Ivan, a young Croatian autonomist whose brother left the country due to political persecution, falls in love with Marina, the duaghter of a staunch communist police chief. Their forbidden whirlwind romance takes place against the backdrop of early 1980s Zagreb's everchanging sociopolitical background following the death of Yugoslavia's president Josip Broz Tito.
Acting
Ivo Gregurević carries the weight of a broken father.
Direction
Papić makes paranoia feel like humid summer air.
Director
Krsto Papić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1991 as Yugoslavia literally dissolved, this was Papić's final film before the war made such stories too dangerous to tell.
The 1971 student movement referenced was the Croatian Spring—Tito crushed it, but its ghost haunts every frame.
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