The Meeting Point
{{Infobox film
| name = Sabirni centar
(The Meeting Point)
| image =
| writer = Dušan Kovačević (play and screenplay)
Goran Marković (screenplay)
| starring = Rade Marković
Bogdan Diklić
Dragan Nikolić
Olivera Marković
Bata Stojković
Mirjana Karanović
Anica Dobra
Radmila Živković
| producer = Aleksandar Stojanović
| director = Goran Marković
| cinematography = Tomislav Pinter
| editing = Snežana Ivanović
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1989|07|19|Yugoslavia|df=y}}
| runtime = 98 minutes
| language = Serbo-Croatian
| budget =
| music = Zoran Simjanović
}}
The Meeting Point (Sabirni centar) is a 1989 Yugoslavian fantasy/comedy-drama film directed by Goran Marković and starring Rade Marković, Bogdan Diklić, Dragan Nikolić, Mirjana Karanović and Anica Dobra. It is based on Dušan Kovačević's play of the same title{{cite book |last1=Dumitrache |first1=Andi |title=Cartea mea cu filme. Europa: O călătorie subiectivă prin cinematografia mondială de la sfârșitul secolului XX și începutul secolului XXI |publisher=Editura Coresi |page=431 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teNHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA431 |language=Romanian}} translated in the U.S. as The Gathering Place.{{cite book |last1=Gocić |first1=Goran |title=Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica |date=2001 |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-90336-414-7 |page=172 |edition=Illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDktuer8qcAC&pg=PA172}}
Plot
An archaeological team, digging in a remote village and led by an old professor, unearths an old Roman artifact, a gravestone bearing some mysterious inscriptions. After realizing that they have stumbled upon something precious, the professor collapses with a heart attack. Seemingly dead for people around him, he finds himself in a sort of afterlife state and realizes that the stone marked a passage into the classical underworld so he starts mingling with the antique spirits of the dead. The spirits themselves appear just as silly and petty as the peasants from the village above them, and in their desire to see what happened to their descendants, they find themselves surprised by the modern world of the living.
Cast
- Rade Marković - Profesor Misa
- Bogdan Diklić - Petar
- Dragan Nikolić - Janko
- Olivera Marković - Angelina
- Danilo Stojković - Simeun
- Aleksandar Berček - Ivan
- Radmila Živković - Lepa
- Mirjana Karanović - Jelena Katic
- Dusan Kostovski - Marko
- Anica Dobra - Milica
- Branko Pleša - Doktor Katic
- Goran Daničić - Keser
- Kole Angelovski - Macak
Production
Awards
At the 1989 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the Big Golden Arena awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay (Dušan Kovačević) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Radmila Živković).
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0122234|Sabirni centar}}
{{Goran Marković}}
{{Big Golden Arena}}
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Category:1980s fantasy comedy-drama films
Category:Serbian fantasy comedy-drama films
Category:Serbo-Croatian-language films
Category:Films based on works by Dušan Kovačević
Category:Films directed by Goran Marković
Category:Films with screenplays by Dušan Kovačević
Category:Yugoslav comedy-drama films
Category:Yugoslav fantasy films
Category:Films set in Yugoslavia
Category:Films about the afterlife
Category:Films about archaeology
Category:Films scored by Zoran Simjanović
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