Reviews

One of the most famous Yugoslavian movie with a great story which is making us to ignore not such a great acting.

Story is about young Budimir Trajkovic, who is moving with the family quite often. His father is the bridge constructor. Budimir is the only son of his parents, so mother is trying to make him go away from any trouble. Dad is a nice and average man. Grandpa is another member of their family, really funny guy.. Classical old man. Anyway, all of them are affecting on Budimir on some ways, so he is still far away from being an independent man. He's still a peaceful kid who's got an ambition to change the things. He moves to Belgrade and starts the new life there. More and more becoming different, till the end. I won't describe more details, just watch the movie.

This isn't just a regular film, it is describing the situation of quite a lot of families and kids. About parents which are ''choking'' their kid and trying to make him be an average person like they are. But this young individual is one of the rare kids which didn't allow them to, and at the end we've got a bump - he's making his first decisions as a grown man.

So, at the end it's an interesting and funny movie with a few strong lessons behind it.

P.S. As I said, acting isn't really on the WORLD CLASS level, just an average classic for the Yugoslavian movies of that time. However, story is great, idea is great and you've gotta see this movie!

Yugoslavia, until Broz died, was a world giant. Pretty much everyone wanted to burry it. And they made it. This movie speaks about that.

First hour is about 90's war, the second is describing the situation as it is was until a few years ago(and be sure that it is even worse now).

First hour, like I've said, is about that war. Talking about the war battles, it's just a bit described. Watching this film, you would actually said that Croatia and Tudjman were the worst between trio - Cro;BiH;Ser, neutral person would concluded it. All in all, I would say that the Serbian actions were not that much described, except of Srebrenica. Everyone were been involved in this war, all of these 3 countries. Statistically looking, Bosnia lost the biggest number of civilians; Serbia and Croatia were the aggressors. But each country has lost so many people in the war - civilians, soldiers, everyone. And because of that I can't determine one country as a completely evil, because that would be so damn wrong and unfair. But the western propaganda made Serbia as a demonic seed. In the film it's a well described.

After watching this movie you will conclude who organized Yugoslavian war (and if you are completely objective and your IQ isn't below average). So, the first hour of the movie is what I don't like. War situations aren't completely described and some of the Serbian army crimes and negativities are skipped (and I don't know if this is important enough to be in the movie, but contacts that Radovan Karadzic had with USA, after they tricked him, also weren't mentioned). But if you were watching it carefully, you would understand that nobody blames people in this movie. They are explaining why the war started, talking about an awful president which didn't care about the people and that had a wrong ideals + they were watching their own interests. And, first hour is describing how brilliant plan USA were making. Just imagine how good place the world would have been if the USA wanted to make a truly democracy, a truly world peace, equality between the people and eliminating the truly evil from the world. We surely wouldn't needed a films like this one nowadays...

Second part of the movie is a much, much better. It's describing a modern situation all over the countries of the former Jugoslavija. You can see what the USA and powerful western countries did, and how large their benefits and profite now are. I don't need to say anything more about this, just watch.

If anyone is giving a negative voice, it is just because of the first hour(which actually isn't bad and unrealistic at all). Film is saying about the true, some details are missing but everything at this movie is a completely true, every single detail. So, no single lie, as some people are saying. Anyway, just particular foreigner or some person who is so damn blinded with the hate of 90's, can give a crap voice to this movie. Serbia isn't a nacionalistic country, and idea of the ,,big Serbia'' don't exist. It actually never existed, it was just an illusion of a few people and that plan had never been an official idea. But those blind people are still using it as an argument against the Serbia(and this film), so I would describe them as ignorant, no offence. OK, believe that USA government is a heaven and that they were doing the best things for your countries in the 90's. But they weren't, it's a lie. You can see it now, you can see what your countries look like, and you will see it in a 20 years, it will be even worse(if they let us live, ofc).

And one thing that I would suggested, when you will be watching this film, my recommendation is to first look at the last 15 minutes of the film. That's all.