19 reviews
One of the best football movies, even though it's not just about the sport
There aren't a lot of films about association football where football features so much. This has it all - football, drama, love, comedy, friendship and camaraderie. It's visually great, the music amazing, the main plot is good and there are enough sub-plots to keep the story interesting. The film is a bit of a light-hearted drama (not too heavy, deep or sad) and has moments of light comedy and comes off as being cute.
It does play as a feel-good film without avoiding issues such as corruption, nationalism, what is the precursor to football hooliganism and so on, but it does not take those issues lightly either.
Overall a great film and a must watch for people that are into history, football and the history of football.
It does play as a feel-good film without avoiding issues such as corruption, nationalism, what is the precursor to football hooliganism and so on, but it does not take those issues lightly either.
Overall a great film and a must watch for people that are into history, football and the history of football.
- DukeWolfenstein
- Dec 15, 2015
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Best Football movie you will ever see
I am a football fan and widely travelled but I did not know the story of the Yugoslavia football team in the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay and I thoroughly enjoyed this film from start to finish. I am a little uncomfortable with the reference to the Yugoslav team being entirely Serbian but I acknowledge why it was referenced in the way it was and i empathise with the analogy if a British team competing was comprised entirely of Englishmen.
Superbly filmed, excellent dialogues, loaded with comic moments, touching moments of romance and suspense but I wonder if the romance was true between the Yugoslav football player and Dolores? In years there has not been a football related movie to get even remotely close to 'The Damned United' and the Brian Clough story but this, given it is a foreign language film, exceeds that and you are missing a jewel of a movie at your absolute peril.
It is a weird kind of agony that Yugoslavia beat the favoured nation Brazil in their first match which nation also supplied the reference for that eventful semi=final with Uruguay and the irony extends to the 1950 final when Uruguay beat Brazil on their 'patch'.
The film itself was in my view faultless but I would have liked some reference at the end as to what happened in the lives of those Yugoslav football players. Did they return to Serbia? By the way, reference to Coca Cola was a little odd because I thought the soft drink was not marketed aligned with Santa Klaus for red and white until the Christmas of 1936.
Superbly filmed, excellent dialogues, loaded with comic moments, touching moments of romance and suspense but I wonder if the romance was true between the Yugoslav football player and Dolores? In years there has not been a football related movie to get even remotely close to 'The Damned United' and the Brian Clough story but this, given it is a foreign language film, exceeds that and you are missing a jewel of a movie at your absolute peril.
It is a weird kind of agony that Yugoslavia beat the favoured nation Brazil in their first match which nation also supplied the reference for that eventful semi=final with Uruguay and the irony extends to the 1950 final when Uruguay beat Brazil on their 'patch'.
The film itself was in my view faultless but I would have liked some reference at the end as to what happened in the lives of those Yugoslav football players. Did they return to Serbia? By the way, reference to Coca Cola was a little odd because I thought the soft drink was not marketed aligned with Santa Klaus for red and white until the Christmas of 1936.
Excellent film
I loved this film, but there are some mistakes in it concerning the Brazilian team. In the 30's there were almost no African Brazilians playing football. In fact, the first one was Benedicto, playing for Vasco Da Gama and for the national team that went to Uruguai. My father used to tell his story, adding that after him, black players started being accepted. The Fluminense Football Club had a black player who used to paint his body with white powder so that he could play. It gave the team the nickname of "face powder", which is still used today. The clothes the players use in the film are wrong too. They are Brazilians after all, and not Africans. In spite of these mistakes, and many others, the film is very good and brings about many questions related to the world cup that still prevail...
Charming and humorous
Having recently watched the Wolf of Wall Street, the film was a wonderful reminder that not all has to be crass and vulgar. The film is full of charm and humour which I can only hope will not be lost in translation.
Hollywood should view this film and realise that there is much more to cinema than obscenity mixed in with blood and guts. To have made such a film on a Balkan budget speaks volumes for the producers, director, actors and editing staff.
Could there possibly be a third part - the return home.
Bravo.
Hollywood should view this film and realise that there is much more to cinema than obscenity mixed in with blood and guts. To have made such a film on a Balkan budget speaks volumes for the producers, director, actors and editing staff.
Could there possibly be a third part - the return home.
Bravo.
- bakovljev9
- Jan 26, 2014
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Great movie... Based on true story.
- aleksandar-d-randjelovic
- Jan 24, 2014
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lcd television
In one of the reviews I've read he/she complains having new flat TVin 1930. with Neymar on it.
Maybe you should consider re-watching a movie ones again, because when you saw a modern TV it wasn't 1930., it was present, having Stanoje (little lame boy) telling story at his old age to another man, who wanted to make a movie about it.
So... since you sh*t on the movie, which you obviously didn't understand, you should not give false information to others.
Great movie, but the sense of humor is not that easy to understand to non Yugoslavian people, since the translation is too literal.
Maybe you should consider re-watching a movie ones again, because when you saw a modern TV it wasn't 1930., it was present, having Stanoje (little lame boy) telling story at his old age to another man, who wanted to make a movie about it.
So... since you sh*t on the movie, which you obviously didn't understand, you should not give false information to others.
Great movie, but the sense of humor is not that easy to understand to non Yugoslavian people, since the translation is too literal.
- borna-grguric
- Aug 15, 2014
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Montevideo
Just watched this movie and have to say it was very good... it reminds me on those good times when you watch old Hollywood movies. p.s. Petar Matic if you say this there was no Serbia at this time because it didn't exist at this time, well guess what there, was no Serbian aggression towards those you mentioned because war broke in Yugoslavia and neither Serbia and others existed at that time, so save us from your nationalistic crap here which gave us those things in the 90-tis.This is movie forum where people from whole world come because of the movies not to listen to your crap that they threw from their countries long time ago. cheers everybody...
Great movie, don't miss it
Can't give it a 10, but movie is great
chance to see what was the football when it was played from love to the game, and to see beginnings of interference of managers and money. Of the topic, mr. Petarmatic, at first i thought the same, wtf Serbian best position when Yugoslavia played, then I read about and saw that only Serbian players played, and Serbia has all the right to be proud of its best position in the World cup. Your comments of the Serbian aggression were not pertinent for this site, and are rather one-sided. Couple hundred thousand of Serbian people was expelled from theirs homes and killed in "Serbian aggression" so please edit your comment and keep commenting the movie only.
- Borisav-ignjatov
- Jan 22, 2014
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one of the best movies I've ever watched
- benjamintinjic
- Jan 25, 2014
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Excellent movie
- riverside-704-596061
- Feb 7, 2014
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Historical inaccuracies condition every opinion
- flavio-orlando
- Jun 29, 2017
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Excellent movie which you need to watch
This is an excellent movie, with great story, great camera, great acting.... One more thing this is second part of th movie Montevideo - God Bless you, When I was looking for this movie on this site I just sawed review from ex Yugoslavia's republic called Bosnia and Herzegovina and in every single thing these people form Bosnia (Islamic part of Bosnia) are writing things that has nothing with movie, they write about politics and religious views an in a matter of a fact this film has nothing to do with it and its true story what happened what you can easily find evidence in a 1 minute. In first part of film in that time 1930 was Yugoslavian Kingdom and Croatian players didn't want to play on this world cup and that is a fact that only Serbian players actually did play on this world cup. Its easy to find which players played for every country for example Yugoslavia beat Brasil 2:1
So stunning movie really non political and very easy for watching, I recommend you to watch it an I'm sure you will like it if you like football (in USA soccer). Rating in my opinion pure 10.
So stunning movie really non political and very easy for watching, I recommend you to watch it an I'm sure you will like it if you like football (in USA soccer). Rating in my opinion pure 10.
Victory over defeat
At first I refuse to watch this movie. I wanted to save the impression about the story told in the "first Montevideo". No one could argue with that. But, then I saw the words "see you" in the movie's title, and I thought: that's reality calling all the visions, all the dreams to put up the fight with them. How long will the players stand for their team, how long will they truly play? When will they realize how big is that dream, how deceptive the illusions could be? Everybody knows that Yugoslav team didn't won the first World Cup, so they were defeated and somebody will say: they lost. So, their biggest dream didn't come true? How do we know that it was the biggest one? Maybe they've already accomplished that when they were chosen and came to Montevideo only to play football just for fun, for the love of the game... Is there some victory hidden behind the competitions, behind the money that tends to control all, behind the vanity... You'll never know if you refuse to watch, like I did, until now...
- margosanci
- Aug 9, 2014
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Not so good....
Well, I've seen this movie because it's about an event that happened in my country, (Uruguay) and am very fond of football. 1) It looks like if the championship took place anyplace, except in my country. To me it seems to be Mexico,not Uruguay at all. 2) I know the Estadio Centenario very well, it's a world football monument, and the capacity of the stadium wasn't as big as it seems in the picture,what is shown on the movie is the actual capacity, not the one when in was founded, in 1930. 3)A tremendous mistake : Remember it was 1930, and it's shown a plasma or LSD flat TV showing a game between Peñarol(Uruguay) and Santos(Brazil) that took place in 2011 and the famous Neymar was on it. 4) A don't complain about the plot , the actors, the director or the technical details of the film, but the errors are so big , that spoiled the whole thing .It would have been much better if the people involved in the movie would have taken more time to inform themselves of the country, the habits, (the Brazilian fans are shown as if they were Indians from the Amazon), the food we consume, etc. Ours is a beautiful country, why didn't they did it in situ ? Really disappointing
They deleted this review six times, do you know why?
Plot is excellent, and cinematography is beautiful as well as acting, it all brought me back to childhood when I watched beautiful ex Yugoslav films. What I did not like is two last lines of the film, which went like in Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup this was the biggest achievement by Serbian football. Because a year earlier Croatian members of the Yugoslav Parlament, Stjepan Radic and Djuro Basaricek were killed by a Serbian ultra nationalist Punisa Racic by the order of the Yugoslav King Alexander I, and Yugoslav football federation was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade by force. Because of those events non Serb footballers chose not to join Yugoslav squad and that squad was filled by the Serbs only. As such they went to Uruguay and achieved what they did. In the film in a short dialogue Pako character emhpasizes that. Since that team represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia the last line should be read It was one of the greatest achievement of the Yugoslav sport of all times. Otherwise I really enjoyed this film and I think it was made with warmth and love.
- petarmatic
- Aug 21, 2014
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Brilliant
Good historical story, very popular in Serbia, everyone liked it, nice story about football players and their lives.
- nikolaperic-64869
- Jun 2, 2020
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10/10.
Without any doubt the best comedy ever. A movie with rafinate and non-rafinate humour, actualy with all kinds of humour..Also the best movie about soccer beside Messi. A movie speaked in serbian , croatian , english , spanish , french , romanian.portuguese but how IMDb it's an american site and americans know only english , they mentioned at languages just Serbian , english and spanish.
- cosmin742000
- Feb 18, 2022
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bad movie
Good idea, terrible story, a wasted opportunity
Although the idea was good, directing was fine, and there were a few good actors, it's simply a bad movie.
It's way too long. Instead of 141 minutes, it would make much more sense to cut it to less than 100. It's too boring, it never ends, and I just wanted to go home and do anything else. But I could't, because I watched it on a bus. Which was terrifying.
And the story is terrible. It's not flowing, it doesn't make me want to know what will happen later in the movie. I also don't really care about the characters. Except the monkey. The monkey was cool.
Lots of random scenes, maybe one or two funny situations. Then there are a few heavy, thriller parts, that don't look like a part of the same movie. Some unnecessary drama.
Also, sometimes irritating music. Yes, violins are great, but that doesn't mean the audience wants to hear them every two minutes.
So, it's watchable, and visually is great. But too long, not believable, without real story.
It's way too long. Instead of 141 minutes, it would make much more sense to cut it to less than 100. It's too boring, it never ends, and I just wanted to go home and do anything else. But I could't, because I watched it on a bus. Which was terrifying.
And the story is terrible. It's not flowing, it doesn't make me want to know what will happen later in the movie. I also don't really care about the characters. Except the monkey. The monkey was cool.
Lots of random scenes, maybe one or two funny situations. Then there are a few heavy, thriller parts, that don't look like a part of the same movie. Some unnecessary drama.
Also, sometimes irritating music. Yes, violins are great, but that doesn't mean the audience wants to hear them every two minutes.
So, it's watchable, and visually is great. But too long, not believable, without real story.
- borivojeeskic
- Jul 2, 2015
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