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Hey Babu Riba (1985)

Directed by Jovan Aćin

Overview

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They’d last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Length 112 minutes

Actors

Svetlana Novak | Srđan Todorović | Goran Radaković | Milan Štrljić | Nebojša Bakočević | Dragan Bjelogrlić | Josif Tatić | Danica Maksimović | Branko Vidaković | Predrag Ejdus | Boris Komnenić | ​Ljubiša Samardžić | Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić | Marko Todorović | Ružica Sokić | Špela Rozin | Rade Marković | Dragomir Čumić | Predrag Milinković | Dušan Janićijević | Gala Videnović | Relja Bašić | Miloš Žutić | Ljubomir Ćipranić | Božidar Pavićević 'Longa' | Petar Banićević | Dušan 'Krcun' Đorđević | Milutin Mićović | Galiano Pahor | Tatjana Lukjanova | Branko Stefanović | Miomir Radević 'Pigi' | Tatjana Mirašević | Diana Slade | Izet Cury