''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 Босне и Херцеговине, Srbi Bosne i Hercegovine), often referred to as Bosnian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, босански Срби, bosanski Srbi) or Herzegovinian Serbs ( sr-cyrl, � ...

writer

Branko Ćopić Branko Ćopić ( sr-Cyrl, Бранко Ћопић, ; 1 January 1915 – 26 March 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, often set during World War ...

. Both the novel and the film describe the adventures of a

Yugoslav Partisan The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

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 directed by Branko Bauer Jadran Film films Films based on Serbian novels Yugoslav black-and-white films Partisan films Characters in Serbian novels Fictional Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav war comedy films {{Croatia-film-stub