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Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Unknown
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Genres : Drama
Release date : Jun 27, 1985
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
A story about war-disabled combatants that fought in Serbo-Turkish wars in 1876-1878. Left on their own and without limbs, they became beggars - a burden for the state that doesn't pay attention about them. Their destiny depends exclusively on people who feel sympathy. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors. When they are both in a car a child runs in front of it and makes him crash the car killing the nurse.
19-year-old Ludwik joins a secret anti-Austria organization.
Patricio has break up with his wife, they won't let him see his daughter and he's financially broke. The possibility of rebuilding his life, a new love, recovering his family and a nuclear threat are intertwined in an unexpected ending.
When fiction novelist Adrian Aytese falls terminally ill, he lets his sister Paige in on a secret book he scripted in a journal. The book details his exhaustive search for a mysterious lady of his past dreams.