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Before the Truth

Before the Truth

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Before the Truth

1968

1h 18m

6.4(7 votes)

Drama

Overview

Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose.

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Branko Pleša

Branko Pleša

Mladen Stojanović

Ljuba Tadić

Ljuba Tadić

Strahinja Petrović

Vesna Krajina

Vesna Krajina

Katarina

Olivera Marković

Olivera Marković

Vesa

Dragomir Felba

Dragomir Felba

Đorđe

Danilo 'Bata' Stojković

Danilo 'Bata' Stojković

Vođa bande

Mira Nikolić

Mira Nikolić

Prostitutka I

Nadežda Vukićević

Prostitutka II

Živka Matić

Đorđeva sekretarica

Rastko Tadić

Milicioner

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Directed by: Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac
Written by: Branimir Šćepanović

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