Karaula (2006)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Rajko Grlic

Writers:

Rajko Grlic (screenplay)
Ante Tomic (novel)

Release Date:

7 March 2008 (Poland)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Border | Slovenia | Pilgrimage | One Word Title | Medic

Awards:

11 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Toni Gojanovic	...	Sinisa
Sergej Trifunovic	...	Ljuba Paunovic
Emir Hadzihafizbegovic	...	Porucnik Safet Pasic
Verica Nedeska	...	Mirjana
Bogdan Diklic	...	Pukovnik Rade Orhideja
Miodrag Fisekovic	...	Gvozdenovic
Franjo Dijak	...	Budiscak
Petre Arsovski	...	Ilievski
Tadej Troha	...	Lanisnik
Zoran Ljutkov	...	Milco
Igor Bencina	...	Vladika
Selim Sendzul	...	Mica
Almedin Leleta	...	Hasan
Hrvoje Keckes	...	Miljenko
Halid Beslic	...	Pevac narodne muzike

Also Known As:

Karaula (Bosnia and Herzegovina: Croatian title) (Croatia) (Republic of Macedonia)
Karavla (Slovenia)
The Border Post (International: English title)

Runtime:

94 min | Turkey:87 min (TV version)

Country:

UK | Serbia and Montenegro | Croatia | Slovenia | Republic of Macedonia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hungary | Austria

Language:

Slovenian | Macedonian | Serbian | Croatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Filming Locations:

Bitola, Macedonia

Company:

Refresh Production

Masterpiece of Croatian filmography

I have seen the movie on it's preshowing in Cinestar Zagreb on Saturday 18th. The movie is in my opinion - the best Croatian movie in last 15 years. In one word - MASTERPIECE!!! You must see this brilliant comedy. All credits to Rajko and Ante, and also to Emir who's acting is superb !!!!

Story plot: At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war. These are the last days of the country called Yugoslavia. Yet no one knew at the time.

Daily routine of the army is disrupted by unusual circumstances. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Safet Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa Sircevic, who finds out, very discretely, that it's a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, Pasic declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba Paunovic makes an unconditional decision to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...

Speaking about not so distant past with no nostalgia and no hatred, Border Post is a comedy about people on the verge of tragedy.