Cinema
Happy New Year '49
Среќна нова '49
Stole Popov · 1986
Synopsis
Skopje, June 1948: the Cominform resolution breaks the ties between Belgrade and Moscow, and fear takes hold. Dragoslav returns from the Soviet Union, where he had been studying, with his fiancée Vera; his younger brother Kosta, who sees the immorality of those in power and wants to live free, frequents the city's underworld. Wrongly accused, Dragoslav is imprisoned; during his detention, Kosta grows closer to Vera, and Buger's rival gang takes over the underworld. The family falls apart under the pressure of the times.
Context
The screenplay is by Gordan Mihić. Co-produced by Vardar Film and Union Film, the film runs a hundred and twenty-five minutes; Meto Jovanovski, Svetozar Cvetković, Vladislava Milosavljević and Duško Kostovski play the main roles. It was released on 27 June 1986 and was shown in Skopje on 6 October following. Chosen by Yugoslavia for the Oscar for best foreign film, it was not nominated; its print, stolen in New York in January 1987, was recovered three quarters of an hour later. A restored print was screened in 2016.
Who it is for
In Macedonian and Serbo-Croat with subtitles, a film of more than two hours. It is worth knowing about the rupture of 1948 between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
Prizes and reception
Grand Prix and Golden Arenas for screenplay, supporting actor, music and make-up at Pula in 1986; one of its lines has passed into the language.
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