Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- witty
- absurdist
- wistful
- balkan cinema night
- romantic movie night
What critics said
Audiences and critics broadly value its inventive comic-romantic perspective, strong performances, and vivid treatment of a society entering war.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Ratko, an ex-con from rural Bosnia, and Suzana, a city woman unlike him, fall in love during their strange journey.
The film places a comic love story and unusual characters against the first day of civil war in ex-Yugoslavia.
Ratko's colorblindness gives the title its symbolic meaning and distinguishes his perspective from the surrounding majority.
Ratko and Suzana undertake a strange voyage as armed conflict begins around them.
Films like The Red Colored Grey Truck, and why
Black Cat, White Cat
romantic road movie blending absurdist comedy with social upheaval and cultural conflict
Underground
darkly comic Balkan ensemble storytelling shaped by war, eccentric characters, and heightened realism
The Last Metro
bittersweet cross-cultural romance unfolding against political violence and historical rupture
Movie Details
- Director
- Srđan Koljević
- Release Date
- 2004-08-11
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (42)
Cast
- Srđan 'Žika' Todorović
- Aleksandra Balmazović
- Dragan Bjelogrlić
- Bogdan Diklić
- Boris Milivojević
- Milutin 'Mima' Karadžić
- Raphael Biotteau
- Željko Božić
- Đorđe Branković
- Zoran Brkljač
Common questions
- What is The Red Colored Grey Truck about?
- An ex-con and a city woman discover an unlikely love while traveling through the first violent rupture of ex-Yugoslavia.
- What is The Red Colored Grey Truck like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Red Colored Grey Truck as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Red Colored Grey Truck violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in The Red Colored Grey Truck as moderate.
- What did critics think of The Red Colored Grey Truck?
- Audiences and critics broadly value its inventive comic-romantic perspective, strong performances, and vivid treatment of a society entering war.
- Which films are like The Red Colored Grey Truck?
- Films with a similar feel include Black Cat, White Cat, Underground, and The Last Metro.
- How long is The Red Colored Grey Truck?
- The Red Colored Grey Truck runs 95 minutes.
