Četverored (1999)

Directed by

Jakov Sedlar

Genre

drama film

Country

Croatia

Runtime

2h 16m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is about the Bleiburg massacre from World War Two. It follows people caught up in that event. It was the first Croatian movie to deal with this formerly forbidden topic.

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What happens

Četverored is 1999 Croatian drama war film directed by Jakov Sedlar. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Aralica, the plot of the film deals with the Bleiburg massacre. It was the first film to deal with the subject, formerly a taboo topic under the Communist government. Četverored was aired on television only a week after its theatrical release in Zagreb, in what was characterised by part of the public as an electoral ploy to support the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which subsequently lost the 2000 elections. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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