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The most unfortunate thing is that a very few people (outside Croatia) will ever see this film. A thrilling little masterpiece, it has the best chance of being the best movie ever in Croatian poor filmography. Great movie!

Eternal glory to Nikola Tanhofer - died 1998.

This is the best film ever made in Croatia. Every single point, from the scenario, costumes, music, camera, editing and lights to the astonishing performances of the actors, is fantastic. I am sorry that all available tracks are in such poor condition and that it makes it hard to show the film to the audience outside Croatia. Hopefully that will change soon, I think someone took over the job of repairing it. I am also sorry that no contemporary Croatia's director is that good at the moment. I hope someone new will show up with that much style and give us some new good films like this one.

All glory to Nikola Tanhofer!

This title was very well executed for such a simple concept. The introduction does well to grip the viewer from the start, which helps with the slow pace (which itself isn't a bad thing). The main of the film does well to keep the viewer interested with the many different stories often giving many things to look forward to near the end of the film, and nearing the end of the film gives a lot of last minute surprises that helps lead towards the final scene which doesn't dance around the point any more than it needs to.

As already said in other reviews, one of the things that adds to the charm is there is a lot of topics for a film based in Croatia that have been covered many times before by tons of different Crotatian films, but this film completely avoids even a slight mention of these topics and sticks to the actual aim of the film; to tell a story that has no relevance to what is happening in the country politically.

This is absolutely one of the greatest Croatian movies and there's no doubt about it. It doesn't slave to any politics, any specific time, any commercialism and nothing of that kind. But this movie achieves to play with the clichees and functionally use them, to show real-blood characters, to maintain the tempo and to build suspense. We need more master pieces like this for 40 years now (except 'Tko pjeva zlo ne misli' and a few other films)

A great and extremely tense Croatian film. At first we see the very end of the film however this takes absolutely nothing away from the uncertainty. If I have to look for flaws in this film then I would say that at times there are too many characters and stories to follow (there is no main character) and how the middle of the film is a little weaker than a great start as well as the third act when more things are revealed and the tension grows the closer we get to the very end of the film.