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Hey Babu Riba (1985)

Hey Babu Riba (1985)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1985, October 23
Directors: Jovan Aćin
Countries: United Kingdom, Yugoslavia
Production: Smart Egg Pictures, Avala Film, Inex film, Centar film, Esplendor
Cast: Srđan 'Žika' Todorović, Josif Tatić, Danica Maksimović, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Marko Todorović, Branko Vidaković, Goran Radaković, Milan Štrljić, Predrag Ejdus, Nebojša Bakočević, Ljubiša Samardžić, Gala Videnović

Overview:

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Keywords:

pregnancy teenage crush jazz band told in flashback loss of virginity funeral pregnant minor yugoslavia jeans rowing rowing boat