南斯拉夫電影

The story is set between the two World wars. The Topalovic family consists of five generations of males, with the youngest one aged 25 and the oldest aged 120. Conflicts break out in the family because the youngest member refuses to carry on the morticians' trade, which for decades, from generation to generation has been his family's occupation. The manufacturing of coffins is more and more lucrative, new technologies are introduced, burials are faster and easier, the era of crematoriums is here. But the youngest member of the family, Mirko, is not interested. He believes in a "better, nicer and more honest occupation". In this belief he is supported and encouraged by his girlfriend Kristina and his best friend Djenka, owner of a small cinema. Kristina's father Billy Python supplier of coffins to the Topalovic company, demands a larger share in the earnings, i.e. a fair division of work and profit. Thus these two families come into conflict. In the showdown all means are permitted. This is American gangsterism in Balkan style. Greatly disappointed because both his friend and his girlfriend betrayed him, Mirko commits murder. As a murderer, he returns to his family where he is received with open arms as the new leader of the family, aware of his strength and power, a representative of the new generation whose basic moral principle is ruthlessness.

On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade...

描述二次世界大戰期間，五名別具用心的大兵率領一隊美軍開坦克衝破德軍防線，到敵後的銀行搶劫一批價值一千多萬的金子。

本片是導演的半自傳式電影，講述了四個人到中年的好朋友回家鄉參加葬禮，哀悼他們共同追求過的一個女生。影片閃回到50年代的純真歲月，在南斯拉夫的土地上，四個朋友都是划船隊員，偏偏愛上了同一個金髮美女。美女願意跟他們交朋友，但不想跟其中任何一人談戀愛，她的戀愛對象是一個政治上雄心勃勃的男人。

二戰後期，德軍節節敗退，為了能夠順利地撤退，它要竭力保住一座有戰略意義的橋樑。南期拉夫游擊隊少校奉命率領小分隊前去炸毀這座橋樑，但在炸橋的過程中，卻遭到了德軍的重重阻擊，為了炸橋，他們找到了一個工程師，但這個工程師恰恰是橋的設計者，經過一系列驚險，曲折的鬥爭后，工程師終於親手炸掉了自己的橋。