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Vukovar, jedna priča (Serbian Cyrillic: Вуковар, једна прича, English: Vukovar: A Story) is a Serbian war film directed by Boro Drašković. It was released in 1994.[1] It is also known as Vukovar poste restante. The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2] The film's slogan was Nothing is stronger than love, maybe only war!

Vukovar, jedna priča
Film poster
Directed by	Boro Drašković
Written by	Boro Drašković
Produced by	Danka Muždeka Mandžuka
Starring	Mirjana Joković Boris Isaković Nebojša Glogovac Svetozar Cvetković Predrag Ejdus Mihailo Janketić Olivera Marković Goran Drozdek Mira Banjac Dušica Žegarac
Edited by	Snežana Ivanović
Music by	Sanja Ilić
Distributed by	Varnica
Release date	3 July 1994 (1994-07-03)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	FR Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian

Plot

The film takes place in Vukovar, a city on the border between Serbia and Croatia, in a country which used to be called SFR Yugoslavia, on the eve of the country's breakup. It is a typical love story, between a Croat woman Ana (Mirjana Joković) and a Serb man Toma (Boris Isaković), who marry one another with the blessing of both families right before the Battle of Vukovar. Their harmonic community is brutally broken apart with the start of a civil war. Not only they but everyone around them, against their will, are brought into the craziness of war which divides them from family and friends. Divided, living through hell, they still hope that the horrors of war will stop and that their newborn baby will be able to have a fresh start.

Cast

• Mirjana Joković as Ana
• Boris Isaković as Toma
• Svetlana Bojković as Vilma
• Predrag Ejdus as Stjepan
• Mihailo Janketić as Dusan
• Dušica Žegarac as Vera
• Monika Romić as Ratka
• Goran Drozdek as Domagoj
• Nebojša Glogovac as Fadil
• Mira Banjac as Milka

Production

The film was shot in late 1993 in war-ruined Vukovar, only ten kilometres from the front lines. Battle scenes were filmed in silence as to not perturb or frighten the city's few remaining civilians.[3]

Reception

Croatia

In December 1995, the Croatian delegation prevented the film from being screened at a United Nations conference, calling it "propaganda".[3][4] Writing for the Croatian daily Jutarnji list, Jurica Pavičić gave it a scathing review, saying the film was consistently promoting a false equidistance between the Croatian and Serbian nationalisms in the war, which he personally found particularly irritating after the Vukovar massacre and at the height of the siege of Sarajevo.[5] In 2009, the Zagreb Film Festival director wanted to include the film in its "Film and propaganda" session, but the film's producer retracted their permission for the showing.[5]

International

In reviewing the film for Variety, critic Allen Young compared the Serbian-Croatian couple to the story of Romeo and Juliet and wrote that the film's "depiction of a beautiful country’s loss of its moral compass is a terrifying, dazzling achievement".[6] In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden echoed the Shakespearean comparison while noting the film's "disturbing" portrayal of war and highlighting its anti-war premise.[4] Writing for New York, Maureen Callahan stated that, although the film "isn't as technically accomplished or as seamlessly scripted as, say, Schindler's List, it is just as important and even more remarkable for its virtually real-time immediacy".[3] Film historian Andrew Horton writes that the film's value is "equally powerful for not degenerating into a simplistic 'us against them' polemic film" but instead leaving the audience with "a troubling feeling of 'look what we have done to ourselves'".[7]

Awards

Won

• Mediterranean Film Prize for Peace and Tolerance at the Jerusalem Film Festival (1995)[8]

See also

• List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Serbian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

Sources

• Goulding, Daniel (2002). Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945–2001. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21582-6.

External links

• Vukovar, jedna priča at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Вуковар (фильм)

«Вуковар» (сербохорв. Вуковар, једна прича / Vukovar, jedna priča) — фильм в жанре военная драма режиссёра Боро Драшковича. Премьера состоялась 3 июля 1994 года. Фильм выдвигался на премию «Оскар» за лучший фильм на иностранном языке.

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