movie poster for PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME

Flicks ID

8102

Cert

18

Running time

124 mins

Format

VHW

PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (1998)

SADJAN DRAGOJEVIC

Plot

Seen in flashback through the eyes of Serbian villager Milan as he lies badly crippled in a Yugoslav hospital ward, this film depicts the horrors of war, the mixed reasons for fighting, the soldiers' despair and their ghastly ways of coping. With a very dark sense of humour, soldiers dancing to "Yugoslavia's Rocking" while villages burn for example, this is a superbly scripted film.