Petar Bozovic Movies

Filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic spins five tales of life in post-millennium Serbia in this provocative omnibus combining elements of comedy and drama. First, a hypnotist arrives in a small village that has been leveled by floods. The mesmerist offers his services to the community, but the residents are suspicious of his motives. Next, a woman is sexually assaulted by the man who owns the firm where she works. Her father is also employed by the same man, but when he seeks revenge, he realizes how powerless he is in this situation. In episode three, a young man loses the money earmarked for his father's funeral in a gambling spree. Desperate to win it back, he turns to an elderly woman who has been enjoying remarkable luck at the slot machines. Part four concerns a doctor who is called to examine the son of a man who operates a slaughterhouse. The boy has developed a dangerous enthusiasm for bloodshed, but the doctor doesn't realize the full ramifications of the boy's attitude until he escapes his family's home. And finally, a confidence man promising new health to a group of ailing and elderly people leaves them stranded in the middle of nowhere en route to taking the cure. Optimisti (aka The Optimists) received its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

This upbeat Yugoslavian romantic drama takes a joyful look at the country's youth oriented counter-culture. It is set in Belgrade during the near future, 1999. The saga centers around "Boom 92" an underground radio station. Through its single microphone comes many rebellious ideas. The film's protagonist is Black a DJ who resembles James Dean. To keep his station on the air, Black will do anything, even if it means selling drugs and tape recorders. Black meets his match in the beautiful Luna, a rock singer with more attitude than he has. Framed by opression, censorship, and violence the two fall passionately in love. Boom 92 is shut down because it is considered subversive. The enterprising Black then creates Black Bomber, a traveling radio station in the bed of a pick-up truck. He is pursued by as persistent policeman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Charuga (Ivo Gregurevic) is a wild, scruple-free character, who goes off to fight in Russia during the first World War, and becomes even less easily swayed by ordinary concerns. As the movie opens, he is being chased throught the woods, naked, by the Slovenian police. He has just made love to his old sweetheart and killed the man who had been bedding her since the war began. Then he teams up with a communist guerilla to enjoy even more mayhem and murder. Meanwhile, he is being tracked down by a plodding but persistent policeman. The policeman has aspirations of having sex with an Austrian noblewoman; ironically, Charuga has been having sloppy sex with her for some time. Eventually, after a great many journeys and adventures, this scoundrel is captured. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this creepy horror movie, an archaeologist gets in over his head when he goes searching for the burial place of a young medieval prince. It is the same tomb his parents were looking for when they were mysteriously murdered. Unfortunately, he finds the tomb. The trouble comes when the malevolent spirit of the boy prince rises up to wreak havoc on the scientist and his expedition. The film is also known as Schizo. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Both the premise and the storyline falter and ultimately fizzle in this rural drama by Zivko Nikolic. A distinctive fishing village on a picturesque lake is inhabited by hard-working women who support their male counterparts because the latter are too busy to work -- they have to hang out in the local pub, flirt with the waitresses there, and dream of going to America where they must assume they will be paid for their current behavior. At any rate, one young man realizes that the modern era is upon them, and he gets the idea that they should connect their beautiful lake to the ocean by drilling a tunnel through the intervening mountain range. The result would empty the lake and give them rich soil for producing abundant crops. When a blond American bombshell, a second-generation Yugoslavian, arrives from the U.S. to work in the pub, the young man enlists her aid in his dream project. But the men are too overwhelmed by testosterone to think clearly, and soon the village is rift by a blood feud, presaging the tragic decomposition that would tear apart the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. For anyone unfamiliar with the history of and divisions in Yugoslav society, parts of this film may zoom right past, uncaptured. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide