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Balkan Spy is a film of genre Drama directed by Dušan Kovačević with Danilo Stojković

Balkan Spy (1984)

Балкански Шпиун

Balkan Spy
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Length 1h32
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Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating87% 4.395744.395744.395744.395744.39574

Balkan Spy (Balkanski špijun) is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy, drama film directed by Serbian directors Dušan Kovačević and Božidar Nikolić.

Synopsis

Ilija Čvorović (Bata Stojković), a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his sub-tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević (Bora Todorović), a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his sub-tenant might be a spy. As time passes, he becomes convinced that Petar, a modern man from a capitalist country, represents a great threat to national security and the socialist system, and starts spying on Petar, to a great surprise of his wife Danica (Mira Banjac), who is more concerned for the future of their daughter Sonja (Sonja Savić), who, although holding a degree in dentistry, is unable to find a job. Ilija phones inspector Dražić (Milan Štrljić), claiming that Petar was meeting "suspicious people" (which are actually his intellectual friends, but Dražić does not take him seriously. Ilija decides to take matters into his own hands. He begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man and his friends. Eventually, he bars his house, buys a guard dog, arms himself with munition, and even gets help from his brother Đura (Zvonko Lepetić), both of them becoming convinced that Petar is a foreign agent.

Actors

Danilo Stojković

(Ilija Čvorović)
Bora Todorović

(Petar Markov Jakovljević)
Mira Banjac

(Danica Čvorović)
Sonja Savić

(Sonja Čvorović)
Predrag Laković

(Profesor)
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