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Don't Look Back, My Son (1956)

Don't Look Back, My Son poster
Original title
Ne okreći se sine
Directed by
Branko Bauer
Genre
partisan film
Country
Yugoslavia
Runtime
1h 52m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father and his son try to survive during wartime. The father must make difficult choices to protect his child.

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What happens

Don't Look Back, My Son, also known as My Son, Don't Turn Round (Serbo-Croatian: Ne okreći se, sine / Не окрећи се, сине) in the United States, is a 1956 Yugoslav film by Croatian director Branko Bauer. It is adapted into a children's novel by the co-writer Arsen Diklić. In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be the eighth greatest Croatian film ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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