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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

★ 8.6115 min

1996 Serbian film

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе / Lepa sela lepo gore, literally "Pretty villages burn nicely") is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević with a screenplay based on a book written by Vanja Bulić.

Set during the Bosnian War, the film tells the story of Milan, part of a small group of Serb soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak force. Through flashbacks, the lives of the trapped soldiers in pre-war Yugoslavia are shown, particularly Milan and his Bosniak best friend Halil becoming enemies after having to pick opposing sides in the conflict.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Pretty Village, Pretty Flame about?
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) — At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, have grown up together near a deserted tunnel linking the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Zagreb.
Is Pretty Village, Pretty Flame based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Pretty Village, Pretty Flame scary?
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