COMRADE BLACK IN WORLD WAR 2 (2009)

Original title: Drug Crni u NOB-u

Produced by: BS Group (Serbia) and IntermediaNetwork (Serbia)
Directed and written by: Rade Marković
Director of photography: Nebojša Basić
Music: Bojan Vasić, Bogdan Stoiljković
Production Design: Kiril Spaseski
Costumes: Boris Čakširan, Stefan Savković
Editor: Branislav Godić
Cast: Nenad Jezdić, Boris Milivojević, Marinko Madžgalj, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Vujić Vujke, Dubravko Jovanović, Srđan Miletić, Dragan Jovanović, Lena Bogdanović, Danijela Nela Mihajlović
Release date: 2009
Format: Super16mm / color
Duration: 109mins
Genre: Comedy

SYNOPSIS:

Set in April of the turmoil that is the year 1941. The Germans have occupied Yugoslavia and its capital, Belgrade. Adolph Hitler is once again drawing the new borders of Europe. Remains of Belgrade are filled with chaos, despair, black markets, famine and poverty.

The Serbian people are broken up into national traitors, servants of the German occupants, chetniks, communists etc. That is the setting where our well-known characters find themselves. Our hero is Života Grujić – Comrade Black, the descendant of the notorious Black Gruya. Just as cunning and witty as his predecessor, Comrade Black endeavors to make use of every situation he finds himself in. Ideal opportunities open up when against his own will, he is forced to cooperate with all the present influential heads of Europe.

The project was conceived as a pandemonium parody drawing on historical characters and events, largely making use of the similarities reflected by the daily events of the public domain.

The idea used for the implementation of this project was greatly due to the demand sought by the domestic auditorium in pursuit for a different kind of humor and the criticism of present day mentality.