Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
Acting
Dvornik's simmering rage barely contained.
Cinematography
Croatian landscapes as silent witness.
Direction
Vrdoljak's patient, unglamorous combat.
Director
Antun Vrdoljak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Yugoslavia's 'Partisan film' wave, but unusually skeptical—made during Tito's loosening grip when questioning party orthodoxy became briefly possible.
Boris Dvornik was Croatia's biggest star; this role nearly typecast him as brooding warriors, though comedy was his true love.
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