Guard Along the Drina
Genres
Overview
A compilation of week journals made for Nazi-puppet regime in Croatia during WW II which show the warfare of Ustasha forces against Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks in eastern Bosnia.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
26 min
Release Date
1942-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Croatian
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
1
0.0
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1990-02-22 | sh
6.2
The Concert
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1954-05-04 | sh
5.8
Anno Domini 1573
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1975-11-14 | sh
6.8
The Pine Tree in the Mountain
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1971-09-15 | sh
6.4
Long Dark Night
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2004-03-07 | hr
6.3
How the War Started on My Island
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
1997-08-31 | hr
0.0
Dubrovnik Twilight
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1999-01-01 | hr
7.3
In Four Rows
The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
1999-12-07 | hr
5.0
Time for...
Maria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that is attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. They manage to escape and hide in a nearby town, where Maria takes a job at the laundry and Darko joins the Croatian Defenders, leading to tragedy.
1993-01-01 | hr
7.5
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2020-11-25 | sr
10.0
Tudjman
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1997-12-31 | en
0.0
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2004-10-05 | en
0.0
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1994-01-01 | hr
7.5
Depth Charge
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5.0
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WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
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7.0
Dum spiro spero
Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, documents his death from his own point of view. Recording his everyday struggle, the picture resembles a peculiar blog filled with self-irony and witty comments about life and death. Although the world around continues to shrink, the hero and the director in one does not cease to fill it with sense.
2017-05-29 | hr
0.0
Toronto Croatia – One Big Croatian Story...
A documentary about Croatian immigrants' soccer clubs, especially the Croatia Toronto soccer club, and their significance to the Croatian diaspora as well as Croatia itself.
2014-01-17 | hr
6.7
Gangster of Love
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2013-02-01 | hr
10.0
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7.0
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