Completed - SERBO-CROATIAN - Drama - 113 minutes
Year of production : 1981 Director(s) : Lordan ZAFRANOVIC Writer(s) : Lordan ZAFRANOVIC, Mirko KOVAC, Alfi KABILJO Cast : Daniel OLBRYCHSKI, Ena BEGOVIC, Gorica POPOVIC, Dragan MAKSIMOVIC, Miodrag KRIVOKAPIC, Dusan JANICIJEVIC, Ljiljana KRSTIC, Frano LASIC
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistance movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistance, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistance, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistance fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war. Pad Italije won the Grand Prize for best film at the 1981 Pula Film Festival.
Country(ies) : CROATIA, SERBIA