Before the Truth

Before the Truth

1968 · 78 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama

Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose.

Directed by Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac · Written by Branimir Šćepanović

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