A communist army sitcom where everyone's too busy vibing to fight capitalism properly.
Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestMore or less happy adventures of a Yugoslav People's Army unit, a friendly batch that couldn't be more ethnically diverse.
Acting
Balašević's 'Lala' — a folk singer playing soldier, unbothered.
Production
Propaganda that accidentally became cozy television.
Creator
Stjepan Zaninović
Đorđe Balašević
Stojšin 'Lala'
Milutin 'Mima' Karadžić
Božo Brajović 'Njegoš'
Pavle Vuisić
Jokaš
Ružica Sokić
Građanka
Stole Aranđelović
Zastavnik Desimir Marković
Vladan Živković
Kapetan
Vojislav Mirić
Major
Ljiljana Blagojević
Vesna
Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević
Građanin sa zalihama
Radmila Savićević
Građanka
Dragomir Čumić
Kolaboracionista
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aired March 1980, weeks before Tito's death — effectively a final broadcast of 'Brotherhood and Unity' ideology before Yugoslavia's collapse.
Đorđe Balašević was already Yugoslavia's biggest folk-rock star; his casting as lazy conscript Lala was like Bruce Springsteen doing a sitcom.
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