8/10
They deleted this review six times, do you know why?
22 August 2014
Plot is excellent, and cinematography is beautiful as well as acting, it all brought me back to childhood when I watched beautiful ex Yugoslav films. What I did not like is two last lines of the film, which went like in Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup this was the biggest achievement by Serbian football. Because a year earlier Croatian members of the Yugoslav Parlament, Stjepan Radic and Djuro Basaricek were killed by a Serbian ultra nationalist Punisa Racic by the order of the Yugoslav King Alexander I, and Yugoslav football federation was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade by force. Because of those events non Serb footballers chose not to join Yugoslav squad and that squad was filled by the Serbs only. As such they went to Uruguay and achieved what they did. In the film in a short dialogue Pako character emhpasizes that. Since that team represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia the last line should be read It was one of the greatest achievement of the Yugoslav sport of all times. Otherwise I really enjoyed this film and I think it was made with warmth and love.
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