Season 12 • Episode 12
LatestA powerful lyrical story about the sergeant of the former Yugoslav Army Zika Kurjak, from childhood in miners' home, through military days, to severe depression, imprisonment and the metropolitan madness. Kurjak, the personification of human kindness, who is impaired and disturbed, as an old and ornate in the hospital, speaks in detail about his life. Through this searing story of sergeant Zika Kurjak and his life, some of the crucial historical circumstances of the 20th century are being blunted, as well as the fate of the heroic Serbian army, which becomes part of the new system after unification, and which the system is gently destroying leaving individuals individually fighting for it and prevent inevitable decay.
Acting
Predrag Manojlović's haunted hospital monologues.
Writing
Personal memory as unreliable history lesson.
Creator
Dejan Zečević
Aleksandar Berček
Major Čiča Miljković
Miloš Timotijević
Poručnik Zdravko Zec
Nebojša Milovanović
Kapetan Perkić
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Stari Žika Kurjak
Miodrag Dragičević
Živojin Stanimirović 'Žika Kurjak'
Miodrag Radonjić
Stevica Todorović
Sloboda Mićalović
Sofija
Goran Radaković
Stevča
Dara Džokić
Dafina
Dragan Bjelogrlić
Major Softić
Danica Ristovski
Milena
Marko Baćović
Kapetan Dr Blagojević
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to 'čizme,' military boots—symbolizing both the army that built Yugoslavia and the foot soldiers discarded by its collapse.
Dejan Zečević uses the 12-episode structure to mirror the 12 years of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution, with each episode mapping roughly to a year of historical trauma.
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