Who's Singin' Over There?

Who's Singin' Over There?

1980 · 86 min · ★ 7.5 · Drama, Comedy, Adventure

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.

Directed by Slobodan Šijan · Written by Dušan Kovačević

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