forces those people to loose their control for 3 days, and then suffer
the whole year after.
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