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On the way to Catanga

Genre:
Drama

Director:
Zivojin Pavlovic

Short description:
The son of outstanding worker, miner, after many years in France, returns to his childhood town. He meets a lady-singer and a young Bosnian man in train, who are going to work in his little town. Obsessed with dreams of easy life, with help of his childhood friend, he wants to sell his father's house and depart for African diamond mine, Catanga, with that money. Encounter with his home town revives his childhood traumas again. Nightmare about old and new love, events in the mine and around him start his obsession with Catanga.
Additional information:
Archive music selection.

Producer:
Film danas, Beograd, Bakar film, Bor

Writer:
Rados Bajic

Cinematographer:
Radoslav Vladic

Production design:
Miodrag Miric

Country of origin:
Jugoslavija, Srbija

Film editing:
Ljiljana (Lana) Vukobratovic

Duration:
106 minutes

System:
Widescreen, color

Premiere:
25.5.1987.



Cast:

Fabijan Sovagovic
Ljiljana Lasic
Ljubisa Samardzic
Mirjana Karanovic
Petar Lupa
Rados Bajic
Svetozar Cvetkovic
Tone Solar

Film database is created as a joint effort of following companies and organizations: "Balkan Media GmbH" Mannheim, Germany, " Balkanmedia d.o.o." Beograd, Yugoslavia
We are grateful to: "Avala Film Beograd", "Delta Video Beograd", "Centar film Beograd", Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Institut za film Beograd