Réalisation:
Veljko BulajicPhotographie:
Aleksandar SekulovicMusique:
Vladimir Kraus-RajtericActeurs·trices:
Milena Dravic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Rade Markovic, Branko Lustig, Branko Špoljar, Tamara Miletic, Dragomir Felba (plus)Résumés(1)
Croatian-Montenegrin Veljko Bulajić is the closest Yugoslavian cinema ever came to a court director, even though his diverse body of work is not in fact exclusively composed of state-sanctioned propaganda, and feels more affiliated to the critical intelligentsia behind the Yugoslavian New Wave of the 1960s today. Kozara, his pioneering fourth feature, represents a complex and precise blueprint for the newly established genre of the official partisan epic spectacle that Bulajić would perfect seven years later with Bitka na Neretvi. Kozara claims to be an accurate depiction of the notorious and bloody Kozara offensive that pitted almost 40,000 well-armed soldiers of the Third Reich (Germans, Ustashe, Chetniks) against only 3,000 partisans, who were trapped on the mountain of Kozara along with some 60,000 local civilians whose villages had been razed to the ground by the Axis powers. The partisans need to break through the siege, while at the same time care for the refugees who seek their protection. Bulajić does a spectacular job in directing the movements of the masses – people, animals, and the machines of death –, and while the main protagonists of the film are clearly the suffering nation and the concept of martyrdom, he nevertheless manages to outline several individual characters and fates. The brave and fatal gesture of superstar Milena Dravić (“I am a communist”) is the Yugoslavian equivalent of the “I am Spartacus” moment, and Kozara definitely deserved the Golden Arena for best film of 1962. (Viennale)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Milena Dravic
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Baril de poudre (1998)
Devojka (1965)
L'Homme n'est pas un oiseau (1965)
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Život je lep (1985)
Čudo neviđeno (1984)
Joli village, jolie flamme (1996)
Ljubisa Samardzic
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Život je lep (1985)
L'Ange gardien (1987)
Boško Buha (1978)
Rade Markovic
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Petrijin venac (1980)
Les Lunettes d'or (1987)
Kradetzat na praskovi (1964)
Branko Lustig
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
La Liste de Schindler (1993)
Kozara (1962)
Le Pacificateur (1997)
Branko Špoljar
Autriche-Hongrie
Meilleurs films :
Le Trésor du lac d'argent (1962)
La Révolte des indiens apaches (1963)
Kozara (1962)
Tamara Miletic
Meilleurs films :
Kozara (1962)
Dragomir Felba
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Winnetou - 3. Teil (1965)
Le Temps des miracles (1989)
Kapò (1959)
Mirko Boman
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Le Trésor du lac d'argent (1962)
Le Trésor des montagnes bleues (1964)
Banović Strahinja (1981)
Božidar Smiljanić
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Opération Condor (1991)
Ustav Republike Hrvatske (2016)
Mister Dynamite (1986)
Bert Sotlar
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Trenuci odluke (1955)
Srecno Kekec (1963)
L'Occupation en 26 images (1978)
Ilija Basic
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Život je lep (1985)
Tito et moi (1992)
Un gardien de plage en hiver (1976)
Abdurrahman Shala
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
Pred doždot (1994)
Kozara (1962)
La Bataille de la Neretva (1969)
Husein Čokić
Yougoslavie
Meilleurs films :
La Révolte des indiens apaches (1963)
Diverzanti (1967)
Kozara (1962)