Black Cat, White Cat is a 1998 Yugoslav romantic comedy film directed by Emir Kusturica. It won the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the Venice Film Festival. The literal translation of the title is actually "Black cat, white tomcat". The movie characters speak in Romani, Serbian, and Bulgarian - frequently switching among them. Matko Destanov, a small-time Roma smuggler and profiteer, is living with his teenage son Zare in a ramshackle house by the Danube River in eastern Serbia near the Bulgarian border. He has plans to acquire a whole train of smuggled fuel, which he finds at cut-price.... To obtain a loan that would subsidize the heist, he visits Grga Pitić, a wheelchair-using old gangster, who's an old friend of Zarije Destanov, Matko's father and Zare's grandfather. Matko then plots the details of the job with an ally of his named Dadan, a rich, fun-living, drug-snorting gangster type who has a harem, juggles grenades and cheats at gambling.
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| Release date: | September 10, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Emir Kusturica |
| Runtime: | 135 Minutes |
| Producer: | Karl Baumgartner, Maksa Catovic |
| Editor: | Svetolik Zajc |
| Music by: | Nele Karajlić, Voja Aralica, Dejo Sparavalo |
| Cinematography: | Michel Amathieu, Thierry Arbogast |
| Screenplay by: | Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic |
| Genre: | Comedy |