Montevideo, God Bless You!
Montevideo, God Bless You Serbian , , Montevideo, Bog te video internationally titled Montevideo, Taste of a Dream is a 2010 Serbian film directed by Dragan Bjelogrli about the events leading to the participation of the Yugoslavia national football team at the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 1930. The film gained considerable media attention throughout 2010 and achieved significant box office success in Serbia since its release on December 21, 2010. The entire project has been hugely successful regionally thus far. More than 520,000 people in Serbia saw the first film, which won numerous awards.
Belgrade, Serbian and Yugoslav capital, circa 1930. The story follows eleven passionate, mostly anonymous but very talented soccer players and their journey from the cobblestone streets of impoverished Belgrade neighborhoods to the formation of the national team before the very first World Cup in faraway Uruguay. So far away that the countrys capital, Montevideo, seems more a distant dream than a familiar reality. Named after the city where the inaugural World Cup was held, director Dragan Bjelogrlis adaptation of journalist Vladimir Stankovis bestselling book centers on the relationship between the two top players natural talent and poor boy Tirke Milo Bikovi and playboy superstar Moa Petar Strugar.The two young men eventually become friends when theyre thrown together on the front line of the dominant local team, Beogradski sport klub BSK BSK Belgrade. As the club hierarchy is faced with the challenge of keeping the squad afloat, the opportunity arises to create a national team. However, team unity is strained when Tirke and Moa clash over beautiful women. Rosa Danina Jefti, the voluptuous, smalltown innocent who adores Tirke, but her soccermad uncle conspires to set her up with Moa and vampish Valeria Nina Jankovi, a freespirited bohemian who seduces Moa and finds much fun in pitting him against Tirke. The initial doubt that surrounded their personal and professional lives is transformed into a shared ambition to prove themselves in Montevideo as a result, a story about friendship, enthusiasm, persistence and love for the game is unraveled. ........
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