Vukovar, jedna priča . Vukovar
Allegedly based on a true love story, the film begins in the 1989 in Vukovar, a city on the Croatian side of the Danube. A wedding celebration of childhood friends Croat Ana and Serb Toma is interrupted by demonstrators from three ethnic contingents. Toma is soon drafted into the Yugoslav army while...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
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Dan-Film Corporation, Limasol
1994
Yugoslavia |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:1360bfe6-26e5-4c66-9e33-c942b374808e |
| Summary: | Allegedly based on a true love story, the film begins in the 1989 in Vukovar, a city on the Croatian side of the Danube. A wedding celebration of childhood friends Croat Ana and Serb Toma is interrupted by demonstrators from three ethnic contingents. Toma is soon drafted into the Yugoslav army while pregnant Ana watches how the war slowly engulfs her city. Toma’s family decides to leave for Serbia, but Ana stays in Vukovar waiting for Toma. Within months, she loses her parents in a grenade attack and moves in with her friend. Meanwhile Toma’s army troops move closer to Vukovar where people are dying on every corner and the two sides win and lose positions in the town. Individuals loot and rape around the city, and pregnant Ana is one of their victims. Toma finally reaches his house, but Ana has already given up their marriage and tries to survive only for her baby’s sake. After she gives birth in the midst of grenades, she takes a bus to Zagreb during a ceasefire, as Toma watches her through the glass of a bus heading for Belgrade. |
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| Published: | 1994 |