#Lepa sela lepo gore english subtitles movie The story is not presented in a chronological timeline and uses flashback to explain a little bit more each character. I do not have much knowledge or formed point of view to make any comment about this war, but this is another great movie, as sad as the other foregoing mentioned. I myself can not understand how best friend may become enemies due to ethnic and religions motives. Title (Brazil): `Bela Aldeia, Bela Chama' (`Pretty Village, Pretty Flame') I first saw Srdan Dragojevic PRETTY VILLAGE PRETTY FLAME just over ten years ago on channel 4 and instantly thought it was the best film to feature the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. This might be down to the fact that the Serbs are shown as being both perpetrators and victims of atrocity, something the Western press wasn't to keen on saying while the conflict was going on in the early 1990s. The media reporting was rather simplistic with the Bosniaks being totally victims and the Serbs being total bad guys so it's good seeing a film from the Serb perspective, especially one where the world isn't viewed in black and white The film is told through a fractured storyline and the story cuts backwards and forwards between the characters when they were children living in a Socialist Yugoslavia, then it cuts to the war itself when they're trapped in a tunnel then forward to a short time when the survivors are lying maimed in a hospital. It might sound complicated but the story is very easy to follow. SLUMDOG MILLIONIRE also had a fractured storyline but that was extremely complex structure, maybe too complex for its own good where as here everything is easy to follow You don't need to be well informed in Yugoslav history to appreciate the film fully but it does help, especially the terms for the warring factions. Croats are now known as " Krauts " and " Ustase " ( The Croation fascist movement set up by the Nazis during the war ), the Bosnian Muslims are now known as " Turks " while the Serbs consider themselves " Chetniks " Serbian nationalist from the second world war. Setting much of the story in a dilapidated tunnel built in the socialist era and " The Tunnel Of Brotherhood And Unity " is a metaphor for the failings of Yugoslavia falling apart.
The plot, inspired by real life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, tells a story about small group of Serbian soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force. This equates to approximately 8% of the total country's population at the time of the film's release. Almost 800,000 people went to see the movie in cinemas across Serbia. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Lepa sela lepo gore) is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srdan Dragojevic that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War.