A hidden gem of Yugoslav and Croatian cinema. A masterpiece melodrama and a love story about two handicapped people, both victims of WWII. Directed by Branko Bauer.

Plot:
Shortly after the WWII, an one-legged chief engineer at the construction of hydroelectric power plant, and a war veteran, meets a blind girl in a mountain sanatorium of Ophthalmology, during winter. She’s waiting for a surgery that can restore her eyesight. Soon, the two fall in love with each other, but he feels unpleasant because of his handicap she’s not yet aware of…

The movie was selected to be shown in the official program of the Venice film festival. Filmed in the idyllic landscape, with sophisticated script, careful framing…

“Only people” is a film that stands apart with its aesthetic, from other Yugoslav films of that period, and if the actors wouldn’t speak Croatian language, it could easily be mistaken for a classical Hollywood achievement of 1950-ies.

Samo ljudi.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 36mn
Size: 	828 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x528 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	Variable
BPP: 	0.118
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC

https://nitro.download/view/71B77FF50AED486/Samo_ljudi.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0975C656D497F4E/Samo_ljudi.en.srt

Language(s):Croatian
Subtitles:English

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