Lepa sela, lepo gore . Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

Duration: 01:55:00 Allegedly based upon a true story and set during the Bosnian war in 1992, with the time swinging back and forth all the way to the early 1980s, the film focuses on the long-term friendship between Muslim Halil and Serb Milan. In the interlude set in a Belgrade hospital, gravely in...

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Other Authors: Dragojević, Srđan
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Serbo-Croatian
Published: Cobra Film 1996
Yugoslavia
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:44617660-6221-4d15-9df7-0cf2d2a1ab9c
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description Duration: 01:55:00 Allegedly based upon a true story and set during the Bosnian war in 1992, with the time swinging back and forth all the way to the early 1980s, the film focuses on the long-term friendship between Muslim Halil and Serb Milan. In the interlude set in a Belgrade hospital, gravely injured Milan remembers his youth and friendship with Halil. While growing up, the two often hung out near the abandoned tunnel which they never dared to enter since they believed that vicious boy-eating creatures lived there. 12 years later, the Bosnian war starts and the friends find themselves on opposing sides. Along with his small unit, Milan is trapped in that very tunnel, while Halil is a soldier in the Muslim army carrying out the siege. With nothing to do but wait for inevitable death, the trapped soldiers amuse themselves by staging allegorical circus acts. Milan eventually survives the battle, but lies seriously wounded in the hospital where his nostalgic memories of youth are transformed into a determined pledge to fulfill his duty.
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institution Open Society Archives at Central European University
language Serbo-Croatian
publishDate 1996
publisher Cobra Film
Yugoslavia
spellingShingle Lepa sela, lepo gore . Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
[Fiction film]
title Lepa sela, lepo gore . Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
topic [Fiction film]
url http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:44617660-6221-4d15-9df7-0cf2d2a1ab9c