"THE KNIFE" "Starring" "Director of photography" "Sound by" "Scenography" "Costume designer" "Make up" "Composers" "Edited by" "Film director" "Based on a novel "The Knife" by Vuk Draskovic" "Screenplay" "Produced by" "Directed by" "HERTZEGOVINA 1941." "Here's Bratomir!" "Grandfather, here's Bratomir!" "Brother!" "Who could ever think of this disaster?" "Grandfather!" "Our country perished in two weeks, broken like a ripen pumpkin." "Treason, treason my grandfather." "We've chased Italians to Skadar and just we were about to take Skadar they posted about capitulation." "There,before my eyes three officers took their pistols and killed themselves..." "Just like that." "Capitulation!" "Where are you...?" "We go to war, and our sponsors Osmanovics into the woods to escape from mobilisation." "Now they've returned and moving boundaries." "What boundaries?" "!" "Sponsor Husein is measuring something on our land and says that turkish boundaries will matter from now on." "Let them, may God forgive them." "We wont perish for two meters of land" "No one's candle burned forever." "Well, I wont give them not a single foot!" "Husein!" "Why do you let your cows into our meadow?" "My sponsor Husein?" "It was yours, but now it is ours." "You know wery well that boundary-stone's place is not here." "Different country, different boundaries, my sponsor." "Your country perished!" "Let it go, Bratomir!" "Did you know that Husein became Croat two days ago?" "Not Croat, but croatian flowers!" "Listen!" "Boundary-stone's place is here!" "And you be what ever you want to be" "CHRISTMAS 1942." "Help us Christ, and help us your birth!" "My daughter-in-law, Ljubica!" "May You be merry, will you bring that hominy yet?" "!" "Here it is!" "It's all floating in the mass." "We'll all see ourselves in it." "May God give us health and beauty." "Thank God, thank God!" "It will be so!" "Hah!" "After Bratimir." "Merry christmas brothers and sponsors Jugovics!" "Merry christmas my sponsor Nicifor!" "What goodness brings you here my sponsor Kemal?" "What else but goodness could bring us here at this Holly day?" "!" "We came to establish boundaries once and for all!" "To see how far is our empire!" "Aman, perhaps you were expecting some other guests?" "Come on Husa,quick!" "Congradulate to your sponsors!" "Well, Merry christmas my brothers this morning and never again with Alah's help!" "How many sparkles, that much decapitated Jugovics!" "Ljubica, my daughter!" "Bring some shirts and socks to confer our brothers and sponsors!" "We're not gonna fight just for boundaries ,aren't we?" "Sit down to have a drink!" "It is a custom, my sponsor!" "Don't you sponsor me, like I've come to your wedding!" "Band them!" "And now, due to sponsorship, slowely!" "Like our hodza said, without hurry!" "Humanly!" "So they have nothing to reproach us with!" "Ljubica!" "Did you bring what I told you to?" "That's right, my daughter!" "And, now, share those gifts to our sponsors." "Socks and shirts... and a kerchief to Husein!" "I'll take a shit into your kerchief!" "It is a custom, and you do with it what ever you want, my son!" "I want Ljubica!" "Screw kerchief and socks..." "Damn be the brest that fed you!" "Don't shoot!" "Do it with your knives!" "Bullit is for humans!" "Use your knives!" "Don't be afraid!" "Your turn will come too!" "She killed me!" "She killed me!" "Whore!" "Slaughter them!" "Slaughter them!" "Slaughter them!" "Slaughter them!" "Not him!" "Leave him to me!" "Into the church, my sponsor..." "to wish merry christmas to Jugovics and to pray for my Husein!" "Go back into the house and check for any other Nicifor's papers!" "God sees everything!" "You will stand before him, too!" "Before yours or my God, Nicifor?" "Merry christmas, my sponsor!" "We've forgotten a child!" "Should I get it into the fire?" "Kemal!" "You lost your son, but you got another grandson." "We'll take this child to your daughter in law, Rabiah." "Let her raise him together with Husein's son." "It is good!" "It is good my merciful Lord!" "Don't cry, Rabiah!" "It's not good!" "You are not one of those serbian women to cry and wail!" "He's now in Dzenet (moslim heaven), where all martyrs go." "You lost your husband, but you got a son not sullied yet..." "not christened!" "Take him, Rabiah." "From this day you will raise two of them." "He doesn't breathe!" "Why to raise serbian bastard?" "!" "Instead of vengeance, we get them into our home?" "!" "Do you need, Kemal, greater vengeance than to rais their child and watch him hate them and despise them more and more every day?" "Serbs were always reproaching us that we all became from their grand, grand father Ilija who turned to Islam and renamed himself as Alija!" "Well, if it is so..." "we should fraternize with them once more." "There's no greater Moslim than islamized Serb!" "Come on, come on..." "He breaths!" "He's alive!" "He is now hers." "Forever!" "You have called me?" "Sit down." "Keep this note like your own eyes!" "I am ill, Alah may call me every day." "If that happens, you will give this paper to hodza who comes after me." "There always must be someone who knows what was written in Jugovics diary." "Isn't that a secret?" "There's no secret if no one knows about it and you never know when you're going to need a secret!" "Understand?" "Not a single word." "Into the hands of a new, no one's else!" "It is important that new hodza recognizes janicar and to know what happened in Jugovics!" "Quck, Rabiah, hide the children!" "Here comes Chetniks!" "They'll kill the children, we must run!" "Don't!" "Please, don't!" "Spare my child!" "I'll tell you everything, just spare my child!" "There's one of yours here, serbian, from Jugovics." "Where is it?" "There!" "Take us!" "That is your child that I told you about." "Spare my child, I beg you!" "Well, this hero will fuck all your mothers!" "Rabiah won't give you away!" "The year 1952." "Mother?" "When will Turkish time come again?" "The time that grandfather told me about?" "It will come, it will!" "You just get better." "Here, put this on your head." "What is this?" "Hodza's manuscript." "Put it on, you'll get better." "Ask hodza if this manuscript could help me to find my brother so we could revenge to Serbs together?" "Let go of Serbs, may devil take them to hell." "Why to let go?" "They're not stronger than two of us?" "!" "No, they aren't." "But they are numerous." "Why they are throwing stones on us?" "Because they are dogs!" "They haven't trusted to Sultan nor Alah!" "And why haven't Turks killed them all?" "Because the devil brought them from hell!" "You can't harm them!" "They mate like dogs." "As soon as they can see, they start to bite." "If they are from hell, why then we speak their language?" "Mother, do you speak turkish?" "How could I?" "I didn,t go to school." "Does grandfather speak?" "No, he doesn't." "Well, is there anyone in Osmanovics who speaks?" "Late hodza Velia spoke." "He could teach you, but Serbs have killed him, damn them!" "But, mother, why do we speak serbian?" "Come on, go to sleep." "It will hurt less." "SARAJEVO 1964." "Come on, sleepy!" "Get up!" "Awake!" "Come on!" "What time is it?" " 7:30!" "Why this early?" " This is gone cold already." "My practices are at 10 o'clock." " But I need to submit my graduation subject." "Is it today?" " Yes, today." "This is clean." " Put it here." "Do you want me to buy something for lunch?" " No, I'll go to market when I return." "See you then." "Where do you think you're going?" "Do you want warder to see you?" "Uh, I forgot." "Look at you?" "!" "You haven't washed your face nor took your stuff!" "Wait!" "Good morning, neighbour!" " Good morning!" "...Heart is a mid organ of a circulation system presented with one hollow muscle, Miocard, whit it's shape it reminds on three-side pyramide." "From outside it is covered with pericardium and with endocardium from inside." "It is separated on four cavities." "Two prechambers, Artria cordis, and two chambers, Verticuli cordis." "Professor!" "Colleague, please!" "Take her outside." "Colleagues, shall we continue?" "Take a deep breath." " What are you doing?" "I'm getting you back to life." " That should be enough, I'm alive." "I need to be certain!" "See you." "Bye." " Bye!" "Excuse me, I didn't mean to scare you." "I hope you won't slap me again?" "!" "It's still ringing in my ears from last time I was helping you!" "How are you helping me this time?" "I brought you back your index." "You lost it during... ..." "Previous slap?" "!" "Thank you." "Wait!" "And?" "!" " I was thinking... ..." "To put one more notch on a wall?" "May be, in the beggining..." "Aha..." "And then, I haven't slept for three nights!" " Just three?" "What is that you need?" "I need all I need is you!" "All you need is me?" " Yes!" "O.K then." "Let's see..." "I don't put notches for freshmen." "Second year... seven, third year three..." "...demonstrators well, you're the first one." "I'll wait for you at 7:30 tomorrow before the faculty." "You've been signed in colleague Osmanovic!" "I've been signed in,madam!" "Signed in,signed in..." "This one is insane!" "I've been signed in, madam!" "Signed in!" "Aaa, how long it's been lasting for?" "It will pass off." "It will!" "It will, I know!" "Just like with Mersiha and..." "Jagoda!" "A month or two and it'll pass of!" "I'll wait." " Don't wait, Ambrah!" "Don't wait!" "So, six years throwen away?" "!" "And your word?" "!" "And my word." "My word and Rabiah's." "How you're gonna look into her eyes?" "I don't know." "Nor how I'm gonna look into your family's eyes." "You have nothing to worry about Nusret and Vezir." "They are my concern." "Let me do it." "Is she worth of this?" " Ambrah, please..." "Do I know her?" " Hah?" " Do I know her?" "Does she have a crown on her head?" "You just tell me that it's serbian crown?" "!" "May Alah have mercy upon your soul, my Alia!" "Here..." "This was washed." "Take this too." "Selim..." "Hah?" "What?" " Selim..." "Selim..." "Selim..." "Come down!" "Hey!" "Shhh..." "Calm down." "You've been dreaming." "Calm down." "Who chased you in your dream?" "I just touched you and you started to defend yourself." "How I didn't hear it?" " It didn't ring." "I turned it off." "Did you?" "Yes." "I didn't want to wake you up?" "That's nice of you." "Come on, hurry." "Get dressed." "I'm late." "Hurry up, Milica." "Please!" "When you courted me you wasn't in a rush!" "?" "You've always detaining me." "Now, I'm not in a rush." "I see that I will have to get you that slap back!" "I spoiled you very much!" "Punish me,Bajazit!" "I'm your slave, Olivera Sultania!" "That won't work this time." "Tell me..." "Was Olivera, daughter of our emperor Lazar, forced to  marry your emperor Bajazit, or she did it voluntarely?" "Your history claims that she was forced  while our history claims that she did it voluntarely." "What do you think?" " I don't care for your or my history!" "Just to know that it wasn't nice of you to forget our anniversary!" "What anniversary?" " 185 days of dating!" "What anniversary is that?" " Little one." "But, it doesn't matter." "Every day of our dating must be a holiday!" "It is noon." "It is noon for us too!" "This is from cathedral." "They're always late." "Or you're always early?" "!" "I'll take you to cakes." "For anniversary." "Little one." "Do your parents write to you?" " They do." "They persuade me to go to live with them." "They arranged that I can study medicine there." "So, will you go?" " No." "I'm better here." "With you." "Why are we always talking about me?" "Boring, empty story about obedient little girl  and I'm scared that you'll get weary of me." "There you are!" "You're hungry again?" "Who is Selim?" "Selim?" "Aha!" "You called for him all night." "I don't like to talk about it!" " Not even to me?" "!" "I have had a brother." "Twin brother, Selim." "Have had?" "When he was still a baby Chetniks took him away!" "What happened to him?" " I don't know." "I just know that he is alive." "How do you know that?" " I just know." "I feel it." "Have you tried to find him?" " If it is a destiny, we will meet." "I'd just like to know what did you see at him?" "It is certain that he's been nice to you." "That's normal." "But you are two different worlds and no one can help it!" "Aunt, you invited him for lunch." "He is our guest and I'm asking you not to lead this kind of conversation before him!" "My God, Milica." "What do you think of me?" "I just hope he won't take his shoes of." "Fifth year of medical faculti, you say?" "!" "I thought that you just signed up." "Colleagues?" "Do you feel confortable in those slippers?" "Milica told me how you two met." "They took me from obduction room too when I was at the first year." "It is nothing." "She'll get used to it." " Sure she will." "I dont doubt it." "She comes from a eminent medical family." "Apple doesnt fall far from the tree." "Anyway, why should those who come to city in peasant sandals be better than she is?" "!" "Help yourself." "I made this especially for you." "Thank you!" "Pardon me!" "I haven't changed your plate." "What would you do without Milica?" "You talked about it, didn't you?" "Milica travels soon." "To her parents." "Aunt, please!" "Why don,t you two go together?" "Imagine!" "Doctors in Paris!" "I'm not going anywhere." "We could live here well too." "Perhaps you couldn't live your mother?" "Where did you say she lives?" "In Osmanovics." "It is towards..." "Ah,yes,yes,yes..." "Now I remember." "Now I remember." "Anyway, you're still far away from her." "Yuo know, when I look from this perspective it seems to me as far as Paris!" "For me, those Osmanovics seems to be abroad." "My aunt usually has more delicacy." "She's angry with me for some reason so she..." "No!" "It is better for mi to say nothing." "Milica misinterprets everything aniway." "Milica, sweety, will you help me please?" "I've roasted it myself by special recipe just for you!" "Mmm... delicious!" "Pork like a ballerina!" "Shemsa, can you take us to Sarajevo anyhow?" "Rabiah lost her sight." "She needs to have an operation.!" "I have no room except up behind." " That would be just fine." "Thank you!" "What will you tell Alia?" " Nothing!" "I'm not gonna see him." "I don't need him." "He doesn't know that I'm coming!" "He does know1" "You just prepare what to say." "I posted him that you will come." "By Ambrah?" " No, by Halid." "By little Miralem's?" "Yes, he went back to Sarajevo yesterday." "What does he say?" "How's my son?" "He says that your son was never better." "But he never separates from that serbian girl." "They're as tied as intestines!" "Rabiah will break it up, when I tell you so." "Mother!" "Mother!" "It's me!" "My son?" "!" "Forgive me, mother, I couldn't get sooner." "Why didn't you tell me that you were coming?" "I wrote you, but you didn't care much for what I wrote!" "You have more important business to take care of." "What could be more important than you?" "What about that serbian scold and whore!" "?" "What scold?" "!" "I would better like if I lost both eyes than to see you meddling whit that serbian whore!" "That have killed your father and took your brother away from his cradle!" "How can you do it?" "How your guts can stand it?" "You left a girl like that!" "A girl like that!" "It would be better if you made pups with a bitch!" "I could stand it more easely!" "Your father turns in his grave!" "If you don't leave her, I will hang myself on that withered pear tree under Draginja's house!" "Be aware of that!" "No other daughter-in-law but Ambrah will ever enter into my house!" "What?" "Why don't you say something?" "Adza?" "!" "Adza!" "Where are you going?" "You misunderstood!" "Stop!" "I don't want to stop!" "How can she hate me that much?" "She hates me but she'd never even seen me?" "!" "You misunderstood!" "You don't know her story and she doesn't know you!" "Do you want me to go back in there so you could introduce me!" "?" "No!" "Not now!" "It's not a proper moment yet!" "When will be a proper moment?" "You know that she hates me as well!" "And your aunt likes me, isn't she?" "She served me pork!" "Is she better?" "Is your aunt better?" "What do you want?" "What do I want?" "What do I want?" "What do you want?" "What?" "We have suffered a lot because of Selim." "She cryes for him even theese days." "That's why she talks that way." "But she doesn't hate you." "You defend her because she's your mother." "She'd never left Osmanovic." "She doesn't even believe that it is alowed to pray in Sarajevo!" "All of her family have been killed." "That is why she hates!" "She hates, but still, she is all soul!" "Do you think that I feel indifferent about it?" "Do you know what it feels like?" "I dream about him every single night." "Mother!" "They're taking me away!" "Can you see it?" "!" "Don't give me away!" "Mother!" "You must find your brother if he is alive!" "I'v already tried everything." "What did you find out?" "Nothing!" "There's nothing but blood traces." "You must find him!" "Because of yourself." "Because of Rabiah." "If you find him, she will hate less." "What do you think about announcing it in newspapers?" "How can announcement help us?" "It can because of your picture." "You are twins." "He will recognize you or someone who knows him." "Nena!" "Nena!" "Don't you recognize me?" "Let me help you." " I don't need your help." "I'll do it myself." "You left your mother at the hospital like that?" "!" "Mother!" "Mother, it's me!" "I brought you medicines from Sarajevo." "Mother!" "This..." " I don't need your medicine." "Mother!" " You will heal me when you leave her!" "You will heal me or you will take me of the pear tree." "That's it!" "Hear this!" ""Dear Alia." "I've been touched with your tragedy." "My name is Sonja, I study at Belgrade...  ...and I would like us to correspond."" "Every second one is like that." "I didn't know that it would turn out like this." "This has no purpose, you know!" "Who knows?" "We just might run into some trace." "" I am a fan of the Red Star."" "Would you like to go out somewhere?" "All we've been doing was reading this letters." "Please...please...please..." "Milica!" "There must be someone on this planet who knows something about it!" "TRIESTE 1964." "I can see that you're tired." "The store must have been crowded?" "Before noon not even a fly flew in." "There was some kind of cease." "Trains from Yougoslavia was late." "But after noon there was a rush." "Where did you get those papers?" "Some customers in the store gave me." "Does all the lights in this house must be on?" "Sorry, boss." "Do you want to have dinner?" "Did you fix that lamp for me?" "I would like to read something." "I'll do it right away." "I didn't have time." "I was bussy." "I know, I know." "Legs upon a table... coffee and rahatluk." "I could serve like that too." "I swear, I was packing stuff at the basement all the time." "Who asked you to do that?" "If I'm not good enough for you, I can leave!" "Where would you go?" " Where I was intending to." "To Germany." "Where all our people went." "I wouldn't have asked you to hire me if I could go at the time." "What Germany?" "What our people?" "There are no our people, my Hamdiah." "Get it into your head!" "As soon as you cross the border there are no longer our people!" "Foreign language, foreign habits, foreign water  foreign people!" "It's all foreign out there!" "What is ours there?" "Hey, hey,..." "Don't be angry with your old Sabahudin aga." "How could I be angry with you?" "You took me of the street!" "Go fix this light for me." "I must read something." "Right away, boss." "SARAJEVO 1941." "Atif, do you see all this beauty?" "From this day it is all yours." "Who am I going to thank for this and how?" "To the Leader and to croatian country." "Let's go now to have it legal with Djordje Vilenjak, previous owner." "This man granted you his store, Atif Tanovic." "Now we are going to play gendarmes and thieves." "Get to work croatian sons!" "My brothers Ustasas!" "The day of croatian mowing have come!" "We can not trust to serbian grain!" "So, get your scythes in your hands..." "... and get to work!" "If you refuse, we'll kill you too!" "Milan!" "Milan, my nephew!" "I have only you left!" "Revenge my blood, my nephew!" "Milan!" "Revenge your uncle's blood!" "Milan!" "I'll go visit Rabiah." "To Osmanovics." "Because of me?" "Because of Selim." "She started to recieve letters." "Perhaps she has some trace." ""You searched and searched for him." "There was no place you didnt search at." "...And in that search you lost yourself!"" "Hah?" " Vasko Popa." "Who is that?" " A serbian poet." "Ah, poetry!" "Perhaps you lost your way and went to medical school." " I did." "What's the matter?" " Nothing." "Milica!" "I was just joking!" "What is wrong with you?" "We are just dealing with your non existent brother!" "I cant..." "I don't want to do it any more!" " Wasn't it your idea to start with all this?" "It was." "But it became senseless!" "All we have found are nonsenses and stories about slaughterings." "Maybe he doesn't care that someone searches for him." " I wouldn't joke about it!" "Who says that I am joking?" "What if we find him?" "Shall we all then go to Osmanovics?" "No, we shall go with your aunt to Paris instead!" "What's wrong with you?" "Why are you yelling?" "Who's yelling who's yelling?" "Something bothers you all the time!" "Do I disallow you to go to Paris?" "I'm sick of all that abroad thing!" "I'm sick of it!" "I didn't even mention Paris!" "I just want us to live better!" "I must go to Osmanovics!" "Is your name Alia?" " Yes, my efendia." "Late Husein's son?" " Husein's and Rabiah's." "Mashala, mashala." "Let me buy you a coffee." "I would like us to have a conversation." "You should hurry." "You're late this morning, boss." "Store won't get away." "Sit down." "I'd like to ask you something." "Ask it, boss." " How would you feel like if  someone would have told you that you are not you but someone else?" "I don't understand?" "If someone in the morning would tell you that you are no longer Hamdia Nogovic?" "I am me, and I can't be someone else." "How someone else can be me?" "Ok, ok,..." "Do not rush." "I would just like to know how would you feel like if someone would prove you now that you are not Hamdia that your religion is not Islam and that you are a Catholic..." "American..." "Russian and eventualy perhaps even a Serb?" "Are you suggesting that I have deceived you?" "That I am a Serb who presented himself as a Moslem so you would hire me?" "No, no, you stupid." "Read this article." "Did you read it?" " I did, but I don't understand anything." "It is normal that you didn't." "Only I can understand it." "I and perhaps no one else on this world." "MAY 1945." "Atif!" "Lucky eyes that see you in all this disaster." "Where did you say you were from?" " From Osmanovics in Hertzegovina." "I visited your store a few times with late Kemal Osmanovic." "From Osmanovics?" " Yes." "Tell me!" "Is there any survived Osmanovics?" " Just me and a few more." "They have massacred you, haven't they?" "!" "Bearded exterminated us to revenge Jugovics." "You know!" "There were stories about it!" "Only I know what happened there and no one else." "Let's have a smoke." "Let's go." "On Christmas, we've slaughtered all Jugovics." "We left only one boy." "Why?" "Late hodza didn't let us slaughter him." "He ordered us to turn him to Islam." "We gave him to Rabiah to rais him with her son." "You made a mistake." "Time when Serbs were turned to Islam is an ancient past." "Yes." "Istanbul is far away from us and we are far away from Istanbul." "We should have slaughtered a boy." "Chetniks took him aniway a few days later." "He will become Jugovic after all." "What is that paper?" "This is only trace to recognize a boy." "If I survive this war, I will return to finish what was started." "Alia must not find out that his brother is a Serb." "His hate must be turned towards Serbs as long as he lives." "Why?" "How do you mean "why"?" "You told me once that you have escaped from Serbs." "I escaped, but maybe I shouldn't do that." "Those who stayed are safe and sound." "They would all change with you, boss." "They would escape too, but it's too late and they don't know where to go." "Ah, my boy." "That is our misfortune." "That they would change with me and I would change with them." "You see!" "Until you have came I haven't even prayed." "Here, you can see moslem clothes and mosques only in newspapers or on TV." "There are no Serbs but I find harder to bear all this non-serbs around me." "This is foreign world with it's customs that I will never accept." "Return to Bosnia if you care for it that much." " I can't, my boy." "Why can't you if you said that you haven't killed anyone?" "Who knows what have those who stayed told about me?" "!" "Ah..." "Why haven't I died that day on the road with Zulfikar?" "!" "Boss, you haven't told me what happened to you after that shooting?" "Nothing." "What should have happened?" "I went to Triesta and opened a store." "My Hamdia, perhaps this paper hides a secret of a bigger calamity." "What calamity?" "What if Chetniks made a mistake and took our child instead of theirs?" "!" "One moment, please!" "You may enter." "A letter from Italy!" "Is it a love letter?" "It arrived last night, but I couldn't get it to you, I was with some girls,listening to a music and stuff." "Do you have cigarettes?" " I have." " Should I take my shoes off?" " Please, don't!" "Better not." "My leggs stink." "Aaa..." "Alah imanet!" " Alah imanet!" "Yes!" "Is Miralem O.K?" "He speaks italian to himself." "What is with you?" " Read this." "I don't understand a thing!" "I received a letter." "It is on our language but I don't understand a word!" "Can you please interprete it for me?" "It is very important!" "Please uncle Halil?" "!" "Halil Barbaric!" "GACKO 1941." "From this day for all moslems, after Alah, the knife of Ustashas is the greatest sacred thing!" "Kiss it!" "Get away from me!" "I'll fuck your serbian and comunist mother!" "You swear hodza a serbian mother?" "!" " Alah will punish you Mr. commander!" "Hah... he's away-from-me man." "People!" "This is no longer our hodza Halil..." "... but an away-from-me efendia!" "Get away from me!" "Away..." "Away..." "Away-from-me!" "I am away-from-me efendia." "I'm not a Halil for you and for your Osmanovics." "I was,but I will be never again!" "Get away from me!" "I've been a fool to come here!" "Read me that letter if you want me to interprete it for you!" "Here?" "!" "" I red everything and I know the truth." "Half-moon above Osmanovics can easy fall to Jugovics as a cross." "Death is there where you should thank to life." "You don't even suspect that you love those whom you will hate and that you will love those that others made you hate." "Don't search for what was found and don't lose what was lost." "It is certain that you are not what you are..." "...and that you are what you are not!"" "I received this paper with the letter." "He doesn't mention Osmanovics and Jugovics in the letter by accident." "He knows something!" "What do you know about Jugovics?" "I know that they were killed in revenge." "No one would touch them if their people haven't slaughtered everyone in Focha and Gorazde!" "My grandfather told me that Chetniks razed Focha to the ground!" "He barely escaped alive!" "Who are their people and who are our people?" "How can you separate between your people who is an executioner an who is an avenger and who started it first?" "What do you mean "between our people", efendia?" "What are you talking about?" "We were always separated." "They are they and we are we!" "Have a cigarette." "You are so puffed up." "If we're all ours, why there isn't a cross beside of a half-moon here?" "Hah?" "Do you know whom the Sultan granted this to?" "I don't know." "To my ancestor, Djuro Barbaric." "What Djuro?" "Are you mocking me, efendia?" "!" "Djuro, Djuro!" "My great, great, great grandfather Djuro Barbaric turned to Islam  and became Safet-beg Barbaric." "He turned to Islam because a Turk wanted to take his wife." "And in order to keep her he took our religion." "Efendia, I came here because of a letter and you're telling me about your origin." "I knew you were a fool and that you couldn't see a forest from a beech." "I am telling you about your origin." "About origin of the Osmanovics." "In Istanbul, together with Djuro, with my Djuro there was your great, great grandfather Ilija Jugovic." "What are you talking about, efendia?" "What Jugovic?" "Ilija, Ilija!" "You know that Christian children were turned to Islam and taken to janicar army." "That is how your Ilija became Alija and you, the Osmanovics descend from him." "How could you know that?" "I know." "How couldn't I?" "When he returned he bult this mosque in Osmanovics." "And to his parents he built a church in Jugovics." "The same church that was burned in 1942." "That is what they should told you about." "Your Rabiah and Nena Hihmeta." "They know as well as I do that the Osmanovics and the Jugovics were sponsors until the war." "Perhaps they were, but I am Osmanovic and I don't descend from some Ilija Jugovic." "What was your father's name?" "Husein." "His father's name?" "Kemal." "Who's son was Kemal?" "Sefkia's." "Further!" "Sefkia was Ibro's son." "Ibro was Rusid's son Rusid, Ekrem, Muslia, Adem and Alia!" "Further?" "There's no further." "There's no further." "The last one is Alia." "My grandfather tought me so." "Who's son was Alia?" "How could I know that." "Some Husein's, Kemal's..." "No." "Who's then?" "Well..." "I've already told you that." "He's parents were Cveta and Spasoje Jugovic" "If you go further to the past you will only meet names like this:" "Veljko, Milos, Dusan, Vidak, Gojak Momcilo, Vuk..." "And so on." "Serb by Serb all the way to Darvin's ape!" "Don' talk like that." "Does it mean that we should spit upon our religion and be what we are not and what we don't want to be!" "We are what we are and it can not be changed." "And who are we?" "Who are you then, uncle Halil?" "I am who I am and who I only can be!" "An offspring of Safet-beg and a servant of Alah  but an offspring of Djuro Barbaric as well!" "If I renounce Djuro, I would renounce Safet-beg also and according to that I would renounce Mohammedan religion." "I would cut my roots and become nothing and nobody eternal stranger and alien no matter what my name would be and no matter where would I live!" "Ooooo, Milutin!" "Here comes again!" "At the same time punctualy!" "Who is that Milutin?" "I have no idea." "What is with you?" "This Ljubo's bawling irritates me." "Every night at the same time." "Do your parents write to you?" "They do." "What do they say?" "They say that they miss me, that I should pack and go there." "Do you pack?" "What do you think?" "Hm?" "You herzegovian fool." "I'll start packing at very same day when I put you at that package." "Do you miss them?" "Aha." "You wouldn't go with me if I would maybe..." " I couldn't live my mother." "She has no one else but me." "And you?" " What?" "Do you have anyone else but her?" " I know, but there isn't life for her outside Osmanovics." "Does it mean that there isn't life for us too outside Osmanovics?" "Hm?" "Who is that guy?" " That is "oooo, Milutin!" guy." "I've imagined him totaly different." " Don't say!" "Why have you imagined him at all?" "Where are you, Alia?" "What's up?" " Halil." "Is there something new?" "Nothing." "People write to you?" "What do they say?" "Nothing." "Hah?" " They want to correspond with me." "I gave up from everything and already forgot it all." "Move a little bit." "Where are you Alia?" " This is Ljubo from Niksic, the one that you wind up your clock by." "I am Milica." "Nice to meet you." "Who is that Milutin?" "I dont know but you will be the first to know if he replies to me." "Why don't you dance?" "Alia doesn't dance." "I do." "Would you mind if I ask her for one dance?" "Ask her." " I don't need to ask." "Uuuuu, Sarajevo is a beautiful city." "But there isn't more beautiful place than my village by Doboj." "Did I tell you that I wanted to study medicine but I wasn't accepted so I went to study veterinary." "I don't regret about it, you know." "I spent more time with animals than with people anyways." "Hey, Montenegrin!" "Take it easy." "That is not wrestling." "This would be enough for this time." "Folks, shall we all go tomorrow to Kosevo to watch Sheky?" "Fuck Sheky." "In fourth grade of high school I had a kick so strong that I could kill every goal-keeper." "Yea." "Montenegrins always had good teams." "Take "Buducnost" for example." "As soon as it entered first league it already dropped out." "Shut up!" "Montenegrins don't live only in Montenegro." "Who is Sheky?" "Where is Vukicevic from?" "Vasovic?" "Where are they from?" "Why don't they return to Titograd then?" "Why do they play for someone else's teams?" "Those are not someone else's teams." "All from Kotor to Russia is ours." "You numbered three of them and satisfied half of Europe." "Why do you mention only three of them?" "Did we give Russians two princesses and five generals?" "Did you know that Kutuzov's grandfather was from Rovci?" "Did you know that we've borrowed Karadjordje to Serbs?" "Was there greater mind than Njegos?" "There wasn't." "Eh, you should come to Dragova Luka to see all that beauty." "It would be all clear to you." " A handful of hills and stones." "Devil and goats could break their legs." "I don't understand why do you vaunt so much?" "Because we are the first nation!" " Here, have a drink." "To clean up your throat!" "Every German knows that Bismark was descendant of a serbian people." "When Frankfurt newspapers want to deface Bismark they say: "That Slav diplomate..."." "All this and so much more  my great grandfather, Nikola Bozovic, have told to a Dutch itinerant." "All that was written in Amsterdam's library." "Do you now understand why do we vaunt?" "I bend my head." "I didn't know that your great grandfather was so educated." "Baby, did you know that our children skip elementary school and go to high school right away?" "Listen!" "If you are that smart why did you come to us to study?" "What "us" do you think of?" "Let it go, you two!" "We came here to have fun." "Some fun!" "Why do you defend him?" "He tells me fascist theories about serbian nation as the first and the best in the world all night!" "Citation, citation!" "I don't give a fuck about your complexes!" " Let it go,Alia!" "Ljubo jested a bit about our vanity!" "What "ours"?" " Yours, mine, his..." " Don't you involve me in that circle!" "I know who I am and what I am!" "Katarina is not my aunt nor Bismark is my compatriot!" "What is wrong with you?" "Why are you yelling?" " Get lost!" "Alia, wait!" "Why should I wait?" "Why should I wait?" "Stay with Bozovic and dance all night!" "Bismark's grandson is an oportunity for you." "And your aunt will like him." "Rabiah was right!" "Her every word is golden." "Every word." "Every word." "There is no more serbian girl, mother." "You're lieing!" "You're lieing to calm me!" "I'm not lieing." "I swear upon hodza's manuscript." "I'm not lieing!" "I have listened to my mother!" "You listen to a devil." "If you listened to me you would ask me about that announcement in news papers." "Everyone saw your picture." "Who knows what can fall to saomeone's mind." "Do you want me to lose you too?" "I know that Selim is alive." "How can you know that?" " I know." "I will find your other son for you." "Coleague!" "Have I forgotten my index at your place, maybe?" "I jus want to ask you one thing." "What did I do to deserve this?" "Why is Rabiah right?" "Live my mother alone, you know!" "Alia, what happened to you?" "What happened to me?" "I couldn't stand it anymore!" "I couldn't even dream about someone who knows so much how I feel standing against me!" "Who stood against you?" "You couldn't stand it anymore?" "!" "Should I watch out whole my life that you might not stand some foolishnesses and insult me in front of everyone?" "Can't we both be above it?" "I don't know what do you expect from me?" "I can't get out of my skin." "That is my life and..." "I want us to have our life and not just yours or mine." "Only you and me are important!" "Do you want us to spend whole our life digging in past?" " You made me do it!" "And you had to understand me." "I thought you would feel better." "That your dreams would calm but they became reality instead!" "If I didn't understand you I wouldn't have asked you to give up!" "Alia, you will make me go away!" "I don't know you like this!" "Where is that Alia who stole my index so he could give it back to me in the hallway?" "He is no more." "He never was." "So..." "Alia had found himself?" "!" "He knows who he should and who he shouldn't be with." "Exactly!" "We can never be the same." "There is a boundary there." "What boundary?" "Unmovable!" "Rabiah's and my boundary." "Rabiah and Rabiah!" "Boundary and boundary!" "Whole civilised world..." " Fuck the civilisation!" "I've seen your civilisation." "Impolite aunt, parents that you don't see their jobs are more important to them than you are!" "Damn be Rabiah's and your..." "Boss!" "These are my cousins from Yugoslavia." "They came to visit me." "I am Muzeir Veriga and this is my nephew Velija Dikanovic." "Welcome." "Please, sit." "Velija, you work in Frankfurt, don't you?" "Yes, I do." "How is there?" "I'm not complaining." "It's O.K." "My Hamdia wanted to go there to you but I didn't let him." "You did well." "He is not for Germany and our businesses." "Hamdia, why are you standing?" "Go bring some brandy to men." "Look at him!" "You have obviously spoiled my nephew." " He is very hard-working and honest." "It's a shame that you like him so much because we are here to take him." "Where to, if I may ask?" " To Sidney, Australia." "Time has come to sharp the knife,to make bombs and to prepare to be an Ustasha soldier." "Soon, our flag will swing again in Zagreb and Sarajevo." "Hamdia, show them their way out!" " Why, Sabahudin-aga?" "Show them if you don't want to go with them too!" "How could I betray and deceive my cousins?" "I swore to knife and bomb that I'll go all the way and that I'll revenge!" "Revenge who or what, my Hamdia?" "!" "It has all been revenged and over revenged!" "All debts have been paid!" "No, they haven't!" "Not all debts have been paid..." "...Atif Tanovic!" "Not the blood nor the store of Djordje Vilenjak was paid!" "Three of his brothers and two sons!" "Should that be forgoten?" "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "I am Risto Krivodolac from Herzegovina." "And this is Ognjen Barkovic from Cetinje." "What?" "You don't remember me without british uniform?" ""Bad luck"!" "British royal academy." "Their school..." "ITALY 1945." "...and our blood!" "He was assigned with british officers to reveal you!" "Where am I?" " You must be brave!" "Scars will stay but,what is more important, you're alive." "My box?" "Where is it?" "What happened to it?" "It's here, kept away." "Give it to me!" "Mister!" "Come closer." "I have something important to tell you." "Are we alone?" "You're free to speak." "This gentleman understands not a word of croatian." "Would you be so noble to do one paltry thing for me?" "For you it is just a move of a pen, but for me it is a big matter." "I will pay you abundantly." "Everything that is in my power,mister." " I want to change my name Britons don't know who I am nor where am I from for them, I'm just a number." "From this day I want to be someone else." "Why didn't you come long before?" "What did you wait for till now?" "No,no,no,no,no!" "We waited you to get rich enough." "And we waited Milan to grow up." "A nephew of Djordje Vilenjak." "I knew that someone survived!" "Why didn't you bring that Milan so he could sentence me?" "I owe to him, not to you!" "I am Milan, Sabahudin-aga!" "Hamdia, bring me that sealed letter from the safe." "Store, house and money." "I've already transfered it all." "It is all his now." "Who's, Sabahudin-aga?" "Who's, Atif-aga?" "Hamdia's." "Who's else it could be?" "Hamdia's?" "!" "To Milan!" "You'll transfere it to Milan!" "No!" "It was mine and now it's Hamdia's!" "I'll fuck your turkish mother!" "Take this, Milan!" "Kill the bastard!" "Give me that pistol,I'll do it!" "He is mine!" "Give me!" "He is mine, let me do it!" "I need to speak with him in private!" "In private!" "Give me that, my son." "At least our Hamdia should stay with clean hands." "Sit down." "Here's a key from the safe." "Here are the other keys." "It's all yours." "I would only ask you to,if you could, write a letter to our unlucky Alia." "I already did that,boss." " Wery well!" "Wery well!" "Now, go make us a coffee." "With rahatluk." "My Hamdia!" "May my Sabahudin-aga's soul rest in peace!" "I know nothing about it." "There were five of us since hodza Velija." "This is all that left behind him." "Examins, my efendia!" "Examins!" "I don't know what devil made me study medicine." "That is not for me." "Take kidneys out... take tonsils out..." "drink this for insomnia... swallow this for cold..." "They teach us to be watch-makers but man is not a watch." "I think everything, even a cold or insomnia, is joined with soul." "Alah takes care of soul, not you doctors." "Unbutton your shirt!" "I beg your pardon?" "Unbutton your shirt." "Raise your left arm." "Ah, my son!" "What is wrong, efendia?" "This would be schocking for you." "Can you handle it?" "I can." "Pass me that box." "Sit down." "Read this." " I know this." "We..." " Read it." "Read it." ""Child haven't cried when we sprinkled it with water." "It's obvious that it is from our breed." "It has it's mother's eyes and hair but father's shoulders, chest and arms." "Under the left..."" "Join this there and continue." ""Under the left arm-pit, there are three round, black moles, one under another." "Moles are at the same place like at his father Bratomir."" "Efendia!" "What is this?" "What Bratomir?" "What is this, efendia?" "That was written by father Nicifor Jugovic." "Your great grandfather." "I fed my cattles here hundred times at my own fireplace!" "May I be damn!" "What am I going to do now, uncle Halil?" "What ever you did till now." "Listen to him, what?" "What I do too." "I don't see the diference." "Diference is that you have your name, your father, your mother, your memories, your childhood..." "What do I have left?" "Ruins from outside and from inside." "What I had till now had all died from today." "It's all over." "And what I have found now, it's someone else's!" "It'll never be mine!" "Never!" "That is the difference!" "I can't go forward nor backward!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Our clothes are the same." "I just got used to mine long time ago." "I'm wearing the clothes of Safet-beg and Djuro Barbaric." "On my left foot there is Djuro's shoe, and on my left one there is Safet's shoe." "Only small and pathetic people think that they are not paired." "Whose shoes am I going to wear?" "Yours!" "Those that you were wearing till now." "Rabiah's and Ljubica's." "Don't unpair them." "Don't separate them." "One brought you to this world and other one fed you and raised you." "Young man?" "!" "Fed me, raised me and lied to me!" "My foot will never step to Osmanovics again!" "Get away from me!" "I will change my name." " Get away from me!" "Another blood is in me, and blood is most important!" "Blood is blood!" "It doesn't depend upon the hat you're wearing nor the god you're praying!" "Not upon the flag nor the name!" "You idiot!" "I'm wearing someone else's name, I learnt about someone else's customs..." "You can not erase past with one move of a pencil!" "You can't!" "I can't live as Jugovic and as Osmanovic." "One annuls and ruins the other!" "There..." "There is a..." "...boundary!" "There are no connections." "They're all broken." "There is one connection!" "All..." "Strong and unbreakable." "You just don't see it." "No one can break that connection." "You are that connection!" "You are that bridge!" "Here your great grandfather Nicifor served to God." "You cross yourself uncle Halil?" "May your souls rest in eternal peace!" "Martyrs!" "It was..." "And may it never be again!" "Let's go, my son." "Let's go Alija..." "...and Ilija..." "Jugovic." "Ana!" "Ana!" "Ana!" "Where is Milica?" "I'm looking for her all day!" "You don't know?" "What?" "Milica!" "Milica!" "Milica, can you hear me?" "Milica, please forgive me!" "Milica!" "I realized that I was wrong!" "Milica!" "You didn't realize anything." "Wait!" "Osmanovics!" "What have you done to me!" "SIX YEARS LATER." "Doctor!" "We arrived." "Ilija!" "Ilija!" "We arrived, doctor." "Give me my bag." " Here." " Don't wait for me." "Didn't we agree?" "No coffee and no smoking!" "Yah." "Agreed." "You were right." "That medicine of yours has no soul." "And you have no soul either." "We said that we won't talk about it." "Have some bread pap." "To pass away desire." "Nena Hihmeta made it for me." "I told you, enough with that." "My foot won't step to Osmanovics ever again." "It wasn't Rabiah's fault." "She didn't know that Osmanovics brought you from Jugovics." "She lived to get you on your way, to become a doctor." "You haven't visited her for six years!" "Shame on you." "They tell me that she's almost blind." "A cataract covered her eyes." "She has no use from her son being a doctor." "Who is it?" "Who is it?" "It's me." "Alija?" "!" "Mother." "Mother." "Alija." "Ilija, my son!" "Where have you been so long?" "Mother thought that she lost you too!" "You didn't!" "You didn't lose any of us." "We'll find him too." "My child!" "My sun!" "Blessed your mother from this day and for ever!" "Let me see your eyes." "A devil's cataract covered my eyes." "I can't see anything in distance." "A fly is before my eyes all the time." "You should have visited a doctor." "I hoped..." "What doctor?" "Nothing's wrong with me." "I'm fine." "You must have an operation." "What operation?" "They won't stick a knife into Rabiah's eyes." "I'll take care of everything." "You will remove that cataract and fix your teeth." "Alija!" "Lucky eyes that see you!" "Gourd to Alah." "You came..." " Hihmeta!" "Make us some coffee!" "Go, borrow somewhere." "We don't have ground." "Right away." "Are you hungry?" "Do you see Ambrah?" "No." "I don't." "What happened to her?" "Did she get married?" "She married Safet." "What Safet?" "The one..." "The one..." "Yes." "She is a high-school principal in Mostar." "Bajrica says that she drives a black limousine." "She has three children." "God bless her." "Mother..." "Why didn't you tell me, for God's sake?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "I thought I would lose you too." "You would leave." "You wouldn't even look behind." "Rabiah lost all that could be lost." "I had only you left." "You and no one else." "There are things on this world that must not ever be said." "It's better that way." "It hurts less." "But when it hurts, it hurts a lot." "You and me know it best." "We do." "Hah..." "A ser... serbian girl?" "Not a single day passes without me thinking of her." "All this years." "Your mother won't give you away." "BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 1993." "Are you sure that we're on the right way?" "It's the right way, doctor." "I know this area." "My parents brought me here every year for school vacations." "Moslem village?" "Is that your familly?" "Before the war they were people too." "If they were people Tito would build them road instead of this." "They're all Ustashas, my doctor." "Thank God they fell into Milos's hands." "Where he passes grass won't grow again." "Do you know how they sing?" ""Turks,prepare for Alah, here comes the volves of Milos"." "Doctor, do you need help?" " Hold his legs like this." "When they go back shoot them with burst fire." "Moslems!" "May the one who persuaded you to this fuck you all!" "Serbs!" "I fuck you into your brains!" "Get away from me, you scum." "Get away!" "Get away!" "Moslems, Serbs..." "I fuck your wars!" "Get away from me, you scum." "Get away!" "Efendia!" " Get away, you scum!" "Uncle Halil, get away!" "Get back here!" "Get back, doctor!" "Alija!" "Do you have children, my Alija?" " No, I don't have any." "You couldn't get over her?" "Come!" "Come, you motherfucker!" "Who are you,you motherfucker?" "My men should die because you're saving Turks!" "You killed a man like that, you criminals!" "Who are you?" "O.K. doctor." "Have you been sent here to save my soldiers or moslems?" "Are you ours or theirs?" "A physician can not choose who is he going to treat." "What are you?" "A pacifist?" "Why don't you sell that bullshit to them?" "A Serb is going to treat Serbs!" "He's been killed while he was rescuing the woundeds." "Look at him, doctor." "He was killed for hours." "Slowly." "First he was shot in the knee." "Than, a few shots in the body." "He lies a few meters from you, squealing, calling you..." "He kills himself or you kill him to end his suffering." "And, do you see this?" "This... is mine." "And see this,doctor!" "This is mine,too." "For every his wound I killed one of theirs." "In the same place." "That can make you go crazy." "Orphanage can make you go crazy, too!" "And knoledge that your mother was raped  a few hours after your birth, that all yours was slaughtered and burned." "You can go crazy because of nightmares and urinatings in bed." "That can make you go crazy!" "Do you now feel indifferent who you're going to treat?" "This can not be!" "What can not be?" "It can not be that you are what is written in here!" "This is forgery!" "You've been infiltrated." "What is wrong with you?" "Check this man immidiately!" " Yes, sir!" "You had no luck when you ran onto me." "Name!" "It is in my documents." "I don't care for your documents." "I asked you..." "Name?" "Ilija." "Last Name?" "Jugovic." "Father?" "Bratomir." "You're fucking with me, aren't you?" "Checked by telephone." "They say that everything is all right." "He is ours." "A second corps physician." "You can't do anything right." "Fuck the telephone." "Personaly!" "Check it personaly!" " Yes, sir!" "Doctor Ilija?" "Doctor Balija?" "Hah?" "Which one you are?" "There's no difference!" "Choose!" " There is difference  you motherfucker." "There is difference!" "You are not Jugovic!" "From father Bratomir and mother Ljubica." "And you?" "Who are you, Milos?" "You kill!" "Slaughter!" "That's what Ustashas do!" "Take your word back, you motherfucker." "I fuck the milk that fed you!" "Ustashas killed everyone to me!" "And to me!" "And to me!" "To you?" "To me!" "When and where?" "In Jugovics, at Gacko." "On christmas 1942." "Everyone!" "Don't lie to me!" " I don't lie!" "You're lieing!" "I'm not!" "You're lieing!" "I am not lieing!" "Do you know that I am from Jugovics?" "You?" "From what family?" "From Nicifor's family!" "From only family!" "Ustashas took me as a baby to Osmanovics." "Chetniks saved me!" "You are Selim!" "What Selim?" "What Selim?" "Selim..." "You are Selim." "What Selim?" "You are Selim!" "Selim!" "From father Husein and mother Rabiah!" "Selim Osmanovic." "My brother, Selim." "My brother, Selim." "Where am I going to go now and what am I going to do now?" "Where I go, my Selim." "With one Djuro's shoe and one Safet-beg's shoe and go where they take you." "Where ever Djuro's and Safet-beg's shoes take me they leave blood traces behind me." "I will kill myself!" "Who you're going to kill?" "Milos or Selim?" "Both!" "There's no going back!" "And there's no going forward neither." "Only blood is before my eyes and which one is mine...?" "Blood is blood." "It's colour nor taste doesn't depend upon the hat you wear, nor God that you pray to  not upon the flag nor name!" "How?" "How  not to be what I thought I was?" "We're all what we are not, and no one is what he is!" "And?" "Then what?" "I don't know." "Maybe someone will know!"