Two guys fake death for a pension. Balkan bureaucracy meets Weekend at Bernie's with war crimes.
At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
Acting
Ivo Gregurević deadpan in a coffin for half the film.
Direction
Papić balances slapstick with genuine wartime tension.
Writing
Satire so sharp it cuts through four nations' trauma.
Director
Krsto Papić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Croatia's post-independence euphoria, it dared mock the very nationalism then sweeping the country. Papić was already legendary for 'Handcuffs' (1969).
The German pension scam was real—Croatian émigrés actually exploited West German bureaucracy this way. Art imitating very specific fraud.
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