Based on a novel by
Branko Ćopić and set during
World War II, the film tells the story of a
Bosnian Serb village in the mountains of
Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing
ideological lines in the face of the Axis
invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, represented by the royalist
Chetniks and the communist
Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander nicknamed Španac (lit. "Spaniard", played by
Mustafa Nadarević) and a former
Royal Army officer Miloš Radekić (played by
Branislav Lečić). Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new
communist ideology, and so the main plot revolves around the conflict between them. ==Cast==