''Cirkus Columbia'' is a 2010 Bosnian drama film starring

Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfull ...

Mira Furlan Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'' (1993–1998 ...

, Boris Ler and Jelena Stupljanin. The film is set in the

Herzegovina Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical Regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia (reg ...

part of

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

in the early 1990s, after the

dissolution of Yugoslavia After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav ...

, and slightly before the

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. It tells an emotional story of a man coming back to his hometown after many years abroad and dealing with his past and current family, using the political dealings of the region as a backdrop. It is based on the novel ''Cirkus Columbia'' by well known Bosnian Croat writer

Ivica Đikić Ivica Đikić is a Bosnian writer and journalist. He was born 1977, in Tomislavgrad, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. Career Journalist career He worked as a journalist for few ...

Cast

- Divko Buntić *

- Lucija *Boris Ler - Martin Buntić *Jelena Stupljanin - Azra *

Milan Štrljić Milan Štrljić (born 22 March 1952) is a Croatian actor and theatre director. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1972. Personal life He is married to Daša Štrljić, and together they have one child, Fran. He was previously married to ...

- Ranko Ivanda *Mario Knezović - Pivac *

Svetislav Goncić Svetislav "Bule" Goncić ( sr-cyr, Светислав "Буле" Гонцић; born 5 May 1960) is a Serbian actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1971. Svetislav Goncić is General Manager in National Theatre in Belgrade. Sele ...

- Savo *

Ines Fančović Ines Fančović (; 5 October 1925 – 21 August 2011) was a Bosnian actress of film, television and theater. She is best known for her role as Mare in the television series '' Velo misto'' and as Mara in '' Memoari porodice Milić''. Early life ...

- Starica *

Ermin Bravo Ermin Bravo (born 5 December 1979) is a Bosnian actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2001. He is most known for starring in the 2003 Bosnian film ''Remake''. Bravo is also remembered as a unique character in the 2017 film '' Men Do ...

- Fra Ante Gudelj * Mirsad Tuka - Dragan *Slaven Knezović - Miro *

Izudin Bajrović Izudin Bajrović (born 9 February 1963) is a Bosnian theater, film and television actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1986. Recent activity In 2017, Bajrović signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs ...

- Major Kostelić

Reception

The film received mixed reviews. Review aggregator

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reports that the film has an overall approval rating of 80%, based on 10 reviews, with a

weighted average The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The ...

rating of 6.5/10. Deborah Young wrote in ''

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'' that the film "rings with authenticity and weight", and presents absorbing characters, yet "the script by Tanovic and Ivica Dikic is simple to a fault, becoming utterly predictable in the forbidden romance between Martin and his father's bride-to-be".

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* 2010 films 2010 war drama films English-language Bosnian films Bosnian-language films Films directed by Danis Tanović Films set in 1991 Bosnia and Herzegovina drama films 2010 drama films {{war-drama-film-stub

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