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No Man's Land Danis Tanovic The bleak absurdity of the Bosnian-Serbian conflict and the outside world's impotent response to it is unforgettably portrayed in this dark satire. Three soldiers - two Bosnians and one Serb - end up trapped in the trenches that serve as a dividing line between armies. One soldier, originally left for dead, is used as a booby trap on a landmine, leading to an unexpected dilemma without an apparent resolution. An Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film. "...often harrowing to watch, but it can also be shockingly entertaining as it deftly mixes macabre humor, pathos, and horror" (Stephen Farber, Movieline). In Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, French, and English, with English subtitles; Bosnia/Belgium/France/Italy/Slovenia/Great Britain, 2001, 98 mins. DVD $37.95
Atomic War Bride/This Is Not a Test Veljko Bulajic/Frederic Gadette A nuclear nightmare double feature. Atomic War Bride (Veljko Bulajic, Yugoslavia, 1960, 74 mins.): This Cold War curiosity follows a couple whose plans for marriage are greatly inconvenienced by an impending nuclear war. Darkly satirical, the film takes some surprisingly strong (for a production made behind the Iron Curtain) jabs at the ineptitude of government and military authorities. Dubbed in English. This Is Not a Test (Frederic Gadette, USA, 1962, 71 mins.): Strong social science fiction on a shoestring budget. A state trooper stops people along a highway after hearing news of an impending nuclear attack. "A must for all doomsday completists" (Jerry Renshaw, Austin Chronicle). The DVD includes '60s fallout shelter TV spots and six atomic era short subjects: You Can Beat the A-Bomb (1950), Survival Under Atomic Attack (1951), Duck and Cover (1951), Technicolor Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation (1950), One World or None, and Atomic Blonde in Action. Yugoslavia/USA, 1960/1962, 145 mins. DVD $44.95
Charuga Rajko Grlic The spectacular, true story of a Croatian 1920s Robin Hood, a fanatic ex-soldier and Bolshevik who tried to bring the Revolution to Yugoslavia. A visually complex, engrossing, sensual and unsettling action-adventure movie which is also a serious political drama, Charuga began by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. But as with many self-styled revolutionaries, he soon robs from everyone and keeps it all for himself. Croatian with English subtitles; Croatia 1991 108 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Day That Shook the World (Sarajevsky atentat) Veljko Bulajic The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife was an event so monstrous it set the world on fire, igniting the start of World War I. With Christopher Plummer and Maximilian Schell. In English. Yugoslavia, 1975, 111 mins. Videocassette $37.95
Hey Babu Riba Jovan Acin "A magic that is special to movies alone. The greatest pleasure in the world is to walk into a movie you never heard of, by a director you never heard of, and then be overwhelmed by beauty and memory and longing," wrote The New York Post. The warm and witty portrait of a close-knit group of Belgrade teenagers in Yugoslavia of the 50's, the magic of Jovan Acin's film focuses on four close-knit friends, all in love with the same girl. A cinematic tribute to a lost time and place, Hey Babu Riba was the sleeper hit of the London, Miami, Seattle and San Francisco Film Festivals. DVD is letterboxed, closed-captioned, and includes optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles. Serbian with yellow English subtitles. Yugoslavia, 1987, 112 mins. DVD $44.95
The Master and Margaret (Il Maestro e Margherita) Aleksandar Petrovic Mikhail Bulgakov's literary masterpiece is given a sharp political treatment by Aleksandar Petrovic, an important filmmaker of '60s and '70s Yugoslavian cinema who has been neglected by contemporary film scholars. Ugo Tognazzi stars as a brilliant playwright who discovers one of his supporters is actually the Devil, only to be committed to an insane asylum when he tries to warn people. The film was clearly intended as a metaphor for the persecution of artists under communism, something that was not lost on government officials, who attacked the movie and later forced Petrovic to leave his job at the Belgrade Film Academy, virtually ending his directing career. Also starring Mimsy Farmer and Alain Cuny. Italian with English subtitles. Italy/Yugoslavia, 1972, 98 mins. Videocassette $44.95 DVD $44.95
Melody Haunts My Reverie (You Only Love Once) Rajko Grlic Voted as the third best Yugoslav film ever made, and an Official Selection at Cannes, this daring film is the story of an idealistic, young, partisan war hero who becomes a leader in the emerging socialist society of a small Croat village, and finds adjustment to the "new Yugoslavia" extremely difficult. He meets and falls in love with a middle-class ballerina, becomes involved with her bourgeois family and is eventually imprisoned. "A highly sensual romance…as passionate as it is politically catastrophic" (L.A. Times). Croatian with English subtitles; Yugoslavia, 1981, 103 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Srdjan Dragojevic Based on an incident that happened in the first winter of the war in Bosnia in 1992, Srdjan Dragojevic's provocative and disturbing movie "unleashes a powerful assault on the insanity of the war" (New York Times). Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, watch the inauguration of the new Brotherhood and Unity Tunnel in their neighborhood in 1980. Twelve years later, Halil and Milan are now on opposing sides, and Milan lies badly injured alongside wounded Serbs and Muslims in the same hospital as he recalls the events that brought him there. Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles; Yugoslavia, 1996, 125 mins. Videocassette $37.95 DVD $37.95
Tito and Me Goran Markovic A poignant comedy set in 1950's Belgrade. Zoran is the 10-year-old boy who adores Yugoslavia's leader Marshall Tito and Jasna, a 12-year-old orphan girl. When Jasna goes on a walking tour of Tito's homeland, Zoran follows with hilariously disastrous results. "A funny, beautifully acted family memoir...Tito and Me is the work of a sophisticated comic mind" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times). In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles; Yugoslavia, 1992, 104 mins. Videocassette $37.95 DVD $37.95
When I Close My Eyes Franci Slak Political intrigue meets romantic obsession in this enigmatic thriller. When the rural post office where Ana works is robbed by a young biker, she takes advantage of the confusion after the robbery to steal some money for herself. Despite the suspicions of the police regarding her complicity in the crime, she develops a bizarre attraction to the criminal and becomes increasingly focused on tracking him down, unwittingly delving into a deeper mystery involving her father's death during her childhood. "This tightly crafted, subtly suspenseful, and visually stunning thriller...is a must-see (Chicago Sun-Times). Slovenian with English subtitles. Slovenia, 1993, 99 mins. DVD $44.95
The Wounds Srdjan Dragojevic Simultaneously exhilarating and despairing, this dynamic feature from the director of Pretty Village, Pretty Flame follows two youths as they become more and more involved in the underworld in Belgrade. Eventually they are victimized by the culture of violence that they willingly embraced, but it doesn't stop their self-destructive ways or their emergence as unlikely TV stars. The film works as a powerful indictment of the senseless bloodshed in the former Yugoslavia and the media's acceptance of that bloodshed. Veteran actor Miki Manojlovic (Underground, Cabaret Balkan) lends a fine supporting performance to the film, while the newcomers in the lead roles convey the thrill-seeking spirit of their characters. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles; Serbia, 1998, 103 mins. DVD $44.95