Broad Are the Leaves

Broad Are the Leaves

1981 · 106 min · ★ 6.8 · War

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.

Directed by Petar Latinović · Written by Milenko Nikolić

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