Kozara (1962)

Directed by

Veljko Bulajić

Genre

drama film, war film, epic film, partisan film

Country

Yugoslavia

Runtime

2h 04m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows the Battle of Kozara during World War Two. It follows Yugoslav partisans fighting against German forces.

epicgrimhistoricalintensepatrioticsomberbattle-focusedlarge-scale

What happens

Kozara is a 1962 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is a well known film of the partisan film subgenre popular in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s and depicts events surrounding the Battle of Kozara. It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 1962 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards, was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize, and was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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