Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: Breakfast with the Devil

Director: Miroslav Antić

Screenplay by Miroslav Antić
Director of photography: Petar Latinovic
Music by Zoran Hristić
Cast: Bata Živojinović, Mira Stupica, Dragomir Bojanić-Gidra

Programme section "Open Archives" / The Yugoslav Film Archive

Introduction by: Jugoslav Pantelic, Director, Archive of Jugoslovenska kinoteka and Aleksandar Erdeljanovic, Head of Archive, Archive of Jugoslovenska kinoteka

The community of a small village in the Voivodina have only just managed to pull themselves out of the devastation of world war when they are confronted with a new conflict. The communists, former partisans, continue to fight for an ideal world, and to achieve this compulsory requisitioning of produce is introduced by the state. The harsh reality is, however, that they now face their own brothers who, because they don’t want to starve to death, are resisting collectivization. Then the nightmare of an impending flood hangs over all their heads. The film raising serious issues by poet and director Miroslav Antić was immediately banned after its premiere in 1971.

Supporting film: Farewell Little Island…
Hungarian animation, colour, 1987, dir: Sándor Reisenbüchler, No dialogue, 13’

More information on the Budapest Classic Film Marathon's program at Uránia >>