An epic story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants (Southern Croatia) to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.

It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and won a special award “CIDALC”.
Was the winner of several international movie festivals.
The film was also selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards in 1959.

Plot:
Rooted in a farming culture and lifestyle, this drama by director Veljko Bulajic focuses on the interactions of a varied group of peasants as they are uprooted from their ancestral homes and packed off to new and better farming lands. Along the way, some travellers have time to enter into or continue a romantic liaison, while everyone responds in different ways to their migration…

Vlak bez voznog reda (1959) DVBRip.avi

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Language(s):Croatian
Subtitles:English

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Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.

Uzavreli.Grad.1961.1080p.HDTV.H264.AAC.Remaster-BD4YU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
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Language(s):Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:English

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In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.

1.88GB | 2h 02mn | 713×446 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/61B9705AB50AE69/Kozara_1962.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/6ED6E65BB81FFFE/Kozara_1962.part1.rar
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Language(s):Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:English,Slovenian

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The Day That Shook the World (Serbo-Croatian: Sarajevski atentat, lit. The Sarajevo Assassination) is a 1975 Czechoslovak-Yugoslav-German co-production film directed by Veljko Bulajić, starring Christopher Plummer and Florinda Bolkan. The film is about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914 and the immediate aftermath that led to the outbreak of World War I.

1.55GB | 1 h 51 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/70E4D5C5C66A547/The_Day_That_Shook_the_World.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/F9F82561057345F/The_Day_That_Shook_the_World.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/F7D05888EAD317A/The_Day_That_Shook_the_World.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:No

The post Veljko Bulajic – Atentat u Sarajevu AKA The Day That Shook the World (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 1943, Hitler orders the final destruction of the Yugoslav Partisans. The Partisans begin a trek northward to the relative safety of the Bosnian Mountains – their goal is to cross the treacherous Neretva gorge over one remaining bridge. Along the way, they battle German tanks, Italian infantry, Chetnik Cavalry, strafing airplanes, disease and natural elements.

Yugoslav director Bulajic is telling his story from all points of view, but his sympathies lie with the Partisans. The film has pro-Communist leanings, and tells several interwoven stories stressing the importance of comradeship in wartime. There are many important characters: Yul Brynner (“Morituri”) as crack demolition expert Vlado; Sergei Bondarchuk (director of “Waterloo”) as short-tempered artillery officer Martin; Franco Nero (“The Mercenary”) as an Italian Captain with no faith in Fascism; Hardy Kruger (“A Bridge too Far”) as Colonel Kranzer, who fights with dedication which begins to dwindle as he realizes the bitter reality that the partisans are a formidable enemy; Ljubisa Samardzic (“Battle of the Eagles”) and Sylva Koscina (“Hornets’ Nest”) are brother-and-sister, and Koscina is to marry Ivan (Lojze Rozman) after the war; the list goes on and on, and although every character is significant, it’s impossible to list them all. There’s an interesting twist, too: the legendary Orson Welles plays a Chetnik Senator who battles for concessions with General Lohring (the great Curd Jurgens), a commited Nazi officer who is determined the wipe out the Partisans once and for all.Surprisingly, Welles plays his role with boundless passion and gusto, and Jurgens departs from his usual role as an anti-Nazi realist German officer; here he is a cold-blooded Nazi officer – he may be his usually cool and restrained, yet occasionally explosive self – but he’s still a cold-blooded Nazi.

What’s important is that, unlike many epics such as “The Longest Day” and “Is Paris Burning?” every subplot is clear and crucial at all times, and Bulajic manages to keep every character engaging and recognizable at all times. Despite the scope of the battle scenes, the audience has a personal involvement with them because they feature characters we’ve come to care about.

These battle scenes are the real stars of the show. They involve thousands of extras, dozens of T-34, Tiger and Sherman tanks, German fighter planes, huge explosions and stunt horses which get blown in every direction. Bulajic uses wide shots quite often to show just how massive the combat zone is. Battles take place in green valleys, narrow streets and in the snow-covered mountains, and we can see just hazardous and realistic this scenery is. The Yugoslav landscape has never been so beautifully photographed, and the destruction amidst this beauty is quite sad and often depressing. The final scene, in which several of the main characters are killed (ironically enough, the battle takes place amidst an old cemetery) is epic in scope, with thousands of Chetnik horsemen being gunned down and shelled in a valley, but the personal sacrifice of the partisans is felt at the same time. Bernard Hermann’s score is appropriately thunderous at times and also has meaningful, mournful cues. (This music was written exclusively for the edited international versions; the original, equally fantastic Klaus Vladimir Ratjeric score retained on longer prints and used only to aid the dramatic scenes).

This is truly a great epic story, with strong character development interwoven with necessary spectacle. Even on home video in the United States, it’s a good movie, and simply improves with each longer cut. “The Battle of Neretva” is simply one of the great lost films of the 20th Century.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/4251ABD212416F4/Bitka.Na.Neretvi-DVDRip.XviD1.12-Mage.avi
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Language:Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles: English

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