The Meeting Point

Sabirni centar
(The Meeting Point)
Sabirni centar; (The Meeting Point)
Directed by	Goran Marković
Written by	Dušan Kovačević (play and screenplay); Goran Marković (screenplay)
Produced by	Aleksandar Stojanović
Starring	Rade Marković; Bogdan Diklić; Dragan Nikolić; Olivera Marković; Bata Stojković; Mirjana Karanović; Anica Dobra; Radmila Živković
Cinematography	Tomislav Pinter
Edited by	Snežana Ivanović
Music by	Zoran Simjanović
Release date	19 July 1989 (Yugoslavia);
Running time	98 mins
Language	Serbo-Croatian

The Meeting Point (Sabirni centar) is a 1989 Yugoslavian fantasy/comedy-drama film directed by Goran Marković and starring Rade Marković, Bogdan Diklić, Dragan Nikolić, Mirjana Karanović and Anica Dobra. It is based on Dušan Kovačević's play of the same title^[1] translated in the U.S. as The Gathering Place.^[2]

Plot

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.

Cast

Rade Marković - Profesor Misa
Bogdan Diklić - Petar
Dragan Nikolić - Janko
Olivera Marković - Angelina
Danilo Stojković - Simeun
Aleksandar Berček - Ivan
Radmila Živković - Lepa
Mirjana Karanović - Jelena Katic
Dusan Kostovski - Marko
Anica Dobra - Milica
Branko Pleša - Doktor Katic
Goran Daničić - Keser
Kole Angelovski - Macak

Production

Movie scenes of The Meeting Point filmed in Gamzigrad, and several actors of them actually went to Tunisia where they filmed scenes from the desert and the ruins of a Roman city Dougga. Catacombs from Labyrinth are made in a studio in Košutnjak.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

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 (Dušan Kovačević) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Radmila Živković).

References

^ Dumitrache, Andi. Cartea mea cu filme. Europa: O călătorie subiectivă prin cinematografia mondială de la sfârșitul secolului XX și începutul secolului XXI (in Romanian). Editura Coresi. p. 431.
^ Gocić, Goran (2001). Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica (Illustrated ed.). Wallflower Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-90336-414-7.

External links

Sabirni centar at IMDb

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[1] Dumitrache, Andi. Cartea mea cu filme. Europa: O călătorie subiectivă prin cinematografia mondială de la sfârșitul secolului XX și începutul secolului XXI (in Romanian). Editura Coresi. p. 431.

[2] Gocić, Goran (2001). Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica (Illustrated ed.). Wallflower Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-90336-414-7.

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