The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic

(festival title)
  • Yugoslavia Komedija i tragedija Bore Joksimovića
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Short / Documentary
Yugoslavia, 1977, 30 min

Directed by:

Želimir Žilnik

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After leaving Germany, Zilnik returns to Yugoslavia and carves out a niche for himself on TV. In the beginning he was allowed to work in a comedy department. The director portrays an amateur writer, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre who decides to try his luck as a playwright. Zilnik named a number of his films after their main characters, as though compiling a pantheon of his own. (Mar del Plata International Film Festival)

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