MONTEVIDEO, TASTE OF A DREAM (2010)

Original title: Montevideo, Bog te video

Produced by: Intermedia Network
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić
Producer: Dejan Petrović
Executive Producer: Goran Bjelogrlić
Creative Producer: Zvonimir Šimunec
Screenplay: Srđan Dragojević and Ranko Božić
Director of photography: Goran Volarević
Music: Magnifico
Production designer: Nemanja Petrović
Costumes: Dragica Laušević
Editor: Marko Glušac
Special effects: Nebojša Rogić
Cast: Miloš Biković, Petar Strugar, Danina Jeftić, Nina Janković, Predrag Vasić
Running time: 145mins
Format: 35mm / color
Sound: Dolby SR
Aspect ratio: 16:9 Wide screen
Release date: December 2010
Genre: Historical Melodrama
Cast: Miloš Biković, Petar Strugar, Danina Jeftić, Nina Janković, Predrag Vasić

SYNOPSIS:

Belgrade, Serbia, circa 1930. The story follows eleven passionate, mostly anonymous but very talented soccer players and their journey from the cobblestone streets of impoverished Belgrade neighborhoods to the formation of the national team before the very first World Cup in faraway Uruguay. So far away that the country’s capital, Montevideo, seems more a distant dream than a familiar reality. Named after that very Montevideo, where the inaugural World Cup event was held, director Bjelogrlić’s adaptation of journalist Vladimir Stanković’s best-selling book centers on the relationship between two top players: natural talent and poor boy Tirke (Miloš Biković) and playboy superstar Moša (Petar Strugar).

The two young men eventually become friends when they’re thrown together on the front line of the struggling local team, Belgrade Sports Club – BSC. As the club hierarchy struggles to keep the team afloat, the opportunity arises to create a national team. However, team unity is strained when Tirke and Moša face off over beautiful women. Rosa (Danina Jeftić), the voluptuous, small town innocent who adores Tirke, but her soccer-mad uncle conspires to set her up with Moša; vampish Valeria (Nina Janković) is a free-spirited bohemian who seduces Moša and finds much fun in pitting him against Tirke. The initial doubt that surrounded their personal and professional lives is transformed into a shared ambition to prove themselves in Montevideo; as a result, a story about friendship, enthusiasm, persistence and love for the game is unraveled.