The Meeting Point

Al old archeologist finally finds what he has been looking for all his life: a Roman tombstone that covers the entrance to the `other world’. While he tries to move the stone aside with the help of others, he has a heart attack and dies soon afterwards at home. But it soon becomes apparent that he is only dead for those around him. In reality, he is only anaesthetised and floats `somewhere between life and death’. In that situation, he is able to bring about a link between the living and the dead. The dead are able to get information from the archaeologist about how their relatives on earth are faring. Some of the dead even decide to succumb to their desire to see their family again and go through the Roman passage to the world of the living. But that world turns out not to be exactly as they had imagined…Goran Markovic achieves with this film a philosophical parable about life and death the pinnacle of his poetic realism. The leading role of the professor is played by Markovic’ father and his mother also plays an important role.