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The
work proceeds well but then the
war with Croatia breaks out and
their area is near the
front-line so the railway is
commandeered by the military.
Luka's son Milos who is a
promising football player is
called up to fight and becomes a
prisoner of war. Meanwhile
Luka's wife Jadranka is ill in a
hospital and unable to return
home because of the fighting.
Amid
all this Luka is asked to take
into his home a non-combatant
prisoner called Sabaha who is a
beautiful nurse from the other
side and whom Luka has met in
passing before on a visit to the
hospital his wife is at. Sabaha
is a lovely girl and although
Luka has initial thoughts of
maybe arranging a prisoner swap
for his son he finds himself
falling in love with her and
they have a passionate affair.
And then his wife comes back
home ...
Is
It Any Good? Once it gets going
it is a good and touching love
story. But it sure takes its
time getting to the heart of
that story. It isn't until 1¼
hours in that Sabaha come into
the story properly (which is
half-way into this 2½ hour
film). Up until then the film
seems to be just a sequence of
events and developments which
although mildly interesting
never seem to occupy the story
for long and you do seriously
wonder if the film is ever going
to have a proper
attention-holding plot or if the
whole thing is just going to be
"slice-of-life"
stuff.
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