Long Live Freedom

Oct 28, 1987

1h 33m

★ 5.0

Overview

Old man Repovz recalls experiences of the WWII in an entertaining, comic way rather than tragic. A man breaks his arm to avoid being drafted; the other man shoots fire to scare enemy soldiers; love stories, as well as troubles with forced collectivization took place there. A partisan hero finds out that he lost her fiancee, but somewhat cheers up when his white horse comes back to him...

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Viba film

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Cast

Repovž

Boris Juh

Jumbo

Zvone Hribar

Majda

Maja Sever

Tone

Pavle Ravnohrib

Parni Jan

Brane Gruber

Stari Parni

Brane Ivanc

Sovinc

Dare Valič

Sadar

Anton Petje

Kolbezen

Zlatko Šugman

Vogaršek

Danilo Benedičič

Marjana

Judita Zidar

Komandant

Ljubiša Samardžić

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