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Balkan Brothers

2005 · 87 min Comedy Drama
4.1 / 10 · TMDB

This is the story of the multinational and ethnically conflicted assembly of apatrides from war torn ex-Yugoslavia, hired by a crippled war merchant to sew labels upon fake jeans and participate in drug smuggling ring. Forced and humiliated into doing such work they are locked up in a Paris cellar where they find out that their Western fate brings even worse temptations then the war in Yugoslavia that made them leave the motherland.

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Original Title Balkanska braća
Year 2005
Country Canada, Serbia and Montenegro
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić
Runtime 87 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.1/10 (8 votes)

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The film constructs a bitter satire of the European dream, relying on situational absurdity and sharp dialogue. It explores the trauma of exile, where brotherhood is forged not by blood but by shared humiliation.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound unease about the price of survival in a world that trades one form of violence for another. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić

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