Don't Look Back, My Son Explained

Don't Look Back, My Son
Native Name:Ne okreći se, sine
Director:Branko Bauer
Starring:Bert Sotlar
Zlatko Lukman
Music:Bojan Adamič
Cinematography:Branko Blažina
Editing:Boris Tešija
Studio:Jadran Film
Runtime:111 minutes
Country:Yugoslavia
Language:Serbo-Croatian

Don't Look Back, My Son (Serbo-Croatian: Ne okreći se, sine), also known as My Son, Don't Turn Round in the United States, is a 1956 Yugoslav film by Croatian director Branko Bauer. It is based on a children's novel of the same name by Arsen Diklić.[1]

In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be the eighth greatest Croatian film ever made.[2]

Plot

During World War II, engineer Neven Novak, a member of the illegal partisan resistance, escapes from a train with which the Ustashe are transporting prisoners to Jasenovac. After a successful escape, he tries to rescue his son Zoran, a boy who has been indoctrinated into Ustasha and Nazi-fascist ideology, from the Ustasha children's home in Zagreb. When Zoran learns that his father is an enemy of the regime, he refuses to flee with him to partisan territory. Novak is faced with his son's resistance and increased pressure that the police and agents are placing on him.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baza HR kinematografije . 2023-11-06 . hrfilm.hr . hr.
  2. News: "Tko pjeva, zlo ne misli" najbolji hrvatski film svih vremena! . Croatian . . 1999-11-28 . 2013-02-08.