Krstic fails, however, to note that this is in itself racist – the enemy as the monstrous Other. The Muslims who surround the militia are entirely dehumanised, Krstic himself points out that this is drawing of tropes of Hollywood’s representation of the Vietnam war where ‘Charlie’ was an invisible presence in the jungle.
That said I did find the film disturbing.
One of the ways this is done is through the casting of Velimir Bata Zivojinovic as the unit’s commander Zivojinovic starred in many Partisan films that were important in the myth-making of Tito’s Yugoslavia. While it’s easy to see why the film appears to be pro-Serbian, as we rarely get any other view than the militia’s, Krstic also demonstrates the film’s nuances principally that the ragtag bunch of militia are not portrayed as likeable characters and in this the film is also challenging Serbia’s national mythology. In an excellent article Igor Krstic ( ) notes that although Croatian critics dubbed the film pro-Serbian (Croatia was also embroiled in the war against Serbs/Serbia) it was also the first Serbian film to be successful in neighbouring countries after the war ended. Unsurprisingly the film divided opinion when it was release. Much of the narrative features flashbacks of how the disparate members of the militia joined up from the viewpoint of a number of them recuperating, after the event, in hospital. After scene setting, with a newsreel about the Brotherhood and Unity (such irony runs throughout the film) tunnel first opened in the 1970s, most of the plot takes place 20 years later in the dilapidated and unfinished tunnel as the militia seek shelter from the Bosnian army. The main protagonist is Milan who, in pre-war years, ran a business with his Muslim mate. Its complex structure focuses on a band of Bosnian-Serb militia who, amongst other things, burn Muslim villages. MeÄu iscrpelim srpskim borcima naĹĄla se i jedna zalutala ameriÄka novinarka.The abomination of war is accentuated in civil war Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (original title translates better as Beautiful villages burn beautifully) covers the post-Yugoslavian war of the 1990s that foreshadowed the current ‘conflict’ between ‘the west’ and Muslims. Kao deca se nisu usudili da uÄu u tunel, jer su verovali da tamo boravi âdrekavac".ĭvanaest godina kasnije, tokom rata u Bosni, Milan, zarobljen u tunelu sa svojim saborcima, i Halil nalaze se na suprotnim stranama, sudbinski srljajuÄi u sukob. PriÄa se vrti oko dvojice deÄaka, Halila - BoĹĄnjaka, i Milana - Srbina, koji su odrasli zajedno u selu blizu napuĹĄtenog tunela. U bolnici se filmski junaci seÄaju mladosti i rata. Radnja filma poÄinje u jednoj beogradskoj vojnoj bolnici gde su smeĹĄteni ranjenici rata u Bosni. Film je bio srpski kandidat za Oskara, za najbolji film van engleskog govornog podruÄja za 1996. Film je snimljen prema istinitom dogaÄaju kada su 11 srpskih vojnika bili devet dana okruĹženi u 97 metara dugom tunelu kod ViĹĄegrada u septembru 1992.
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