REAL PESTS + WEEKEND + LAUNDRESSES FROM BIZOVIK

Double Bill

Directed by: Jože Bevc

Duration: 1 h 36 min

Format: Digitalno

Code: 431678

EAN: 3838898431678

A farcical comedy set in a suburban environment (with the popular quote »No, brother, won't happen«). This legendary Slovenian comedy starrs Boris Cavazza, Bert Sotlar, Dare Valič and  Milada Kalezić. The film is now available online in a digitized and restored version, in the quality seen by viewers at the premiere on 23 December 1977 at the Union Cinema in Ljubljana.

THE PACKAGE ALSO CONTAINS: Two short films by Jože Bevc: Weekend and Laundresses from Bizovik. The ethnological film Laundresses from Bizovik (1959) depicts one of the oldest domestic crafts, professional laundry, as performed in Bizovik by the wives and maidens for the wealthier bourgeois families in Ljubljana, as well as for craftsmen, merchants and businesses. The director Jože Bevc (with the screenwriter Žarko Petan) is also the author of the ironic documentary Weekend (1963), about the last days of the week, which are meant for relaxation and rest, when "the city dies out and at home stay only those who have to«.

SYNOPSIS:

Štebe, a chauffeur, is a widower with five sons. They have a housekeeper called Rosy. The boys with their little tricks and boyish pranks are the despair of the bourgeois neighbourhood. Everyone calls them "the pests". Rosy has often threatened to leave them and finally she really does pack her bags and goes home to the countryside. Sooner after Rosy leaves, her niece Meri turns up to visit her and also moves in. Meri is nowhere as good as Rosy when it comes to running a household. Tone, a friend of Štebe, begins to take an interest in Meri. Meri starts to go out a lot, but Tone doesn't know where she goes. As time goes on, the Štebes really begin to miss their housekeeper. Tone looks Rosy up and persuades her to come back to them. Everyone is delighted. Meri explains what it was that kept her from home. She has been going to school and now she is a bus driver.

ABOUT THE FILM

Real Pests (To so gadi) is one of the most popular Slovenian films. 112.394 people saw it at its first screening. The film starrs Bert Sotlar (old Štebe), Dare Valič (Bine), Majda Potokar (Rozi), Jože Horvat (Brane), Milada Kalezić (Meri), Boris Cavazza (Toni) and Radko Polič (Boris). Director and scriptwriter is Jože Bevc, cinematographer Ivan Marinček, author of the music Janez Gregorc, editor Darinka Peršin, production designer Niko Matul, costume designer Alenka Bartl Prevoršek and make-up artist Berta Meglič.