Cannes Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1980 Won Best Supporting Actress
Milena Dravic
Tied with Carla Gravina and Terrazza, La (1980).
Nominated Golden Palm
Goran Paskaljevic
Golden Globes, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1981 Nominated Golden Globe Best Foreign Film
Brushed with shadings of a larger social and political commentary, this occasionally hilarious and consistently funny comedy looks at a closet alcoholic, Dr. Ilich (Ljuba Tadic) who treats alcoholism in others with an iron hand and a zany therapeutical approach. Between the music of Wagner, a diet in which apples figure prominently, and exercises that look like Chicken Little in take-off mode, the doctor is convinced his patients will be cured. What really ails most of them is what caused their alcohol problem in the first place -- so when the eccentric doctor takes six of his patients to a nearby brewery to demonstrate the success of his treatment, chaos results. First the apples taken on the trip are spik