Ugly villages stay ugly, even when they burn." When Brzis junkie friends come, they mock him and the war effort. Their fate has been used by Dragojevic, and twisted in that grotesque film, for his liberal anti-nationalistic propaganda. Since he did see it on TV. Rather, it is a dramatization of Historical shifts. I know. 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. Confederate flags canstill be spotted in West Jerusalem. In "Nations Divided," a 2002 book by historianDon Harrison Doyle, the author recalls theexplanation given to him by an Italian colleague for the southern Italian embrace of Confederate symbols. Joined to Veljo at the hip is Marko, the kid or the mascot. Barely 18, overweight, overly zealous, sporting braces and a round jaw, probably mildly autistic, trigger-happy, and flying a Confederate flag a symbol often used by Serbian skinheads due to the commonality of the American Southern and Serbian struggles against American imperialism , he often screams Veljos name when the going gets tough (or when he accidentally riddles a child hiding in a closet with bullets). This film represents Belgrade urbanoid point of view of Dragojevic, who is liberal anti-traditional lemming. 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. Even worse, Veljo embarrasses Gvozden by declaring the entire edifice of the Yugoslav state to be criminal and dishonest in a Scarface-like speech about who the bad guy is and who deserves respect and doesnt. Two takes on fighting in the Balkans. I beg everyone in this community to give this movie a chance, thanks ! A dark comical tone that is present in such films as "Underground" and "No Man's Land". 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). Personally, I suspect that Black Hand is one of British intelligences bastards. Or did good, God-fearing, law-abiding men do these things for noble reasons? A gravely wounded Serbian so Why do Italian soccer fans and other foreigners fly the Confederate flag? In fact, the flag is surprisingly common in southern Italy, just one of many foreign locations where the flag has been reappropriated for local purposes. While his compatriots loot jewelry, appliances, cars, and booze from the burning villages, he steals books. The Confederate flag's history as a symbol of racial hatred, rather than a benign emblem of lost heritage, was on full display at the Capitol. (January 2009) Pretty Village, Pretty Flame; DVD cover: Directed by: Sran Dragojevi . Dragojevic is a very talented filmmaker. The tragedy of a brother war is that we cannot blame the drekavac in the tunnel, nor can we exit it as a predicament without staining our souls, perhaps becoming so deformed in the process that we resemble monsters more than men in the end. 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. Would another scene of Serbs burning Muslim houses make them happy? World Cinema Spring 2016Nemo, Chaise, Gianna, Jeremy, Barbara. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. They do not show what muslims had to go throgh because of the serbs,which is unrealistic. It got plenty of press coverage following its debut showings at festivals in Montreal and Toronto. For every single man, this movie is must have and must see. Milan is a no-nonsense character. Matching Marko in zeal but thankfully capable of carrying their own weight are Laza and his brother-in-law Viljuka (Fork). His patriotism consists of spray-painting nationalist slogans and symbols on the burned-out ruins of buildings. There is one last character in the tunnel, an American female journalist who stows away on Brzis ambulance truck when he drives into the tunnel. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. 2 hr 8 mins. Racist and anti-Semitic chants are alarmingly common all acrossEurope, and fans from clubs such as Spain's Real Madrid and France's Olympique de Marseillehave also been spotted flying the flag. As Milan goes to stab the boy with a fork, he cannot bring himself to do it, and is discovered by the nurses. 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. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Show All, 130mins It is nice of mister Jeelvy to have respect for dead warriors, but to do that by citation of film which ridicules real life events is deeply wrong. Powerful story of the Bosnian conflict that is loosely based on a true incident. 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. "I think some of the Confederate reenactors in Germany are acting out Nazi fantasies of racial superiority," Wolfgang Hochbruck, a professor of American Studies at the University of Freiburg, oncetoldAmerican journalistTony Horwitz. Given the flag's anti-authority connotations, itmay well embolden them further. Seit dieser Nacht beobachteten wir jeden Abend ein weiteres brennendes Dorf am Horizont und die Flammen kamen dem Himmel, Uh, svaki put je preteska ova jeziva horor komedija, a i dalje neverovatno kultno remek-delo srpske kinematografije, jedino nikada ne mogu da shvatim kako je onaj smecar Srdjan snimio ovakvo remek-delo. What was monstrous was the system that forced these people together and forced them to fight their way out through monstrous means. Lazo and Viljuka are normies, caught up in anti-Russian hysteria and propaganda but wholl soon run into the reality of the war. It's muddier and not as sharp. But what you are saying is even worse. He refuses to let go of this dream, and its unclear if he can let go of it. Might be one of the most greatest, if not, important war film that has ever been crafted for the last 30 years. Hopefully we can all choose to never do this again , Starts clunky but gets really high quality by the end, Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2001. Press J to jump to the feed. There were no special characteristics of Croatians, Serbians or Muslims that set them apart visually and yet they were at war. The German soccer teams gaucho dance. . [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]. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2013. I will impose sorrow upon myself for these strangers because I have great sympathy for them. The tunnel is being opened by the visiting top local Bosnian communist dignitary Demal Bijedi as the newsreel's voiceover is extolling the quality of tunnel's masonry in hyperbolically glowing terms, gushing about the completed infrastructure project representing a key development for the area's economic progress. They do not show what muslims had to go throgh because of the serbs,which is unrealistic. Truth is, we indeed were a pretty civilized medieval state and had some good sanitary customs compared to Western Europe at the time, we probably weren't the only ones, as Rep.of Venice and Byzantium were both known to use forks at the court. Made by fans in Aotearoa New Zealand. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Weltkrieges, malerische Settings wie aus Postkartenmotiven im Pazifikkrieg und Massenszenen des 13. oder dem 18. 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). Marko, bless his soul, has no idea why hes there except that he thought being at war would be cool. The tunnel in which the squad hides is next to his village. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. They should watch Fellini movies. Among the beleaguered platoon of soldiers facing periodic Muslim assaults and psychological taunts (being called Chetniks) are a thief, a . Now if if I could just but it on DVD! If the Westerner really wants to get an idea of what life might have been in Yugoslavia in the 60s 70s and 80s. But the films about the Yugoslav wars tends to have a comical undertone, no matter how brutal this conflict was, with all it's ethnic cleaning and huge losses. Sometimes, the ignorance is understandable. Nowhere is the conflict's surreal nature better portrayed than in Srdjan Dragojevi's film Pretty Village, Pretty Flame. The majority of the scenes were shot on locations in and around Viegrad, Republika Srpska (Serb inhabited entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, still governed by Radovan Karadi) at the time, often in places that were former battlefields. But for them, Levine says, the flag is much more of an ethnic symbol than a political one. Once again, white people are at each others throats in a bloody and brutal brother war. (Video: Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post). Was it the drekavac from the tunnel? New users check out our Wiki or FAQ page, get to know our community and it's rules. In the flashback sequences, the story focuses on his pre-war lifelong friendship with Halil, a Bosnian Muslim. Following the success of the movie, Buli wrote a novel named Tunelessentially an expanded version of his magazine article. Gvozden is fighting in vain for a state that has already been dead for three years at the time the film takes place. It was continuation of struggle between Europe and Islam, that started with Battle of Tours and first Arab siege of Constantinople, which is not over. IMDb It is his village that gets looted, his mother who is killed, his best friends auto repair shop that burns down, his schoolteacher who is raped and used as an unwilling suicide bomber, and the tunnel of his childhood nightmares that they use as a redoubt. Russia dindu nuffin, evah! The Dahl family sold their literary rights to Netflix several years ago. The Yugoslav Wars were an orgy of violence and horror, not merely because of their intensity but even more so because the men who were killing each other, burning each others villages, and committing atrocities had been friends and neighbors only a few years earlier. That Barry Hinkley ad bodes well: "Are your [sic] ready to be excited?". [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. Posters are sourced from TMDb and Posteritati, and appear for you and visitors to your profile and content, depending on settings. This film was reco,emded to me, but I found it a little confusing at 1st the way it jumped about. During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Bijedi (or "Comrade Demo" as he's referred to in the newsreel) accidentally cuts his thumb with the scissors. Ive heard from oldsters who took part (or who stood by as it happened) that it was surreal. No ill talking behind the closed doors, ever. The film doesnt pretend to be realistic. Film data from TMDb. Nowhere is the conflicts surreal nature better portrayed than in Srdjan Dragojevis film Pretty Village, Pretty Flame. There are no good guys or bad guys only decent, courageous men performing monstrous acts which they have been fated to perform. NR. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of serviceapply. The movie had alot of swearing and it is in serb-croat language with english subtitles. The Bosniaks capture him and torture him, broadcasting his screams into the tunnel as a form of psychological warfare. , Biljana Maksic, Nikola Pejakovic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Vanja Bulic, Number of discs The ex-Yugoslav people hate each other, but were the only ones who can share the full experience of being post-Yugoslavs. Symbolic antiwar tale, focusing on the conflict between Serbs and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Gvozden fights for the vainglory of the failed Yugoslav state. I mean, there are Serbs hating other Serbs for cheering to Croatia on World Cup. PS War between Serbs and Muslim in Bosnia was not brothers war. 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. Great movie that does a decent job of being unbiased with regards to the Bosnian war. A real gem. There are a lot of ideas that flash by your eyes as this film rapidly pushes along. June 14, 2020. Well, a translator can allow himself the freedom of omitting a verb or two. They don't have any political affiliation to it whatsoever.". The blood of warriors is always sacred. 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. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Ive often said that the Serb soldiers trapped in the tunnel represent every stereotype about Serbs in the 1990s gathered in one place. Rent or purchase any movie or TV show on Vudu or purchase at least one (1) movie ticket on Fandango between 12:00 am PT on January 17, 2023 and 11:59 pm PT on February 11, 2023 and get a Bouqs promo code for $40 off (1) qualifying merchandise product (before taxes) from a list of . Things get more complicated when the politics of the Confederate flag get intertwined with modernconflicts. Two childhood friends, one a Serb the other a Muslim, square off on opposite sides of war, their friendship tattered and in ruins. simply login first to see your comment auto-approved. Also the part when they drink Milan's urine and laugh like maniacs. It is our tragedy and joy. Furthermore, Nazim, a Muslim neighbour of Slobo's, rolls up in a car and trailer with his family and many of their personal belongings in tow, asking Slobo to look after his house while he's away "visiting his sister in Tuzla". 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. For example, the Red Hand Defenders, a Loyalist Ulster paramilitary group, has carried Confederate flags during marches(they argue that they do this because many Confederate soldiers were from Ulster). : Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a15a0d73d20ca70 . By Troy Patterson Updated July 10, 1998 at 04:00 AM EDT. With its unconventional use of domestic dark humor, gritty atmosphere, Tarantino-esque style of narrative structure, controversial content and usage of real places affected by the war. [7][8][9] In Macedonia it also posted a good box office result with more than 50,000 admission tickets sold.[10]. He is immediately cut down by automatic fire. : 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''. "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.". A classic in Serbia's cinematography with some of our best actors! The film closes on 21 July 1999 with a newsreel, showing the re-opening of the reconstructed tunnel under the new name, the Tunnel of Peace. : 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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. Without Yevghenii Primakov and SVR is just another obfuscation, no explanation. The squad is commanded by Gvozden (meaning Made of Iron), an old-school officer from the Yugoslav National Army, still enamored of his beloved Marshal Tito, having walked 350 kilometers in 1980 to pay his respects at Titos funeral. A Place Called Chiapas. He is the son of a Yugoslav National Army officer and stereotypically hedonistic, irreverent, disrespectful of authority, enamored of the Wests culture (including drugs), and contemptuous of state myths, both the Yugoslav and the post-Serbian Yugoslav myths. Counter-Currents has extended special privileges to those who donate $120 or more per year. Ugly ones stay ugly, even when they burn. Quickly their informal ranks break down and we see them as marauders who don't quite know how they got that way, some for noble reasons, others by accident and some for loyalty to state or family. 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. 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