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2.9/5 Mubi Directed by Srđan Koljević Release date 11 August 2004 Country Serbia Screenplay Srđan Koljević Producer Maksa Ćatović | 7.4/10 IMDb 3.3/5 Rate Your Music Written by Srđan Koljević Running time 95 minutes Director Srđan Koljević Production company Komuna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Initial release 11 August 2004 (Serbia and Montenegro) Cast Srđan Todorović, Aleksandra Balmazovic, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Milorad Mandić, Bogdan Diklić Similar Frozen Stiff, Pretty Village - Pretty Fla, Absolute 100, We Are Not Angels, Sky Hook | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sivi kamion crvene boje the red colored grey truck
Sivi kamion crvene boje ("Red Coloured Grey Truck" in Serbian) is a 2004 Serbian comedy road-movie written and directed by Srđan Koljević, starring Srđan Todorović and Aleksandra Balmazović.
Contents
Red colorued grey truck
Plot
The story takes place in June 1991 in Yugoslavia, only a few days before the outbreak of the Yugoslav War. Ratko (Srđan Todorović), a Bosnian Serb, leaves Belgrade prison and steals a red-coloured Mercedes-Benz truck. The fact that he's (almost pathologically) passionate about stealing trucks and driving them while at the same time being colour-blind brought him to prison in the first place. Suzana (Aleksandra Balmazović), an urban Belgrade girl, discovers she is pregnant and wants to do an abortion. As her father, who believes that the emerging chaos won't last, uses their money for a speculative investment, she decides to go to Dubrovnik to earn the money for abortion. After nearly running her over while she was hitch-hiking, Ratko decides to give her a lift.
Despite the initial awkwardness and mistrust mostly due to fact that they come from different social background (Ratko coming from a rural countryside and Suzana coming from the big city), they eventually become fond of each other and fall in love.
On their road through Yugoslavian countryside, they enter numerous, sometimes funny sometimes life-threatening, situations and encounter numerous people of virtually all ethnicities, soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), smugglers, gunrunners, foreign mercenaries, petty thieves, members of illegal local militias, all of them just waiting for the war to break out.
After witnessing that everything around them starts collapsing, they decide to change route to Yugoslav-Italian border. Ratko learns that Švabo, one of his friends, has become a weapon smuggler. He decides to visit him to get two passports and a load of weapons to bribe the local militias along their route.
When they arrive at the border, they learn that the border cross was taken over by Slovenian Territorial Defense Forces and that JNA is ordered to take it back. A tank appears and blows up Ratko's truck but the couple successfully crosses the border and settles in Italy. After some time, Suzana gives birth to a black boy and Ratko accepts him as his own son, claiming that the colors mean nothing to him.