Noz

I get creeps every time I hear a split on Serbs and Muslims. Being a Serb is a national affiliation, being a Muslim is a religious affiliation. It's as if we divided cars into German and sports, or movies into comedies and black and white. The tragedy of this area is ironic and I do not know what these people have sinned so much to deserve such karma. Demos divided into three religions, imbued and poisoned with religious hatred, brainwashed to slaughter each other again and again. It would be funny to me if I didn't belong to that folk. As if we have fallen out of some morbid joke. If we neglect the production and flaws of the domestic film that we learned to ignore, we are left with a story that perfectly and painfully portrays all the irony and all the meaninglessness of the Balkan wars. For most of the movie I felt disgust and shame, and in the scene where Halil crossed on his knees over the ruins of the church, I've shed a tear. I think it's one of the most powerful scenes in domestic cinematography. Draskovic wrote this novel in 1982, and with all my heart I would like to believe that the bullcrap of the 1990s would not happen if everyone had read it then. But I don't.

8/10

The story in this film really depicts the main reason and cause of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. The movie may have it's roots in depicting historic issues between ethnic and religious conflict as "one sided" but it also has historic basis and fact that can be researched and validated. To call it Serbian propaganda is utter rubbish and based on little fact other than media bias that is used by the previous reviewer to his own end. The author of the book (Vuk Draskovic) made a valiant attempt to deal with a very sensitive subject that deals with hatred perpetuated for past wrongs that have never been fully exposed or repatriated. The film tries to keep in tune to the book and its true focus and theme - hidden historic wrongs only come back as retaliations and future food for hatred and mistrust.

This film follows almost 100 years of geopolitical fight in what used to be former Yugoslavia.

Since that country was created on December 1, 1918 geopolitical fight for territory and power started and it is still present today.

This film follows that pattern and it is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, Serb novelist and politician.

I am not very fond of this film, simply because we who live on the territory of what used to be Yugoslavia are mostly sick and tired of that geopolitical religious crap. So I will just throw this film into the waste bin and try to forget all about it.

If you are interested in the former Yugoslavia this is a film for you, otherwise skip it.

I agree with the previous comment from Sweden. The film is really great.It is based on the book, whose writer is Vuk Draskovic It is worth seeing, for the Serbian, and also other people from SFR Yugoslavia.It reveals some important things. You cannot stay indifferent after watching this movie.It has historical, love and thriller elements. On the Festival in Moscow, some said that this movie should have been filmed much earlier. Zarko Lausevic is really, really excellent!Aleksandar Bercek, Bojana Maljevic also, and others. For the end i want to say hello... to the great actor, the leading role in this film, wherever he is!! If you liked this movie, you should watch some other films from M. Lekic,with Zarko Lausevic: like - Better than escape, It happened on this day

I must say that this is the first real movie about WWII about what really happened in our country. The first movie not about hate but about truth. Showing who are who and that we are all one nation. The movie about forgiveness.But read the book with the same title by Vuk Draskovic and you will...