The Coach backdrop

The Coach 1978 Directed by Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević Trener

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

Country Yugoslavia
Production Country Yugoslavia
Language Serbo-Croatian
Spoken Language Serbo-Croatian
Gnere Drama
Production Company Avala Film
Release Date 1 January 1978
101 mins
Cast
Zoran Veličković Ruzmarin, centarfor Orkana
Ljiljana Tica Odbojkašica zvana Nedelja
Miki Jovičić Orač, mehaničar
Zoran Bogdanović Prvi golman Orkana
Milutin Jevđenijević Grobar i vanredni student
Zoran Stojanović Golman prva rezerva
Slavica Stefanović Žena igrača sa brojem 8
Adam Obrenović Levi half
Ljalja Gezim Levo krilo
Saša Pajić Novinar
Milena Dravić Petrova bivša žena
Dušica Žegarac Lila, Knezova žena