They are joined by a young American television journalist who sneaked on their truck carrying a Muslim visa and a video camera, and who does not speak Serbian. Among the beleaguered platoon of soldiers facing periodic Muslim assaults and psychological taunts (being called Chetniks) are a thief, a drug addict (forced to join the army or go to prison), and a professor. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame mostly takes place inside the musty tunnel among the trapped Serb troops who are running out of water, led by a Communist captain eagerly recalling the good old days under Tito. Ugly ones stay ugly, even when they burn.вЂќ

A soldier says as he helps burn a village without even knowing its name: вЂњPretty villages are pretty when they burn. The characters donвЂ™t really stick with us as much as the arson of the villages does. If the film could be faulted it is that everyone in it is used as a symbol, which takes away some of the spontaneity of their individualism. There are some vintage moments some peace group members chanting вЂњGive Peace A ChanceвЂќ outside a war hospital those trapped in the tunnel drinking urine out of a diet-Coke bottle to stay alive and, of Milan climbing out of his hospital bed with an uncontrollable rage and crawling on the floor to get vengeance on a Muslim wounded prisoner of war who is behind a glass partition. The story is told in a detached style, emphasizing the bloody battles as it clearly shows how war is both hell and insanity. The bitter war seems almost to be inevitable. Even these childhood friends canвЂ™t trust each other anymore and have been drawn into the hatred of the conflict. MilanвЂ™s mother is brutally killed and HalilвЂ™s home is destroyed, as they become symbols for the maddening war that is taking place. When the ethnic war is waged in their country they now face each other as enemies, as Halil traps MilanвЂ™s side in an abandoned tunnel. Their somewhat happy childhood is shown in flashbacks. Each child was determined, even in the childhood games they played, to not give up until they won. They shared a common fear of the childish tale of an ogre that lives in their local abandoned tunnel. The plot focuses upon the longtime friendship of Muslim Halil (Nikola Pejakovic) and Serbian Milan (Dragan Bjelogrlic), who grow up in peacetime as best friends in a small village and become partners in an auto repair shop. It is allegedly based upon a true story, one that echoes the directorвЂ™s universal appeal for everyone to end all their hatred. He states even if Tito was a liar and a scoundrel, at least the country was unified.

This bleak tale is told from the point-of-view of the Serb soldier who is severely wounded in a Belgrade hospital in 1994, and flashes back to his childhood and then the war and the hopes that died with Tito. A tunnel erected in 1971 to symbolize the path of вЂњBrotherhood and Unity,вЂќ linking Zagreb to Belgrade, is depicted in fake newsreels to show how everything went wrong the tunnel is then shown ten years later, when it is left abandoned and becomes the filmвЂ™s battle scene. Set in Bosnia during 19 (the story swings back and forth in time, from the break-up of TitoвЂ™s unified Yugoslavia to the present ex-Yugoslavia).

вЂњThis bleak tale is told from the point-of-view of the Serb soldier who is severely wounded.вЂќ (director/writer: Srdjan Dragojevic screenwriters: from war reports by Vanja Bulic/Nikola Pejakovic cinematographer: Dusan Joksimovic editor: Petar Markovic cast: Dragan Bjelogrlic (Milan), Nikola Pejakovic (Halil), Nikola Kojo (Velja), Milorad Mandic (Viljuska), Lisa Mancure (Lisa), Dragan Maksimovic (Petar), Zoran Cvijanovic (Brzi) Runtime: 115 A Fox Lorber/Cobra Film 1996-Yugoslavia) PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPO GORE)

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