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consists of three stories of extreme violence and emotional despair. The first takes place in the year 2019, where the world has become an environment of apocalyptic wreckage and ruin. A man named Kuzman is sentenced to death by a nomadic tribe, but their attempts to fatally shoot the condemned man
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is memorable for sheer idiosyncrasy alone." Robert Firsching, reviewing the film for the Amazing World of Cult Movies, praised the film as "an impressionistic howl of rage and despair from a country which has lived on the brink of war for years, a nightmare without beginning or end. One gets the
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The second story is a three-minute segment that takes place in 1900. Presented as a record of the first wedding ceremony ever captured on film, the scene devolves into violence when it is discovered the newlyweds are actually brother and sister.
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are a failure. Fated to live forever, Kuzman wanders the wasteland until he encounters an enigmatic figure who offers him information on how he can escape eternal life.
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However, Maryann Johanson, writing for The Flick Filosopher, said the film "feels like it was made by a couple of precocious 13-year-old boys obsessed with
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and bullets and splattering blood. This is strictly for those who like their science fiction with a lot of style but very little substance." And
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fighting, it portrays the horror and insanity of the conflict in a way that a mere war film would be hard-pressed to achieve."
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had a brief theatrical release later in 1999, where it received mixed reviews. Dennis Harvey, writing for
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was released in the US on VHS video.In February 2023 Vinegar Syndrome released a blu ray edition.
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is in session. The solemn mourning degenerates into violence while the sounds of the
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List of Macedonian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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feeling that it has driven everyone concerned a bit mad, and that is where
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The third story takes place on New Year's Eve 1999. A man dressed as
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succeeds the most: without showing a single glimpse of actual
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1998 film by Darko Mitrevski and Aleksandar Popovski
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Index

Goodbye 20th Century

Darko Mitrevski
Nikola Ristanovski
Lazar Ristovski
Vlado Jovanovski
Macedonia
Macedonian
romanized
Darko Mitrevski
Santa Claus
wake
Sid Vicious
punk rock
My Way
71st Academy Awards
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Cinequest Film Festival
San Jose, California
B-Movie Film Festival
Syracuse, New York
Variety
Balkan
incest
James Berardinelli
List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Macedonian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


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