Velja pretended to be his brother, knowing full well he would have been taken to the front lines for draft-dodging, becoming a soldier in his place. During a visit home the authorities came to conscript his younger brother, a promising student.
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, President Tito accidentally cuts his thumb with the scissors.Īt the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992, Milan (Dragan Bjelogrlić), a Bosnian Serb, and his best friend Halil (Nikola Pejaković), a Bosniak Muslim, live a quiet life in a small village in eastern Bosnia, playing basketball at a kafana owned by Slobo (Petar Božović). The film opens with a faux newsreel, showing the opening of the Tunnel of Brotherhood and Unity by visiting President Josip Broz Tito and local dignitary Džemal Bijedić on 27 June 1971. The main time periods include the "present" with a hospitalized Milan, with flashbacks to both his childhood and his early adulthood in the 1980s until the war begins, and subsequent service as a soldier where he is trapped in the tunnel. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame features a non-linear plot line, and the scenes change between time periods from 1971 to 1999 which mostly cut back and forth in no particular order. Following the success of the movie, Bulić wrote a novel named Tunel that's essentially an expanded version of his magazine article.
The plot was inspired by real-life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, with the film's screenplay being based on an article written by Vanja Bulić for Duga magazine about the actual event.
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