Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

Лепа села лепо горе

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Date of release
1996-05-11
TMDB
7.9 / 10 (115)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Srđan Dragojević

Casting

Interesting facts

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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević with a screenplay based on a book written by Vanja Bulić.

Production

The funds for the movie were raised through Cobra Film Department, a legal entity that was registered as a limited liability company by Nikola Kojo, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Goran Bjelogrlić, and Milko Josifov. Most of the money came from the Serbian government's (under prime minister Mirko Marjanović) Ministry of Culture (headed by cabinet minister Nada Perišić-Popović) as well as from the Serbian state television RTS.

The shooting of the film under the working title Tunel began on 19 April 1995. The majority of the scenes were shot on locations in and around Višegrad, Republika Srpska (Serb inhabited entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, still governed by Radovan Karadžić) at the time, often in places that were former battlefields.

According to Dragojević, the movie's title is paraphrased from a passage describing burning villages in the distance in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's 1932 novel Voyage au bout de la nuit, a literary work that had a strong impact on Dragojević when he read it in his early youth.

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