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Watch: Лепа села, лепо горе 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, have grown up together near a deserted tunnel linking the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Zagreb. They never dare go inside, as they believe an ogre resides there. Twelve years later, during the Bosnian civil war, Milan, who is trapped in the tunnel with his troop, and Halil, find themselves on opposing sides, fatefully heading toward confrontation..
Plot: In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
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One of the best war movies ever
Don’t let the low marks take you away from this masterpiece – look at stars assignment, and you will get the picture.

If you expect black and white war movie, forget it. For me, this is by far most objective movie about civil war(s) in ex-Yugoslavia, better then Bosnian (good) “No man’s land” and Macedonian (masterpiece) “Before the rain”. At the beginning, you will see Serbs burning villages (that explain title of movie) and killing people, but, from middle to end, you will see completely same behavior done by Bosnian Muslims. Brilliance of this movie is because it shows you why this war was so bloody and why it is so hard to have peace and reconciliation after all. Every killing, every murder, has story behind, and movie gather them all. You have pure communist (Bata Zivojinovic) against his fellow officer, you have two best friends (Nikola Bjelogrlic – Bosnian Serb, Nikola Pejakovic – Bosnian Muslim) against each other, you have urban freaks, you have junkies, you have educated teacher, you have everything you need. Every one of them has his own reason to be there, but at the end, they all end completely empty, with only pure hate inside.

I suppose that some things from movie will be hard to get if you are not from Balkan. For example, Index (that’s name of the bend) song that Nikola Kojo sing using gun as mice, was one of the greatest classics in ex-Yu (and lyrics fit the scene perfectly: “And tonight, if she listen, let her hear the pain…”). Some sentences are very hard to translate. For example, in joke scene, when Zoran Cvijanovic (junkie) want to insult Bosnian Muslim soldiers, he tell them joke that begins with “Check this out: Blonde, I mean Fata the Blonde, come to party…” Fata is Muslim name, but is obvious that joke was first intended as joke abound blonde woman, but he upgraded it in the moment. Also, in one scene you can see Serbian skinheads that are kicking traffic table with “Zagreb” (Croatian capital) written on it. Two are holding the table, one is hitting it by the head, and they are all singing “We f*cked Tajci! We f*cked Tajci!” Tajci was ex-Yu singer from Croatia that represented country on Eurovision competition few years before war started. Also, most of the scenes are extremely dark and funny at the same time, but that’s Serbian humor in general.

Even without this small hints, movie still remain pure classic, to me comparable only with “Apocalypse now” and “Platoon” by its objectivity. It is very fast movie, easy to watch and hard to understand, as Balkan always was. I hope you will enjoy.

A Very Good Film About The Conflict
I first saw Srdan Dragojevic PRETTY VILLAGE PRETTY FLAME just over ten years ago on channel 4 and instantly thought it was the best film to feature the conflict in the former Yugoslavia . This might be down to the fact that the Serbs are shown as being both perpetrators and victims of atrocity , something the Western press wasn’t to keen on saying while the conflict was going on in the early 1990s . The media reporting was rather simplistic with the Bosniaks being totally victims and the Serbs being total bad guys so it’s good seeing a film from the Serb perspective , especially one where the world isn’t viewed in black and white

The film is told through a fractured storyline and the story cuts backwards and forwards between the characters when they were children living in a Socialist Yugoslavia , then it cuts to the war itself when they’re trapped in a tunnel then forward to a short time when the survivors are lying maimed in a hospital . It might sound complicated but the story is very easy to follow . SLUMDOG MILLIONIRE also had a fractured storyline but that was extremely complex structure , maybe too complex for its own good where as here everything is easy to follow

You don’t need to be well informed in Yugoslav history to appreciate the film fully but it does help , especially the terms for the warring factions . Croats are now known as ” Krauts ” and ” Ustase ” ( The Croation fascist movement set up by the Nazis during the war ) , the Bosnian Muslims are now known as ” Turks ” while the Serbs consider themselves ” Chetniks ” Serbian nationalist from the second world war . Setting much of the story in a dilapidated tunnel built in the socialist era and ” The Tunnel Of Brotherhood And Unity ” is a metaphor for the failings of Yugoslavia falling apart . It is an ironic metaphor and the film oozes scathing irony such as a bunch of peace protesters standing outside the hospital promising the injured soldiers that ” No one will lie to you again ” a take on Slobodan Milisosevic infamous conversation to a Serb protester battered by Muslim police in Kosovo in 1987 that ” No one will beat you again ”

Some people may complain that it’s pro Serb but as a neutral observer it can be disputed since no one is shown as being terribly nice in a civil war . The Serbs burn down villages ( And in one brief scene another human being ) while the Muslims use a Serb rape victim as a proxy bomb . Since much of the story is told from inside the tunnel there’s a feeling PRETTY VILLAGE PRETTY FLAME could have easily have worked as a stage play than a film and this is a problem I had with NO MANS LAND but this movie is still slightly more cinematic . I wouldn’t claim right out that it’s the best film featuring the war because SAVIOR does have a slightly more emotional and human edge to it , but PRETTY VILLAGE PRETTY FLAME is still a good anti-war film that is both subtle and ironic

Other Information:

Original Language sr
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama, History
Director Srdjan Dragojevic
Writer Vanja Bulic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Biljana Maksic
Actors Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic
Country Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Awards 6 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm