New Drama WW2 Partisan/Ustasa Film

[pete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHRS...lated&resnum=0

Parts 1-14. The Living and the dead.




Regards,

Pete

[Zeller]

but it looks like it's about the balkan war, not ww2 ustasa??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449671/

[pete]

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The recent war was connected to all past and future wars, as the film is showing. As you see it skips between the grandsons and the grandfathers timeframes. Interesting You see Muslims and croats together in 1943 and then croats against muslims in 1993 period. The film is created without and ideology, it shows all sides. The last scene is quite true and quite spooky if you have lived in the balkans and seen the ever revolving cycle of war.

First time feature filmmaker Kristijan Milic teams with writer Josip Mlakic for this screen adaptation of Mlakic's popular novel following two tales of 20th Century bloodshed in Bosnia. Alternating between warfare in 1943 and 1993, Milic and Mlakic's dark war drama highlights the haunting sameness of both battles by following a squadron of HVO (Bosnian Croat soldiers as the walk the same path and face the same treachery that their Domobran (defenders of the Corat Independent State) forefathers did just fifty years prior. Chief among the HVO team is sympathetic soldier Tomo - whose grandfather was the last surviving Domobran Martin. By the time soldiers in both eras make their way to the haunted cemetery, the stories converge to highlight the hopeless cycle of strife that seems poised to repeat itself ad infinitum. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The Living and the Dead features two parallel war stories that take place in the same geographical location, half a century apart. One story is set in 1993, during the war in Bosnia, the other in 1943, during World War II.
Each story complements the other and after a series of disturbing events the two strands eventually dovetail at the same location: a mysterious timeless cemetery. The cemetery, which many believe to be cursed, is the place where powerful forces come to play before dawn and where the living and the dead come to meet.

The Living and the Dead is a powerful anti-war drama, graphically depicting the cyclical nature of the atrocities and war crimes perpetuated in the Balkans. Its title is inspired by a passage in Bosnian Chronicles, the acclaimed novel by Nobel prizewinner Ivo Andric: “We are all dead, just taking it in turns to be buried”.

In 1943, a group of Croatian fascists overtakes a strategically important point in western Bosnia and capture a group of Muslims. The Croatians keep them as hostages until the next group arrives to replace them. The main character Martin kills one of the Muslims and steals his watch. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martin's grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia. They fight a group of Bosnian soldiers and capture those they have not killed. In order to leave the place they have to kill the rest. We also find out that one of the captured soldiers is the grandson of the Muslim killed by Tomo's grandfather.
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[Zeller]

Thanks for the plot, i couldnt find it on imdb!
I will definitely try to get a copy

[pete]

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I dont like how they describe them as "croatian facists" from the links above,the movie has actually been shot without ideology and shows that many were not effectivly from what I can see, just showing true relationships as they were....very typical of people who will watch this movie and only see that, theyll say all croatians on the ndh side were in the war because of support for hitler, no clue about anything further then that. The same kind of people will call the partisans all communists when in actuality partisans were fighting for their land and were mainly anti facists or had a personal reason. Communisim is just as bad as facisim but yet some families had people on both sides. Most likely really the only facist in the movie is the Ustasa officer. The domobranis both muslim and croat are presented as they mostly really were, village men...not facists but patriots of their (constantly stolen- and attempted stolen)country and land, and anything but dyed in the wool facists. Another thing about this flick is the old former yugo style of movie, with the balkans cynacisim and symobology I have not seen any other film industry be able to replicate, people are just good at it here: especially history involved on this powerful film.

[Jonathan M]

Any idea if there is a link with english subtitles?
Jonathan

[pete]

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Not that i saw so far, im sure the movie will be able to be gotten with various subtitles. Only thing is balkans subtitiles when translated into english is not exact for some things.....for example when it comes to some things like cursing is usually translated wrong, english cursing is very weak compared to balkans cursing no matter how bad the boys in the hood consider their mouth.



Pete