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Shot over 16 months with funds put up in largest part by over 58 state companies in Yugoslavia, the movie featured a combined battalion of 10,000 actual [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA) soldiers. Four villages and a fortress were especially constructed for the film, and subsequently destroyed. Countless tanks and armoured vehicles also had the same fate. |
Shot over 16 months with funds put up in largest part by over 58 state companies in Yugoslavia, the movie featured a combined battalion of 10,000 actual [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA) soldiers. Four villages and a fortress were especially constructed for the film, and subsequently destroyed. Countless tanks and armoured vehicles also had the same fate. |
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Additionally, an actual railway bridge over [[Neretva River]] in [[Jablanica]] was destroyed. Director Bulajić's justification for taking down an actual bridge rather than getting the shots in studio was that a destroyed bridge would later become a tourist attraction. The bridge was thus blown up, but because none of the footage was usable due to the billowing smoke that made it impossible to see anything, it was decided that the bridge should be repaired and destroyed again. However, the problem with the excessive smoke occurred even when the bridge was blown up for the second time. Finally, the scenes of the bridge being blown up that eventually ended up in the film were shot using a small scale table-size replica at a sound stage in [[Prague]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5gEqh-gLxE Robna kuća: Bitka na Neretvi]</ref> |
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| The Battle of Neretva | |
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| File:Battle Of Neretva Poster.jpg VHS cover | |
| Directed by | Veljko Bulajić |
| Written by | Stevan Bulajić Veljko Bulajić |
| Produced by | Anthony B. Unger Henry T. Weinstein Steve Previn |
| Starring | Sergei Bondarchuk Yul Brynner Anthony Dawson Milena Dravić |
| Cinematography | Tomislav Pinter |
| Edited by | Vojislav Bjenjas Roberto Perpignani |
| Music by | Bernard Herrmann Vladimir Kraus-Rajteric |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release dates |  October 7, 1969 February 25, 1971 |
Running time | 175 min. |
| Country | Yugoslavia |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian/English |
| Budget | $71,015,000 |
Battle of Neretva (Template:Lang-sh) is a 1969 Yugoslavian war film. The film was written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Battle of Neretva is the most expensive motion picture made in the SFR Yugoslavia.[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the year after Sergei Bondarchuk (playing the role of Martin in Neretva) won the honour for War and Peace. The English language version features a powerful score by American composer Bernard Herrmann.
One of the original posters for the English version of the movie was made by Pablo Picasso.
Production
Shot over 16 months with funds put up in largest part by over 58 state companies in Yugoslavia, the movie featured a combined battalion of 10,000 actual Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) soldiers. Four villages and a fortress were especially constructed for the film, and subsequently destroyed. Countless tanks and armoured vehicles also had the same fate.
Additionally, an actual railway bridge over Neretva River in Jablanica was destroyed. Director Bulajić's justification for taking down an actual bridge rather than getting the shots in studio was that a destroyed bridge would later become a tourist attraction. The bridge was thus blown up, but because none of the footage was usable due to the billowing smoke that made it impossible to see anything, it was decided that the bridge should be repaired and destroyed again. However, the problem with the excessive smoke occurred even when the bridge was blown up for the second time. Finally, the scenes of the bridge being blown up that eventually ended up in the film were shot using a small scale table-size replica at a sound stage in Prague.[2]
Main cast
- Kole Angelovski as Žika
- Stole Aranđelović as Šumadinac
- Sergei Bondarchuk as Martin
- Yul Brynner as Vlado
- Anthony Dawson as General Morelli
- Milena Dravić as Nada
- Boris Dvornik as Stipe
- Curt Jürgens as General Lorgins
- Sylva Koscina as Danica
- Hardy Krüger as Colonel Kranzer
- Franco Nero as Captain Michael Riva
- Howard Ross as Sgt. Mario
- Lojze Rozman as Ivan
- Ljubiša Samardžić as Novak
- Oleg Vidov as Nikola
- Orson Welles as Chetnik senator
- Bata Živojinović as Stole
See also
- List of Yugoslavian films
- List of most expensive non-English language films
- List of most expensive Yugoslav films
References
External links
- Bitka na Neretvi at IMDb
- The Battle of Neretva at AllMovie
- Razgovor s Veljkom Bulajićem Template:Hr icon
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