this tragicomedy write by famous serbian theatre or film writer dusan kovacevic be probably one of the best movie ever make in the comedy category . and yet and it appearance of a theatre play transform into a feature film take nothing of it value . a masterpiece one should not miss to see ( preferably with subtitle and and not dub ) . in an aged bus en route to capital belgrade and a looming war decide the passenger behaviour . two gypsy musician sing of their miserable life but also foresee a tragedy to come while their singing both divide and connects stage in this extraordinary road movie ( real life kostic brother be amateur actor and but together with stanojlo milinkovic a farmer who plow the road give a real life performance ) . the spectrum of character give a brilliant image of a society face a war and an insight into nation collective person represent everyone be aware that war be just about to begin but they try to live their own live the best they can and hop that ignorance might avert the tragedy . use a simple movie language and director slobodan sijan paint a picture of society tear by previous war ( world war i ) and but also highlight personal portrait with success represent provincialism of a singer and inexperience of the newlywed and seriousness of the great war veteran who be on way to visit his recently conscript son and and gloomy prediction from a man who seem to be a german spy . brilliant in it narration and with memorable soundtrack ( especialy the gispsy song ) and adjust atmosphere and well photograph and edit and this feature ( sijan feature debut ) be only an introduction into a series of the director bitter sweet comedy that will define serbian cinematography of the 1980s represent maratonci trce pocasni krug and kako sam sistematski unisten od idiota and and my other director favourite davitelj protiv davitelja ) .