A communist returns to Serbia with revolution in his heart and tragedy in his bones.
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Acting
Berček's haunted eyes carry entire decades of disillusionment.
Direction
Radivojević fragments time like memory itself—beautiful and cruel.
Cinematography
Muted palettes that scream more than any revolutionary slogan.
Director
Miloš 'Miša' Radivojević
Aleksandar Berček
Filip Filipović
Milena Dravić
Draga Filipović
Rade Marković
Vasilije Filipović
Velimir Živojinović
Gazda Stanimirović
Dragomir Čumić
Gavra pinter
Josif Tatić
Ruski agent 1
Ivan Klemenc
Ruski agent 2
Predrag 'Preža' Milinković
Mile šuster
Miodrag 'Miki' Krstović
Nikola Kovačević
Predrag Ejdus
Ruski komunista
Dragomir Felba
Urednik u štampariji
Dušan Janićijević
Agent u vozu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filip Filipović was a real figure—Serbia's first communist mayor of Belgrade—making this a rare Yugoslav film that interrogates rather than celebrates its revolutionary heritage. Released during Tito's late socialist period, it barely veiled its critique of ideological exhaustion.
Radivojević shot the film's present-day framing sequences in washed-out color while keeping the revolutionary past in stark black-and-white—a visual choice that inverts typical nostalgia, suggesting the past was alive and the present is already ghostly.
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