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Četverored is 1999 Croatian film directed by Jakov Sedlar. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Aralica, the plot of the film deals with the Yugoslav death march of Nazi collaborators. It was the first film to deal with the subject, formerly a taboo topic under the Communist government. Četverored was aired on television only a week after its theatrical release in Zagreb, in what was widely characterised as an electoral ploy to support the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, which subsequently lost the elections.[1]

Četverored
Directed by	Jakov Sedlar
Written by	Ivan Aralica
Produced by	Jakov Sedlar
Starring	Ivan Marević Ena Begović
Cinematography	Igor Sunara[1]
Edited by	Zdravko Borko Ivica Drnić[1]
Music by	Zlatko Tanodi[1]
Release date	7 December 1999 (1999-12-07)
Running time	136 minutes[1]
Country	Croatia
Languages	Croatian (smaller parts in Serbian, Slovene, English and Russian)

Četverored was the last film role of Ena Begović before her death in a car accident in August 2000.[2]

Cast

The cast also includes Luka Peroš best known for his role of Marseille in Money Heist.[3]

• Ivan Marević as Ivan Telebar
• Ena Begović as Mirta Mešog
• Goran Navojec as Baja Mešog
• Nadežda Perišić-Nola as Marguerita
• Zvonimir Zoričić as Zlatko Trlin
• Nada Abrus as Malvina
• Boris Buzančić as Senjak
• Mia Oremović as Gost
• Filip Šovagović as poručnik Hunjeta
• Tamara Garbajs as Magdalena
• Zoran Čubrilo as "Crnac" na motoru
• Vera Zima as nadstojnica časne službe
• Dejan Aćimović as Šaban
• Hrvoje Klobučar as tupi domobran
• Ante Čedo Martinić as Ante Moškov

Critical reception

The Croatian Cinema Database website's entry for the movie gives the film a largely negative review, noting that screenwriter Ivan Aralica and director Jakov Sedlar "turned the film into an expression of caricatured intolerance towards (Serbian and Montenegrin) partisans" and that its "hate speech and utter nonsense" overshadows any potential it has.[1]

Historian Jelena Batinić writes that, despite the film's high production value and prominent Croatian actors, it "rarely rises above the level of a propaganda pamphlet with crude ethnic stereotyping" as the mostly Serb Partisans are portrayed as vicious murderers and Croat prisoners as innocent victims.[4]

Professor Dijana Jelača of Brooklyn College lists Četverored as among the post-Yugoslav nationalist revisionist films which use events of the past, reconstructing them in order to "warn generations to come" of the never-ending threats to nationhood. In this case, communism is presented as being on equal footing, if not worse, than fascism.[5] Film scholar Dino Murtic describes the film as "perhaps the most inglorious example of the cinema of self-victimisation" made during the 1990s as Yugoslavia had disintegrated.[6]

References

External links

• Četverored at IMDb

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