Overview
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
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Setting
Set in Serbia
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Music
Music by Aleksandar Simić
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Vladimir PaskaljevićWriter
- Goran PaskaljevićWriter
- Original title
- Optimisti
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 29, 2006
- Original language
- Serbian
- Countries
- Serbia, Spain, Switzerland
Cast
Lazar RistovskiProfesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić
Bojana NovakovićMarina
Petar BožovićInspektor- Tihomir ArsićPipović
Nebojša GlogovacDr Milo Petrović
Nebojša MilovanovićBolesni mladić
Slavko ŠtimacOtac slepe devojke
Dragan JovanovićGolub
Mira BanjacBaba kockarka- Viktor SavićIlija
- Lazar MiloševićMali Dimitrije
Danica RistovskiSimonova žena- Vladimir JevtovićIlijin stric
Boro StjepanovićNervozni čovek
Aleksandra Pleskonjić IlićMajka bolesnog mladića
Ivan BekjarevŠef kazina- Gordana MarićIlijina majka
Milorad KaporKockar
Miodrag 'Miki' KrstovićStariji policijski inspektor
Olga OdanovićŽena kojoj je nestala tašna
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