Very nice recreation of WWI settings, quite nice movie for Croatian cinema. Should be nice war drama, if it didn't have the "secret cause".
It would held way higher rank if its plot driver wasn't so predictable and Myth based. For those not knowing, "Jozef" Josif Broz Tito was fighting on WWI front as Austrohungarian soldier, was shot, was captured and from war camp became member of Communists in Russia during revolution. Therese are the facts. Movie diverts from them using a subtle practice of uniform-identity change in survival, with no prior knowledge such practices were highly forbidden during WWI and were able to check documents. Its kind of anticommunist "Holocaust denial" what was done in the movie, because it should profaund effect history and generations of people as fake, based on fake premises.
What is the goal? That we had a spy for a president? That he wasn't a Croat so Croatia doesn't have the most successful leader, because shunned Ustasha nationalism? Sad things. Croatia had most of independence until those days under Tito and has most developed of all of its time. I believe it also doesn't have a 1989 GDP in 2017. History isn't what one cherry picks.
It would held way higher rank if its plot driver wasn't so predictable and Myth based. For those not knowing, "Jozef" Josif Broz Tito was fighting on WWI front as Austrohungarian soldier, was shot, was captured and from war camp became member of Communists in Russia during revolution. Therese are the facts. Movie diverts from them using a subtle practice of uniform-identity change in survival, with no prior knowledge such practices were highly forbidden during WWI and were able to check documents. Its kind of anticommunist "Holocaust denial" what was done in the movie, because it should profaund effect history and generations of people as fake, based on fake premises.
What is the goal? That we had a spy for a president? That he wasn't a Croat so Croatia doesn't have the most successful leader, because shunned Ustasha nationalism? Sad things. Croatia had most of independence until those days under Tito and has most developed of all of its time. I believe it also doesn't have a 1989 GDP in 2017. History isn't what one cherry picks.