Fifty years apart, two armies will fight to the same death...
In this award winning adaptation of Josip Mlakic’s popular novel, first time director Kristijan Milic expertly illustrates that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It’s the same place, the same circumstances, but fifty years apart. Weaving between warfare in 1943 and 1993, this war film highlights the haunting parallels of both: a squadron of HVO (recent Bosnian Croat’s Army soldiers) as they walk the same path and the same fate of their Domobran (defenders of the Croat Independent State) forefathers – half a century before them.
As soldiers from both eras make their way toward an eerie cemetery, the hopeless cycle of bloodshed seems to repeat itself continuously and forever. We are all dead, just waiting to be buried.
Film: The Living And The Dead
Release date: 21st February 2011
Certificate: 18
Running time: 87 mins
Director: Kristijan Milic
Starring: Filip Sovagovic, Velibor Topic, Slaven Knezovic, Marinko Prga, Borko Peric
Genre: Fantasy/War
Studio: Kaleidoscope
Format: DVD
Country: Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina
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