The Balkan Spy (1984)

Director
Dušan Kovačević; Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić

Main cast
Danilo 'Bata' Stojković; Zvonko Lepetić; Mira Banjac; Borivoje Todorović; Danica Petkovic

Genres
Comedy

Description
Balkanski špijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija Čvorović (Bata Stojković), a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević (Bora Todorović), a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his tenant might be a spy. As the movie goes on, his paranoia increases and more people gets involved: his wife, his daughter, his brother, Jakovljevic's friends.


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