A 70-minute interrogation that'll make you sweat more than the prisoner.
In 1878, during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the commander of the gendarmerie station in Sokolac was given the task of suppressing the Hajduk movement in that area. The commander asks the arrested and wounded hajduk leader to hand over his comrades.
Acting
Drach's commander: charm as weapon, politeness as torture.
Writing
Every line doubles as threat — Yugoslavia's answer to The Deputy.
Director
Joakim Marušić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Hajduk resistance myth is sacred in Balkan culture — this film dares to interrogate what that silence actually cost individuals.
Director Marušić was blacklisted shortly after; this TV production was one of his last works before effective exile.
YU
