• Golden Lion of the First film at the Mostra of Venise, 1981
• Prize of the International Federation of the cinema Press (FIPRESCI) at the Mostra of Venice, 1981
• Critic Prize of the International Film Festival of Sao Paulo, 1982

The Sixties in Sarajevo. Dino, young man in the suburbs, tries to lighten his life with the cinema that show him an Occident full of temptations, with hypnotism lessons, and music, the rock n'roll that makes the rest vanish. Then comes Dolly Bell, lovely cabaret girl that give him the more tremendous feelings.

• Slavko Štimac …. Dino
• Slobodan Aligrudić …. the father
• Mira Banjac …. the mother
• Ljiljana Blagojević …. Dolly Bell
• Nada Pani …. the aunt
• Zika Ristić …. Cica
• Boro Stjepanović …. Cvikeras
• Pavle Vujisić …. the uncle

The soundtrack was once published as a SP.

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Emir Kusturica was in the army at the time being. Military officials gave him a special 24h permission to leave Yugoslavia and receive the award in Venice.

The film was initially conceived for Yugoslavian television. Title of the film Dolly Bell refers to a lap dance girl of the Crazy Horse in 1959 Italian director Alessandro Blasetti's movie : Europe by Night.

In this film, all the actors speak with their own words, their own real accent. It's the first ever Yugoslavian movie where actors don't speak official Serbo-Croatian (the Yugoslav equivalent of BBC English), but the so-called Bosnian language, in fact, the language of Sarajevo.

• Télérama ”The brilliant beginnings of Kusturica.”