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How the War Started on My Island

6.3 (18 reviews)
97 minutes
1997
Comedy•War

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

Cast

Vlatko Dulić

Blaž Gajski

Ivan Brkić

Roko Papak

Božidar Orešković

Božidar Orešković

Boris Bašić

Matija Prskalo

Lucija Milosavljević

Goran Navojec

Goran Navojec

Martin

Ljubomir Kerekeš

Major Aleksa Milosavljević

Ivica Vidović

Ivica Vidović

Pjesnik

Senka Bulić

Senka Bulić

Spomenka

Etta Bortolazzi

Baba

Slobodan Milovanović

Ridikul

Leon Lučev

Leon Lučev

Zoran Gajski

Rene Bitorajac

Rene Bitorajac

Vojnik Albanac

Mladen Vulić

Mladen Vulić

Šćepanović

Goran Maluš

Zoran

Ante Mioč

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