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This is a film about black communist history in former Yugoslavia killing a lot of Nazi helpers and also innocent people, just being on wrong side during the II.World war.This film is a dishonor for Croatian film.Characters are black and white and Partisans are like Gremlins horrible and blood thirsty and the all others are innocent.Awful film !

Just as any other regime, this one got a chance to "set aright" all the wrongs done in the past and just as any other regime it uses film art as one of the means to achieve its goals. I can't comment on the quality of the film since I never saw it, but I strongly disagree with the tendency to use this forums to ventilate one's political believes. This is about the film art, so let it be what it is and let's not press our views and believes on the others. Only one more thing: reading the comments, I get the impression that this "historical truth" is brought to screen very one-sided (just as the others before, in the last regime and the one before and before ...)

It's interesting how people who weren't't even there and haven't seen a piece of evidence can come here or anywhere and speak about this movie as a lie. First of all this movie is about true history that was hidden for half a century. After so many communist movies about "brave" partisans that are nothing more but a work of fiction, when somebody makes a movie about what really happened it is to be expected that some of all those people who watched "brave" partisans in movies like Sutjeska, Neretva, will come here and tell you that partisans were not like that. Well tell me than. If partisans weren't that bad, who killed 70000 people (many of them civilians) in Bleiburg? Maybe they went there by themselves and commit mass suicide?

This are fact that anybody can check this days:

70000 people were slain in Bleiburg. It was done by partisans. It was done by the direct orders of Tito.

I live conclusion to you.

It is laughable, and it lacks the reflexivity to even understand it. Instead, it plays it straight from beginning to end. A film that boggles the mind.

This movie shows some of the horrors experienced by Croatian Army regulars, Ustasa and most importantly, civilians post W.W.II. A time when Tito was handed free and total control of these people by the ruling coalitions of the U.K. , US. and its allies.

This film doesn't even begin to cover the atrocities committed by the Communists at the end of W.W.II. The tortures and outright murders of these people has been covered up and forgotten by history. All this thanks to the Communist regime of Yugoslavia from 1945-1990.

This film is both moving and revealing. It sheds light on a dark corner of history. A light that has been trying to shine for the past 50+ years.

I highly recommend this film to anyone who wishes to know the truth about the Croatian people.

An excellent and very realistic film, based on Aralica's book (based on survivors' experiences) and on a true event at the end of WW2.

Drammatic, but true. A piece of Croatian history, which was kept hidden for many years, and it is the proof of non-respect of international war conventions by the Allies. (some say that there is no/little evidence regarding this event, which is untrue, as I myself have done research for my undergraduate thesis on this matter - the documents are well hidden, and difficult to find...)

The main characters are a young couple, and what happens around them are true events. Some scenes are quite explicit, but as in each conflict those who are the "winners" are not always just and correct. The only lack of this film is that it seems more a TV film than a film made for the cinema. Otherwise, an excellent film which would need a bit more of publicity - as this event is still a delicate matter even after 50 years and it seems as an argument better not spoken about.

Besides extorting the history, trying to portrait Nazi regime as good guys, it's a great example of a horrible movie, script, acting etc.

Sedlar is the best Croatian director ever and this movie made him a national hero.

The Bleiburg genocide committed by Tito's partizans in May 1945 on hundreds of thousands POW's, women and children was described very bravely and without exaggeration.

History rewritten and revisioned by clerofascist and nazi collaborators, who desperately wants to blame "communists" and Tito's partisans for awful present state in Croatia caused by right-wing thieves. From the Croatian war 91.-95., there's many of so called "patriots", but they're nothing but money-hungry hate seeders.

After WW2 some 200.000 soldiers that were fighting against the allies + some 500.000 civilians wanted to surrender to the Americans but they were surrendered to the "British" in little Austrian town called Bleiburg because the British promised Americans they would not harm them and naive Americans let them to deal with it. The British sent them back to Yugoslavia in cattle vagons like Nazi's sent jews to concentration camps to Tito's Partisans which were their butchers, although they promised they were sending them to the west where is safe. The British ofcourse betrayed surrendered Croatians because they wanted to get even when Croatian general Ban Josip Jelacic in 1848 attatcked the evil Hungarian state that suppresed Croatian people, but which they were supporting as Masonary! This partisans were mostly consisted of ex serbian fashists called chetnicks that were fighting for Hitler and were spared their life after the war in order to exterminate everyone that were against the new bolshevic regime. In just 2 weeks they killed some 700.000 soldiers, but mostly they were men, women (raiped), children (raiped) old folks and burried them into 1750 secret locations in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina...and etc. Also, some years after the ww2 another 500.000 people were exterminated by Tito's Army which made him 10th biggest mass murderers in world's history killing total 1,2 million people!!! To this day now in 2018 this movie is still forbidden and they are still refusing to talk about that tragedy because the British, that same satanic Masonary instrumented 2 parties called HDZ and SDP in government and is still trying to remake "great serbia", but only in the means of economy, because they have failed to create it in the bloody 1991-1995 war for independence! It is also very important to mention that this movie has had the biggest audience or number of people watching it, around 70% of Croatian population (3.600.000), which made it still the the greatist of all time that were shown on Croatian national TV!

I see a lot of people trying to justify mass murder by adding "context", previous crimes of victims etc. It does not work that way. Ustase had their revenge reasons for their crimes, hitler had them too. It was still a crime. When you look ww2 movies, you don't see anything about nazi reasons, passages from my kampf etc. You just see hideoues crimes, and that is what your serb and communist fathers did, hideous crimes. Everything else is just your BS justification. Every butcher has them. Sorry to see their children still have a "butcher" way of looking

The fact that you try to lie to others is understandable and expected, but when a man lies to himself then it is a dangerous psychosis and perversion. The film did not deserve a single star.