Reflections (1987 film)

Već viđeno
(Reflections)
Već viđeno; (Reflections)
Directed by	Goran Marković
Written by	Goran Marković
Produced by	Aleksandar Stojanović
Starring	Mustafa Nadarević; Anica Dobra; Milorad Mandić; Petar Božović
Cinematography	Živko Zalar
Edited by	Snežana Ivanović
Music by	Zoran Simjanović
Release date	February 1987;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Yugoslavia
Languages	Serbian, some dialogue in Esperanto

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]

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

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

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

References

^ 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 ..
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
^ "BFI: 100 European Horror Films". icheckmovies. Retrieved 21 March 2018.