Prosjaci i sinovi

A masterpiece which sets standards and lasts for decades without getting old.

If you speak Croatian then this will be hillarious show otherwise my opinion is better to skip it because you'll miss the point without understanding local traditions, habits and folklore.

Great story about a man called Matan who is a very intelligent cheater. The story basically follows him and in a way his family as well, from when he was just a child until he reaches the old age. That is the most simple way to describe. In reality it's much more complicated and with a lot more to it.

The show is brilliant in both drama and comedy, like many Yugoslavian TV series were. It's quite often sad and tragic, but it never loses that comedic touch. This is truly one of the funniest television series ever. Not just in former Yugoslavia, but all around the world. I've never seen anything as funny as this. There were some television series that i was maybe more fond of, but i've never seen something quite as funny as this.

Rade Serbedzija, an amazing actor who has his share of fame and respect in the world as well, is playing the title role, Matan. Matan is, as i already said, a cheater. A cheater in every way you can be a cheater. But what's more fascinating than anything about this series is it's characters. Not what they do, but who they are and how they think. How primitive they are, but still so likable. Vrdoljak did all he could with Prosjaci i Sinovi, and it is truly the crown of his career.

I don't know if there is a subtitled version of the series out there, but if there isn't, there sure should be. To those of you who don't understand Croatian, or Serbian, find it and watch it. You will not regret it! Simply amazing! I guess incredible would be the best word!

Everything is said in the title. For many years, as I was younger, I deliberately refused to see this. Watching life unfold in all it's drama for a poor country family proved of little interest to my younger self. Although, I always knew, without a doubt, that this is the best piece of Croatian film, and, one of the best series in the world, of any language, any time. I knew that, even at that age, because this is the only thing that would glue our parents and grandparents together jammed on a tiny couch, their eyes glowing with awe and head shaking affirmingly after every line spoken. I've now seen it, and it was everything my younger self thought it would be.

Geniusly in every way, but the thing I would Like to point out od that this show has some documentary or ethnographic components to it, you can learn a lot about culture and society at that time ...perfection.