The Border Post
– At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering..
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. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.
07 Mar 2008
Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian
Rajko Grlic
Rajko Grlic (screenplay), Ante Tomic (novel), Ante Tomic (screenplay)
Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Verica Nedeska
A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
7 wins & 3 nominations.