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      Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

      1996 2h 8m War List
      Reviews 95% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Milan (Dragan Bjelogric), a Serb, and Halil (Nikola Pejakovic), a Muslim, grew up as best friends in an idyllic rural village, where they often passed an unused tunnel that they thought contained a monster. But when, years later, war comes, they find themselves on opposing sides of a horrific, inhumane conflict. Milan's troop ends up trapped in a newly built tunnel, surrounded by enemy soldiers. One by one they recount their experiences, and one by one they're wounded or killed. Read More Read Less

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      Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 4/5 Jun 26, 2005 Full Review TV Guide Rated: 4/5 Jul 30, 2003 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews This bleak tale is told from the point-of-view of the Serb soldier who is severely wounded in a Belgrade hospital in 1994. Rated: C+ Feb 14, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The greatest 02 hours: and 08 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the greatest movies I've ever seen! A brilliant tragi-comedy to reflect on the absurdity of war, especially civil war, where neighbors and former friends fight each other. Really a must see!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member The most accurate depiction on how friends became foes, young men lost their lives fighting over idiocy of politicians and twisted ideals. The english translation doesn't do the film justice. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review david l With highly realistic and such well developed characters, superb dialogue, fantastic black humor with many funny lines, competent direction from Srdjan Dragojevic and naturalistic, superb performances from its great cast with Nikola Kojo, Milorad Mandic and Bata Zivojinovic being the highlights, Lepa sela lepo gore (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) is a strong war drama across the board. It is so well shot, moving in its emotion and epic in scope that it easily ranks as one of the greatest classics of Serbian cinema. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The films about the Yugoslav war on Balkan isn't like any other war movies. The movies about the second world war it's all despair and seems like the end of the world as we know it, it's a dead serious war. But the films about the Yugoslav wars tends to have a comical undertone, no matter how brutal this conflict was, with all it's ethnic cleaning and huge losses. A dark comical tone that is present in such films as "Underground" and "No Man's Land". I think that the comedy lies in that irony that all the ethnic groups are so alike in many ways. They even speak the same language. But it's their religion and their history which in the end of the day defines which side you are on. Srdjan Dragojevic's Pretty Village, Pretty Flame tells the story about two best friends. One Serb, Milan, and one Muslim, Halil. Who back in 1980, discovered an abandon tunnel that is out of use. No body dears to go close to this tunnel. A decade later, war has broke out between the different ethnic groups. Especially between the Serbs and the Bosniaks, where Milan and Halil is on each side. The violence just escalates. Villages are burned down. One night, Milan's platoon is being ambushed by Bosniaks, and seeks cover in the abandon tunnel from his childhood. Pretty Village, Pretty Flamme is a modern classic in Serbian cinema. And almost ten percent of Serbia's population. But it heavily criticized by other former Yugoslav countries of being to pro-Serbian and anti-bosniaks, and racist. Is this true. Both yes and no. In the tunnel where the Serbian platoon is trapped, a radio voice coming from a hidden radio in the cave, with a laughing Bosniak. Who seems to love terrorizing the Serbs. But there's also the fact that Milan did have a Muslim best friend. But the reality makes it impossible for them to continue their friendship. This movie might seem racist, but a the same time, it's shows us why. And it's comical undertone shows us how ridiculous the situation is. Overall it's a thrilling war film, with a great plot, but with to much symbolism. Thumbs up. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member With bitter, abject, entertaining humore, exposes the sickness and the interpersonal nature of the Bosnian war. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Milan (Dragan Bjelogric), a Serb, and Halil (Nikola Pejakovic), a Muslim, grew up as best friends in an idyllic rural village, where they often passed an unused tunnel that they thought contained a monster. But when, years later, war comes, they find themselves on opposing sides of a horrific, inhumane conflict. Milan's troop ends up trapped in a newly built tunnel, surrounded by enemy soldiers. One by one they recount their experiences, and one by one they're wounded or killed.
      Director
      Srdjan Dragojevic
      Producer
      Goran Bjelogrlic
      Screenwriter
      Vanja Bulic, Biljana Maksic, Nikola Pejakovic
      Genre
      War
      Original Language
      Serbian
      Runtime
      2h 8m
      Sound Mix
      Stereo
      Aspect Ratio
      35mm