Arquivo

The five stories in this film are inspired by Voltaire’s famous satirical novel "Candide" and its motto: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." The setting is present day, post-Milosevic Serbia. Painted with black humor, these stories reflect a time filled with hope and despair, real and false optimism; a time when fiction and reality co-exist side by side, and when many people fish in the troubled waters of lost illusions. The acclaimed actor Lazar Ristovski (Underground, 19th and 25th Mostra; Boomerang, 26th Mostra; and Tomorrow Morning, 30th Mostra) takes a role in each of the five stories. The Optimists won the Golden Spike for Best Film and Best Actor (Lazar Ristovski) and the Audience Award at the 2006 Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain) and the Audience Award at the 2007 Festróia – Tróia International Film Festival.