Adapted by Josip Mlakic from his award-winning novel of the same name and directed by Kristijan Milic, The Living and the Dead (2007) tells the tale of two bands of soldiers who fight under exact same circumstances and in the same location, yet with half a century between them. Originally screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2007, Milic's film is now available to own on DVD.
The two stories are skillfully woven together, flashing back and forth over the same geographical locations - most importantly the haunting “Graveyard Field” - as we follow both a group of Hvo soldiers (Croatian Defence Council) in 1993 during the Bosnian War and their Domobran Partisan forebears who occupied Northern Bosnia fifty years prior.
The Living and the Dead is not a political piece that passes comment upon who was right or wrong during the depicted conflicts, instead choosing to focus upon the universal futility of war.
The two stories are skillfully woven together, flashing back and forth over the same geographical locations - most importantly the haunting “Graveyard Field” - as we follow both a group of Hvo soldiers (Croatian Defence Council) in 1993 during the Bosnian War and their Domobran Partisan forebears who occupied Northern Bosnia fifty years prior.
The Living and the Dead is not a political piece that passes comment upon who was right or wrong during the depicted conflicts, instead choosing to focus upon the universal futility of war.
- 2/22/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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