''Reflections'' ( sh, Već viđeno, Already seen; also known as ''Deja Vu'') is a 1987
Yugoslav psychological horror
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drama
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film directed by
Goran Marković and starring
Mustafa Nadarević
Mustafa Nadarević (2 May 1943 – 22 November 2020) was a Bosnian and Croatian actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors from the former Yugoslavia, he starred in over 70 films, including '' The Smell of Quinces'' (1982), ''When Father ...
,
Anica Dobra,
Milorad Mandić
Milorad Mandić Manda ( sr-cyr, Милорад Мандић; 3 May 1961 – 15 June 2016) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films during his career.
Biography
At the age of 21, he became a member of the Belgrade Amateur Exper ...
and
Petar Božović.
The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
60th Academy Awards
The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PDT. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
A mentally disturbed middle-aged musician falls in love with an attractive young girl.
Mihailo, once a brilliant young
pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, j ...
, 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.
See also
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List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
Deja Vu Trailer
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1987 films
1987 horror films
1980s psychological thriller films
Avala Film films
Serbian horror films
Serbian drama films
Yugoslav drama films
Films directed by Goran Marković
1980s psychological horror films
1980s Serbian-language films
Esperanto-language films
Films set in Serbia
Films set in Yugoslavia
1987 multilingual films
Yugoslav multilingual films
Serbian multilingual films
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