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The Bizarre Country
2026-11-16 04:27:08 · The Daily Ledger
The Bizarre Country () is a 1988 former Yugoslav drama/fantasy film based on the satirical novellas Stradija and Danga, written by Serbian writer Radoje Domanović.
Plot
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 wanders 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.

Cast
Lazar Ristovski as The Traveler
Jasmina Avramović as The Blackhaired Girl
Dragan Maksimović as The Painter
Enver Petrovci as The New Chief of Police
Milija Vuković as The Old Chief of Police
Milutin Butković as The Higher Clerk of the Ministry
Milenko Zablaćanski as The Guitarist
Branislav Platiša as The Violinist
Živojin Milenković as The Minister of Agriculture
Branko Pleša as The Minister of the Foreign Affairs
Dragoljub Milosavljević as The Minister of Finance
Spiro Guberina as The Minister of The Inner Affairs
Gordana Gadžić as The Painter's Sister
Mihajlo Viktorović as The Minister of Economy
Karlo Molnar as The Courier of the Ministry
See also
Cinema of Yugoslavia
Cinema of Serbia
External links
1988 films
Serbian fantasy drama films
1980s Serbian-language films
1980s fantasy drama films
Yugoslav fantasy drama films
1988 drama films
