A family tries to stay human while everything around them collapses.
The 1990s were the most turbulent period after World War II in the region, and caused many dramatic situations. Cities were destroyed, blood everywhere, people were dying. Coma is an intimate story about a family in that period.
Acting
Slavko Štimac carries the weight of a nation.
Direction
Jakonić finds poetry in rubble and silence.
Director
Petar Jakonić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set during the Yugoslav Wars, the film deliberately avoids naming sides—it's about civilians, not politics.
The hospital setting mirrors the larger collapse: once a place of healing, now overwhelmed by wounds it cannot treat.
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