On a visit home, he pretended to be his younger brother, knowing full well he'd be taken to the frontlines, when authorities came to pick up his draft-dodging sibling. Velja ( Nikola Kojo): A career criminal and thief from Belgrade who did most of his "work" in Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990s.He gradually notices that Bosniaks whom he knew in his village are slowly but surely moving out.ĭuring the conflict, Milan joins the Bosnian Serb Army and is attached to a squad that includes: At the beginning of the war in Bosnia, his life in his little village with his best friend Halil ( Nikola Pejaković), a Bosniak, is generally quiet and reminiscent of that of a normal lifestyle in the countryside. The movie's main protagonist is Milan ( Dragan Bjelogrlić), a Bosnian Serb. Through flashbacks that describe the pre-war lives of each trapped soldier, the film describes life in former Yugoslavia and tries to give a view as to why former neighbours and friends turned on each other.įollowing the success of the movie, Bulić wrote a novel named Tunel that's essentially an expanded version of his magazine article. The film's screenplay is based on an article written by Vanja Bulić for Duga magazine about the actual event. The plot, inspired by real life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, tells a story about small group of Serbian soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak force. This equates to approximately 8% of the total country's population at the time of the film's release.
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Almost 800,000 people went to see the movie in cinemas across Serbia. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ( Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе (Lepa sela lepo gore), literally translated as "Beautiful villages burn beautifully") is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. The neutrality of this article is disputed.