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Journey to Vucjak
With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
Fur Coat
Pero is about to retire, but that annoys him a bit, because he thinks that he is still agile and eager for excitement that is nowhere near in sight. One evening on their way home, Pero and Eva find a young woman in a broken elevator wearing an expensive fur coat and with several packages.
The Seventh Cronicle
In the mid-1950s, an unnamed convict succsesfully manages to escape from the Goli Otok prison island, seeking shelter in a monastery on the nearby island of Rab and striking a kinship with one of the nuns in it. A few days later, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service arrives on the island, desperate to find the man's whereabouts. The nuns and the monks face a decision of their lifetime. Are they going to turn the wounded man they know nothing about to the authorities, or will they continue concealing him and risk their lives in the process?
The Enclave
The Enclave is a three-part series directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, about the fall of Srebrenica and the Dutch government's failure to protect the town from attackers. The series originally aired by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The series was made in 2002. It has since been condensed into a movie and is regularly shown on US free satellite network LinkTV. In the original series, each episode describes the Srebrenica massacre in three different points of view and how it continues to control the characters. In the movie version, only two points of view were shown. The following episode descriptions were taken from the Dutch Public Broadcasting website.
Kapo
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Scent of Quinces
Set in Sarajevo during the 1941 Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, a local businessman rapidly amasses wealth by collaborating and maintaining close friendships with the Nazis. However, his financial success is complicated when he becomes deeply infatuated with a Jewish girl.
Dying Out of Bears
A satire of the corrupt society and political system of Yugoslavia, where the rulers hide their shortcomings with invisible bears, mice and other animals.
A Shot
In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Azra
Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.
Wild Angels
A group of juvenile delinquents go to a coastal resort town after successful robbery.
Handymen, Handymen
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Stormy Night
The TV movie Stormy Night takes place during the Second World War, and in its center is the clerk Ceric, who, after meeting his Jewish neighbor at night and his taking to the camp, becomes a prisoner and a victim of his own fear.
The Magpie Strategy
Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.