"... Aleksandra's death closes the film in a manner much different from the one in which Slavica's death closes Slavica - there are no parades, no symbols of hope and new beginnings, only a sense of loss and sorrow. Aleksandra herself is a partizanka noticeably different from Slavica. She, for one, is a frail and fallible person who betrays the names of her comrades - a deed unthinkable in the context of Slavica, even if those betrayed were already dead. Nor could she stand for the cause the way Slavica did. She is an appealing, believable, complex character whose execution may leave the audiences deeply moved, but her victimhood is not of the kind that can symbolize the righteousness of the Partisan war or the justness of the regime; if anything, it can symbolize the opposite." quote from the book "women and yugoslav partisans", by Jelena Batinic.
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