Watch Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) Free Online

Release Date: 1996

Cast: Milorad Mandić, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Bata Živojinović, Dragan Maksimović, Srđan Dragojević, Dragan Petrovic, Lisa Moncure, Zoran Cvijanović, Nikola Kojo, Nikola Pejaković

Categories: Movies, Anti-war, World cinema, Comedy, Political satire, War film, Black comedy, Anti-war film, Political drama

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе (Lepa sela lepo gore), literally translated as "Beautiful villages burn beautifully") is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema. Almost 800,000 people went to see the movie in cinemas across Serbia. This equates to approximately 8% of the total country's population at the time of the film's release. The plot, inspired by real life events that took place in the opening stages of... MORE

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе (Lepa sela lepo gore), literally translated as "Beautiful villages burn beautifully") is a 1996 Yugoslavian film directed by Srđan Dragojević that gave uniquely bleak yet darkly humorous account of the Bosnian War. It is considered a modern classic of Serbian cinema. Almost 800,000 people went to see the movie in cinemas across Serbia. This equates to approximately 8% of the total country's population at the time of the film's release. The plot, inspired by real life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, tells a story about small group of Serbian soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force. The film's screenplay is based on an article written by Vanja Bulić for Duga magazine about the actual event. Through flashbacks that describe the pre-war lives of each trapped soldier, the film describes life in former Yugoslavia and tries to give a view as to why former neighbours and friends turned on each other. Following the success of the movie, Bulić wrote a novel named Tunel that's essentially an expanded version of his magazine article. The movie's main protagonist is Milan (Dragan Bjelogrlić), a LESS