Marko Sekulovic has spent 20 years in America.Now he is a widowed old man living at his home country in Yugoslavia.He takes care of his two grandchildren, Ivan and Ana who have their parents working in Germany.Then a pretty new school teacher called Lena comes to village.I would have a crush on this teacher if I was in her class! Goran Paskaljevic is the director of Twilight Time (1982).The movie is full of sympathetic characters.And it has just the right actors to portray them.Karl Malden has not often been the leading man in movies.Here he is and he's fantastic! Malden, who was born Mladen Sekulovich in 1912 saw his role in this film to honor his Yugoslavian heritage.Jodi Thelen gives a real sweet performance as Lena.Mia Roth plays the younger grandchild Ana and Damien Nash is the serious and hardworking Ivan.It's a beautiful scene where Malden's character dances while the gramophone plays Twilight Time.First he dances solo and then Lena comes to dance with him and then...he dies.Twilight Time is Karl Malden's personal favorite of his films.He's aware that not too many people have seen the movie.I found the VHS on library and just watched it yesterday.I'm happy to say I saw the film and liked it very much.
Review of Twilight Time
