In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
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Gala Videnović Nebojša Bakočević Dragan Bjelogrlić Srđan Todorović Goran Radaković Milan Štrljić Relja Bašić Marko Todorović Miloš Žutić Dragomir Bojanić 'Gidra' Ljubiša Samardžić Ružica Sokić Danica Maksimović Tatjana Lukjanova Rade Marković Petar Banićević Dušan Janićijević Predrag Ejdus Josif Tatić Svetlana Novak Božidar Pavićević 'Longa' Boris Komnenić Branko Vidaković Ljubomir Ćipranić Predrag 'Preža' Milinković Špela Rozin Miomir Radević 'Pigi' Tatjana Mirašević Diana Slade Milutin Mićović Dragomir Čumić Branko Stefanović Dušan 'Krcun' Đorđević Izet Cury Galiano Pahor
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