Ivan Đurić

Dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous Balašević song. The story of a man who didn't have the courage to stand for the one he loved.

In the summer of 1991 the war broke out in Croatia. In a holiday house in Fruška Gora hills in Serbia, near the border with Croatia, a group of young people are having a birthday party. They try to have some fun and act like nothing is going on. The party is shattered by the war. They can hear the artillery, but something is also happening between them. Inevitably, some of the boys end up on the frontline and everyone of them is effected by the war that is starting to rage. "The Party" is about individual destinies of the characters trapped in isolated house in hills and surrounded by growing paranoia of the officially not yet declared war.

A famous businessman and war crime suspect is targeted by a young hit-man, a skilled sniper. Under unbelievable circumstances, only a half-hour after the shooting, the hit-man meets his baby sister. He hasn't seen the little girl for years. He learns that their mother is fighting for her life in a city hospital. Soon after seeing his dying mother, the young hit-man finds out his attack was unsuccessful. The businessman's been badly wounded and the doctors are trying to save him in the same hospital... The second attempt takes an unexpected twist.