Battle of Neretva (film)

Battle of Neretva SerboCroatian Bitka na Neretvi , Slovene Bitka na Neretvi , is a 1969 Yugoslavian partisan film. The film was written by Stevan Bulaji and Veljko Bulaji, and directed by Veljko Bulaji. It is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Battle of Neretva was first of the huge statesponsored World War II film productions. It had a staggering budget approved personally by Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. Different sources put it anywhere between 4.5 million andmillion. Global stars such as Sergei Bondarchuk, Yul Brynner, Franco Nero, Orson Welles, etc. flocked to communist Yugoslavia attracted by the huge sums of money being offered.Shot overmonths with funds put up in largest part by over 58 selfmanaged companies in Yugoslavia, the movie featured a combined battalion of 10,000 actual Yugoslav Peoples Army JNA soldiers. Four villages and a fortress were constructed for the film, and subsequently destroyed. Several armyinventory Soviet T34 tanks, touched up to look like German panzers, met the same fate. ........

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