Horvat's Choice

Horvat's Choice

1985 · 114 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

Directed by Eduard Galić · Written by Ivo Štivičić

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Rade Šerbedžija Krešimir Horvat
Milena Dravić Marijana Margetić
Mira Furlan Eva Horvatek
Fabijan Šovagović Lazar Margetić 'Lazo'
Zvonko Lepetić Pantelija Crnković
Mustafa Nadarević Vinko Benčina
Edo Peročević Jakob Lukač
Zvonimir Ferenčić Grgo Tomerlin
Božidar Smiljanić Juraj Ratković
Duško Valentić Lojzek
Duško Gruborović Mitar
Mladen Vasary Runac

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