Meeting Place

An old professor of archaeology, working on a Roman excavation, accidentally opens a door onto the world of the dead. From that day the town's dead start appearing: old friends, old enemies, dead relatives. Nobody thinks of them as ghosts, because they are far too familiar. The first thing the dead ask when they come back is what happened. Goran Marković's Yugoslav film turns a fantastic premise into black comedy. The dead call the living to account: who informed on whom, who moved into whose house, who kept quiet. It was made in 1989, just before the country came apart, and was among the most talked about productions of the period. Rade Marković plays the professor.