Drawn by the gunshots, his neighbours, handyman Aca (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) and bean-loving Vesko (Radoslav Milenković), gather in the dead man's apartment waiting for the paramedics, police, and forensic investigator to show up.
Eventually, even a glib real-estate agent (Nikola Đuričko) shows up with a reluctant client (Mirjana Karanović) as well as a pizza delivery guy (Miloš Samolov).
Now aware of the unblinking eye of the camera, the members of the randomly assembled group suddenly feel the need to justify their previous statements and actions.
[1] He also revealed the initial script idea came from reading an actual local news item about a man suffering a heart attack during a game of table tennis in a local sports facility that rents its resources by the hour where the other players called the paramedics and then continued playing their table tennis while waiting for the ambulance, reasoning they didn't want to waste the time slot they had already paid for.
[2] Jessica Kiang of Indiewire included Death of a Man in the Balkans on her 2013 top ten list, referring to it as "an immensely enjoyable, frequently laugh-out-loud funny story" and "an absurd comedy of manners that observes the very different way people behave when they know they’re being watched as opposed to when they think they’re alone".