Janko Bugarski "Dimi Barka" is a small time wallet snatcher, and an aspiring singer, who wants to make it big with as little effort as he can, traveling through industrial areas and looking for affairs with local women and easy money. On one of his travels he meets a young girl he takes to Belgrade to accompany him on an amateur singing contest, where he fails miserably, since he can't follow a tune, and abandoning her, teams up with his former girlfriend, also a pickpocket, which takes him to his final journey.
This film by the famous Yugoslav director, Zivojin Pavlovic, was originally banned by the communist authorities upon it's release in 1967, because it portrayed a realistic picture of the Yugoslav "60's economic boom", which consisted of massive industrialization of rural areas, building huge numbers of, as one of the characters in the movie puts it "political factories", which were set up without any economic logic, and on massive foreign debt, that was generously spent without any restrain. It also shows bottom of morality in different social categories, which also wasn't considered "appropriate" at the time. When it was re-released in 1990, it achieved a cult status that it has today.
This film by the famous Yugoslav director, Zivojin Pavlovic, was originally banned by the communist authorities upon it's release in 1967, because it portrayed a realistic picture of the Yugoslav "60's economic boom", which consisted of massive industrialization of rural areas, building huge numbers of, as one of the characters in the movie puts it "political factories", which were set up without any economic logic, and on massive foreign debt, that was generously spent without any restrain. It also shows bottom of morality in different social categories, which also wasn't considered "appropriate" at the time. When it was re-released in 1990, it achieved a cult status that it has today.