How the War Started on My Island

Aug 31, 1997

1h 37m

★ 6.2

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

War

Production Companies

Hrvatska Radiotelevizija

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Cast

Blaž Gajski

Vlatko Dulić

Roko Papak

Ivan Brkić

Boris Bašić

Božidar Orešković

Lucija Milosavljević

Matija Prskalo

Martin

Goran Navojec

Major Aleksa Milosavljević

Ljubomir Kerekeš

Pjesnik

Ivica Vidović

Spomenka

Senka Bulić

Baba

Etta Bortolazzi

Ridikul

Slobodan Milovanović

Zoran Gajski

Leon Lučev

Vojnik Albanac

Rene Bitorajac

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