At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.
Acting
Trifunović's deadpan despair deserves a shrine.
Direction
Grlić makes 1987 feel like a ghost already haunting itself.
Writing
Dialogue so mundane it becomes terrifying.
Director
Rajko Grlić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grlić shot on location at actual decommissioned Yugoslav border posts; the rust is documentary.
Released in 2006, the film was initially banned in Serbia for 'anti-army sentiment'—as if the army had anything left to defend.
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