Vladimir Đurđević

Don't Bet on the Brits

A Bromantic Comedy about Bonding, Betting, and Belgrade. While waiting for the end of the football match they were betting on, three best friends unexpectedly put their long-term friendship at stake. BULAE, PIXIE, and PAUN (Peacock) are long-time friends living in Belgrade. They are very different in character but share one common passion - betting on all the English football leagues' match results. This time, for them, betting is more than a game because all three men desperately need money. During just one halftime, swinging from comedy to drama and back, this war of nerves brings to the surface all the dirty laundry of their relationship. Only one result will change their lives forever and put their thirty-year friendship at stake.

Don't Bet on the Brits

In the focus of Djurdjevic's only seemingly "simple" plot are three urban 30-year-olds, stuck somewhere on the first life curves - either because of an inferiority to an employed wife, or because of their inability to prove themselves through superficial sexual adventures, or the overwhelming urge to humiliate his friends behind the "mask" of innocent jokes. However, the equally important protagonist of the play "Don't Bet on the English" - the protagonist who is both inside and outside them - is one of the essential demons of human nature: a passion for gambling, more precisely betting. An emerging form of this obsessive passion is, for Djurdjevic's heroes, betting on the results of matches of various national football leagues.

Residue

The action takes place in Valjevo during WWI.