Euphemism for when father was rounded up and shipped off for Party disloyalty in postwar Yugoslavia. This slice of Stalinist life, concerned mainly with the coming-of-age of the moon-faced youngest son, who brings to mind the boy in Bicycle Thief, is schmaltzy, modest, earnest, earthy -- perhaps not as often "down to earth" as "six feet under." The image tends to be dark and drab, as if it sits under a layer of grease. Directed by Emir Kusturica. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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