Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles

本片是一部关于南斯拉夫乐队“无烟地带”的纪录片，由南斯拉夫著名导演埃米尔•库斯图里卡（Emir Kusturica）执导，他作为该乐队的贝斯手也出现在影片中。影片记录了“无烟地带”乐团2000年在欧洲巡演的经历，中间夹杂着乐手们关于成长历程的叙述，以及后台闲谈、排练的片段。影片结构也很有特色，乐队前台表演的画面使用彩色胶片拍摄，而表演后台的花絮以及乐队自述都采用粗糙的黑白影像来表现，形成强烈的对比。乐团一路欢唱，将巴尔干庞克的狂野与疯癫、欢乐与凄苦充分表现在他们的嬉笑欢腾与玩世不恭中。在巡演过程中，他们坚持追寻南斯拉夫的音乐根源，并希冀加入现代的摇滚元素重新构建自己的独特音乐风格。
本片获得2001年美国芝加哥国际影展最佳纪录片银盘奖。

1995 film directed by Emir Kusturica