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The Border Post

The Border Post

2006 · 94 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. However, when their liuetenant is secretly diagnosed with siphilis, he decides to keep them at their positions in order to ensure a safe and secretive treatment by the medic, inventing a fictional military conflict as a means to keeping them in line.

Directed by Rajko Grlić · Written by Ante Tomić

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