Reflections (1987 film)

Reflections (Serbo-Croatian: Već viđeno, lit.'Already seen'; also known as Deja Vu) is a 1987 Yugoslav psychological horror/drama film directed by Goran Marković and starring Mustafa Nadarević, Anica Dobra, Milorad Mandić and Petar Božović.[1]

Već viđeno
(Reflections)
Directed byGoran Marković
Written byGoran Marković
Produced byAleksandar Stojanović
StarringMustafa Nadarević
Anica Dobra
Milorad Mandić
Petar Božović
CinematographyŽivko Zalar
Edited bySnežana Ivanović
Music byZoran Simjanović
Release date
  • February 1987 (1987-02)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryYugoslavia
LanguagesSerbian, some dialogue in Esperanto

The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

Plot

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A mentally disturbed middle-aged musician falls in love with an attractive young girl.

Mihailo, once a brilliant young pianist, is now a piano teacher at an educational center. His colleagues consider him an oddball, but they leave him alone to live his lonely life. Everything changes when a young girl appears at his school. Contact with her, a new, erotically intense life, causes a strange phenomenon in him - as he has seen it all once before. Namely, the situations he experiences seem repeated to him. His trauma, the piano, causes painful emotions and pathological fear, a fusion of past and present, pushing him into tragedy.

Legacy

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The film was listed as one of the BFI's top 100 European horror films.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Nash, Jay Robert (1988). The Motion Picture Guide: 1988 Annual (The Films of 1987). Cinebooks. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-93399-716-5. ...Psychological thriller that turns into a slasher film starring Nadarevic as a lonely middle-aged piano teacher ..
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. ^ "BFI: 100 European Horror Films". icheckmovies. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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