Anno Domini

This is a story about the uprising of peasants in Croatia in the XVI century. It is also described in August Šenoa's novel of the same title, but I'm not sure if the movie used the book as a source.

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the way this movie was made. Much attention is paid to details, the atmosphere (very creepy most of the time), but also there are scenes that testify of the director's own style.

The last half hour is reminiscent of "Braveheart"; if you get the chance to see this you should pay attention. There is even a very cruel torture scene at the end, and as I read on Wikipedia it was even more terrible in the reality.

There are some traces of the communist ideology inserted into the movie, however everything works quite well. And a warning: the characters speak a dialect of the Croatian language, so without subtitles it is hard to understand it.

No acting, no screenplay, no tempo nor suspense in the progression of the story. It's a mix of drama and comedy that, after many pointless digressions, goes nowhere but to the obvious "epic" battle (it was time) and final doom of the unpalatable hero. Yet there is a little tail that's wagging around with the two youngsters who survived the slaughter, (and two hours of acting) nobody knows how. Life must go on, that seems to be the final likely message, the last banality after many. If production years were right one could say "Seljacka buna 1573" aka "Anno domini 1573" to be an hybrid between the Italian "L'Armata Brancaleone" and the American "Braveheart", botched and barren anyway, and with an amateurish flavor.