Acting
Zagreb, 1945. The communist partisans emerge victorious in the Balkan branch of the the conflicts that made up The Second World War. With vengeance in their hearts, they force the remaining soldiers of the Axis Power-adjacent ustaše and the Croatian Home Guard and force them in a march towards the Bleiburg field in Austria, leaving them without food or water and in a constant cycle of walking for days on end.
While expecting their child, a student couple announce to their parents that they will marry. Both sets of parents are against it, but when the proposal takes place, the things take unexpected turn.
Two mismatched families forced to share a home navigate a whirlwind of comedic misunderstandings, generational clashes, and everyday domestic chaos as Boris, Ana, her sister, and their loud extended clan struggle to adapt to life under one roof.
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...
Too afraid to confess to his wife that he fell for another woman, a middle-aged man turns into a ticking bomb that might explode right into his face.
Wanting to escape the clutches of Zagreb's loan sharks, the host of a popular children's variety show takes on an assignment to go to perform in refugee camps nearby the city of Gospić. He's joined by Vrabac, his ten-year-old neighbor on the run from his violent older brother, and Tina, a young woman desperately seeking for fame and fortune.
Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.
The German Keller family pays a visit to their Croatian friends who live in a small village on the banks of the Cetina river. Inspired by the stories told to them by their fathers about the history of the area being used as the filming ground for the cinematic adaptations of German author Karl May's seminal Winnetou series of western novels, the children decide to play Cowboys and Indians. However, what they don't know is that the canyon they've picked as their play area, serves as the hiding spot of three ruthless Serbian chetniks, who had recently escaped from the nearby prison.
This movie embraces the world of imagination, reality and memory with emotion. People, things, scenes and images make love B- flat which happens before, now and always.
