Hey Babu Riba
1985, SH. Directed by Jovan Aćin.
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- SH
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Cast & crew
- Jovan AćinDirector
- Gala VidenovićEster
- Nebojša BakočevićGlen
- Dragan BjelogrlićSaša
- Srđan 'Žika' TodorovićKića
- Goran RadakovićPop
- Milan ŠtrljićRile
- Relja BašićGlen (stariji)
- Marko TodorovićSaša (stariji)
- Miloš ŽutićKića (stariji)
- Dragomir 'Gidra' BojanićRile (stariji)
- Ljubiša SamardžićGlenov otac
- Ružica SokićKićina majka
Details
- Released
- 23 October 1985
- Original title
- Bal na vodi
- Country
- United Kingdom, Yugoslavia
- Written by
- Jovan Aćin
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Hey Babu Riba runs 112 minutes (1h 52m).
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Hey Babu Riba isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 October 1985. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Hey Babu Riba?
Hey Babu Riba (1985) was directed by Jovan Aćin and stars Gala Videnović, Nebojša Bakočević, Dragan Bjelogrlić.