Top lista nadrealista
| Top lista nadrealista | |
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 Sketch showing two European observers trying to make a Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb, lifelong friends, get into a fight |
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| Format | Sketch comedy, Comedy, variety |
| Starring | Nele Karajlić Branko Đurić Zenit Đozić and others |
| Country of origin |  SFR Yugoslavia |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Running time | various |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | TV Sarajevo |
| Original run | 1984 – 1991 |
Top lista nadrealista (trans. Surrealists' Top Chart) also known as Nadrealisti (Surrealists) was a comedy radio broadcast on Radio Sarajevo during early 1980s and later a sketch comedy and variety show on TV Sarajevo in three separate installments from 1984 until 1991.
'Top lista nadrealista' started as a segment on Boro Kontić's programme called Primus (Priče i muzika subotom) on Radio Sarajevo. The segment became successful, eventually getting spun off in its own time slot separate from Primus. By 1984 the radio show got made into a TV sketch series.
The show was composed mostly of political satire or humour connected with mentality of people from ex-Yugoslavia (for example, "Hrkljuš") in form of sketches, and became famous in former Yugoslavia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many sketches dealt with current political situation which was a prelude to the Yugoslavian war. Some proved to be prophetic, as they described things like Sarajevo being divided in different republics, a single family split into two clans and warring over control of rooms in the apartment, UN peacekeeping force's "significant" presence and their adding fuel to the conflict.
Surrealists held clear pacifist posture, often using absurdity to describe the imminent war, e.g. warning that "peace may break out and ruin Bosnian harmonious war" or giving alarming instructions on how the public should act in case of "peace".
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[edit] Radio days
When Boro Kontić, radio host, producer, and longtime editor-in-chief of Radio Sarajevo's Omladinski program, became aware of a group of kids in their late teens from Sarajevo's Koševo neighborhood who were involved with music as well as other forms of artistic expression, he brought them on his weekly radio show Primus. Their very first radio appearance took place on Saturday, May 9, 1981. The 15-minute segment Kontić gave them already had a name 'Top lista nadrealista' from the previous group of kids that he used on the show.[1] The segment essentially functioned as a weekly recap through satirical commentary of events that occurred the previous week, from those of local character to global ones. Though uncoordinated and chaotic at first, the segment gained popularity among young listeners and soon became a separate radio programme on the station's schedule.
After getting its own timeslot, the show slightly expanded from topical humour to include longer sketches. Its popularity further increased in the city and it eventually moved to television.
[edit] Television
[edit] First series
The programme's first installment on television began in 1984 following the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. With Nele Karajlić, Branko Đurić, Zenit Đozić, Boris Šiber, Zlatko Arslanagić, and Dražen Ričl as main protagonists, and Davor Marjanović as the director, the show had the basic structure of a radio programme. Around 45 minutes long, each episode had a sketch of a single theme that was presented in segments sandwiched in-between folk music numbers.
The sketches centered around exuberance and improvisation, which dominated over the written material. According to Karajlić, the first installment of Nadrealisti was "the result of our youthful hysteria and it relied more on raw energy than brains".[2] Furthermore, many sketches were lifted straight from the English series Monty Python's Flying Circus with a slight adaptation for the local setting. Also, the actual events taking place as the series was shot – such as Yugoslavia's atrocious showing at the Euro 1984 or Rajko Janjanin's European Cup hat-trick versus Benfica – provided fodder for the sketches. Still, the programme's popularity was primarily based on the abundance of colloquialisms and local Sarajevo street parlance - none of which could be seen up to that point on the very buttoned-up Yugoslav TV - and the show communicated really well with young viewers. At this time, Nadrealisti were still mostly a local Sarajevo phenomenom as their prominence was yet to gain a Yugoslavia-wide character. In total, eleven episodes were aired during the first season.
For several months in late 1984 and early 1985 the show was halted. A part of the crew which created the show, most of them both actors and writers, were members of rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje. During a concert in Rijeka the band frontman and one of the members of Surrealists dr Nele Karajlić made a pun after the Marshall amplifier broke down, saying: "The Marshall is dead, and I am talking about the amplifier now", involving late Josip Broz Tito who held the military rank of the same name. The band and the show were verbally attacked by several communist organizations and Surrealists opted to stay out of the eye of the public for a while. The show resumed in the spring of 1985 without much fuss.
[edit] Second series
It would be almost five years before Nadrealisti returned for the second installment in 1989. Now a bit more mature and structured, the second series was directed by Miroslav "Ćiro" Mandić. The number of on-camera protagonists expanded and the written material became tighter as sketches started hinting a lot more at politics and social issues. Also, rather than having sketch excerpts that revolve around a theme over an entire episode, the programme had different sketches of varied structure and the music numbers were reduced. In addition to the returning cast, new protagonists included Darko Ostojić, Dado Džihan, and Dražen Janković. Seven episodes were shot and aired during the season. An additional New Year's special episode was aired on 31 December 1989.
With the second series, the show's popularity expanded to other parts of SFR Yugoslavia too, as they earned both critical and popular praise.
[edit] Third series
[edit] Members
- Nele Karajlić (seasons 1, 2, and 3)
- Branko Đurić (seasons 1, 2, and 3)
- Zenit Đozić (seasons 1, 2, and 3)
- Boris Šiber (seasons 1 and 2)
- Darko Ostojić (season 2)
- Dražen Ričl (season 1)
- Dražen Janković (seasons 2 and 3)
- Zlatko Arslanagić (season 1)
- Dado Džihan (season 2)
- Srki Velimirović (seasons 2 and 3)
- Davor Dujmović (season 3)
- Davorin Šegulja (season 3)
[edit] Guests in sketches
[edit] Offshoots
[edit] Wartime Nadrealisti
A programme using the name Top lista nadrealista aired during part of the Sarajevo siege. It was put together mostly by the whole new personnel led by Sejo Sexon and Saša Petrović, in addition to the only member from the original group - Zenit Đozić. For the most part it was a radio broadcast, opening with lines such as "good evening to all three of you who still have generators", however a few sketches were filmed and televised as well. As a comedy show in a war torn city, it arguably had an impact on citizens' morale. The show was more directly dealing with the surrounding reality of war, making fun of all sides involved and everyday situations in which citizens of Sarajevo were during the city siege.
E.g. One war-time sketch showed Serbs arresting obviously innocent Czech tourists who got lost on their way to seaside as Muslim extremists and terrorists. Other sketch shows how a Bosnian Muslim "Super Imam" heals a child of Chetnik spirit.
[edit] Nadreality Show
In 2007 Croatian television network RTL Televizija assembled a group of performers, including two of the original cast members Zenit Đozić and Darko Ostojić as well as one of the original new primitives Elvis J. Kurtović, for a sketch programme named Nadreality Show (Surreality Show) that somewhat resembled the original series. It aired on RTL in Croatia, FTV in Bosnia, and B92 in Serbia without much success.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ KAD JE ŽIVOT BIO ČUDO; aplauz.net
- ^ Naši ljudi;Televizija Istočno Sarajevo, November 2010
