''Silent Gunpowder'' ( sh, Gluvi barut) is a 1990 Yugoslav war film directed by

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, starring Mustafa Nadarević, Branislav Lečić,

Fabijan Šovagović Fabijan Šovagović (4 January 1932 – 1 January 2001) was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer. Biography Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He ...

, Mira Furlan, Boro Stjepanović and

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Plot

Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Bosnian Serb village in the mountains of

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and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines in the face of the Axis invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, represented by the royalist

Chetniks The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...

and the communist Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander nicknamed Španac (lit. "Spaniard", played by Mustafa Nadarević) and a former Royal Army officer Miloš Radekić (played by Branislav Lečić). Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

ideology, and so the main plot revolves around the conflict between them.

Cast

Awards

*At the 1990 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the

Big Golden Arena The Golden Arena awards were established in 1955 as the Yugoslav national film awards presented annually at the Pula Film Festival in Pula, Croatia, with the Big Golden Arena for Best Film its main prize. From 1955 to 1990 the awards were the Yu ...

for Best Film, as well as the awards for ''Best Actor in a Leading Role'' (Branislav Lečić), ''Best Film Score'' ( Goran Bregović), and ''Best Makeup'' (Snježana Tomljenović). *The film was also shown at the

17th Moscow International Film Festival The 17th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 July 1991. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Soviet-German film ''Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea'' directed by Karen Gevorkian. Jury * Oleg Yankovsky (Soviet Un ...

, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.

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* 1990 films Films scored by Goran Bregović Films set in Bosnia and Herzegovina Films set in Yugoslavia Serbo-Croatian-language films Yugoslav war drama films Jadran Film films 1990s war drama films 1990 drama films Films directed by Bato Čengić War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia Yugoslav World War II films {{war-drama-film-stub