Nije kraj (2008) Reviews

• A man with no future & a woman with a past

  johno-212010-02-13

  I saw this last month at the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival and of the 23 films I saw there I would put this in my top three. There has been a lot of films coming out of Croatia & Serbia with the war there as the theme and yes. This is one of those but it's smart balance of dark comedy and heavy drama in a well paced interesting story makes for a wonderful film experience. Martin (Ivan Herceg) is a former military sniper turned private investigator and he enlists the help of a famous star in the Serbian porn industry Djuro (Pedrag Vusovic) to help him find Djuro's co-star in his most famous film, the mysterious and intriguing Desa (Nada Sargin). Desa is working as a hooker for a powerful and sinister pimp called Kriminala (Drazen Kuhn). Martin buys Desa from Kriminalac and takes her from Belgrade back to Zagrib and his reasons as well as his past and hers began to unfold in flashback. Matin unwittingly starts to fall for Desa and she for him. Excellent direction from writer/director Vinko Bresan who co-wrote the script with Mate Matisic and Franjo Mogus. Mogus also doubles as the film's cinematographer with Matisic providing the music score and both wonderfully done. A great look from art director Mario Vezic really gives this film a rich appearance. A great cast and a great combination of filmmakers make this worth seeing. I would give this a 9.5 out of 10 and highly recommend it.

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• Lovable

  konzultant0072009-07-12

  I disagree with Anaglosser, this title is very worth of being seen. Romantic link is not actually between Serbian prostitute and Croatian warrior, but between Serbian girl that becomes local porn actress and Croatian ex sniper, that (what is most important) knows her from the war times - he didn't fall in love with her watching porn movies, as some annotations may suggest (that would be disappointing indeed, if he would start to search for her due to this inspiration). I have seen the movie on Karlovy Vary International Film festival 2009, just few days ago and I enjoyed it very much, as well as jury, because its rank settled this movie on second place in competition section. This film takes topic of Balkan war finally to more lighter/humorous side, being as well able to achieve some level of tension in story, that is very good. As a picture of the Man making Woman slowly fall in love with him - this is where the movie excels, i liked this image a lot. Thumbs very high up.

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• dark love comedy/drama with war background

  poleksija2016-07-07

  Just not listen to the previous comments from Serbia and Slovenia. The movie is a little masterpiece. I found it by a coincidence on YouTube and fell in love. Acting is very good, also the plot. For me it is realistic and convincing enough. There is the fact there are plenty of Roman people living on Balkans and I admire their way of survival. Đuro is giving us some of this world perceptive that is really brilliant. And another thing: if You try to explain to someone who is not from the region of ex Yugoslavia what goes on between Croats and Serbs it seems impossible. The movie is little piece into the mosaic of explanation of this mystery, on its own way. I warmly recommend it.

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• A fine film from Croatia - Recommended

  ajit21062012-07-02

  Rom Djuro tells an unusual story that occurred to him: Martin, a young Croatian war veteran, the market has bought a porn movie on DVD, where he saw Serbian Desu actress in the role of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf in the role of Chuck. He finds Chuck and convinces him to bring it to happen. Arrive by car to Belgrade, where it turns out that Des worked as a prostitute for a pimp. Martin has collected enough money and buy for € 35,000 and brought in Croatia. The first day in his apartment, she takes off because suppose that he is now her new pimp, but he refuses to sleep with her. With her ​​as the lady, cook for her and she even bought flowers for my birthday. She was perplexed by his behavior, but he refuses to say why it is so nice to her. In the end, however, fall in love and spend a couple of passionate nights. In flashback, it turns out that Martin is actually a guilty conscience to it because during the war was a sniper who was watching her in her apartment in Obrovac, until he received orders to shoot her husband, a high-ranking officers of Serbian Krajina. Problems arise when the ex-colleagues decide to kill Desu. They fled in Obrovac where criminal Desu take on hindsight, but it fails before Martin hit. Then Des learns that he actually killed her husband. It also turns out that Martin has a serious disease than that in a few months to die. However, after some time, Duro again encountered it, live, and take him on my own celebration. There, Martin Desu happy again and they remain a couple. Every actor has done a marvelous job. A lovely portrayal of emotions, far from clichés.

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• Follow me home

  viamillitaris2017-12-08

  This was one of my favourite Chroattion movies where Predrag Djuro Vusović ( Bitange i Princeze,serial movie. I have to say that I really liked his character of Gazda -" The Nymphe" Sex Shop owner )had'd been the main character with Nada Sargin, the most beautiful actress from Serbia ( Sutra ujutru ). Vusovic was really the great in this movie as gypsy porn actor from Chroatia. Serbian and Chroattion girls're one of the most beautiful females in the world. That is my opinion, because I'm From Serbia and I've cousins in Split ( Chroatia ). My ex-girlfriend was Serbian refuge from Chroatia. Her name was Miroslava Opalic from Gospic. We broke up two years ago and I still love her. Btw, Natasha Ivkosic ( Chroatia ) is one of the most famous porn stars in the world. Natasha's first XXX scene was produced by Slobodan Stankovic ( The most famous porn director and producer in Serbia and Hungary.

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