Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 01 Jun 1998
• Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Austria, Greece
• Adwords: 6 wins & 5 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_cat_white_cat
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/black-cat-white-cat
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Romany, Serbian, Bulgarian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
• Runtime: 127 min
• Writer: Gordan Mihic
• Director: Emir Kusturica
• Cast: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Branka Katic
• Keywords: parent child relationship, sibling relationship, teacher, best friend, debt,

	8.0/10
	73/100
	83% – Critics
	95% – Audience

Black Cat, White Cat Storyline

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.

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Black Cat, White Cat Movie Reviews

I wish I could give this a 1000

This movie, like Underground, is so brilliant, so inventive, so full of ideas & images & imagination & feeling & humanity & humor that beside it American/Hollywood movies are like Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, with too much water, all of them, no exception. Kusturica has to be the greatest living film director & the greatest director in at least 50 years. One would have to go back to Renoir & Rules of the Game to find a film with the energy & brilliance of Black Cat White Cat. Bravo, Kusturica. BRAVO!!!

Now here’s something that you don’t see every day!

With the chaos that engulfed the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, many people probably would have guessed that comedies could never come out of there. “Crna macka, beli macor” (called “Black Cat, White Cat” in English) would disprove that completely! After hustler Matko Destanov’s (Bajram Severdzan) business fails, he agrees with gangster Dadan Karambolo (Srdan Todorovic) to marry his son off to Karambolo’s daughter. But the two youngsters aren’t quite ready to be married off just yet, and they’ll do whatever they have to in order to fulfill their own wishes! “Black Cat, White Cat” is mainly interesting because we get to see a culture that we rarely see. Life in the Balkans doesn’t look pretty, but this movie makes everything look funny. Emir Kusturica is truly one of a kind.

wild eastern European absurdities

Matko Destanov is a petty hustler living with his son Zare in a riverside shack home in eastern Serbia. He gets double-crossed in a scheme with Dadan and gets into debt to him. Dadan offers a clean slate if Zare marries Dadan’s midget sister Afrodita. However neither Zare nor Afrodita like the arranged marriage. Zare is in love with barmaid Ida.

It’s a wild crazy world reminiscent of Fellini. I do find the story rambling but the movie is full of wild eastern European absurdities. It has a certain ridiculous fun imaginative qualities. It often feels chaotic like a train running off the tracks. I really wish the imagery and ideas can be harnessed in a more controlled story.