An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
Acting
Dragomir Bojanić's domineering father is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
Writing
Script weaponizes communist jargon into pure comedy gold.
Direction
Babić balances state critique with genuinely moving family drama.
Director
Vuk Babić
Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić
Života Cvijović
Petar Božović
Blagoje
Branislav Lečić
Milorad Cvijović
Zoran Cvijanović
Velimir Pavlović
Jasmina Avramović
Klara
Petar Kralj
Profesor Radosavljević
Branko Milićević
Drug Spasojević
Sonja Savić
Slavka
Maja Sabljić
Sekretarica Marica
Georgi Kaloyanchev
Profesor Reiser
Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Drugarica Draga
Ljiljana Šljapić
Supruga druga Saveznog sekretara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's final years, the film captures a society where communist rhetoric had become hollow performance—everyone reciting ideology nobody believed.
The title itself is a sly joke: 'Balkan Mass-Media Sciences' refers to a fake, useless degree the father considers prestigious, mocking how socialist states manufactured empty credentials as status symbols.
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