I remember years ago sitting and watching the conflict in Bosnia on my TV, a news report I think it was and realizing that everyone looked alike. They even speak the same language. (in Serbian, "Lepa sela lepo gore, a runa sela ostaju runa, ak i kad gore".) The film's critical reception in North America was very positive. "Once we were a rich and independent country, and then they came from the North and conquered us and took our wealth and power away to Rome.". Almost 800,000 people went to see the film in cinemas across Serbia,[4] which equated to approximately 8% of the country's total population. "And a lot of Confederate flags everywhere, all over the place.". In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force. The war started because of USA and so did many more after the Yuglosavia Civil War. While his compatriots loot jewelry, appliances, cars, and booze from the burning villages, he steals books. New users check out our Wiki or FAQ page, get to know our community and it's rules. : I've seen it on the TV that one day.. Do you, ingrate, know, that we are the oldest people? To get full access to all content behind the paywall, sign up here: If you are already behind the paywall and want to share the benefits, Counter-Currents also offers paywall gift subscriptions. While the conceit of showing the volunteering (or conscription) of each soldier in the tunnel does give needed context to these men, the brief snippets only give us a small idea of what drives them. The ex-Yugoslav people hate each other, but were the only ones who can share the full experience of being post-Yugoslavs. Lazo and Viljuka are normies, caught up in anti-Russian hysteria and propaganda but wholl soon run into the reality of the war. Your IP: They don't have any political affiliation to it whatsoever.". In dieser an wahren Ereignissen angelehnter Geschichteliegt der schwer verwundere serbische Soldat Milan mit zwei Kameraden im Krankenhaus. An additional layer of tragedy is that this system provided an avenue for goodness, greatness, and nobility in the forty-odd years during which it existed, as we see in Gvozden and the Professor, and its value cannot be discounted or fully rejected (as it is by Veljo). Symbolic antiwar tale, focusing on the conflict between Serbs and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia. But what interests me is the colorful cast of characters that comprises the Serbian squad. Copyright You may not like us, and that is fine. A bleak, almost brutally pessimistic film, as one would expect from a war film from Serbia, this film takes a volatile, hyper-real look at a singular moment in a long, ugly conflict. This review may contain spoilers. I could not find this scene on youtube, so I decided to post it Set during the Bosnian War, the film tells the story of Milan, part of a . in this foxhole and then they unveil themselves, become something entirely different. It's about demographics. Lazas impulsivity kills him. 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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: / Lepa sela lepo gore, literally "Pretty villages burn nicely") is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Sran Dragojevi with a screenplay based on a book written by Vanja Buli. But it's their religion and their history which in, ''e, zato emo da izgubimo rat, burazeru.30 dina slube za amil dopa.nije to u redu''. Ultimately, it is his land that bears the brunt of the brutal war, and recovering in the Belgrade hospital, it is made clear to him in no uncertain terms that as a Bosnian Serb, he is considered provincial, uncouth and uncivilized, and that Serbia proper is not his land.. Consider the recent conflict in Ukraine,where both the right-wingpro-Kiev political parties and pro-Russian separatists have been seen usingConfederate flags or ones similar to them. Would another scene of Serbs burning Muslim houses make them happy? Released in Slovenia as Lepe vasi lepo gorijo, it became a hit in the country with 72,000 admission tickets sold. Marko, bless his soul, has no idea why hes there except that he thought being at war would be cool. Towards the end of the tunnel sequence, Milan and Halil shout to each other across the front lines. In southern Italy, for example, it appears some see a historical parallel at work, pointing toward their own absorption into the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 and the perceived economic and political problems since then. There are several moments when everyone appears to be a type---the smart one, the old one, the hero, the crazy one, the funny one, etc. The tunnel in which the squad hides is next to his village. Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2001. [5][6], In addition to FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the only other former Yugoslav countries where the movie had an official theatrical distribution were Slovenia and Macedonia. The film features a non-linear plot line, and the scenes cut back and forth throughout the 1971 to 1999 time period in no particular order. So while were all still around, I want to direct you to one of Europes past bloody brother wars. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ( Serbian: / Lepa sela lepo gore, literally "Pretty villages burn nicely") is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Sran Dragojevi with a screenplay based on a book written by Vanja Buli . An imaginary scene then shows the tunnel full of dead bodies, including Milan and Halil, being witnessed by them as children. To everyone else, the war is something they do, but to Milan, the war is something that happens to him. This film concerns a squad of Serbian soldiers who are cornered in an abandoned and reputedly haunted tunnel by the Bosnian army. He is a burden to his squad and also its youngest member, a sad vision of the future. The main timeframe includes the "present" with a hospitalized Milan, with flashbacks to both his childhood and his early adulthood in the 1980s until the war begins, and subsequent service as a soldier where he is trapped in the tunnel. At night Milan and his squad are encircled by Bosniak fighters, telling his surviving squad mates to run to a nearby tunnel he was scared of entering as a child, believed to be home to a drekavac. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Bosnian war was continuation of encroachment of Islam upon Europe, and Serbian army was last organized military force that fought against it, and that deserves respect, at least from fellow Europeans. This story was originally broadcast on PRI's The World. Once again, white people are at each others throats in a bloody and brutal brother war. Laza joined up after seeing a news report in the now-infamously paranoid style of post-Yugoslav news media about the New World Order drawing up plans to carry out a genocide of the Serbs, whereas Viljuka followed him so that Laza would not be alone. Erinnerungen von der Kindheit, seiner Jugend und bis hin zur grauenvollen letzten Mission, die uns alle immer wieder an den selben Ort fhren: Dem Tunnel des Friedens. He is nostalgic for the old system, but unlike Gvozden, realizes that it is over. Somit knnen Kriegsfilme oftmals zu einem Unterhaltungsprodukt komprimiert werden, verkennen die Macher dahinter welch Relevanz dieses Genre mit sich bringen kann, vielleicht auch muss. Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene access, Trailer. -Where there is a will, there is a way.. : Pretty Village, Pretty Flame. Learn more. The film opens with a simulated newsreel of Communist officials, surrounded by Communist youth groups, inaugurating the Brotherhood and Unity Tunnel in Bosnia o. He is portrayed by Bata ivojinovi, which has symbolism of its own. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Sran Dragojevi with a screenplay based on a book written by Vanja Buli. : A gravely wounded Serbian so None of them can do it until Fork shoots her, then having had enough of the war attempts to leave the tunnel but is killed, and Velja commits suicide. Odd things like that strike me about the world and so I tend to collect odd films that say something about the world we're in (or perhaps other ones). Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. So the film is a insult to them. Questions about the Balkan states answered! Zeitzeugen ausgeschlossen die wohl in jedem Kriegsfilm ihre eigene Geschichte mit ihrem ganz persnlichen Krieg verknpfen und verweben, fiktives wie eben nach dem Drehbuch inszeniertes nie als solches anerkennen oder erleben drfen, sehen viele (zu viele) in Kriegsfilmen groen Schauwert in der Action, den Settings und den Massenszenen. I strongly recommend you watch this film. "We too are a defeated people," an unnamed professor of American literature in Naples told Doyle. Does it mention the McCrone report As I write these words, war rages in the Ukraine. Sometimes, the ignorance is understandable. For the 100 days of the shoot, the only food for the crew was frozen hamburgers prepared in a microwave. Their fate has been used by Dragojevic, and twisted in that grotesque film, for his liberal anti-nationalistic propaganda. My uncle fought in that area. It's there symbolically, like an F-you to America, because the South kinda represents that. However, many can't claim ignorance when it comes to the flag'sconnotationsof racism and slavery. Something to agree upon. It is a movie that will show the true face of human nature when exposed to ultra-nationalism, ethnic hatred and war. Milan shoots three of the profiteers out of anger after they set fire to the auto-repair shop he and Halil had built together, wounding them, and is then shocked to find Slobo is looting the property too. Before we dismiss all of these people, lets not forget that all of them have nobility in them. Among the beleaguered platoon of soldiers facing periodic Muslim assaults and psychological taunts (being called Chetniks) are a thief, a . Cut to 1980, not even a decade after its opening, the tunnel has already fallen in disrepair as two local village kids Milan and Halil are playing in its vicinity although they don't dare go inside it becauseas they fearfully repeat a local tall tale to one another while staring into the dilapidated structure"drekavac (an ogre from Slavic mythology) is sleeping inside and if he wakes up he'll kill everyone in the village and burn down their homes". : I didn't even know it was racist, one student, Nigerias Tinubu wins presidential election; opposition cries foul, reappropriated an apartheid-era South African flag and theflag of theRepublic of Rhodesia, Spain's Real Madrid and France's Olympique de Marseille, Arieh OSullivan said he took a Confederate flag. His patriotism consists of spray-painting nationalist slogans and symbols on the burned-out ruins of buildings. Or did good, God-fearing, law-abiding men do these things for noble reasons? Since he did see it on TV. Then the war tore them from each other. Kusturicas comedies are fine. Eine Geschichte ber einen Krieg der nicht nur zwei Kindheitsfreunde, sondern auch eine ganze Nation gespalltet hat. I hate Kusturitcas movies too. After Kosovo crisis we will unfortunately have one more "Pretty Villages Pretty Flame" By what name was Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) officially released in India in English? Then I Googled it.. He is a worldly man; he has seen Frankfurt and Hamburg, and has robbed banks and stolen cars in every major West German city. They do not show what muslims had to go throgh because of the serbs,which is unrealistic. Show All But the drekavac is not the only spirit haunting the tunnel. Many who saw the flagwere understandably perplexed. this was a story about longtime friends that became enemies during the Bosnian war in 1992. they co-owned a car repair shop. Watch Lepa Sela Lepo Gore / Pretty Village Pretty Flame - Official Trailer. Wir blickten auf ein Dorf, welches durch unser Visier erfasst wurde. i unitava polako, bez pompe.i jo uvek nije gotov. If you didnt live in Belgrade during the 90s it would probably, go over your head. Also the only film were I've really been moved by the symbolic/stylised elements. : (January 2009) Pretty Village, Pretty Flame; DVD cover: Directed by: Sran Dragojevi . It isn't about blue or red. , Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic, Zoran Cvijanovic, Milorad Mandic, Subtitles: His ease with the carnage unnerves Gvozden, but more importantly Veljo reminds Gvozden of Yugoslavias dark side, the state security-sponsored organized crime gangs led by men such as eljko Ranjatovi, aka Arkan, a criminal, war profiteer, and himself the wayward son of an army officer who had at one point been a partisan liberator. Marko is ill-prepared for war and not taken seriously by the older, more experienced men. I'm still choking on the words of our dainty-mouth little Secretary of Transportation calmly What the Hell does Trainspotting have to do with anything? I remember their ACORN bust. Yeah, we weren't the oldest but we are definitely among the old. I get chills whenever I see that scene, no matter how many times I've already seen it. Nothing but an orgiastic celebration of imbecility and chaos. Anyway one non-ww2 example that struck me was Serbia. Theyre peasants from Central Serbia. , Studio The beginning is a little experimental, jumping between time and place, between character in a way that sets up the viewer for an entirely different film than the second half. Taking an inside look at the contexts of meaning of this film in relation to former Yugoslavia. The Bosniaks capture him and torture him, broadcasting his screams into the tunnel as a form of psychological warfare. Your email is never published nor shared. If they didnt, it is sure they knew it. During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature. Cut forward to spring 1992, as sporadic violent incidents that would eventually spiral into an all-out war are taking place throughout Bosnia, Milan (Dragan Bjelogrli), a Serb, and his best friend Halil (Nikola Pejakovi), a Muslim Bosniak, both in their late teens, are still in their ethnically-mixed village in eastern Bosnia, playing one-on-one basketball on a makeshift hoop in front of a kafana owned by another Serb villager Slobo (Petar Boovi). Velja tries to leave the tunnel with the intention of dying but is shot and the others bring him back. SKU: C43D2F11-RU-FL3X5P-16109. Weltkrieges, malerische Settings wie aus Postkartenmotiven im Pazifikkrieg und Massenszenen des 13. oder dem 18. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2005. But whatever happens to the flag near South Carolina's state Capitol, don't expect Italian soccer fans to give it up just yet. Not 100% understandable for people who do not know anything about a civil war in ex-Yugoslavia, but this movie is truly a work of genius. If youre a Westerner, you can watch the film, but the linguistic and cultural barriers will lock you out of the full experience. Now, as you can see, USA is destroying Serbia for no reason! , "I'm pretty convinced that from the end of the . Viljuka wears a fork around his neck because he sees it as a symbol of Serbian sophistication claiming it as a Serbian invention that was first used by Serbian nobility and kings while other Europeans still ate with their hands. See production, box office & company info, The Movie Show: Episode dated 26 October 1997, Visegrad, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. I know. I'm sure that these movie is not of any big value to other people but its great humour, dark tone and memorable characters with even better scenes makes this movie one of the best Balkan ones. I will drink and pray for every white man who falls in the Ukraine: Russian, Ukrainian, and every other nationality. Its quite self-consciously surreal. Delivery & Returns. "When they see an event like what happened in South Carolina last week, they wonder if it's really so much better in the United States, safety-wise.". [1] Most of the money came from the Serbian government's (under prime minister Mirko Marjanovi) Ministry of Culture (headed by cabinet minister Nada Perii-Popovi) as well as from the Serbian state television RTS. Dragan . The text you linked says that some of the Russian officer corps had good relations with the Black Hand, but theres little evidence the Russians orchestrated it. They should watch Fellini movies. GREAT ANTI-WAR MOVIE! The Normie America model would probably be better for us too. During my last year of classes at my oddly progressive catholic high school we had a unit about "Ultranationalism" the usual suspects cropped up, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan. In fact, it'slikely that for a fewNapoli soccer fans in particular the hardcore "ultras" often at the center of match-dayviolence it isjust another reason to fly the flag of the Confederacy. nicija zemlja is better but both films are good. There are a number of different payment options. Attempting to contact their allies, the Bosniaks taunt them using Marko's radio, who they are torturing. But we have some real things that make us look bad, dont use caricature portrayal. People of USA can see in this movie what did their government do to Yugoslavia. Not really, its a hunch based on the timeline of events. Its a ghastly depiction of ordinary men committing evil acts. Sad that the Russo-Ukraine War of 2022 is continuing the long tradition of the brother war; white against white, brother against brother, potential allies against presumed enemies. Such statements are ridiculous. Doesn't it translate to: Beautiful villages burn beautifully? Through flashbacks, the lives of the trapped soldiers in pre-war Yugoslavia are shown, particularly Milan and his Bosniak best friend Halil becoming enemies after having to pick opposing sides in the conflict. Genres: Drama War In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force. The descendents of these people still gather to celebrate their heritage at the yearlyFesta Confederada, an event that includes country music, Southern food and the proud display of Confederate flags. 1996. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a15a0d73d20ca70 Action & Adventure. But one of the most remarkable is "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" ("Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore"), a Serbian-made movie in which the members of a Serbian patrol and an American journalist find. Also the part when they drink Milan's urine and laugh like maniacs. It is one of the most complex conflicts ever, but again so simple. The story of soldiers in the tunnel is based on the real event, in which 7 Serbian soldiers where trapped in tunnel near Visegrad. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Couldn't one simply change sides if one found themselevs in a situation where they needed to be on the otherside to survive. It's a shame this movie didn't get nominees for Oscar because the country was under sanctions by USA. I think it could have dealt a lot more with how the conflict actually started. To say that Dragojevics junky nightmare represents Serbian nation itself in one historical moment, is low attempt of abasement of Serbs. Might be one of the most greatest, if not, important war film that has ever been crafted for the last 30 years. Over time, the Southern white population has mixed with the Brazilians, resulting in people with a variety of different shades of skin colours waving the Confederate flag. If they attack you, you are not going to be alone. Russian saying before Serbia does something really stupid. There are many storylines going on here, almost too many but at the same time I felt that the subtitles made it work, the constant shifting. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. In Facebook photo, suspected Charleston shooter wears flags of racist regimes in Africa, Swiss president greeted with Danish flag in Ukraine, Racist or playful? Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. [13], In early 2000s, while promoting his film No Man's Land, Bosniak director and former soldier in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war Danis Tanovi called Pretty Village, Pretty Flame "well made, but ethically problematic due to its shameful portrayal of the war in Bosnia".[14]. Watchlist. Their reasons for fighting, however, are paradoxically the opposites of what these men are. The banner is everywhere - kids wave mini-flags and women wear Confederate flag dresses. A shame. You will receive mail with link to set new password. Brzi and Veljo use their time in the war to heal and redeem themselves, and even Marko seeks out conflict as a means of self-actualiziation (though he fails in the end). Read More. ovo je egzistencijalistiki horor, gde momenti crnog humora nekad dodju kao predah, nekad samo zavrnu utrobu.ovo je HOROR o kom je priao kurc na izdisaju.ovo je film katastrofe.ovo je, zapravo, monster movie.konstantno se gradi atmosfera kao da e godzila da doe i sve da poisti.monstrum ovde je, zapravo, 'drekavac'.i tu je on ve dugo, dugo vremena. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame mostly takes place inside the musty tunnel among the trapped Serb troops who are running out of water, led by a Communist captain eagerly recalling the good old days under Tito. The film is anti-nationalistic propaganda, made by mondialist anti-serbian liberaloid, with the help of communist elements in establishment. What, exactly, was the Italian link to the American South? Onaj mali momenat dok se Bata ivojinovi zalee kamionom i potom ga vidimo kako tri sa Titovom slikom, malo je rei da je suza suzu stizala. : I have but it's been so long I can't remember much besides the quote, that guy with the fork and something with a tunnel. "At an Italian festival, you would see people waving an Italian flag. All those men where locals from that area, defending Serbian families from extermination. Things get more complicated when the politics of the Confederate flag get intertwined with modernconflicts. veselje u titovoj jugoslaviji oko otvaranja tunela dolazi do usijanja.stapaju se zvuci euforije.i ostaje eho.eho u tunelu iz kog i dalje nismo izali. In the flashback sequences, the story focuses on his pre-war lifelong friendship with Halil, a Bosnian Muslim. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame. The Ukrainians are defending their home from Russian imperialism, while the Russians are also defending their home from NATOs encroachment. It makes me profoundly sorry that we cannot share this experience. This film was reco,emded to me, but I found it a little confusing at 1st the way it jumped about. Report this film, Und zu Brdern auf dem Schlachtenfeld werden wir. Directed by Sran Dragojevi. That design integrated the Battle Flag as a canton on a field of white. As odd as it may seem, the Napoli fans' use of the Confederate flag isn't isolated. He awarded it 3 stars out of 4 in his review. Serbs arent monsters, even though they did monstrous things in the war. Na koju foru ja ovo tek sad gledam nije ni meni jasno. Ironically, the Serbian knights and nobles that Viljuka looks up to are best incarnated in Gvozden himself: the stoic, disciplined warrior, ready to die with his weapon in his hand, and driven by honor and loyalty which extends beyond the death of the man he was loyal to (Tito) and the state which he served (Yugoslavia). I wanna say that this movie was filmed in the time when war happened and it was filmed in war locations in Bosnia. A dark comical tone that is present in such films as "Underground" and "No Man's Land". Pretty village pretty flame, ugly village ugly flame. I can't speak for the DVD, but the tape is certainly worth buying because this is one of the best anti-war films I have ever seen. During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Bijedi (or "Comrade Demo" as he's referred to in the newsreel) accidentally cuts his thumb with the scissors. In the Belgrade hospital where he and the Professor are recovering alongside the comatose Brzi after the fight to escape the tunnel, he is disgusted by the great citys decadence: the rude yet promiscuous nurses and uncaring doctors who treat him like crap because they feel oh-so-urbane. Back in 2012, as Napoli lost 4-1 to Chelsea in the quarterfinals of soccer's Champions League quarterfinal, a number of fans noticed something unusual hanging in theItalian club's end of thestadium: a Confederate flag. Whereas Gvozden is an officer of the Yugoslav National Army a gentleman, a knight , Veljo is an avatar of UDBA, the state security agency which unleashed Yugoslav criminals on the West, created the modern Serbian and Albanian mafia, and still controls political and economic life in the post-Yugoslav world. Later, Slobo tells him that his mother has been killed by Bosniaks from Halil's squad, and Milan returns to home to find it vandalized with Bosniak nationalist graffiti and covered in his mother's blood. He once stole a cistern of beer at Oktoberfest and drank it all in three days. This film represents Belgrade urbanoid point of view of Dragojevic, who is liberal anti-traditional lemming. 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. They were doing great work for so long. Amazing film, saw it on the big screen with no great expectations and the whole cinema was crying at the end of it. The 7 men in the tunnel arent supposed to represent the real composition of the JNA, but the Serbian nation itself in a pivotal moment of its history, as it abandoned (finally) the Yugoslav paradigm and tried to enter a new one. They must truly hate 'Better to be honorable loser than to be dishonorable winner' (Codreanu). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I wish there were a good way out of an evil system, but I do not see it. It is Gvozden who sacrifices himself to save the squad in the end, courageously singing an ode to Tito as he drives the ambulance truck into the Bosniak lines. Director Srdjan Dragojevic Writers Vanja Bulic (story) Srdjan Dragojevic (dialogue) Rather than commenting on the tragic event directly, Halil focuses on the circumstance that Slobo was informed of this hate crime via reading a Serbian daily newspaper, Veernje novosti, before implicitly dismissing the paper as Serb propaganda and cynically suggesting to Slobo that he should instead be reading Osloboenje, a Bosnian daily that Slobo in turn dismisses as Muslim propaganda in his sarcastic retort. Gvozden is fighting in vain for a state that has already been dead for three years at the time the film takes place. It takes you to a tragic ride through time: the inauguration of the tunnel, From Austria to Serbia | Runde 2 - Serbien . There isn't much I could say that others haven't already. Under a Red-Blue divide, Yeah, he lied about his dumb affair. 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