How the War Started on My Island

Name: How the War Started on My Island
Director: Vinko Brešan
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: 1997-08-31

Film19971h 37mReleased

ComedyWar

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Director: Vinko Brešan
Language: Croatian
Released: 1997-08-31
Runtime: 1h 37m

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The story

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.