Powerful

i must have seen a different film!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Lepa Sela Lepo Gore (1996) is probably the Serbian director's finest movie.Skilfully made story of the life and death of a few people in the few days of the civil war in Bosnia,and days (and years) that preceded it all. In the vein of classic Serbian black humour-filled dramas, and also tracking in the steps of the classic war (anti war) movies, this movie has it all really - good story (based on a true experience of one group of Serbian soldiers during the war) and a tight and slick photography and editing.An honest and entertaining war drama from start to finish, and ,as mentioned,this film nicely puts together feel of all the classic war films with almost QTs-early90s-films feel for this hard and thrilling ride into the hell of war. Good watch.8/10

When I saw this film I cried so much. Wounds of the war of the former Yugoslavia were still so strong in my heart. I remembered my childhood in Sarajevo, just as the principal actors remembered their childhood.I think plot is very interesting, but pulls a little bit too much on the Serbian side, which is natural, it is after all a Serbian film. Reality was a little bit different. But still this films describes war in the former Yugoslavia well. I liked the dialog, jokes and action.Acting is excellent, I feel sorry for the actors, for I understand that they were fed only by hamburgers during the entire shoot.All in all if you are interested in the former Yugoslavia and the most stupid war in the history of the humanity, this is a film for you.

Don't let the low marks take you away from this masterpiece - look at stars assignment, and you will get the picture.If you expect black and white war movie, forget it. For me, this is by far most objective movie about civil war(s) in ex-Yugoslavia, better then Bosnian (good) "No man's land" and Macedonian (masterpiece) "Before the rain". At the beginning, you will see Serbs burning villages (that explain title of movie) and killing people, but, from middle to end, you will see completely same behavior done by Bosnian Muslims. Brilliance of this movie is because it shows you why this war was so bloody and why it is so hard to have peace and reconciliation after all. Every killing, every murder, has story behind, and movie gather them all. You have pure communist (Bata Zivojinovic) against his fellow officer, you have two best friends (Nikola Bjelogrlic - Bosnian Serb, Nikola Pejakovic - Bosnian Muslim) against each other, you have urban freaks, you have junkies, you have educated teacher, you have everything you need. Every one of them has his own reason to be there, but at the end, they all end completely empty, with only pure hate inside.I suppose that some things from movie will be hard to get if you are not from Balkan. For example, Index (that's name of the bend) song that Nikola Kojo sing using gun as mice, was one of the greatest classics in ex-Yu (and lyrics fit the scene perfectly: "And tonight, if she listen, let her hear the pain..."). Some sentences are very hard to translate. For example, in joke scene, when Zoran Cvijanovic (junkie) want to insult Bosnian Muslim soldiers, he tell them joke that begins with "Check this out: Blonde, I mean Fata the Blonde, come to party..." Fata is Muslim name, but is obvious that joke was first intended as joke abound blonde woman, but he upgraded it in the moment. Also, in one scene you can see Serbian skinheads that are kicking traffic table with "Zagreb" (Croatian capital) written on it. Two are holding the table, one is hitting it by the head, and they are all singing "We f*cked Tajci! We f*cked Tajci!" Tajci was ex-Yu singer from Croatia that represented country on Eurovision competition few years before war started. Also, most of the scenes are extremely dark and funny at the same time, but that's Serbian humor in general.Even without this small hints, movie still remain pure classic, to me comparable only with "Apocalypse now" and "Platoon" by its objectivity. It is very fast movie, easy to watch and hard to understand, as Balkan always was. I hope you will enjoy.

One of the movies that really changes perspectives! It focuses on the cruelty of the war as it is and on the inner developments of the characters. We follow the lives and works of a group of Serbs in Bosnian Civil War, some of them natives, some from Serbia, with diverse backgrounds (from honest peasants to junkies and thieves). The characters are not labeled as good or bad but we see them doing bad things - killing and torching the villages. The other side, Bosniak Muslims, are viewed as no better or worse - same people from the same land with the same reasons in the war that brings forth the worst in men. The movie includes some of the best scenes I saw which explain the start of the war and human behavior in them. Yesterdays neighbors turn into fiends, some to protect their families other to make money pillaging... There are no winners, just losers. The only thing to object on would be that it is sometimes on the brink on becoming a bit too comical but comical in the way that "M.A.S.H." is comical on Korean War. All in all a must see for anyone searching for a movie that will shake his guts up.