mali zeleni I live in a country that once was a part of Yugoslavia. And i lived through the war. Yes, the propaganda was the only thing that give this terrible war its drive. I read all reviews and no one even mentioned the one line, one dialogue in the film, to me, the most powerful dialogue in the whole film, cruelly revealing what was this war all about, why so many innocent lives were lost, so many families divided or destroyed, because in this war brother really was shooting at a brother. The dialogue goes: 1. Why did you burn my workshop? 2. Why did you kill my mother? 1. I burnt nobody's workshop! 2. Nor I killed anybody's mother?". The whole war was about this - propaganda. People doing horrible things to each other just because they were told that the others did or would do horrible things to them or their loved ones. I carry no hate in my heart, i have friends from all sides and know that people on all sides suffered. And I know what politics and propaganda are able to do. I live in Slovenia and I'm pure Slovenian... that means I have no roots in other republics of former Yugoslavia, yet I cried when the war started in Bosnia and that wasn't the only time I cried because of the war going on. The worst thing about this war were the accusations. All sides claimed that they were pure and that the others are animals doing all the atrocities, yet they were all the same. And that is the tragedy of Yugoslav war that is nicely shown in this film, especially in the end, when Milan wants to kill the Muslim soldier in the hospital. The hate in his eyes says it all.

bob_marli Don't let the low marks take you away from this masterpiece - look at stars assignment, and you will get the picture.If you expect black and white war movie, forget it. For me, this is by far most objective movie about civil war(s) in ex-Yugoslavia, better then Bosnian (good) "No man's land" and Macedonian (masterpiece) "Before the rain". At the beginning, you will see Serbs burning villages (that explain title of movie) and killing people, but, from middle to end, you will see completely same behavior done by Bosnian Muslims. Brilliance of this movie is because it shows you why this war was so bloody and why it is so hard to have peace and reconciliation after all. Every killing, every murder, has story behind, and movie gather them all. You have pure communist (Bata Zivojinovic) against his fellow officer, you have two best friends (Nikola Bjelogrlic - Bosnian Serb, Nikola Pejakovic - Bosnian Muslim) against each other, you have urban freaks, you have junkies, you have educated teacher, you have everything you need. Every one of them has his own reason to be there, but at the end, they all end completely empty, with only pure hate inside.I suppose that some things from movie will be hard to get if you are not from Balkan. For example, Index (that's name of the bend) song that Nikola Kojo sing using gun as mice, was one of the greatest classics in ex-Yu (and lyrics fit the scene perfectly: "And tonight, if she listen, let her hear the pain..."). Some sentences are very hard to translate. For example, in joke scene, when Zoran Cvijanovic (junkie) want to insult Bosnian Muslim soldiers, he tell them joke that begins with "Check this out: Blonde, I mean Fata the Blonde, come to party..." Fata is Muslim name, but is obvious that joke was first intended as joke abound blonde woman, but he upgraded it in the moment. Also, in one scene you can see Serbian skinheads that are kicking traffic table with "Zagreb" (Croatian capital) written on it. Two are holding the table, one is hitting it by the head, and they are all singing "We f*cked Tajci! We f*cked Tajci!" Tajci was ex-Yu singer from Croatia that represented country on Eurovision competition few years before war started. Also, most of the scenes are extremely dark and funny at the same time, but that's Serbian humor in general.Even without this small hints, movie still remain pure classic, to me comparable only with "Apocalypse now" and "Platoon" by its objectivity. It is very fast movie, easy to watch and hard to understand, as Balkan always was. I hope you will enjoy.

artisk111 I am a Croat from Karlovac,Cro. Now living in Denver.Who in the bloody months of October and November of 1991. fought and defended my home town, when the western world was still favoring Milosevic and JNA over the not yet recognized Croatia and at that time unrecognized Cro.Army (ME),known then as (HR.Garda).Honestly as someone who was physically there when it was the darkest and worst,I can now honestly say that only us few bastards punks,kloshars,drunks and rockers really defended my town from then Milosevic controlled JNA and Serb specialists.Not his majesty Tudman and HDZ as it was made believed.It was pure luck and guts from our side(more balls then brains)that I am still alive today to write this.Us couple of hundred half armed(HR.Garda)were no match for then 5.strongest YuArmada.For Christ's sake,we only had one single VBR(rocket launcher)which we would roll up and down the rail tracks while blowing it.To make it look as if we were more armed.All that happened before Bosnia even started and I think that Bosnia was a much dirtier war.In Croatia it was ugly,but simple. We were attacked from officially other country, we fought and sustained our independence. I'm sure there are those who might not like that fact, but it is a fact and it's coming directly from someone who felt all that on his own skin. Therefore like it,or not, but truth is truth. Where as Bosnia was really more a civil war and much more hateful. I believe this movie with some glitches(naturally)showed a very realistic picture of deep generational hate. That I believe was much more eminent between Serbs and Muslims, then it was between Serbs and Croats.Even although I am more for love then hate, I do not like hypocrisy.As it is shown in this movie,the deep hate is constantly present and there is sort of a strange spooky atmosphere constantly through the film. For some reason I felt a similar presence while watching "MAX" with J.Cousak about the early part of Hitler's life.I guess it was the sound of the wind or something in the background(Almost Satanic).Many people are comparing this film to Custuricas' films, especially "Underground".I think that this film is much more powerful and down to point without any B.S.As someone who has felt that true satanic silence of darkness not knowing of tomorrow. It is a very Balkan film,much more then Serb, Yugo,or Bosnian film. It shows the darkest elements of our mentalities and how much people can fall into manipulation of plain hate.

masterT "Lepa Sela lepo gore" is one of the best movies which describes war in Bosnia and mental condition of soldiers who appears in war.People lived in harmony in Yugoslavia from the end of World War II until 1991. when Yugoslavia started to falling apart. Country was multi ethnic (Serbs, Croatians, Muslims,...) and representatives of three major ethnics groups Milosevic, Tudjman and Izedbegovic thought that for Yugoslavia will be best to split in few republics. Milosevic didn't accept this solution and declare war to Croatians and Muslims cause of their "terror" on Serbs. War begin... people who was best friends until yesterday started to shooting on each other because of stupid reasons. This movie presents those people who wanted to take a part in Bosnian War. Serbians best actors are in this movie and they acted best.I can't describe you movie that much you have to look for yourself mad things that were going on in ex-Yugoslavia from 1992-1995. Very good and sad movie about war.