A child soldier's bullet haunts the man who saved her — war's trauma in 90 brutal minutes.
A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.
Acting
Kukhianidze's feral stillness; Irons crumbling with restraint
Direction
Mimica's elliptical structure mirrors traumatic memory
Cinematography
Bleached Croatian landscapes as psychological terrain
Director
Nina Mimica
Jeremy Irons
Col. De Petris
Nutsa Kukhianidze
Mathilde
Dejan Aćimović
Croat Corporal
Radko Polič
Unemployed Major
Ksenija Marinković
Croat Captain
Sinéad Cusack
Wife of Col. De Petris
Lea Karen Gramsdorff
Bella
Richard Harrington
Babyface
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Journalist
Svetozar Cvetković
Paragic
Miodrag Stojanović
Fisherman
Finbar Lynch
The Major
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mimica, a former journalist, interviewed real UN peacekeepers and child survivors of Balkan conflicts; the film's fractured timeline mirrors how trauma actually encodes in memory, not linearly.
Nutsa Kukhianidze spoke no English during filming — all her scenes with Irons were performed through translators on set, creating the genuine communication barrier that fuels their on-screen disconnection.
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