"MANHUNT after the novel by Mihailo Lalic" "Under the orange tree a herd of lambs sleeps" "Oh, on my lambs fall blossoms from the tree in vain" "My lambs can not be awoken" "My lambs have been slaughtered!" "My dead lambs are covered with blossoms" "But, no in front of the tyrants, warm tears of pain will not be shed" "Our pain is stirred like black coal in a furnace" "Win or die like a man." "Doctor Zavisic has arrived." "Is that you Kacak?" "You tell him." "Bayo tells you" "You must hold your position on the left bank of the river all the way to the mills." "Italians must be kept on the other side of the Lim river at any cost" "Good evening gentlemen, communists." "How do you do?" "Pretty bad, doctor." "Since you have gone to Juzbasic we don't have a doctor." "Let's get to the point." "We don't have much time." "What's the rush, Bayo?" "To the bright future?" "No, we want to skin your commander as soon as possible." "For all his evil doings until now and in the future." "You see, the commander has a different oppinion." "What's his oppinion?" "The same as mine." "That is..." "There's been enough bloodshed among us and we have one last chance to reach a fair agreement." "As long as you're allies of the Italians that's out of the question." "We are not their allies, they are our allies." "Anyway, that might not be the case in the future." "Well, well..." "Laughter won't get you too far, Bayo" "So, what's your proposal, doctor?" "To organize a meeting and make a plan how to fight the enemy together." "You decide." "You're a secretary of the Communist party committee." "And the commissar of the partisan unit." "I'd like to try." "We agree." "Where should we meet?" "On some neutral territory." "Your choice." "In the house of Veljko Lalovic." "Tomorrow morning." "OK." "Good night." "You'll go there, Vidric and Aco." "I can't make it, Bayo." "My shoes are destroyed." "Then Savo should go." "You Slobo should carry medicine to Gara." "Davor, take two men, you're coming with me." "Where are you going, Ivan?" "To the village." "Without Vlado?" "He's on patrol." "If he comes back tell him" "I'm waiting for him in the house of Veljko Lalovic" "Son, help mother to tend to the wounded." "Yes, daddy." "Take this." "Hurry up, it's a long way to the hospital." "She'll go with us." "I knew I had the best brother in the world." "C'mon." "So, you are ready to do whatever is needed?" "Nena, I already did what you needed." "I made you a child." "I don't blame you." "It's our child." "I had enough of these stories that I'm barren." "Vlado, you have no idea how I felt when everybody, even relatives spoke that I'm not worth a dime." "That no childrens' crying will ever be heard from my house." "What does your father-in-law say?" "I don't care." "He suspects." "What else could he do?" "It's been more than a year since the Germans took away my husband." "At least he doesn't rape me anymore." "I'm waiting for the moment when they throw me out, like a whore." "Are you leaving?" "I must go." "So, I'm just brief affair for you." "You came and went away." "The whole world is temporary today." "Hand it to the guests." "I don't get why they haven't arrived yet." "First they were with Mussolini and now they want to be with us." "I just don't know why." "To stop the bloodshed amongst brothers." "That's what Dr Zavisic said." "I don't believe a word of it." "I hope they don't have some other plan." "We'll see about that when they come." "If they come." "The chetniks are coming with the Italians." "Where?" "I saw them on the road, three trucks with soldiers." "That's not good at all." "Veljko Lalovic!" "Surrender your weapons or we'll destroy the village." "Communists, surrender!" "The village is under siege!" "If you don't come out with your hands up, we'll burn the village!" "It's a trap." "Do you understand?" "We must get out." "Communists!" "You have 30 seconds to get out." "If you don't surrender we'll burn the village." "Is there any other option?" "There is no other option." "One!" "Two!" "Three!" "Four!" "Five!" "Six!" "Seven!" "Eight!" "Search the premises!" "Here, sir!" "Let's go!" "Whose rifle?" "It belonged to my deceased husband." "He died two years ago." "You lie!" "Your husband could not have a German military rifle!" "Get out!" "Release Davor." "OK, Bekic." "Get on the truck communists." "Did you hear what he told you?" "Get on the truck!" "Vlado, go home." "Go home." "Is this because I'm your godfather?" "You spit on my cheek." "You don't have a cheek!" "You set a trap for us!" "Thank you, godson." "You joined the nice wedding party, commander!" "Like bride, like wedding party." "Communist pig!" "Take him away!" "Dr Zavisic, it's over." "All went well." "Run away, Ivan!" "Bastards caught us unprepared." "They slaughtered our unit like sheep!" "Hurry up, Bayo." "You're as slow as a snail." "Juzbasic would like to capture secretary of the committee." "You can't expect honesty from that bearded fool who sold himself to Italians for a handful of macaroni." "Yug is dead." "They captured Veljko and Vlado." "I'm the only one to come back from the negotiations." "How come Vlado was with you?" "Wasn't he on patrol?" "He came to tell us for a treason, but too late." "I wish I could lay my hands on Vlado." "His affair with that woman is embarrassing!" "Never mind about that." "Who knows if he's alive?" "Quiet!" "Somebody's coming." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Where from, doctor?" "From honest negotiations." "I warn you." "He's spreading the king's ideology in these hills." "Bayo, who's this?" "The president of the National comittee for this county!" "A former communist who became a nationalist." "A traitor!" "Pardon me, mister Panicic, but convictions are not eternal." "So, the times are changing and convictions too." "Who's this?" "They call me the Count." "Forced conscription to cavalry." "What are we gonna do with him?" "Let him go." "What else?" "Get lost!" "And take the doctor with you." "Let your commander see the destiny of his ideologists." "Get going, before I do what I should have done!" "Come on!" "Arso!" "Catch!" "My condolences, Mrs. Zavisic." "Thank you." "Thanks to you too!" "I'd like to stay alone." "I feel better now." "I don't know what happened to the others." "They escaped or surrendered." "Over 100 men are missing." "Come on, don't cry like a woman!" "Why don't we go to our hospital." "There's enough space for all of us." "Food as well." "As long as we are healthy we should stay in this area." "We will hide underground in the dugouts." "Is that so?" "Buried alive!" "Instead of going to Bosnia and joining our forces there." "We'll end up in a grave sooner or later, anyway." "I'm against it as long as we have a choice." "We'd better attack the bandits instead of hiding in the holes like mice." "That's right!" "It's easier when we're in the open." "We are not leaving this area!" "Hide in the dugouts." "Ivan, what are we gonna do with Gara?" "She stays in the hospital, with Vuk." "You Pasko, join the Italian militia." "We must have our man among them." "I'm not selling myself for a handful of macaroni." "We don't want to hide in the holes, but we must." "If you could only know, signor Achille, how many communists I sent to the other world." "Take a look." "Take this too, so you can have dozen on your list." "Don't listen to them, signor Achille." "They all envy me." "Let's go, signor." "Get out!" "Hurry up!" "Get up!" "Where are you taking us at this time?" "Shut up, scumbag, or I'll..." "Run!" "Who's shooting in the middle of the night?" "One of them escaped." "What a ..." "Slut Madonna!" "We are taking them to the concentration camp." "You couldn't find the better moment to embarrass me!" "Now, when we are on our way to Bosnia to exterminate the communist scum." "Finish your job!" "Take aim!" "Fire!" "About-turn!" "Forward march!" "Here's milk, grandpa." "Mother, there comes Vlado." "What happened to you?" "They shot me." "I barely escaped." "Got some brandy?" "For your wound?" "No, for my soul." "Call grandpa." "Tell him to bring skin." "Brandy too." "What does Pasko say?" "Juzbasic killed them all." "That's revenge for doctor Zavisic." "He's about to attack our supreme headquarters in Bosnia." "We have to do something to keep the chetniks here." "That's what I'm talking about." "Vule, bring orders to Vidric." "and stay in his dugout." "Tell him we are going into action tomorrow." "As long as we are here Juzbasic will not go to Bosnia." "Hurry up." "Bayo, I'd like to see Gara and our child." "I'd also like to visit the village." "It's good to know what the people say." "People should not forget that we are alive." "You guys talk a lot about people." "Every time you want to evade the directive people are the reason." "Your beard is hardly an obstacle when you have to pass as a chetnik." "Wait a minute, Bayo." "Let's talk." "We have nothing to talk about." "Where is the meeting point if we have to run away from the dugout?" "Racva is behind us." "If we need the meeting point that's the best place." "We'll see what happens." "Vule, it's ready." "Let's go." "Janko, why aren't you happy with our success?" "They'll chase us now, instead of going to Bosnia." "That's what we want." "I'll ask you what we want when the snow falls and they start hunting us like rabbits." "Someone's there." "Who's there?" "Slobo, it's me." "Your sister." "Vlado is with me." "Christ among us!" "Yes he is." "Merry slava (Patron saint of the family)." "Happy slava." "Here you are, brothers." "Help yourselves." "What would you like, commander?" "Merry slava, Philip." "Where have you been?" "On reconnaissance duty." "I believe I saw smoke from the communist dugouts in Karatali." "Well I smelled some cooked cabbage." "Now it's clear to me that this morning near Zitnjak was Shako Celic and some other guy." "So, you telling me that now, when I'm eating." "I didn't want to disturb you, I wasn't sure." "Very nice." "What's nice?" "Soon they'll find a shelter in your barn and deliver a speech, perhaps." "To the headquarters, immediately!" "We should prepare an attack!" "As soon as possible." "Take good care of the communists." "Perhaps you'll need them, Bekic!" "You never know what the future brings!" "Make sure someone resupplies them with ammo." "They've been shooting at us a lot, lately!" "This is your area and your responsibility!" "Gather all available militiamen and organize a chase." "Dedovic, you know what you have to do." "Yes sir!" "These communists are crazy." "What?" "Why did they have to destroy those telephone poles?" "If they only waited another three days," "Juzbasic would have gone to Bosnia" "No one would have bothered them until spring." "But they have to sacrifice themselves." "Our commies for their comrades in Bosnia." "Commies in Bosnia sacrifice themselves for comrades in Moscow and commies in Moscow for the entire world and the future generations." "If they want to sacrifice themselves" "I'll show them that telephone poles are state property." "The state wants order and every pole is worth one head." "One pole, one head, pole, head 'till the end of the telephone line." "You three take your rifles and go to Karatali." "Find from where the smoke came from and where you can smell cabbage." "Wait there until I come to kill the vermin." "I left my son Luka with grandpa." "I don't want to give the impression that I'm in a safe place just because I want to be together with my child." "This is a pleasant thought." "What would you eat if we didn't bring this meat?" "You see, Milan, it's much better when a woman is in the house." "You're not going to get married, are you?" "I would marry even a filthy whore, but the priest refused his services." "Why do you need a priest, are you sick?" "Bayo won't forget Vlado." "Why are you scratching yourself, Vlado?" "'Cause he's got an itch." "If Bayo gets you he'll expell you from the Party like a leper." "Hey Ivan, do you know why Bayo misses me so much?" "He heard about your wedding and wants to congratulate you personally." "My wedding is my private affair." "He's not the bridegroom, I am." "Bless you." "At least for myself I have a free choice." "Sometimes it's not a private affair, it depends on circumstances." "So, we have to marry according to principles of dialectical materialism and Hegel." "Thesis" "Antithesis" "Synthesis" "Come on, enough of those student's stories from Belgrade." "I told you what I think and I didn't have to tell you." "Discuss that with Bayo." "If there's enough time for that." "You mean they'll chase us and there won't be enough time?" "Are you scared, Ivan?" "On Friday you should stay out of the pubs." "On Saturday if you stay away from women, alcohol and knives you'll live to see Sunday." "Sunday is reserved for important events:" "fire and brawling" "Don't worry I'll take care of myself." "I'm going to the barn." "See you." "Goodbye, Matia." "Good afternoon." "Where are you going, woman?" "Down there." "We are all going down there." "Even if we go in some other direction, we end up down there." "Where are you from?" "I'm from Medja." "I must find wheat." "Eather to buy it or borrow it." "I'm going in same direction." "Is village Kopitare far away?" "It's a valley." "Quite a journey." "However, the village is not called Kopitare but Karatali." "Karatali means black fortune in Turkish." "Our people call it Kopitari." "There is a lot of snow up there and you are weak." "I'll manage somehow." "You heard about the dugouts?" "Yes." "We'll chase them tonight and with God's blessing we'll catch them alive." "You know the orders of the Italian headquarters." "You'll decide how to carry them out." "For Christ sake, leave me alone, cop." "These are my communists and my nuisance." "You don't understand it and stop poking your nose in it." "Hey, Savo, did Bekic's men go to Karatali?" "I hope so." "Silence!" "What's that?" "The devil's business." "What could that be?" "The dogs are not alone." "Your shoes are too dry, Bayo." "You won't be able to walk on the snow." "Hurry up, Bayo!" "Take it." "You've been told not to dry your shoes." "I won't get anywhere with this pace." "Halt!" "Bayo is missing." "Should we go back?" "No, I'll go back, You go to Rachva." "Vlado." "Vlado." "Vlado." "Look at the Count, he walks like on promenade." "Hey, Count, going to morning service?" "Aren't you too early?" "Shut up, assholes!" "You're affraid of the communists and you think it's better that they hear us in time." "Isn't it?" "Wake up." "Wake up." "Somebody's coming." "Look!" "Footsteps in the snow!" "What is it?" "They got out." "The Count scared them!" "That's how it is when I'm leading counts and shitheads instead of men." "It's a fresh trail, they can't be far away." "There's a woman here!" "Is she dead?" "No, she's alive." "This must be Gara." "Who are you?" "Nedeljka, they call me Neda." "I'm from Medja." "We'll see if that's true." "Does anyone know her?" "I do." "I showed her the way to Opuch, but it looks like she got lost." "Who told you to direct people to Turkish villages?" "No one." "If it doesn't cost me anything to do a favor to someone that's what I usually do." "Every favor is at someone's expense." "If you wanna do a favor to someone, do it at your own expense." "Take her down." "Where to, Bekic?" "Lock her in my house." "We'll check later how come she strayed over here." "But poor woman can't walk." "The Count can carry her, otherwise he's useless." "Where's that chickenshit from the puddle." "Come here womanizer." "Bring the stretcher!" "Get them off my neck." "I don't hear them anymore." "It looks they've gone." "Let's get out of here." "God dammit, they've been on our roof!" "A miracle saved us." "They could have slaughtered us like chicken." "Forget about it." "There they are." "Come on!" "Where are you going?" "Don't run away!" "Come back!" "Come back!" "Bitches!" "You'll pay for this, bastards!" "Philip!" "Are you crazy?" "What are you doing?" "Wanna kill some scum, so they can't run away!" "If you kill them what are you gonna do later?" "I don't care about later, I don't know what to do now." "What do you say, Davor?" "If we just threw a couple of handgranades, even their lice wouldn't survive." "It's that woman's fault." "She spoiled everything." "She's been looking for them." "Bitch!" "She'll pay for this dearly, when we come back." "She won't be pregnant anymore." "We own their house." "Now you can exterminate them, Philip Bekic." "Either we kill them, or they'll kill us." "There's no tomorrow, we have to do that today." "Two rifles are not enough." "I would know how to do that, if I were a commander" "Since you are commander, you should find him." "I don't want my family to suffer." "I don't want to be dishonored because you allegedly saved me then and now you pushed me into this." "You treacherous rotten kind." "You'll be sorry for this." "You'll be hunting them until your eyes turn white, Philip Bekic, or I'll be hunting you." "Do you understand?" "No retreat!" "Until now, you have been dragging me." "From now on, I'll be dragging you!" "You'd like to shoot me in the back, eh?" "So, you can say later to Vidric that you intentionally changed side." "Isn't that so?" "I know you and I know everyone of you." "I wonder what happened to Bayo and his men?" "Maybe they've been vanquished." "Bayo has few men." "Four rifles and no machine guns." "I have to shave." "I don't know why I have a beard in the first place." "If I get killed I don't want to be found with the beard." "People will talk funny stories about me." "It could have bad influence on men." "They could see that as a bad sign." "You see that their morale is not exactly high right now." "Sit on those stumps." "Hungry?" "Not even thinking about it." "What about you?" "I'd like to swallow something hot as long it's not hot lead." "We'll survive this, perhaps." "Sure we will." "Vera, if one of us get killed... the other one has our son, Vuk." "Even if we both get killed the child is ours, anyway." "It's easier to us than to people without children." "Are we allowed?" "Yes we are." "Even when it get's worse." "It looks like it's gonna be worse." "Wanna hear that poem." "Under the orange tree a herd of lambs sleeps" "Oh, on my lambs fall blossoms from the tree in vain" "My lambs can not be awoken" "My lambs have been slaughtered!" "My dead lambs are covered with blossoms" "Vlado." "That guy is crazy." "He always finds the best place to be shot at." "I'll go and see if we can get her to the hospital." "What was that?" "Good luck." "They met and now they are killing each other again." "Do you know if Vlado is alive?" "I don't know who Vlado is." "You have enough of your own troubles." "You better forget about the troubles of other people." "You should go back to where you came from." "I have to stay here to make sure the partisan girl doesn't escape." "I wonder which devil sent you here." "I hope dogs will chew your bones soon." "There's the one that sent me here." "You should curse him." "What do you think, Dusan?" "Me?" "Yes." "Nothing." "We have to move to Rachva." "There's no other option." "Let's go." "I'm worrying about others." "We split into three groups." "We'll gather again." "I'm not sure if that's a good idea." "Where are you going, communists?" "We want to pass through." "You can't pass with your weapons." "If we surrender weapons what happens to us?" "We'll see about that." "It's on the Italian headquarters to decide." "Now the other one." "Dead or alive." "Come on!" "How long are they gonna chase us?" "Motherfuckers!" "They'll stop." "There's not enough of them." "Soon there will be a classless society." "But we can't wait for that here." "Want some bread?" "No." "I have had enough of peasant's food." "You should shave that beard, Ivan." "Slobo, give me that razor." "The time has come to end my priesthood." "We delayed Juzbasic and spoiled his plans." "If the other groups achieved as much as we did, that's enough." "No one should keep letters or anything else that might connect us with our families and cause them problems." "What's wrong with you today?" "You're jinxing us." "Instead of the old bourgeois society with its classes and its class struggle an association will be formed in which free development of each individual is necessary condition for the free development of all." "I know all these things." "I've had enough of them." "They can go to hell!" "Classless society will take place after the revolution." "Sounds like a suspicious idea." "Something like the Christian heaven that comes after Judgement Day." "We have our saints too." "Bayo Banicic thaught he's one of the saints." "He wanted to send us to the dugouts at any cost." "Like in the catacombs." "Comrades that will come after us will turn these dugouts into little museums that will be interesting for tourists." "They'll exhibit our weapons and your booklet too, Vule." "A couple of photographs will hang on the wall." "That might resemble an iconostasis." "Just like in a village church." "If someone took a picture of you with that beard you could take place of Jesus on that iconostasis." "We want a revolution but we don't have workingmen." "We rely on peasants and they betray us and switch sides." "Then wait for the snow to shut us in Bayo's dugouts so they can hunt us like weasels in their dens." "Ivan!" "Vlado!" "Where's Bayo?" "I told Bayo we'll gather again." "What about Kachak?" "Is he alive?" "Where are the others?" "What are we gonna do now?" "Carry him inside." "Here they come." "Chetniks!" "They couldn't wait, bastards!" "Down the brook, men!" "They are running away!" "Wait, Vlado!" "You won't get far!" "Hurry up, catch them!" "Why don't you shoot?" "Have you seen your godson?" "Mind your own business!" "You hit Vulo Marketic!" "Be proud of it!" "Keep them under constant fire, I want to help Vulo." "Wait!" "Leave me." "It's over for me." "Tadic." "Go with your men to Kobilje." "You two, go over the hill to Rachva and set an ambush there." "A finished job has no bad sides." "The foulness of that scum has no measure!" "You better mind your own business!" "That's what I'm doing." "Give me ten men to pick up the dead." "You." "Call the boys, then go with him." "Forgive me God for I have sinned when I said that you don't exist." "I repent now." "Dear God, Great and Almighty" "Make their bullets miss me." "I have two children." "Don't make them orphans like I was." "Protect me for my children's sake." "Cover me with your hand." "Now you can see how far we have come." "Whom should I believe!" "Always jammed when I need it most." "If my machine gun betrays us, God's aunt can't help us." "They got him." "How can it be?" "They got him for good." "Dammit." "Slobo's dead!" "He's dead." "What are you looking at?" "I'm out of ammo." "Come on." "Come on, what are you looking at?" "Wait Ivan, I'll tell them to hurry up." "Arso, give me the knife." "Cut it." "What?" "Cut it!" "I can't." "Can't what?" "I can't, Ivan!" "Give me the shirt." "Shirt from the rucksack to dress the wound and to spill tobacco on it." "That's it." "The others are dead." "We knew it before we started, Vlado." "Let's go." "They won't get me." "No way." "Too much of this!" "Should we go or should we stay?" "I don't know what to do." "Let's go." "Come on." "Leave that machine gun, you're out of ammo." "Throw that shit away!" "Well, that's Arso." "What happened to you, Arso?" "What happened?" "Arso." "They killed Slobo!" "I can't, I can't." "Things didn't go according to plan." "Where are we going now?" "To Bosnia." "We have no other option." "C'mon." "Hurry up." "Hurry up, Arso!" "Hurry up." "What do you think whose trail was that?" "What trail?" "The trail near the dugout." "I hope they didn't catch her." "Who?" "That woman that came there." "I saw small footsteps." "It must be a woman." "Let's disperse!" "We are dispersed already!" "It can't be worse." "I want to sing you a song, dear brothers." "Song about a night and how that night was." "That night was shameful and rare" "Surrender, Vlado!" "You're surrounded!" "No one can save you!" "Throw that in the brook." "Fater!" "Faster!" "Let's go." "Is that Gara, that whore?" "Huh?" "Pick up the rest and take them to town." "Let the people see them." "Bestial!" "Bestial!" "Me want see hatred!" "Unload them." "What are you doing people?" "Colonel wants to take some photographs." "Leave these two here." "They are ours." "The people went crazy." "Oh, my God." "Will anyone remain sane after all this?" "Why are you shooting?" "Have you gone mad?" "There are two of them alive down there!" "Alive?" "How come?" "It must be some miracle." "Up there everybody!" "Faster!" "Dirty bastards." "We can't take a break." "If one of us gets wounded... the other one should kill him." "You don't agree?" "I agree if you really want it that way." "It's not that difficult." "There's Bekic!" "Should we drop him?" "Let's send him a couple of bullets to part his fat belly." "Have some of this, godfather!" "Call a truck." "He must go to the hospital as soon as possible" "Move aside, I'm on my way to the doctor." "Here's your Vulo, Matia." "What you gonna do with the others?" "We'll bury them." "Let's bury them all together." "We should not separate them." "That'll be sinful deed." "Since they died together, let them rest in peace together." "Why are you sniffing me?" "I don't understand." "Don't talk like that, Philip." "He's a doctor." "If he's a doctor why doesn't he do something." "What did he say?" "He can't do anything here." "We must go to the hospital." "Let them go with God." "This is Bekic's land." "We took this land with a rifle in our hands." "I'm still alive." "You'll stay alive, Philip." "The Italians will take care of you." "I won't." "I won't..." "C'mon, they've come to take you to town." "Don't be afraid, Pasko is here." "Thank you, mam." "Thank you for all you've done for me." "I'll be grateful to you as long as I live." "Hopefully all ends well." "The rest is not important." "Forgive them God" "Just how fast are these robbers ?" "Hey, stop!" "Bastard!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Where the devil you're going?" "Halt!" "No." "Don't!" "Stand back!" "You stink!" "So, you can do it with the communists." "Don't push me!" "You stink!" "You ain't a flower either." "You know that." "What are you talking about?" "Leave me alone!" "You'll want it, now!" "Go away!" "You'll want it." "I'll explain to you all." "Step by step." "Leave me alone!" "Get away from me!" "Leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "She's in labor!" "I have to cut boy's birth cord." "Find something." "Here's a pair of scissors." "Find something I can use instead of a diaper for this little boy." "Find some rag." "Something." "Anything." "Where are you going young bride?" "I don't know." "We are going too." "Bring our things." "Take a look at this, Vlado." "Son of a bitch." "What are we gonna do now?" "Same as before." "What else?" "Who's that?" "Gypsies." "What time is it?" "An abominable time." "The most disgusting 20th century" "I ask you brother" "Have you took a rest after long battles?" "Dear brother, you have many wounds." "You have more wounds than years." "More pains than days." "Translated to English by:" "Shaban (for KG) 2013"