SUTJESKA/THE BATTLE OF SUTJESKA

Running time:

2h 10 min

Released:

1973.

The original format:

35 mm

Digital format:

SD 1280 x 720

Directed by:

Stipe Delić

Screenplay by:

Nikola Popović

Cast:

Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadić, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Irene Papas, Milena Dravić, Bert Sotlar, Boris Dvornik, Rade Marković, Ljubiša Samardžić, Milan Puzić

Production company:

Bosna film Sarajevo, Sutjeska film

Director of photography:

Tomislav Pinter

Music by:

Mikis Theodorakis

Scenography:

Vladimir Tadej, Mario Garbuglia, Asim Babić, Tihomir Piletić

Costume design:

Marko Cerovac

Edited by:

Vuksan Lukovac, David de Wilde

Synopsis:

The film is about events that happened in May and June of  1943. The High Comand of National Liberation Army and twenty thousand fighters, caring for central hospital and the wounded, in the mountains on the border of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are surrounded by enemy of six time more man and power. The High Command decides to attempt to break through the enemy forces.[/vc_column_text]