National Hero Lily Vidic

2015 "Best comedy since 45th"
5.8| 1h50m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 31 December 2015 Released
Producted By: Zillion Film
Country: Croatia
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.havc.hr/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/ljiljan-vidic-s-baptism-of-fire
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This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.

Genre

Adventure, Comedy, War

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Director

Ivan-Goran Vitez

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Zillion Film

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National Hero Lily Vidic Audience Reviews

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Bojan Croatian movies lack humour, but I had high expectations on this one, since it's trailer was very promising. Unfortunately, the trailer has most of the best parts from the film. Can't say there aren't many (often verbal or written) jokes in the film, but they didn't make me laugh, just put a mild smile on my face or more often "I got this one" reaction. I mean - I can't say the film is bad, far from that - but it's hard to say it's good either. Some actors are great, usual Croatian problem of actors behaving like they are acting in a theater is not present, camera is OK, but I expected more from humour after I've seen trailer. People who aren't from former Yugoslavia will hardly get half of the jokes in the film, since they are local, and there are many small details that have to be noticed. So to summ it up - after watching the film for the first time I was not positive about it, but I watched it once again the day-two after, because I wanted to see some scenes again.
alex Turner Narodni heroj Ljiljan Vidic (national hero Ljiljan Vidic) is a pretty amusing croatian language comedy set in during World War II. It's about a young poet, Ljiljan who joins the communist partisans to help fight against the Nazis and Croatian fascists (ustashe). He and his partisan friends enter a talent show with the hope of assassinating Hitler. If you are looking for historical accuracy and gritty realistic look at WW2 look elsewhere. This is a broad spoof with allusions to modern pop culture, music and technology. The film can be vulgar at times and a little on the childish side but I found it amusing. I would recommend it if you are looking for wacky, irreverent comedy. The only issues for English speakers is that I'm not sure if there is an English subtitled version out and you might miss out on some of the jokes if you do not understand the context/culture. It's also surprisingly well shot and the costumes are well done.
romana23 This movie is packed with little jokes, it reminds me on old Monty Python films. It may have a strong local focus, so all the jokes may not be so easily understandable to public outside South-East Europe, although I think that everyone will laugh at "Lol". The film counts on younger public, but was fun for me, and I am 54.Characters are of a comic book style, do not expect a usual comedy, this film reminds on a video game, and needs full attention, so that all little details can be caught.For all youngsters - highly recommended, for others - also, if they still are young inside.
thepuzzlingcentaur This movie had its bright sides, but overall it is yet another boring Croatian movie. It is a terrible satire with very few cheap laughs. The whole theatre chuckled a few times, but remained quiet (and deadly serious) for most of the time. Scenes with Pavelić were wasted opportunities and people in the theatre only wondered what the hell is going on when he arrived. Lots of high school Croatian humour (note: "Croatian humour" is a lack of humour in my book) References to modern brands, modern technology, shopping centres , internet culture and TV shows were the best part and even they were sometimes completely unoriginal. I understood the satire perfectly, but it really wan't clever. It wasn't great. Trailers and "Heil Katze" video uploaded by News Bar on Youtube were better than the whole movie, so if you watched those, you have seen the funniest bits. Feel free to skip the most boring parts and skip the 2 hour long snorefest of a movie with a story that felt too long and not complete at the same time. I understood the ending....but I did not like it.3/10-What's wrong with you Croatia, why can't you produce decent movies? Serbian filmmakers do not have Hollywood budgets but they make decent movies all the time. It's like the whole film industry died in Croatia after the war.