Film Byzantine Blue is a rather unprofessionally constructed, but interesting film. Since the film is about to appear on the North American market, it deserves a few things to be said about it. It was done in 1994, main actress is still alive but drugs have taken her looks and her soul and she was unable to act since the film.
Story is rather complex, here I intend to explain only the main one even though some 20 of Pavic's stories are included in subplots. It starts as he (Lazar Ristovski) meets her, at the Belgrade University and they start studying together, from the early morning until eleven when they have breakfast and then on again. And he does not appear at the exam (every exam brings 100% of your mark there) and disappears from her life until the next exam term. She meets him at the Tashmaydan park, and he suggests another studying session. And all happens as before. And all the time, he is looking for the perfect blue colour, that Byzantine icons were painted with, but he lacks one element (completely fabricated story destined to disfigure Pavic's work).
After the third study session that goes just as the previous two, she finds out that he is not registered at her faculty at all, and assumes that it was all for her, all the study sessions, all the years were performed for his admiration for her. So she leaves her big mansion in her white Mustang car and goes to the remote village in the middle of the Montenegro mountains.
As she finds him, there is a white buffalo in front of his house, she enters and for a moment thinks that she has seen but a woman in the bed. As he turns around, she realizes that she found him and eats the lunch with him, beans and walnuts and fish form a plate with a mirror at the bottom, then starts looking around the room, asking him about the icon on the wall and gets an answer that it is his television, a static,
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