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The filmвЂ™s screenplay is based on an article written by Vanja BuliД‡ for Duga magazine about the actual event. The plot, inspired by real life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, tells a story about small group of Serb soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak force. Twelve years later, during the Bosnian civil war, Milan, who is trapped in the tunnel with his troop, and Halil, find themselves on opposing sides, fatefully heading toward confrontation. They never dare go inside, as they believe an ogre resides there. Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, have grown up together near a deserted tunnel linking the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Zagreb. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. CAPTION: Dragan Bjelogrlic goes after an enemy in 'Pretty Village, Pretty Flame.At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles, at the American Film Institute through Nov. PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (Unrated, 128 minutes) - Contains sex scenes, war carnage and profanity. This thing is for real, no matter how strangely it comes at you. No depiction of the Serbo-Croatian-Muslim conflict - surely one of mankind's most politically convoluted and ironic wars - could be otherwise. And if it seems overly schematic - as Serbs and Muslims kill each other even when many are old friends - that's inevitable. Variously bizarre, touching and overwrought, 'Pretty Village, Pretty Flame' has such emotional power, all excesses and shortcomings are almost beyond the point.

#LEPA SELA LEPO GORE SINGING AT HOSPITAL MOVIE#

Any movie that was boycotted by Bosnian Serb leader Radovic Karadzic and his government officials on its opening night must have been on to something. Lying in a hospital bed, he becomes obsessed with killing a wounded Muslim lying next to him. Even the drama's most sympathetic character, Milan (Dragan Bjelogrlic), refuses to let his wounds stop cultural enmity. Brutally frank about its own culture, the movie refuses to follow the rah-rah party line.

But it shows Serbs burning villages (hence the title), shelling towns and demonstrating systemic disregard for their enemies. This is not to say that 'Pretty Village' is littered with bodies in unmarked graves or the horrifying Nazi-style atrocities conducted on all sides. Given the filmmaker's nationality, it's astonishingly candid about Serbian involvement in the horrors of the war. It also embraces the new American cinema, the blood-and-guts, laugh-all-the-way-to-hell storytelling of Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino. But the movie, which was scrimped together and shot despite the ravages of war, is anti-war and humanistic.

It's loaded down with flashbacks, symbolism, surrealism, anti-communist satire and almost-gratuitous lapses into music (no European film can escape without music, it seems).

#LEPA SELA LEPO GORE SINGING AT HOSPITAL FULL#

Srdjan Dragojevic's film is full of the elements you'd expect in an Eastern European film. 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 themselves trapped in a tunnel besieged by Muslim militiamen. FILMS ABOUT the Serbo-Croatian-Muslim conflict have been surprisingly few and far between.

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