Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj

I went to see it in the cinema with my friend. Croatian movies (especially comedies) tend to be underwhelming. Usually they're not funny at all and always have the same theme - Serbo-Croatian relationships after the Yugoslavian war. Our expectations were extremely low. But we were in for a surprise. The movie takes place 7 years after Croatia's gone bankrupt. The population fell under 3 million, most of it being homeless on the street. It is heavily segregated, for a small part of it is very rich, including our main protagonist (Hrvoje Mikic). The biggest star is Hrvojka Horvat (Hristina Popovic), making bad, although patriotic, action movies. She's an obvious parody of Wonder Woman with a dash of M. P. Thompson. We soon find out that a mysterious disease turns people into zombies. And so our hero joins a group of survivors, including a stereotypic, homophobic Ustasha-sympathizer called Max (Dado Cosic), trying to find a cure. Along the way they find out that only Serbians are imune to the disease. The rest is up to you to find out. As mentioned before, most Croatian movies weren't able to let go of the theme of Serbo-Croatian post-war relationships. This movie does... Well, kind of. "Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj" choses nationalism in Ex-Yugoslavia in general as it's main topic rather than being specific. It makes fun of everyone: Croatians, Serbians, Bosnians, and Slovenians. It points its finger to the future, criticising current problems, such as emigration, privatisation, and the rise of extreme right-wing policies and nationalism, rather than to the past like many other movies. The zombies serve as a metaphor for ideologies that should be dead, but are still pretty much alive, which is especially evident in the later parts of the movie. Along with clever criticism, the movie also makes sure to never take itself too seriously. This is one of the few Croatian comedies I found to be genuinely funny, and me and my friend were laughing constantly. There wasn't even an attempt at a serious scene explaining the main message, and the movie is always fast-paced. Every character is a stereotype, but that fits well with the overall over-the-top tone of the movie. It can be best descriped as an Croatian twist on the zombie-comedy "Zombieland". As stated, most people have really low expectations as far as Croatian cinematography goes. I genuinely thought that critics were bribed to write all the good reviews. But I was obviously wrong. And I'm glad I was.

P.S. I swear to God I was not bribed to write this review. :)

As a Croat, I found this movie very funny, it trolls many of our stereotypes. Its on Netflix so foreign audience can see absurd stuff we are dealing on daily basis- from mass exodus to other richer EU Countries, homophobia, WW2 politics- who was Ustasha(fashist) who was Partisan (Communist), down to DNA and bloodcells- how much of you is pure croatian, help you god if you are mixed (serb, bosnian etc).

As far as storyline goes, its like its been taylor made for Covid times even it came out few months before it. Zombie effects are really good for low budget comedy. Also I was very happy to see my town mentioned by doctor in it, it made my day.

Anyway, check the movie, its only 85 minutes long, excellent for netflix and chill night.

It is a fun movie, parody of several genres. It is a successful political parody of Croatian obsessive idea of Serbs as filthy and dangerous but fascinating Other. Also, it is a successful parody of all small nations' myths of national pride and heroes. There are some very particular parodies of certain Croatian politicians and geopolitical relations. In this respect, it is actually a better movie than it looks like right on the first sight.

There is also unfortunately still a certain problem with the movie: it is very intelligent for someone who knows ex-Yugoslavia politics and history, but it probably looks non-sensical to people who are not familiar to that. In its desire to be a comical for ex-Yugoslav audience, it has a little bit too many cheap jokes and action movies stereotypes made for Balkan market . It perhaps prevents it from being a quality European level movie. Still, having the "virus" as a centre of its theme, probably will give this movie more attention in the future, since it also resonates well with the world pandemic situation, so it might work for the film.

The cast is also very good, at least three main roles are placed in the hands of three quality regional actors, and the film deserves praise in that sense. The minus is, however, the appearance of some iconic pop-culture figures in minimal roles, again, it works just as a low-level jokes of recognition, and not really as some serious reference to anything of significance in the movie.

Although arguably some of the funny bits may not be understood well by people outside of the Balkans area, if you (like I did) grew up in a certain age you will appreciate the parody of all things (various nationalities that now live in small countries in the region, zombies, homophobic people, silly movies, global companies that stop at nothing in search of profit ...). Good actors, a very funny script and matching music. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie!

This movie was already in cinemas half a year ago and i had a hard time to find it somewhere to have a look at, luckily zagrebs "luda kuca" was showing it on a saturday evening for one-time only and so i went to watch it.

Using the backdrop of a zombie-apocalypse the movie is mocking everything that relates to the current state of the regions of the former yugoslavia and its relations to each other andit does it good enough to be actually funny which seems not to be a given in most croatians comedy-movies, at the same time thats the biggest problem of the movie, foreigners wont relate to it because these are mostly inside-jokes.

Kresimir Mikic is awesome and has become one of my favourite croatian actors, i really wished croatian cinema would make movies that doesnt target only domestic audiences, because it certainly has enough good actors but lacks the screenwriters for it.

So if you are from the balkans and like domestic comedies this one is worth a watch compared to what else croatian cinema has to offer, foreigners should take a pass and rather watch "Shaun of the Dead" or "Zombieland" which this movie doesnt come close.