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[[Image:lepa-sela-lepo-gore.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Pretty Village, Pretty Flame DVD cover. | [[Image:lepa-sela-lepo-gore.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Pretty Village, Pretty Flame'' DVD cover. (Yugoslavia) (1996)]] | ||
'''''Pretty Village Pretty Flame''''' (''Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore'') (1996) is a 1996 Yugoslavian, Serbo-Croatian language war film about several Bosnian Serb soldiers who are trapped in a tunnel together in Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War, while they recount their past lives.The movie details the experiences of several Serbian soldiers and an American CBC war correspondent Lisa Lunell as they refuge in a tunnel to avoid being killed by Bosnian Muslim forces. Milan and his war buddy, the Professor, recall their war experiences as they recover from their wounds in a Belgrade military hospital. The main characters are Fork, (Viljuška), Gvozden,(Iron for his tough character) Halil, and Milan, and Velja. They reflect on their past lives as they are sheltered in a tunnel, while being harassed and attacked by Bosnian Muslim forces. Gvozden, their commanding officer, (who is ex Yugoslav People's Army officer), eventually escapes out of the tunnel in a dramatic exit that eventually costs him his life as he makes his grand exit out of the tunnel, which causes the squad to escape their entrapment in the tunnel. | |||
'''The following weapons were used in the 1996 movie ''Pretty Village, Pretty Flame'':''' | '''The following weapons were used in the 1996 movie ''Pretty Village, Pretty Flame'':''' | ||
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[[Image:Zastava M70B1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Zastava M70B1 fixed stock rifle - 7.62x39mm]] | [[Image:Zastava M70B1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Zastava M70B1 fixed stock rifle - 7.62x39mm]] | ||
Some of the soldiers in the movie can be seen carrying the M-70 Yugoslavian AK variant. | Some of the soldiers in the movie can be seen carrying the M-70 Yugoslavian AK variant. | ||
[[Image:Viljuska_Dva.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska (Fork) shoots at the alleged female suicide bomber to make sure she won't kill them.]] | [[Image:Viljuska_Dva.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska (Fork) shoots at the alleged female suicide bomber to make sure she won't kill them.]] | ||
[[Image:Enemy_Soldiers.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Enemy soldiers falling as the Professor and the squad gun them down as they are advancing toward their position.]] | [[Image:Enemy_Soldiers.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Enemy soldiers falling as the Professor and the squad gun them down as they are advancing toward their position.]] | ||
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Viljuska (Milorad Mandic) carries around two M52 hand grenades with him for self-protection against against enemy forces. | Viljuska (Milorad Mandic) carries around two M52 hand grenades with him for self-protection against against enemy forces. | ||
[[Image:Hand_Grenades.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska carrying two hand grenades as he talks to an African UN peacekeeper assigned to protect the peace in Bosnia.]] | [[Image:Hand_Grenades.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska carrying two hand grenades as he talks to an African UN peacekeeper assigned to protect the peace in Bosnia.]] | ||
== HK G3A3 == | == HK G3A3 == | ||
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The UN African peacekeepers that Viljuska is talking to are armed with HK G3A3 assault rifles as part of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to peacekeeping duty in Bosnia. | The UN African peacekeepers that Viljuska is talking to are armed with HK G3A3 assault rifles as part of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to peacekeeping duty in Bosnia. | ||
[[Image:African_Peacekeeper_2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska (Milorad Mandic) talking to the UN African peacekeepers about car damage as Laza leaves the car.]] | [[Image:African_Peacekeeper_2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Viljuska (Milorad Mandic) talking to the UN African peacekeepers about car damage as Laza leaves the car.]] | ||
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Revision as of 16:06, 12 July 2012
Pretty Village Pretty Flame (Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore) (1996) is a 1996 Yugoslavian, Serbo-Croatian language war film about several Bosnian Serb soldiers who are trapped in a tunnel together in Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War, while they recount their past lives.The movie details the experiences of several Serbian soldiers and an American CBC war correspondent Lisa Lunell as they refuge in a tunnel to avoid being killed by Bosnian Muslim forces. Milan and his war buddy, the Professor, recall their war experiences as they recover from their wounds in a Belgrade military hospital. The main characters are Fork, (Viljuška), Gvozden,(Iron for his tough character) Halil, and Milan, and Velja. They reflect on their past lives as they are sheltered in a tunnel, while being harassed and attacked by Bosnian Muslim forces. Gvozden, their commanding officer, (who is ex Yugoslav People's Army officer), eventually escapes out of the tunnel in a dramatic exit that eventually costs him his life as he makes his grand exit out of the tunnel, which causes the squad to escape their entrapment in the tunnel.
The following weapons were used in the 1996 movie Pretty Village, Pretty Flame:
M-70
Some of the soldiers in the movie can be seen carrying the M-70 Yugoslavian AK variant.
M70AB2
The weapon is used as the primary weapon of Milan, Gvozden, Velja, and Laza throughout the entire film, as they are a detachment of Chetniks during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 of the army of Republika Srpska, they would carry a weapon with a paratrooper stock.
AK-47
Mascot, one of the soldiers of Gvozden's squad is armed with an AK-47 as he enters the room to perform close quarters room-to-room clearing.
RPG-7
As the Bosnian Muslim soldiers outside the tunnel torment and harass the Bosnian Serb squad in the tunnel with insults, an enemy soldier fires at Velja with an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket.
MG-42
Fork (Viljuska) is armed with a World War II MG-42 machine gun or the M53 Yugoslavian variant, as his primary weapon throughout the film.
Colt Single Action Army Revolver
2 toy Colt Peacemaker revolvers can be seen while Brzi's friend plays a shoot 'em up cowboy at an amusement park in Yugoslavia.
Tokarev TT-33
Velja (Nikola Kojo) is armed with a TT-33 that he carries as his personal sidearm.
M52 Hand Grenade
Viljuska (Milorad Mandic) carries around two M52 hand grenades with him for self-protection against against enemy forces.
HK G3A3
The UN African peacekeepers that Viljuska is talking to are armed with HK G3A3 assault rifles as part of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to peacekeeping duty in Bosnia.
