A wounded Milan is then shown in bed at a military hospital in Belgrade, where he taunts a wounded young Bosniak soldier in the neighbouring room, whom he threatens to kill if his friend in the next bed dies. Halil makes comments to Nazim about fleeing away rather than simply visiting his relatives as many of their belongings can be seen in their car and trailer, which Nazim denies. While Milan and Halil are taking a break, Nazim, a Bosniak neighbour of Slobo's, asks Slobo if he can look after his house while he is visiting his sister in Tuzla. During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, President Tito accidentally cuts his thumb with the scissors.Īt the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992, Milan ( Dragan Bjelogrlić), a Bosnian Serb, and his best friend Halil ( Nikola Pejaković), a Bosniak Muslim, live a quiet life in a small village in eastern Bosnia, playing basketball in front of a kafana owned by Slobo ( Petar Božović).
The film opens with a fictitious newsreel, showing the opening of the Tunnel of Brotherhood and Unity by the visiting President Josip Broz Tito and local dignitary Džemal Bijedić on 27 June 1971. The main time periods include the "present" with a hospitalized Milan, with flashbacks to both his childhood and his early adulthood in the 1980s until the war begins, and subsequent service as a soldier where he is trapped in the tunnel. The film features a non-linear plot line, and the scenes change between time periods from 1971 to 1999 which mostly cut back and forth in no particular order. Following the success of the movie, Bulić wrote a novel named Tunel that's essentially an expanded version of his magazine article. The plot was inspired by real-life events that took place in the opening stages of the Bosnian War, with the film's screenplay being based on an article written by Vanja Bulić for Duga magazine about the actual event.
Through flashbacks, the lives of the trapped soldiers in pre-war Yugoslavia are shown, particularly Milan and his Bosniak best friend Halil becoming enemies after having to pick opposing sides in the conflict. Set during the Bosnian War, the film tells the story of Milan, part of a small group of Serb soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak force.
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