"Cast" "BEFORE THE TRUTH" "Also starring" "Written by" "Scenography" "Edited by" "Director of photography" "Directed by" "Is the press properly informed?" "Yes!" "Here is all the material." "You wanna check it out?" "It's alright." "Comrade Djordje, this is the list of today's speechers." "And what is with security?" " Comrade Milic is in charge of that." "He must pay attention on the streets around the square." "And now... take this!" "I'll see you later." "Yes!" "How are you?" "Hello!" " Hello comrade Mladen!" "Please!" "I would like to see Djordje." "I think he's here, if he's not on some meeting." "Please!" "Did you told him that I called?" " I did!" "But he's in such mess these days because of that rally, he just don't know where his head is." "Please, have a sit!" "I'll see!" "Mladen is looking for you!" "Comrade Djordje, Mladen is looking for you." "Who?" " Mladen!" "Mladen Stojanovic?" " He's here!" "Haven't I said that I will not see him!" "?" " But..." "I don't wanna hear nothing." "I have no time for nonsense..." "Anyway, can't you see that I'm working?" "I'm sorry..." "He's still on that meeting." "Have you told him that I'm here?" " I couldn't!" "It was just impossible!" "Alright, I'll wait." " Better not!" "It looks like it's going to last longer." "Say, call again later!" "What did he looked like?" "Like..." "listless, despondently..." "I don't know what word to use." "I recognized your voice immediately." "I couldn't believe that's you." "You're coming in Belgrade often?" "You couldn't look for me?" "Here..." "I looked for you." "After all these years?" "What that supposed to mean?" "It's hard." "I feel awful." "You're in despair 'cause of that retirement?" "So, you know?" " I heard." "You know that retirement is penalty for me?" "So what?" "That's not all there is to life." "You have wife, children..." " Don't talk about that, please..." "You can't imagine the hell I am in." "The same one to whom I was good, with who I shared good and evil, now turn their heads away from me." "Like I am leprous, like I'm not a man." "I'm sick of it all." "I'm ashamed that just now" "I see how people really are." "Alright..." "What have you done wrong?" "I don't know." "Nobody wanted to explain that to me." "They showed me paper about retirement... and that's it..." "Wait, what do you mean that's it?" "There must be some reason?" "There's no reason at all." "That's the problem, my dear..." "I always did what they ordered me to..." "They were transferring me..." "Thumbled around by their needs." "Filling the holes with me." "Picture that, for everything that is not good in that damn county," "I'm the one to blame!" "I am the one who's responsible!" "Alright!" "I don't have nothing against that." "But I want to know why, to be told why is that!" "The same ones who have ordered me to act like that, why they're not guilty!" "?" "Why they're not responsible along with me!" "?" "You went to see Djordje?" "He's the reason that I came." "To explain to me why is like that." "But he wouldn't see me." "And he's going away in Monday." "If he's not lying." "Why don't you go tomorrow?" "In Sunday?" "At his home?" " So what?" "You were there before!" "Dordje is the one who stuck you in that county!" "You remembered that?" " I remembered..." "I'll never forget you, that in '47." "you haven't beat me and took me with you." "You had to do that, if you really loved me!" "Don't talk about that, Vera." "Just when I think that you could be professor, engineer..." "Leave that, please..." "You want to meet tonight?" "At the old place." "At nine?" "You haven't forgot our old place?" "No, of course I haven't." "Hello!" "Is that comrade Djordje's cabinet?" "Yes, please." "I was there this morning." "Comrade Stojanovic speaking." "Comrade Mladen, I'm sorry but comrade Djordje can't see you." "Have you told him I was there?" "I told him your message but he's busy and he can't see you." "How about Monday?" " On Monday he's going to some symposium." "Tuesday, Wednesday..?" "I'm very sorry comrade Stojanovic but comrade Djordje can't see you." "He's very busy." "Nothing then." "Pardon me." "Hello!" "Is comrade Ratko there?" "Who wants to know?" "Stojanovic." "Friend from..." "Comrade Ratko is on treatment abroad." "Why?" "Is he ill?" "You have some message?" "No, nothing." "Pardon me." "Hello, Vesa is that you?" "Yes, Mladen." "I would like to meet you." "Yes, we need to talk." "Listen..." "Let me worry about that." "You know what." "Everything we talked about is still on." "Cognac!" "Wait!" "Let me go!" "Velja, listen!" "Velja, bravo!" "Bravo!" "Excuse me!" "Is this sit taken?" "What is it?" "Do you like me?" "I thought that I know you." "Many people knows me, bro." "You want to drink something?" "I want whiskey!" " Another round for all!" "Not for me, I'm not drinking." "You don't drink!" "?" "Then how can you say that you know me?" "I'll teach him to kiss and drink!" "I am Lili." "I think we have met, twenty years ago." "If you think then quit bothering." "You see that ladies are bored." "Come here!" "She always pulles something off!" "To divert attention on her!" "Hoiden!" "If she has something to show at least!" " And she doesnt!" "?" "Come one, Straja." "She would go for beans!" " And you would for pease." "Straja, don't insult me!" "I wouldn't give someone even to look at me bellow 20 dollars!" "And for me honey?" "For me?" "You're something different!" "For a friend, it's free!" "Why are you laughing, ah, jack?" "Maybe you want it for free, eh?" "I'm not interested in whores at all." "What?" "Hey, where to?" "You dare to ask but you allow this boor to insult us!" "Wait!" "Man was joking!" "Wait a minute!" "Alright!" "Alright!" "Don't worry, they'll be back!" " Whatever!" "You're really some boor." "If they don't interested you, that's your bussines but you can't act like that when you're at my table." "You don't drink, you don't like whores." "Nothing is interesting you." "You're interesting me." " What!" "?" "I say, you're interesting me!" "You're a cop maybe?" " Nope!" "What then?" "Queer maybe?" "It must be that!" "If you remember who I am, you'll undertsand." " You!" "?" "Me." " Me to remember you!" "?" "Stop fuck around, better drink!" "Cheers!" "Is it possible that you forgot March of 1945.?" "What?" "You forgot about everything?" "You were in that pursuit?" " No." "Lieutenant who interrogated me?" " Come on!" "Major!" "I remembered!" "Major who gave the order!" "That's right!" "I remembered, that's you!" " No!" "We took a walk together in some woods." "I'm glad that you're alive." "God, what great woods was that!" " And birds?" "Birds?" "What birds?" " You don't remember?" "I just aimed and you put your head up high like you're praying and said..." " What?" "Maybe I beg you not to shoot!" "?" " No." "You said -"Birds."" "Really... did they really sung?" "Maybe you imagined that?" "Imagine that he misses now..." " It woul be bad." "Here we are!" "And where were you?" " And where were you?" "Here they are!" "They're back!" "I told you they would." "Amigo, amigo!" "Admit that when you recognized me earlier you thought:" ""Why I didn't leave him for good in that beautiful woods!" "?"" "You're wrong." "Maybe I wanted to miss you." "Tell that to someone else, bro!" "You aimed right between my eyes!" "You wanted my forehead to burst." "But here you are!" "You're talking gibberish." "Why are you making this up?" "You tell that to them, tell them!" "Maybe they'll believe you!" "I generally don't believe to anyone untill that one shows some cash!" "That's right!" "There's nothing free even at some granny!" "Even they don't believe you!" "But nevermind, let's not argue anymore." "Nevermind, we're going to drink something now!" "Fast, or our chance will be lost..." " You think so?" "Come on, Straja, you promised." " What do you want?" " You promised." "And what have I promised?" " Come on man!" " Don't make it up!" "I haven't promised you anything!" " You did!" "Nothing!" "Don't make it up, I know!" "You're smoking too?" "It's true!" "I have!" "And you too!" "Come here!" "Is it possible!" "?" "Again you two!" "And again without ID's!" "Why do I need ID!" "?" "I'm dead!" "Here, comrade shot me in '45!" "Tell him, tell him!" " He's drunk, comrade." "He's talking nonsense." "Older people!" "Disgrace!" "Forward!" "Go and make speech!" "Tell the people what's bugging you!" "Come on!" "Hey, where to?" "Wait, I would find some broad here!" "What kind of man are you!" "?" "You're not interested in world problems now!" "Now, you're interested in domestic, now when your own skin is in danger!" "Leave my skin alone, you hear me!" "Take care of your own!" "I got used to it!" "I don't care!" "Just, you are..." " What is it?" "You're more fitting for skin off!" "Come here!" "Listen!" "In front of Katarina, in war, I was on your side!" "You understand?" " Alright." "Just..." "Is it convenient this early..." " Doesn't matter!" "Don't..!" " Keti is wonderful woman, you'll see!" "Come on!" "Katarina!" "Keti!" "Keti!" "Where are you Keti, for Christ's sake, eh?" "Let me go!" " Come on!" "Bring some drink!" "Bring some drink for my old war friend!" "Have a sit!" "I'm sorry..." "Really, I don't know..." "I beg your pardon." "There's no need to apologize." "You are married?" "I am." "We haven't seen in a long time." "You know..." "Memories..." "You want some ice?" "No, thank you." "Strahinja, phone!" " I can't hear you!" "?" " Phone!" "I'll be there in a moment!" "Hello!" "Who?" "It's you Sinisa." "What?" "That's out of the question!" "That's out of the question!" "I won't!" "I'm not interested." "What carieer?" "Why don't you take that?" "Ooh, you're so naive!" "I won't!" "I don't want to defend killers!" "I won't do that out of principles!" "What money!" "?" "I'm not interested in money at all!" "Alright." "I was..." "I was." "I haven't catch anything." "Nothing!" "Like that, I won't." "I won't, you understand!" "?" "Alright." "Alright." "We'll see." "Bye!" "Hey..." "Say..." "You're playing poker?" "No!" "That's just what I need now!" "I have to go." " Where?" "Wait a minute!" "Say, really, who are you visiting?" "Do I know him?" " No, you don't." "He was my commander in a war." "Is he that Major?" "Not Major at all!" "You're really traveling?" "If you're not, drop at my place." "We'll go on grange, and rest properly." "We were roaming all night I'm tired as a dog." "Stop here!" "Here..." "Like that." "You're sure you heard it?" " I'm sure alright." "She silenced, daughter of a bitch." "She'll make sound." "She won't last." "She sensed that we're looking for her and she's being stubborn." "We must find that damn bird!" " Bird!" "?" "Something else is bugging you!" "Your conscience after all these years!" "You get all kind of crazy ideas." "My conscience is clear." "You better question yours." "Don't talk like that with your war buddy, it's not nice!" "We're not buddies, remember that!" "Haven't we fought beautiful?" " That's why we're not buddies." "Alright, alright..." "Maybe some day we will be." " Never!" "Alright!" "As you wish!" "Pensioners don't interest me anyway." "Tell me trully, how is it to be retired?" "Leave my pension!" "That's none of your business!" "Alright, I'm sorry..." "Although, I wanted to help you." " You?" "You, to help me!" "?" "I would die like a dog first than accept your help, you bum!" "Comrade started to insult..." "You've done some shit in that county and now you're blaming me 'cause you got slapped!" " You oughtta be ashamed, when everyone knows what were you!" " True!" "Everyone knows..." "But also everyone knows I payed for my sins, honestly and without any grudging!" "Now, it's your turn to pay!" "I would take away your pension!" "And I would banish you in Germany to work!" "Even better, with three years penalty I would made your biography much prettier, you small, county dictator!" "So there, you could think about ones you ilegally employed!" "Even worse, about ones you ilegally fired!" "And about billions you wasted in vain!" "One more thing!" "I would make you to learn, by heart, all the laws which you steped over and mocked all these years!" "I would take your pants off!" "Stop now or I'll give you something to remember!" "I would like to see that!" "Now when my hands are not tied, like before!" "You want me to show you now?" " Come on, show me!" "Get up!" "Get up, bum!" "How can I woke up, when I'm dead?" "And you shot me a long time ago." "At least let me rest for a while." " Come on, get up!" "Well friend, now it's alright." "Ooh, mama..." " You're rotten!" "You're vomiting just to give me troubles!" "Leave me alone, please!" " Come on, vomit!" "Don't be cocky!" "I shouldn't drink." "Doctor told me..." " What doctor!" "?" "You're sissy!" "You know when I realized that?" "You won't believe me but then when you aimed at me." "I'm looking at you and I think, he's sissy, he will miss!" "And like you see, you did, eh!" "?" "If you're such jack, why don't you tell the truth?" "Truth!" "?" "Maybe I beg you not to shoot me!" "?" "No, not that..." "Remember how you banish me." "Me!" "?" "Banished you?" "Now I really believe you that you drank a lot." "You're really drunk!" " If you really wanna know," "I didn't aim at you at all." "And when you fell, I saw that bullet just skimed you." "I couldn't stand and I ran like hell!" "You're talking gibberish!" "You want to convince me that you didn't like to kill and you were fed up!" "I was fed up." "But fed up of that stench!" "Stench, honorable doctor!" "What stench?" " You shitted yourself!" "Listen what he's talking!" "?" " You shit yourself in fear, my dear doctor!" "Me?" " Yes!" " I shitted myself?" " Mhmm..." "You stench so much..." "it was unbearable!" "You're lying!" " You poluted whole woods with your stench!" "My God, it stinked so much!" " You're lying, you rotten bastard!" "Motherfucker, you invent it all!" "All of it!" "You're lying!" "You're lying!" "You're something!" "Come on!" "Let me see!" " What do you say?" "Good evening, Mr. Straja." "Get up!" " Hello, Laza." "Give us four drinks!" " Have a sit, please!" " Have a sit!" "Have a sit." "Hello honey!" "Hello." " You know him?" "I asked you, do you know him?" "Well then, alright friend..." "Alright..." "Come on, smack him!" "Stop when I say so!" "Stop!" "Step outside!" "Get out!" "Hoodlums!" "Your ID's!" " I don't have them, comrade!" "But I live nearby, I can go and get them." " And you!" "?" "I left mine in the hotel." " Interesting!" "You wanna go and get them too?" " If it's necessary." "It's not!" "Come on!" "Comrade, where is your heart?" "What my wife and children will say!" "?" "Stop grudging!" "We'll make this clear where we supposed to!" "So you protest!" "?" " Not at all, what protest!" "?" "He's drunk!" "Tell to comrade that you drunk!" " Leave it..." "Let me explain it to you..." " There's nothing to explain, everything is clear." "Serious people but they're fighting!" "Aren't you ahamed!" "?" " Yes, we are!" "But if we are guilty at least..." "This way, is not justice..." "Come on, beat it!" " Thank you." " Older people!" "You hear me!" "?" " Thank you." " Beat it!" "And don't let us meet again!" "Beat it!" "We're not rusted yet, bro!" "We beat up five people!" "Talking gibberish!" "If that police man didn't came, we'd be beat up to dead." "But OK, I deserved that." "When I'm a scumbag!" "Whole night I've been wandering around and visitng some slums!" "County gentleman seems not to be satisfied with the spree!" "?" "I didn't came to Belgrade to have fun." "You're in some kind of trouble?" "If you are, say so!" "I'm expert to dig people out of shit!" "Let me introduce my self!" "Attorney, Strahinja Petrovic, with law degree!" "The way you act, no one could tell you're an attorney." " Come on, man!" "Birds..." "You hear them?" "So, it's like that?" "You finished that thing the way you wanted?" "All ended well." "You say that your old friend receive you well?" "Great!" "Beyond expectations." "Old good friendshp." "What else to say..." "You're staying in Belgrade for a while?" "I don't know." "Have you seen that?" "She ran like rabid bitch." "She doesn't know what she wants." " You think so?" "I envy you." " Because of Katarina?" "No." "You're lucky man." "You don't know anything about the people." "If you envy me because of that, you're fooling yourself." "I knew you were lying in the car from the start." "I expected that you'll get nothing from your old buddy, and you got nothing!" "That's not true." " You're lying again!" "Realize that you don't have friends anymore and that you're alone!" "Now everybody is washing their hands of you, like of dirty old rag." "Times of friendships are over, bro!" "It is over!" "You're finished!" " Even if I'm finished, even if that's true you were talking about, I would never trade for your place!" "I was 15 years old when I started to shoot at scumbags like you!" "And I haven't stop 'till today." "You're carcass, honourable doctor!" "And if you scratch under your skin, empty!" "Nothing!" "All the pubs, all the wine, all whores, all your titles can't save you!" "You're tearing apart!" " That's enough!" " It's not enough!" "Until you stink, and polute and poison this world, I'll shoot!" "Bravo!" " Yes, yes, bravo!" " Bravo!" "Bravo!" "What a speech!" "What a tirade!" "Fantastic!" "Fan..." "Grab this!" "Listen, you rest well." "And we're going hunting." "We need something for the lunch." " You know very well that we brought lunch." "Let's go!" "I missed it again!" "I'm freezing!" "I can't last any longer!" "Stop whining, the main thing is next!" "Strahinja!" "Can you help me?" "Of course." "I told you I'm going to help you." "I'm going!" "Go then!" "You're for nothing better!" "He should be back any minute now..." "Why are you laughing?" "It looks like you know him well." "No, not that well." "He told you that?" "In those particular words?" "Something like that." "That I'm only being that he can trust!" "?" "That doesn't flatter you?" "Don't be ridiculous." "He trusts me 'cause he thinks of me as his rag." "He's not coming home for nights and days..." "Then he drags me here and completely forgets about me, 'cause of his damn rabbits." "And it's like that for five years now." "Here..." "He brought you also into this desert." "And left you with me..." "And he doesn't even think that I might like you." "Nonsense." "Still he knows..." " What does he know?" " That..." "That I would never..." "Not even think about..." "That you could never like me?" "No!" "I wanted to say..." " You really don't like me?" "You give him right to be so sure about me?" "You're joking with me?" "Why don't you check am I joking?" "Why don't you kiss me?" "Mr. Straja!" "Come with us!" "Come on!" "Mr. Straja!" "Katarina!" "Katarina!"