The movie is a wartime drama set in Croatia during the last days of World War II. Entertaining and well worth watching if you are interested in the Croatian history of the Balkan region during WWII and what occurred during the last days of WWII.
The movies deals with historical events from the perspective of the losing side focusing on events which both Western and Yugoslav propaganda have long sought to sweep under the carpet or ignore. It primarily deals with the fate which befell hundreds of thousands of Croatian soldiers and civilians who were seeking to surrender to the allies in order to escape the mass murders, forced marches, and labour camps being perpetrated by Tito's communist partisans, who sought to liquidate any notion of an independent Croatian state or nation.
During the years of Yugoslavia the subject was taboo and covered up by the communist authorities in the name of a united Yugoslavia and for fear that their crimes would be exposed. With Croatia now a free, democratic state, a re-examination of history and the crimes committed by the partisans and Serbs under the banner of communist Yugoslavia is now possible.
The movies deals with historical events from the perspective of the losing side focusing on events which both Western and Yugoslav propaganda have long sought to sweep under the carpet or ignore. It primarily deals with the fate which befell hundreds of thousands of Croatian soldiers and civilians who were seeking to surrender to the allies in order to escape the mass murders, forced marches, and labour camps being perpetrated by Tito's communist partisans, who sought to liquidate any notion of an independent Croatian state or nation.
During the years of Yugoslavia the subject was taboo and covered up by the communist authorities in the name of a united Yugoslavia and for fear that their crimes would be exposed. With Croatia now a free, democratic state, a re-examination of history and the crimes committed by the partisans and Serbs under the banner of communist Yugoslavia is now possible.