Archive Cinema City 2013.
Genre: TV series – 3 episodes
Synopsis:
During a show in a Bosnian small town of Milići, the team is introduced to the Đošić family. There are seven daughters in this family and their father Nikola tries to find work at least for the eldest daughters, and Dika’s team helps them find cleaning work. The eldest daughter Stana even gets married in Irig village to a tractor driver Stevan.
In the three episodes we watch Kareli’s amazing skills, including the accident when a bicycle pedal is stuck in his throat while he eats a bicycle. While Kareli recuperates Dika and Dule engage Lidija and Slavica as entertainment girls. They also find Bora Joksimović, the amateur writer and he gives them his comedy “Cover Your Legs, Girl” and they go on a tour with it.
Đošić’s daughters, one after another, go to a city and find work as cleaning ladies in different institutions and companies.
Due to constant touring and chaotic life, Dule and Lidija succumb to alcohol and are treated in hospital and decide to live together as recovered alcoholics. However, their harmonious life is ruined when adventure driven man called Nikolić enters their life and Dule kills him because of his jealousy. Dika organises a show in prison and helps Dule to escape dressed up in a special costume.
Zelimir Zilnik (born 1942, based in Novi Sad, Serbia)
From the late 60s, his socially engaged films and documentaries in former Yugoslavia earned him critical accolades but also censorship in the 70s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus.
Low budget filmmaking and challenging political themes mark Zilnik’s prolific career that includes over 50 feature and documentary films and shorts.
