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In this black comedy from Croatia, Cinco Kapulica (Ivo Gregurevic) is an Croatian exile living in Berlin who has hatched what he's convinced is a brilliant scheme. He's been able to obtain a death certificate for himself, and he plans to have himself shipped back to the old country in a casket, which will allow him to go home, and allow his family to get his insurance benefits. Cinco's pal Marinko (Ivica Vidovic) seems a bit dubious about this, but agrees to help, warding off body snatchers who want to harvest organs from Cinco's corpse while trying to resolve some confusion regarding a Turk who came up with the same idea (which becomes all the more complicated when the lids to their coffins are switched). Cinco and Marinko discover when they arrive that Croatia is not what it once was in the midst of the nation's political unrest, and when Cinco escapes his coffin only to encounter Chetnik troops, they panic, convinced that the dead have come back to attack them. Director Krsto Papic co-wrote the screenplay with Mate Matisic, adapting the story from Matisic's play Cinco and Marinko.