Directed by:
Dušan MilićScreenplay:
Dušan MilićCinematography:
Petar PopovicComposer:
Dejan PejovicCast:
Mira Djurdjevic, Marko Jeremic, Mladen Nelevic, Jovo Maksic, Fedja Stojanovic, Nikola PejakovicPlots(1)
The tiny Serb town of Gucha would never have had any claim to fame had it not been for the "World Brass Championships". For over 40 years, over a quarter of a million visitors and the crème de la crème of gypsy brass instrumentalists from the Balkans have been meeting here annually. Every year, more than a dozen bands play before a jury in the hopes of winning the Golden Trumpet. After having won the prize for five years on the trot, Boban Markovic and his band - all outstanding proponents of 'Balkan fusion' music - now only perform out-of-competition. One member of the "Boban Markovic Orkestar" is soloist and arranger Marko - who happens to be Boban's 19-year-old son. Marco also plays the male lead in this musical drama - a fictional story set against an authentic backdrop, about the rise of a brilliant trumpeter and gypsy named Romeo, with whom a Serb girl falls in love.
Sixteen-year-old Juliana is the daughter of Serbia's most popular trumpeter, known simply as Satchmo - after Louis Armstrong. Romeo, with whom Juliana falls in love, plays the trumpet in a rival gypsy orchestra known as "Sandokan's Tigers". Satchmo finds Romeo's dark skin repugnant, and would do anything in his power to keep the two lovers apart. However, as a passionate admirer of Louis Armstrong, he can never admit to his aversion. Instead of coming between them, he promises therefore to give them his consent. Romeo may have his daughter - but only if he succeeds in beating him at the festival in Gucha ...
(Berlinale)
Cast
Mira Djurdjevic
Best movies:
The Cordon (2002)
St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009)
Gucha - Distant Trumpet (2006)
Marko Jeremic
Best movies:
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Life Is a Miracle (2004)
Lajanje na zvezde (1998)
![Mladen Nelevic](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/150/165150375_f69374.jpg)
Mladen Nelevic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Seven and a Half (2006)
The Trap (2007)
Ivko's Feast (2005)
Jovo Maksic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Solemn Promise (2009)
Gucha - Distant Trumpet (2006)
The White Crow (2018)
Fedja Stojanovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Here and There (2009)
The Wounds (1998)
Tears for Sale (2008)
Nikola Pejakovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Sky Hook (1999)
We Are Not Angels (1992)