''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 {{Croatia-film-stub