The Bizarre Country

The Bizarre Country

1988 · 91 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Science Fiction

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.

Directed by Dragan Marinković · Written by Dragan Marinković

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