Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Original title: Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell · Turkish title: Dolly Bell'i Anımsıyor musun?
1981 · 1 h 50 min
Directed by 
Emir Kusturica
Emir KusturicaCast
Slavko Štimac 
Slobodan Aligrudić 
Ljiljana Blagojević
Credits
Written by: Abdulah Sidran
Plot
A teenage boy in Sarajevo in the early 1960s dreams of being a musician and falls for a young woman working for a local pimp.
Sinekatalog’s take
Emir Kusturica's debut follows a Sarajevo teenager dreaming of music in the early 1960s. Warm, funny and nostalgic, with a rich sense of family and place, it won the Golden Lion for best first work.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (7,417 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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