Overview
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
Director and cast
- Eduard Galić Director
- Rade Šerbedžija as Krešimir Horvat
- Milena Dravić as Marijana Margetić
- Mira Furlan as Eva Horvatek
- Fabijan Šovagović as Lazar Margetić 'Lazo'
- Zvonko Lepetić as Pantelija Crnković
- Mustafa Nadarević as Vinko Benčina
- Edo Peročević as Jakob Lukač
- Zvonimir Ferenčić as Grgo Tomerlin
- Božidar Smiljanić as Juraj Ratković
- Duško Valentić as Lojzek
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