The Meeting Point

Sabirni centar English The Meeting Point is a 1989 Yugoslavian fantasycomedy film directed by Goran Markovi, starring Rade Markovi, Bogdan Dikli, Dragan Nikoli, Mirjana Karanovi and Anica Dobra. It is based on Duan Kovaevis play of the same title translated in the U.S. as The Gathering Place. It is published by Samuel French.

An archaeological team, digging in a remote village and led by an old professor, unearths an old Roman artifact, a gravestone bearing some mysterious inscriptions. After realizing that they have stumbled upon something precious, the professor collapses with a heart attack. Seemingly dead for people around him, he finds himself in a sort of afterlife state and realizes that the stone marked a passage into the classical underworld so he starts mingling with the antique spirits of the dead. The spirits themselves appear just as silly and petty as the peasants from the village above them, and in their desire to see what happened to their descendants, they find themselves surprised by the modern world of the living.At the 1989 Pula Film Festival the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards, the film won the Big Golden Arena awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay Duan Kovaevi and Best Actress in a Supporting Role Radmila ivkovi. ........

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