Black cat, white cat DVD (Crna mačka, Beli mačor) DVD 1998 Macska-jaj / Directed by Emir Kusturica / Starring: Bajram Severdžan, Srđan Todorović, Branka Katić , Florijan Ajdini, Ljubica Adžović, Zabit Memedov

UPC 5999542180064

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

Audio: Serbo-Croatian 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 135 minutes

English Summary:

Black Cat, White Cat (Serbian: Црна мачка, бели мачор; Crna mačka, beli mačor) is a 1998 Serbian romantic black comedy film directed by Emir Kusturica. It won the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the Venice Film Festival.

The literal translation of the title is actually "Black (female) cat, white tomcat". The movie characters speak in Romani, Serbian, and Bulgarian - frequently switching among them.

Matko Destanov, a small-time Romani smuggler and profiteer, lives with his teenage son Zare in a ramshackle house by the Danube River in eastern Serbia near the Bulgarian border.

He has plans to acquire a whole train of smuggled fuel, which he finds at cut-price. To obtain a loan that would subsidize the heist, he visits Grga Pitić, a wheelchair-using old gangster, who's an old friend of Zarije Destanov, Matko's father and Zare's grandfather. Matko then plots the details of the job with an ally named Dadan, a rich, fun-living, drug-snorting gangster who has a harem, juggles grenades, and cheats at gambling. However, Dadan double-crosses him and glitches up the deal by giving Matko a drink that is drugged, and carrying out the job while Matko is unconscious, which means that Matko owes Dadan a great deal of cash. Matko cannot afford to pay, so Dadan makes a deal whereby he would forgive the debt, thereby wiping the slate clean, if Zare and Afrodita, Dadan's dwarf sister whom he desperately wants to marry off, get married. However, Zare is in love with Ida, a barmaid who works in an establishment run by her Roma grandmother Sujka, and Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams. Dadan coerces Afrodita into marrying by dunking her in a well, while Zare first learns of the scheme to marry him off from Ida, who has overheard Dadan and Matko plotting it in the restaurant where she works. Meanwhile, Zare retrieves Zarije from the hospital where he is being kept, with the aid of a gypsy band. Grga Pitić is having problems of his own, as he wants his grandsons, including six-foot plus giant Grga Veliki, to get married.

Serbian Summary:

Crna mačka, beli mačor je srpski film iz 1998. Režiser filma je Emir Kusturica, a scenario potpisuju Gordan Mihić i Emir Kusturica. Produkcijske kuće koje su uradile film su: CiBy 2000, Pandora Filmproduktion, Komuna i FRANCE 2 CINEMA. Muziku za film su uradili Nenad Janković, Vojislav Aralica i Dejan Sparavalo. Film je žanrovski opredeljen kao komedija.

Matko Destanov živi sa svojim 17-godišnjim sinom Zaretom na obali Dunava negde u blizini Bugarske. Veliki je kockar i sitni kriminalac. Zadužio se, a deo duga bi mu se otpisao ako bi svog sina oženio 8 godina starijom Afroditom Karambolo, zvanom Bubamara zbog svoje visine. Ona je inače sestra Dadana Karambola, čoveka kome Matko duguje novac. Ali problemi nastaju kada se Zare zaljubi u Idu, a i Bubamara ne želi da se uda jer čeka svog „princa na belom konju“.

Hungarian Summary:

Matko tizenhét éves fiával, Zaréval valahol a Duna partján él, békés csempészkedéssel keresve kenyerét. Éppen nem jött össze az üzlet, és tartozik a helyi főnöknek, Dadannak, aki szívén viseli eladósorban lévő húga, Afrodita sorsát. A báty és az apa megállapodik: össze kell házasítani Afroditát és Zarét. Csakhogy egyiküknek sincs ínyére az érdekházasság.

Cast / Uloge / Szereplők:

• Bajram Severdžan as Matko Destanov
• Srđan Todorović as Dadan Karambolo
• Branka Katić as Ida
• Florijan Ajdini as Zare Destanov
• Ljubica Adžović as Sujka
• Zabit Memedov as Zarije Destanov
• Sabri Sulejmani as Grga Pitić
• Jasar Destani as Grga Veliki
• Salija Ibraimova as Afrodita
• Stojan Sotirov as Bulgarian Customs Officer
• Predrag Laković as Priest
• Miki Manojlović as Priest