Tatjana Bokan

Based on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it three times, more wise. So he employs his nephew Crni Gruja, with assistants Ceda Velja and Bole, to find him this miraculous Stone. Crni Gruja finds the Stone and, convinced that he is really becoming more wiser, decides to make some business.

La déclaration de la guerre vient interrompre une joyeuse croisière que troublait déjà la jalousie de Kurt, le mari de Maria. La séparation n'en est pas moins douloureuse ; Maria, seule, connaît une existence pénible auprès d'une belle-mère abusive. La rencontre d'un permissionnaire, Hans, le cousin de son amie Edith, va éclairer sa solitude. Un soir de bombardement, troublée et désemparée, elle se donne à lui et tombe enceinte; les conséquences de cet abandon se précisent et elle préfère fuir our aller cacher son "indignité" chez des amis, en Prusse Orientale, plutôt que d'affronter la prochaine permission de son mari. Ils embarquent sur le Wilhelm Gustloff, un paquebot transformé en navire-hôpital, mais, quelques heures après l'appareillage, le navire est torpillé par un sous-marin Soviétique...

If it hasn't been filmed it hasn't happened. It happened the way it was filmed.

The outbreak of the Serbian uprising against the Turks leaves a corrupt local chieftain struggling to find a way to a better life.

Two parallel stories set in a village in Central Serbia about two families and the political context of the time.