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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Well, there was another great Croatian movie with a similar topic that is by far better - it is "Sokol ga nije volio" by Fabijan Sovagovic. In that movie, characters are much deeper, more developed and much more convincing. This movie ("Duga mracna noc") is also problematic from historical point of view, and, of course yes, is highly influenced by "state" propaganda, never mind that the plot is placed 60-70 years ago. During WWII Croatia was NOT occupied by Nazi-Germans, it was Nazi ally and with their own Nazi Ustasha regime there was no need (or no place actually) for punishment of Croatian villagers (burning scene) by German soldiers, they had their own to do such things and the victims were Serbian villages. Serbs were the vast majority of partisan forces during the war. There is also one illogical thing about insignia - partisans wore red star as non-national, international and ideological sign. Here, partisans of German nationality wore German flag with red star? Second part of movie (after the war) is better, but still soft and underdeveloped. All in all, if you want to lose 3 hours of your life to see how thing didn't take place actually, be my guest.

This is the best Croatian movie I've ever seen. It not only shows the beginning of the second world war and how people change over this event, but goes on afterwords without letting you think that now the war is over everything is fine. It tells the touching story of a guy who tries to live as straight forward as his father did teach him. He has his opinion and he lives according to his morals, in spite of everything that's happening around him. That's how he gets stuck between a Jewish and an Ustasha (Croatian fascist) friend... This movie deals critically with the Croatian past and asks a lot of questions which aren't as easy to answer as one should think. Some people who lived through that time period and thought it so much better than today should watch this movie and ask themselves if they ever noticed that this was also happening, and if this regime was really as good as they think.

Contrary to one of the previous comments, this movie hasn't got anything to do with propaganda. Its main character Iva (Goran Visnjic) is an apolitical moralist who has problems with followers of all tyrannic ideologies that have influenced his country short time before, during, and short time after the Second World War: Partisans, Ustase, Nazis and Communists, and likes none of them. More modern political issues weren't touched by this movie at all, and therefore it can't have anything to do with propaganda. It shows certain kinds of terrible things that happened to ordinary people in every war in history from a perfectly human and apolitical perspective. It doesn't incite either national, ideological, or religious hate. In my opinion, this is one of the best movies ever made in Croatia. Even though Croatia makes quite a small amount of movies per year, and even though most of them aren't very good, I believe this movie can without second thoughts be said to be better than any average movie filmed in, say, Hollywood.As I said, this movie is an anti-war movie about the madness and awfulness of hate, murder, and sorrow bred by the war and their influence on lives of ordinary people. Iva has a normal, happy life until the Nazi regime takes over the government of Croatia. He saves the life of his Jewish friend, and he is forced to join the Partisans (the first antifascist movement on the European soil) because Gestapo is after him. The former Partisans come to power after the War and set Communism as the country's ideology. New government's politics are causing misfortune to the common people, and Iva frequently has to use his influence as a former Partisan colonel to save his friends from the regime. When he, during a family dinner, calls Yugoslav president Tito 'A selfish egocentric and a world-class snob', his brother-in-law, an officer of the secret police, has him imprisoned as a political prisoner. This leads to a whole series of unfortunate events, including the suicide of his wife, and Iva spending four years in Yugoslavia's most notorious prison. After the film's merry beginning, and its depressing main part, comes an ending filled with optimism. Many more things happen between the events I've mentioned; the movie is almost three hours long. It's well directed, and is possibly one of the most modernly made Croatian movies. I'd sincerely recommend to anyone, even if they are not from ex-Yugoslavia, because I think it's, objectively speaking, a good movie.

Great director. Antun Vrdoljak showed to us that not only he can make a spectacular, also that he can present the true horror in Croatia. Good plot, good actors (G.Visnjic and G.Navojec were great!) But I wanted something else. I don't know what, but I expected more(I don't say the film wasn't bad, in fact, it was excellent), but I just thought it will show something else. Because the story is going to fast, you can't know what will happen in the next moment, and things are happening in every moment. But I liked the film, enjoyed the series, loved the plot, the actors, the director.... Looking it in a perspective way, this film was a true story about the horrible things that happened in Croatia). So, if you're interested in watching this film, I truly recommended it!