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Šovinistička farsa (), ''Chauvinistic Farce'' in
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is a theatre play, written by
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that performed across former
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prior to and during its dissolution. A total of 4 sequels of the play were produced from 1985 to 1998, and according to one of the main actors,
Predrag Ejdus Predrag Ejdus ( sr-cyr, Предраг Ејдус; 24 July 1947 – 28 September 2018) was a Serbian actor of theater, film and television. His extensive body of work includes over 200 theater productions, 50 films and 30 television series. Ejdu ...
, the play was performed more than 1800 times, and was performed in almost every city in former
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that had a decent theatre. Thanks to its great popularity with the audience, the play launched the carriers of then young and later famous, main actors
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and
Predrag Ejdus Predrag Ejdus ( sr-cyr, Предраг Ејдус; 24 July 1947 – 28 September 2018) was a Serbian actor of theater, film and television. His extensive body of work includes over 200 theater productions, 50 films and 30 television series. Ejdu ...
. The play is mostly set as a dialog between a stereotypical
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, Slobodan Mihajlovic (played by Tatić) and a stereotypical
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, Bernard Drah (played by Ejdus), both of whom drink heavily. The script derives its capacity to make the audience laugh from the everlasting differences between Serbs and Croats, and the destiny of two people historically, culturally and geographically bound to one another. At first the play may have been seen as controversial due to its departure from then omnipresent dogma of
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of the two people. The later events of dissolution of
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have shown the script to be the predictor of an inevitable divorce.
Radoslav Pavlović Radoslav (Lale) Pavlović (; born 8 September 1954, in Aleksandrovac, Serbia) is a Serbs, Serbian writer. Pavlovic authored numerous theatre plays and film/TV scripts popular with the audience and acclaimed by the critics. He is best known for ...
received an award for Best script at 11th Satire days () in
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, 1986.


Trivia

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and
Lazar Ristovski Lazar "Laza" Ristovski ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Ристовски, born 26 October 1952) is a Serbian former actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4,000 times, and starred in over 90 films and 30 TV series, mostly i ...
were initially cast to play the main roles but abandoned the project during rehearsals. The director then replaced them by Tatić and Ejdus. In addition to the main production of the play that toured across the country, independent plays based on the script of ''Šovinistička farsa'' were also produced in
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, (with Željko Vukmirica and Mladen Crnobrnja playing the main two roles),
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. The version of the play produced in
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was performed for more than 300 times.


References

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