''Nikoletina Bursać'' is a 1964
Yugoslavian film directed by
Branko Bauer
Branko Bauer (18 February 1921 – 11 April 2002) was a Croatian film director. He is considered to be the leading figure of classical narrative cinema in Croatian and Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s.
Early life
Bauer became interested in cine ...
. It is based on a famous novel by the
Bosnian Serb
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби у Босни и Херцеговини, Srbi u Bosni i Hercegovini) are one of the three constitutive nations (state-forming nations) of the country, predominantly residing in the politi ...
writer
Branko Ćopić
Branko Ćopić ( sr-cyrl, Бранко Ћопић, ; 1 January 1915 – 26 March 1984) was a Serbian, Bosnian and Yugoslavian writer. He wrote poetry, short stories and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, oft ...
. Both the novel and the film describe the adventures of a
Yugoslav Partisan
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
machine-gunner Nikola "Nikoletina" Bursać, a tough man with a noble and gentle heart.
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1964 films
Croatian war comedy films
1960s Croatian-language films
Films set in Yugoslavia
Films directed by Branko Bauer
Jadran Film films
Yugoslav World War II films
Films based on Serbian novels
Yugoslav black-and-white films
War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia
Fictional Yugoslav Partisans
Characters in Serbian novels
Yugoslav war comedy films
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