Ten years of 'temporary' living in one room with your sister-in-law's sister? Yugoslav bureaucracy is a comedy goldmine.
A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.
Acting
Ljubiša Samardžić's exhausted everyman carries the whole thing.
Writing
Turns housing crisis into genuine warmth without sentimentality.
Director
Milan Jelić
Ljubiša Samardžić
Siniša Pantić
Milena Dravić
Svetlana
Velimir Živojinović
Milutin
Vlasta Knezović
Kosara
Relja Bašić
Željko Gospodnetić
Neda Arnerić
Ružica
Milosav 'Mija' Aleksić
Direktor škole
Jelisaveta Sablić
Seka
Nikola Kojo
Ivan
Peter Carsten
Stranac u hotelu
Olivera Marković
Milutinova tašta
Milivoje 'Mića' Tomić
Stamatović
Božidar Pavićević 'Longa'
Marković
Dušan Janićijević
Matičar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's economic stagnation, the 'temporary worker' status mirrored real socialist labor policies that kept millions in professional limbo.
Milan Jelić was primarily a TV director; this rare theatrical feature captures a specific Belgrade apartment culture now vanished.
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