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From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia.

When the travelling cinema comes to a Yugoslavian village in 1950, the young men and women are introduced to Mexican melodramas depicting the Mexican revolution, and they become entranced by not only the heroes of these films, but also by the music. In the midst of their own political nightmare, they escape reality through the exploits of the cinematic revolutionaries, and in the morning the younger men of the village seem to know the songs by heart and form their own Mariachi band.

Love, cinema, music, military bravado, intrigue and the promise of revolution play out in a tiny mountain village, but the pseudo-Mexican farce is about to end, because the Supreme Commander General is on his way to see for himself just what is going on…

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C9TDC9GM
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 29, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 754 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages

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Miha Mazzini
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Hi, I'm Miha Mazzini, author, screenwriter and film director.

Some fast facts about me:

- more than 30 books published in 11 languages

- Short stories selected for many anthologies including Pushcart Prize 2012

- Screenwriter of award-winning feature films (Golden Palm for the best film of the XXII Mostra de Valencia, European CIRCOM Award for the Best TV Film of 1992)

- Writer and director of 5 short films (Best director award at the Highgate Film Festival in London, best short film of 2011 at the Slovenian film festival), TV documentaries and feature film

- MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

- PhD in Anthropology of Everyday Life, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia

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