Serbian City Club

Montevideo, Taste of a Dream (Montevideo, bog te video: Prica prva) to screen at the Tricycle Cinema, London

 

Wednesday 22nd February 6pm

 

Serbia / 2010  / 145 mins / Dir: Dragan Bjelogrlic / Language: Serbian (with English subtitles)

 

Cast: Milos Bikovic, Petar Strugar & Nina Jankovic

 

The Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn, North London has included a special screening of the Serbian film, Montevideo, Taste of a Dream (Montevideo, bog te video: Prica prva)  as part of its International Film Season. The season celebrates the International submissions to the Foreign Language Film category at the 2012 Oscars.

Montevideo, Taste of a Dream (Montevideo, bog te video: Prica prva) is a heart-warming and rousing story of friendship, enthusiasm, persistence and love of football that achieved great success in Serbia.

Inspired by true events that took place in the 1920s and based on the book by famed sports journalist Vladimir Stankovic, Montevideo follows the transformation of a group of Belgrade football players as they assemble the nation's first ever national football team. The team, who go on to compete at the first ever FIFA World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, turn the nation’s football team from something pitied into a symbol of hope. The film charts the early days of players who would go on to be genuine national heroes.

 

Tickets for the screening are ￡8.50 / ￡7.50 conc and are available from the box office on 020 7328 1000 or online at http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/cinema-program/cinema/montevideo-taste-of-a-dream-montevideo-bog-te-video-prica-prva/

The Tricycle Theatre & Cinema

269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR