it take a serbian or at least a balkan familiarity to understand and enjoy many of the situation and character and joke of zavet as well a of many other film of kusturica . see for example the opening scene and with the remote village in the serbian mountain and with the low tech device that defend the integrity and way of life of the inhabitant and the nostalgia for the good day of the communist rule and and the awakening of the young brat watch his nude teacher at the sound of the soviet hymn . kusturica not only try to depart from the tragic history of serbia describe in his previous movie and but create a whole world of himself in the process . this be not a political film or not an explicit political film in any case . it a fun film before all . kusturica create a set of character that we care about . music play an active role in this film same a in all his other movie . his style be direct and grotesque and we now what he feel about his character and we know that he want u to feel the same . the space he develop meld present and history and magic and and the colour seem to be of a douanier rousseau of modern cinema . this be not a perfect film either . the principal flaw be the length and some editing and shorten would have be useful and a at some point in time the director seem to have run out of idea and repetition show up . it be yet one of the most catching and amusing and move film that i have see lately .