A con man posing as a faith healer (Ristovski) approaches a group of people with various disabilities and illnesses. Collect bonus rewards from our many partners, including AMC, Stubs, Cinemark Connections, Regal Crown Club when you link accounts. Rack up 500 points and you'll score a $5 reward for more movies. Once there, the con man abandons the group and leaves the site. See Full Cast + Crew for The Optimists Features "[2], Toronto ‘06 Daily Dispatch: Oh, Canada! There's no place like home -- for frights! He meets an old lady (Mira Banjac) recently diagnosed with a terminal illness. Find movie and film cast and crew information for The Optimists (1973) - Tudor Gates, Anthony Simmons on AllMovie She has had a lucky streak on the slot machines ever since her diagnosis. Cast & Crew. A group of young diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come face to face with world-changing global events: the downing of the U2 spy plane, the Berlin crisis, the flight of the famous “space dogs," the secret shipment of Soviet missiles to Cuba. On the film being inspired by Candide, Harvey commented that certain elements were notably missing. Ilija gambles away the money saved for his father's funeral. The 51st Valladolid International Film Festival named Ristovski Best Actor, and the film won the Youth Jury Award and the Golden Spike award as the best film of the festival. The Soviet Union is experiencing a bright Khrushchev-era, full of hope. We know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime. The police arrest, beat, and interrogate him. See the full list of The Optimists cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. He offers, for a fee, to take them by the busload to a spring that has magical healing powers where they will be cured. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi He stated that the film's stories "illustrate the universal impulse to believe in a better future, no matter what" and thus was not as "starkly Hobbesian" as Paskaljević's 1998 film Cabaret Balkan. ", "The Helen Reddy story and the song that inspired a revolution", 'The War With Grandpa' Interviews with Robert De Niro and Jane Seymour. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." In five scenarios people must distinguish between truth and illusion. Not Yet Rated 1 hr 38 min Drama. The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Pera (Ristovski), the owner of a large slaughterhouse, calls a doctor (Nebojša Glogovac) to his home complaining that his 12-year-old son (Nebojša Milovanović) is giving him a heart attack. Praising the performances as "subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge", he singled out Ritovski for his "formidable presence" whose performance paints "a grotesque composite Serbian everyman". Commenting on the separated narrative structure, similar to Cabaret Balkan, he stated that "Rather than parting on a note of irony or resolution, most of these tales simply deadend when situations have achieved their equilibrium of hopelessness and defeat." The Optimists (Serbian Cyrillic: Оптимисти) is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević. The Optimists. A sleazy businessman (Tihomir Arsić) takes a young female employee (Bojana Novaković) to a rural area and rapes her. The Optimists features an ensamble cast of Serbian actors with Lazar Ristovski appearing in all five storylines. Ilija joins her in hopes of rejoicing with her success. Fearing that the powerful businessman will fire him, the father apologizes to the businessman instead, implying the daughter was responsible for the assault and inconvenienced the businessman. The early 1960s. The Optimists (Serbian Cyrillic: Оптимисти) is a 2006 Serbian black comedy film directed by Goran Paskaljević.The film, presented as five unrelated narrative sequences, was inspired by Voltaire's 1759 satirical novel, Candide. The Optimists was included as part of a retrospective exhibition on director Paskaljević at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008.[4][5]. 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But even at its worst The Optimists is acceptable family fare, and for much of its first 80 minutes it engagingly achieves a sense of fantasy. Pera locks up his son because the 12-year-old feels overly dedicated to the family business, so much so that he slaughters every animal he sees. [1][2] The Optimists features an ensamble cast of Serbian actors with Lazar Ristovski appearing in all five storylines. He claimed that "Voltaire's satirical savagery is missing here - not his cynicism, but the wit and fury that punched it across. This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. Free of charge, the hypnotist offers to lift the villagers' spirits through hypnosis. TMDb Score. The Optimists (Original, Musical, Revue, Broadway) opened in New York City Jan 30, 1928 and played through Feb 18, 1928. Directed by Goran Paskaljevic. With Lazar Ristovski, Bojana Novakovic, Petar Bozovic, Tihomir Arsic. The villagers doubt the hypnotist's noble motive and accuse him of an apparent theft. Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. The Optimists features an impressive cast from this part of the world, and one of the best of them - Lazar Ristovski - is appearing in all five storylines. Fainaru tied the Candide inspiration to Paskaljević's "attempts to pinpoint some of the reasons that have held his part of the world back in the past and still do to this day", he commented that the director "plays his cast like a virtuoso", that he "displays superb confidence in his choice of camera set-ups" and commended the cinematography, music and art direction.