Russian roulette with fascists—surgeon's night out goes very wrong.
The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.
Acting
Ristovski's eyes do the work dialogue refuses to.
Direction
Cenevski makes the bar feel like a tightening noose.
Editing
Each roulette spin held just long enough to torture.
Director
Kiril Cenevski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yugoslavia's final decade, the film's Bulgarian-German collaboration mirrors then-fracturing federal tensions.
Cenevski insisted on shooting in Skopje's actual wartime bars; locals who remembered 1943 reportedly walked off set.
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