

Brzi lepa sela lepo gore full#
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. * Veljo ( 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 Bosnian Muslims 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 Muslim, 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. It should also be noted that Srđan Dragojević shot some scenes on location in Republika Srpska (Serb inhabited part of Bosnia and Herzegovina), often in places that were former battlefields.

According to this view, Bosnian Serb atrocities are shown with ironic flair, while Bosnian Muslim atrocities are shown with utter solemnity. However, the film also caused some controversy, mostly among Bosniaks and Croats, many of whom complained about its alleged pro-Serb bias and unequal treatment of warring sides, citing different depictions of atrocities. It was also the first Serbian film to show the Serbian side of the conflict involved in atrocities and ethnic cleansing - the title of the film is an ironic comment on the protagonists' activities in a Bosnian village. The film won accolades for direction, acting and brutally realistic portrayal of the war in former Yugoslavia. 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. 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 Bosnian Serb soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosnian Muslim force (it is based on an article written by Vanja Bulić). A more accurate translation of the original Serbian title is "Beautiful Villages Burn Beautifully".
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800,000 people went to see the movie in movie theatres in Serbia, a country of 10.1 million people. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema. Лепа села лепо горе, Lepa sela lepo gore) is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War.

"Beautiful villages burn beautifully " ( _sr.
