Admirable film.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

considering rest of markovic's work, this movie takes low position on list of his movies, for someone else it may be average, but not for goran markovic. as we are used to negative associations for yugoslav communist authority in markovic's movies, same thing is presented in 'vec vidjeno'. movie is about the man who is piano teacher who wasted his exceptional talent, primarily because of his childhood traumas which effected the rest of his life to the point of absolute mental decay. he associates nowadays reality with scenes from his childhood (explanes movie title)and general atmosphere is very melancholic and heavy, but not strong or effective enough and that's the key problem

Now I'm not saying this is a masterpiece, but it is nonetheless a very interesting movie. It is definitely worth seeing, if you get a chance.The storyline follows the life of a child whose posh family disintegrated following the arrival of communists in Belgrade, Serbia.The loss of his family, societal status and dignity and the perceived lack of morals in the communist society drives him further and further away from the mainstream and into loneliness, depression and murderous obsession.The movie maybe tries a little too hard to represent the post-war communist society as a parade of ignorant, unsophisticated and violent peasants, freshly arrived from the mountains and villages but already ruling every aspect of the new society.The film is really about violence, and about painful changes in society that war and violent revolutions bring.

"Vec vidjeno" is the greatest masterpiece of all times. Goran Markovic is one of the greatest directors. This film features excellent acting of Mustafa Nadarevic and Anica Dobra, charming and touching music, sounding in the film. The music creates this mysterious atmosphere which charming spectators. Crossing of today's events and past events made in a very appropriate way. And it proves the Markovic' skill. Look at the Anica Dobra and her appearance and you will realize that she ideally matches the film character! What about Mustafa Nadarevic? He matches even more! Look at furnishings of past events! How it corresponds to reality! The greatest work of the great director and actors!

Vec vidjeno is the gem in Goran Markovic`s opus. Markovic is in my opinion the best Yugoslav director of all time, and his movies in a satirical way perfectly portrayed society and social distorsions in Yugoslavia at the end of 70`s and up to the mid 80`s. Vec vidjeno (or also known as Deja Vu), is however looking on the other side of life, and horror, with the unavoidable elements of society`s flaws, raging from before World war II, up to mid 70`s where the plot is set. This is the most complete, griping and artistic Yugoslav movie that takes you by surprise and stares right in your face up to the very end