12 kids, 1 prison, zero easy answers — Yugoslavia's most brutal coming-of-age gut-punch.
Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestA moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
Acting
Žarko Laušević's Šilja burns with wounded charisma.
Writing
Gordan Mihić's dialogue crackles with street poetry.
Direction
Bajić captures claustrophobia without a single escape.
Creators
Gordan Mihić, Darko Bajić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real abandoned juvenile facility in Serbia, using actual street kids as extras — the state tried to shut down production twice.
Žarko Laušević was 24 playing 17; his own troubled youth mirrored Šilja's so closely that crew members couldn't watch certain scenes.
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