Playing Soldiers (1967) – Bahrudin Bato Čengić
02.07.22
8:30 pm

PLAYING SOLDIERS
Bahrudin Bato Čengić (1967)

Saturday, 2 July – 20:30

Bato Čengić’s iconic film tells the story about war-orphaned young boys who found a new home in a renovated monastery.

At the end of WWII, a fair-haired boy arrives at an orphanage, where the children of partisans and WWII victims have been sheltered. The manager of the orphanage knows that the boy’s parents were Nazis, but cleverly disguises this fact for fear that the child might become a victim of peer-violence. He invents a history for the boy, but other kids soon begin to question the alibi. Suspecting that the boy is of German descent, they put him on trial as a war criminal.