Bolje od bekstva

Young, enthusiastic beautiful women comes to far corner of the World to learn of her origins and finds love in an artistic soul; a man unable to cope with the banality of his surrounding, which ultimately destroys his family.

He finds his escape in a theatre. She finds it in a new family. They both carry on with deep scars.

The story intertwines loneliness and pursuit of love on one level. On the other level, it is a story about an actor aspiring to reach the finest of human emotions through play, in a world set to commercially amuse the masses by offering them what they want (banalities).

There is a comic element to the story in cultural shock that young American women experiences with the ways of the Balkan's and a touching moment in the way she readily accepts to learn and adapt.

Finally, this is a story of a communist country trying to find its way toward West by implementing its business concepts, but still shutting down theater plays if they are unpleasing to the "big heads". (This, by the way, ended in country's implosion into brutal civil war and ultimately in its dissolvement).

All level intertwined, this story is tragedy with comic elements. It is also a historical snapshot of a communist country and its people at the end of the eighties.

The acting is excellent. Movie's main actor, Zarko Lausevic sadly passed away yesterday (Nov. 15th. 2023). May he rest in peace.