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Real Pests

by Jože Bevc

To so gadi, 1977, fiction, film 35mm, c, 96 min

SI, YU

Finished

Štebe, a chauffeur, is a widower with five sons. They have a housekeeper called Rosy. The boys with their little tricks and boyish pranks are the despair of the bourgeois neighbourhood. Everyone calls them "the pests". Rosy has often threatened to leave them and finally she really does pack her bags and goes home to the countryside. Sooner after Rosy leaves, her niece Meri turns up to visit her and also moves in. Meri is nowhere as good as Rosy when it comes to running a household. Tone, a friend of Štebe, begins to take an interest in Meri. Meri starts to go out a lot, but Tone doesn't know where she goes. As time goes on, the Štebes really begin to miss their housekeeper. Tone looks Rosy …
Awards
Festival Award Year
25th Pula Film Festival
Silver Arena (Jury Award), best supporting role (Woman)
1978
5th Slovene Film Week
Debutant of the Year (Jury Award), best performance
1977
5th Slovene Film Week
Stop Magazine Award for Best Actor (Jury Award), best actor/actress (Male)
Stop Magazine Award for Best Actor (Jury Award), best actor/actress (Woman)
1977