Summaries

A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.—Mario

Details

Keywords
  • 1940s
  • dark comedy
  • year 1944
  • parody comedy
  • partisan
Genres
  • Comedy
  • War
Release date Mar 29, 1989
Countries of origin Yugoslavia
Language Serbo-Croatian
Filming locations Ulica Mihaila Avramovica 24, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
Production companies TRZ Ton i film

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 28m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks, are spending the first months of war taking care only of their lives. And then, by tragicomic chance, they become Partisan diversion helpers and heroes. After that, their only way out is escape to another part of the country, with the Gestapo on their tail. They hide in "Marlene Salon" forgetting that the bordello house of that type was an ideal place for espionage during the war. Instead of peace and rest, they get involved in many new tragicomic complications...

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