Balkan Express

Infobox Film
name = Balkan Ekspres
Balkan Express


director = Branko Baletić
producer = Art film (Belgrade)
Inex Film (Belgrade)
writer = Gordan Mihić
starring = Dragan Nikolić
Bora Todorović
Tanja Bošković
Bata Živojinović
Olivera Marković
music = Zoran Simjanović
cinematography = Vladislav Lašić
editing = Vuksan Lukovac
distributor =
released = 1983
runtime = 102 min.
language = Serbo-Croatian
budget =
imdb_id = 0085215

"Balkan Express" ( _sr. "Балкан експрес") is a 1983 Yugoslavian film by director Branko Baletić. In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".

Plot

A madcap comedy featuring a band of roving musicians whose music is just a cover for the fact that they are actually con men. They find ample opportunity to ply their trade amidst all the confusion as people flee the invading Nazis. They tour the country and vie with each other for how much they can pilfer, scam, con, or lift from the unsuspecting citizenry. Their talents are put to the test when a German officer falls for the singer in the group, and they decide to use him to obtain important ID papers for everyone. When a 10-year-old Jewish girl needs help in hiding from the SS in order to escape being sent to a concentration camp, the group of thieves not only decide to protect the girl, but join forces with the underground resistance fighters to get rid of several German officers at the same time.

Cast

*Dragan Nikolić as Popaj
*Bora Todorović as Pik
*Tanja Bošković as Lili
*Bata Živojinović as Stojcic
*Olivera Marković as the aunt
*Radko Polić as Captain Dietrich
*Toma Zdravković as the singer
*Branko Cvejić as Kostica
*Bogdan Diklić as Zuti the milk man
*Ratko Tankosić as the waiter
*Predrag Miletić as the German
*Milan Erak as Bosko
*Gojko Baletić
*Hajdana Baletić
*Milo Miranović

See also

*List of Yugoslavian films

External links

*imdb title|id=0085215|title=Balkan ekspres