Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose.
Acting
Pleša and Tadić's wordless recognition scene — masterclass in restraint.
Direction
Rakonjac traps them in smoky claustrophobia, no escape.
Cinematography
Black-and-white shadows that remember everything.
Director
Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's brief cinematic golden age, when state-funded art could still interrogate national mythology.
Rakonjac cast actual WWII veterans in background roles; their real faces in the club scenes.
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