The Optimists
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Written by: Goran Paskaljević, Vladimir Paskaljević
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