Yugoslav partisans playing 4D chess while Nazis play checkers. Spy thriller with COMMUNIST drip.
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched partisan meetings that rival American noir
Acting
Pavle Vuisić's weary innkeeper steals every scene
Director
Nikola Tanhofer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Yugoslavia's Partisan film wave—state-funded cinema that turned resistance fighters into national mythology.
Director Tanhofer was a WWII partisan himself; Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović became Yugoslavia's biggest star playing similar roles for decades.
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