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A Little Joke

A Little Joke

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Two middle-aged friends, Mićko and Đorđe, decide to make a joke with their childhood friend, teacher Svetislav, who is a stingy when it comes to paying for the bills at bars where they often hang out. After filling his lottery ticket with numbers that Mićko claims he saw in his dream, they invite him to his home to watch lottery live on TV, but instead they play a previously recorded video material in order to make him believe he scored all seven hits. However, a joke goes wrong after Svetislav ditches his wife, resigns at the school where he works, and raises a credit at the bank, believed he's about to make a new start.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Serbian

Runtime

58 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

23 November 1992

Country

Yugoslavia

Cast

Lazar Ristovski

Lazar Ristovski

Svetislav

Vojislav Brajović

Vojislav Brajović

Mićko

Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić

Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić

Đorđe

Ljubiša Barović

Ljubiša Barović

Šparavalo

Ljiljana Blagojević

Ljiljana Blagojević

Svetislavova žena

Žiža Stojanović

Žiža Stojanović

Svetislavova tašta

Stevan Gardinovački

Stevan Gardinovački

Svetislavov otac

Ljubica Ković

Ljubica Ković

Svetislavova majka

Predrag 'Preža' Milinković

Predrag 'Preža' Milinković

Konobar

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