Reflections of War

I really like the film especially because it is the only film or one of the few that talks about the HVO and talks about the Ustashas up close, it is something we all want to know more about, so it is very good that there is a film like this.

I believe Mila's review is politically charged and don't fit to this movie. I've seen it and it is one of the best movies I've seen about ex-Yugoslavian wars. It makes out the point that there is no way to escape these wars. It's a circle killing everybody at the end. It goes on for centuries. The way war is depicted is so realistic, the director, Milic, has been himself in the war. There is no single woman in the screen, because it is a war movie, and no romance can fit in. All the craziness of the war is there, driving those soldiers mad. The craft of doing that movie is amazing. No wonder why Croatian school of film is probably the best in the Balkans. If you can, go see that movie. And you wan't need to see any other war movie in your life.

This movie is phenomenal, and, dare I say, the best Croatian war movie ever filmed since it's independence. Croatia has gone through a rough cultural period after the war. Some of it's films were either politically indoctrinated, or just simply bad, but be it as it may, Croatias filmmakers lost respect that they once held as a part of the Yugoslavian film makers. Little by little, people just discarded all Croatian on celluloid as "bad", and would rather indulge in an afternoon Holywoodly brainwash, in opposition to searching for the "needle in the stack of hay" of the Croatian movie. Needless to say, this movie brings it all home. Superb script and out of this world directing, followed by some tremendously good acting by Filip Sovagovic and Velibor Topic just might bring back our faith in the Croatian cinematography. Little mistakes in the casting were visible (the Ustase commanders were terrible), but still, this movie deserves nothing less of a pure

9/10

I saw this film at the 2007 Sarajevo Film Festival. It shows the parallels between the Bosnian war and the partisan struggle of World War Two. Especially poignant scenes are numerous. For example, when the patrol has killed everyone at an outpost they've come across. A member of the patrol remarks that one of the dead they killed went to school with him. At another point, the patrol look across a field and see the campfires of the long-dead World War Two partisans -- or was it fire eating the souls of the dead, as described in the Koran? Double entendre. The final scene has the departed soldiers standing together, the dead partisans from World War Two and the dead member of the patrol in the Bosnian War, standing together in the graveyard. This movie is a masterpiece of design and of photography.

I saw this movie on film festival and it was pretty pointless from my opinion! First off all scenario is pretty bad! There is no any special action except people running through wood! First of all when I've heard that movie have (or at least should have) two crossing stories from Second World War and Yugoslavian Civil War and that lasts 90 minutes I was amazed, but after watching the movie even those 90 minutes were too long. In both scenes there is just running through woods. What I liked is production. The way camera moves through scenes and from which angles scene rolls is pretty good. And that is only thing I pretty much enjoyed. I also must say that Im disappointed in acting. Im not very familiar with new generation of Croatian actors but all actors in this movie are pretty much amateurs. There is much more better actors in Croatia and movies too. Im not even sure how this movie get on festival!?