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Promising Boy (The)

Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Language: Serbo-Croatian , 106 mins

Original Title

Dečko Koji Obećava
  • Director: Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic
  • Writer: Nebojsa Pajkic; Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic

CGiii Comment

Do you make concessions for a film made in 1981 in Yugoslavia? If you do, then these concessions will have to be massive.

From the opening scene, this is an assault on the ears...

The story is moronic...a dreary student gets clobbered with an oar by his girlfriend because of his infidelity - he undergoes a personality change - is it not reasonable to reckon that a second clobbering will bring him back to his original self...? Well, the filmmaker did!

Needless to say, it's rubbish...


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The(ir) Blurb...

Slobodan Milosevic is young promising guy. He is a solid student, obedient son and considerate boyfriend. But after his affair with one Swiss girl, all of that changes. When he told his girlfriend Masa about that affair she hits him in the head and he changes completely. He quarrels with his parents, runs away from home, has sex with different girls, even with Masa's mother, masturbates while driving the car, finds a way to express himself by playing rock'n'roll music and does similar anarchic stuffs. Masa thinks that another hit in the head would put the things back where they were, and when that happens and Slobodan starts acting normal again they plan a wedding. But in the middle of the wedding Slobodan hears that his friend from a band Pit had died and he, not knowing what else to do, goes bumping his head against the wall.

Cast & Characters

Aleksandar Bercek as Slobodan Milosevic;
Eva Darlan as Svajcarkinja;
Dara Dzokic as Masinka - Masa;
Rade Markovic as Slobodanov otac;
Dusica Zegarac as Slobodanova majka;
Milena Zupancic as Masina majka;
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic as Masin otac;
Slobodan Aligrudic as Psihijatar;
Ivana Pejcic; Tihomir Arsic as Inspektor;
Dusan Kojic as Pit;
Gordana Gadzic as Ljubica, dobra pica;
Branislav Lecic as Karatista;
Predrag Bambic as Arrested guy;
Kosta Bunusevac