Directed by Kristijan Milić Production
company Telefilm | Written by Ivan Pavličić | |
Starring Goran Bogdan
Alan Katić Distributed by Croatian Radiotelevision Release date 20 July 2014 (2014-07-20) (PFF) | ||
Number 55 (Croatian: Broj 55) is a 2014 Croatian war film directed by Kristijan Milić.
Plot
Movie takes place during the Croatian War of Independence. The film is based on a true story that happened on the eve in autumn of 1991 in the small Croatian village of Kusonje, near Pakrac. A small group of Croatian soldiers went on a patrol in an improvised armored car that they had made. In Kusonje they get ambushed by Serbs and are forced to hide in a nearby abandoned house that bears the house number 55. Their resistance to the forces of the rebel Serbs, the JNA and Serbian special forces takes almost 24 hours. In parallel the film follows the efforts of their fellow soldiers to pull them out of the encirclement.
References
Number 55 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA