My Family's Role in the World Revolution

Bora Ćosić's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Ćosić's publications to be banned in Yugoslavia for more than four years.

During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family – including an alarmist mother, an eternally drunk father, two young aunts who swoon over American movie stars, and a playboy uncle – attempt to find any kind of work they can do at home. When the postwar Socialist society is being ushered in after the war, the narrator becomes the slogan-spouting ideological leader of the household, while his family tries – and often fails miserably – to take part in the »great change.«

»Funny and comical, irreverent and provocative – right down to the title.« Predrag Matvejevitch