Croatian War of Independence in film

The Croatian War of Independence has been the subject of a number of feature films and documentaries. Those include:

• Dezerter ("The Deserter"), 1992 Serbian film that covers the Battle of Vukovar^[1]
• Kaži zašto me ostavi ("Why Have You Left Me?"), 1993 Serbian film that covers the Battle of Vukovar^[1]
• Vukovar, jedna priča ("Vukovar: A Story"), 1994 Serbian film^[2]
• Vukovar se vraća kući ("Vukovar: The Way Home"), 1994 Croatian film^[3]
• The Death of Yugoslavia, a 1995 BBC documentary that covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia
• How the War Started on My Island, a 1996 black comedy by Vinko Brešan
• The ER TV series character Dr. Luka Kovač, played by Goran Višnjić, first appeared on the series in 1999. The character lost his wife and children in the war. They were killed when an artillery shell hit their house^{[4][non-primary source needed]}
• Il carniere ("The Game Bag"), 1997 Italian film^[5]
• Madonna (Croatian: Bogorodica) - 1999 Croatian film
• Harrison's Flowers, a 2000 movie by Élie Chouraqui about a war reporter in 1991^[6][7]
• Oluja nad Krajinom ("Storm over Krajina"), a 2001 Croatian documentary that covers Operation Storm^[8][9]
• Witnesses - 2003 Croatian drama
• Glave dole ruke na leđa ("Heads down hands on your back"), a 2003 B92 documentary which deals with the prison camps in Serbia^[10][11][12]
• Hrvatska ljubavi moja ("Croatia my love"), a 2006 documentary by Jakov Sedlar that covers the relationship of postwar Croatia and the ICTY^{[13][non-primary source needed]}
• The Unit, a 2006 B92 documentary about "Red Berets", a Serb paramilitary unit^{[14][non-primary source needed]}
• Vukovar – Final Cut, a 2006 B92 documentary about the Battle of Vukovar,^[15] won the Human Rights Award at the 2006 Sarajevo Film Festival^[16]
• War for Peace, a 2007 Montenegrin documentary about the siege of Dubrovnik^{[17][non-primary source needed]}
• Zapamtite Vukovar ("Remember Vukovar"), 2008 Croatian film directed by Fadil Hadžić, shown at the 2008 Pula Film Festival^[18]
• Zaustavljeni glas ("The stopped voice"), a 2010 Croatian documentary that covers the Battle of Vukovar and the death of Siniša Glavašević^[19][20]
• Korak po korak ("Step by step"), a 2011 Croatian movie, shown at the 58th Pula Film Festival^[21]
• Rat za Dubrovnik ("War for Dubrovnik"), a 2011 Montenegrin documentary on the siege of Dubrovnik^[22]
• Osijek – nepokoreni grad ("Osijek – the undefeated city"), a 2012 Croatian documentary covering wartime events in Osijek in the period of 27 June 1991 – 15 January 1992^[23]
• Rosinjača - a 2011 Croatian documentary covering a battle fought in the Rosinjača Forest near Osijek on 5 December 1991^[24]
• Šlep za rasute terete ("Bulk Cargo Barge") - a 2012 Croatian documentary on evacuation of civilians from Dalj, Erdut and Aljmaš, following 1 August 1991 Dalj massacre^[25]
• Number 55 - 2014 feature on ambush of a Croatian patrol in the village of Kusonje in September 1991^[26]
• Godina Oluje ("The Year of The Storm") - 2015 HRT's four part documentary series covering diplomatic, political and military aspects of late stages of the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina^[27]
• Deblokada Dubrovnika (Lifting the Siege of Dubrovnik) - is 2017 two part HRT's documentary film covering Croatian Army's efforts in Operation Tiger in 1992^[28]
• Maslenica - 2018 two part HRT's documentary covering Operation Maslenica^[29]
• The General - 2019 biography/war drama by Antun Vrdoljak about life of general Ante Gotovina. In 2019 The General was the most expensive Croatian movie ever made^[30]
• Nestali - 2019 HRT four part miniseries following group of Croatian soldiers stranded behind enemy lines ten days before Operation Storm^[31]
• Šesti autobus ("The Sixth Bus") - 2022 Croatian film about a young American journalist who interviews veterans of Battle of Vukovar in search of her father who went missing during the battle^[32]

References

1. Daković 2010, p. 471.
2. Goulding 2002, p. 189.
3. Iordanova 2001, p. 142.
4. ER (Television series). NBC, ANEM. 1994–2009.
5. Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002.
6. Élie Chouraqui (producer & director) (2000). Harrison's Flowers. StudioCanal, France 2, Canal+.
7. Sloan 2007, p. 268.
8. Božidar Knežević (director) (2001). Oluja nad Krajinom [A Storm above Krajina] (Documentary) (in Croatian). Factum. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
9. "Oluja nad Krajinom". zagrebdox.net (in Croatian). ZagrebDox. 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
10. Danica Vučenić (author) (2003). Glave dole ruke na leđa [Heads Down, Hands on the Back] (Documentary) (in Serbian). B92, ANEM. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
11. "Istraga o logorima kod Zrenjanina". Politika (in Serbian). 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
12. "Prvi put prikazan film o zločinima nad Hrvatima". Novi list (in Croatian). 2003-10-29. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
13. Jakov Sedlar (director) (2006). Hrvatska ljubavi moja [Croatia, my Love] (Documentary) (in Croatian). Spot Studio. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
14. Filip Švarm (producer), Veran Matić (producer) (2006). The Unit (Documentary) (in Serbian). B92, Vreme. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
15. Janko Baljak (director) (2006). Vukovar – Final Cut (Documentary) (in Croatian and Serbian). B92. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
16. B92, 27 August 2006
17. Srđa Pavlović. "Reckoning: The 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik and the Consequences of the "War for Peace"". Retrieved February 2, 2011.
18. Polimac, Nenad (2008-07-24). "'Zapamtite Vukovar' kao bolji partizanski film". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
19. Višnja Starešina (director) (2010). Zaustavljeni glas [Suspended voice] (Documentary) (in Croatian). Interfilm. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
20. "Na Ovčari su ubijeni i Srbi, ali i francuski i njemački dobrovoljci". Večernji list (in Croatian). 2010-11-18. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
21. Polimac, Nenad (22 July 2011). "'Korak po korak' Biljane Čakić Veselič: Film za one koji još nisu zaboravili rat" ["Step by Step" by Biljana Čakić Veselič: Movie for those who have not forgotten the war yet]. Jutarnji list (in Croatian).
22. Bijelić, Gabrijela (10 March 2011). [A fair testimony from a Montenegrin side]. Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
23. Dražen Bađun (6 October 2012). "Sutra premijera filma "Osijek - nepokoreni grad"" ["Osijek - the undefeated city" film premieres tomorrow]. Glas Slavonije (in Croatian).
24. Željka Rački-Kristić (4 December 2011). "Zaboravu oteti heroji iz šume Rosinjača" [Heroes of the Rosinjača Forest Saved from Oblivion]. Večernji list (in Croatian).
25. "Dokumentarac o egzodusu Hrvata iz Dalja, Aljmaša i Erduta" [Documentary on Exodus of Croats from Dalj, Aljmaš and Erdut]. Glas Slavonije (in Croatian). 3 August 2012.
26. Kreutz, Andrej (5 August 2014). "Otkrivamo tko su bili hrvatski heroji o kojima je snimljen film" [We Discover Croatian Heroes About whom the Film was Made]. 24sata (Croatia) (in Croatian).
27. Komunikacije, Neomedia. ""Godina Oluje" bez Gotovine: Autori dokumentarca unatoč žarkoj želji nisu dobili generala / Novi list". www.novilist.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
28. "U povodu 25. obljetnice oslobađanja južne Hrvatske na HRT-u dokumentarni film Deblokada Dubrovnika". Dubrovnik Portal (in Croatian). 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
29. "Na HRT-u dokumentarni film Maslenica u povodu 25. obljetnice vojno-redarstvene operacije". Hrvatska radiotelevizija. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
30. "Pogledali smo najskuplji hrvatski film svih vremena: u priči o Gotovininom životu dominiraju dijalozi na granici latinoameričke sapunice, puno je drame, a malo pravoga čovjeka". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
31. "Publika voli 'Nestale', potvrđuju to i podaci o gledanosti". www.vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
32. "Superteška ratna drama 'Šesti autobus': Najambiciozniji film o padu Vukovara". tportal.hr. Retrieved 2022-12-03.

Sources

• Daković, Nevena (2010). "Remembrances of the Past and the Present". In Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (eds.). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-3458-2.
• Goulding, Daniel (2002). Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945–2001. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21582-6.
• Iordanova, Dina (2001). Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-848-5.
• Sloan, Joan (2007). Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films About Women. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5738-4.
• ""Vukovar – poslednji rez" osvojio nagradu u Sarajevu" ["Vukovar – Final Cut" wins award in Sarajevo] (in Serbian). Belgrade, Serbia: B92. 27 August 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2011.