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362:, the screenplay was offered to Goran Paskaljević, who decided to shift the film's setting to the "turbulent and pivotal" year of 1968. Wanting to create a film that would contain his personal signature, he introduced certain details into the screenplay, such as a young Czech girl, graduation thesis on Marxism, and others. Additionally, Paskaljević felt the need to address the events of 1968—
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Paskaljević hesitated when it came to choosing the lead actor, as both he and Slavko Štimac were concerned about whether the then twenty-three-year-old actor could convincingly portray the character of high school graduate Petar
Cvetković. However, believing in his authenticity, Paskaljević made the
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have created a film that is both a love story and a political comedy set in the summer of 1968. The protagonist, high school graduate Petar, spends his summer in an idyllic and patriarchal province where the echoes of tumultuous global and domestic political events reach. His world is populated by
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for his graduation thesis. The need to finally find the woman of his life leads Petar into a series of humorous situations, bewildering his father, a municipal judge with dogmatic beliefs who believes that youth should be raised with a "firm hand" and who suffers due to his
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Belgrade
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The original screenplay by Gordan Mihić, titled "Samо јednоm se živi" (You Only Live Once), presented a story about the relationship between a grandfather, father, and son set in contemporary times (early 1980s) and was intended for director
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decision to entrust him with this role. When it came to selecting the actress for the role of Petar's sister
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464:(Twilight Time) having brought in half a million dollars in profit, Paskaljević had almost given up on making the film. In August 1983, while returning by plane from
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