The Awkward Age
Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.
Nenad Dizdarević
Nenad Dizdarević
Casts & Crew
Draško Trninić
Sedin Kahriman
Igor Bjelan
Esvedin Husić
Milan Lazić
Milenko Lazić
Biljana Preradović
Sabina Tabić
Srđan Erić
Emir Arslanagić
Davor Janjić
Ljubiša Samardžić
Ante Vićan
Rade Šerbedžija
Milivoje Mića Tomić
Miralem Zupčević
Jadranka Selec
Mladen Nelević
Mirko Vlahović
Also Directed by Nenad Dizdarević
Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
A documentary detailing the lives of the children seen in Nenad Dizdarevic's "An Awkward Age" as well as the conditions within former-Yugoslavia in the 1990s.