The Ambush

1969
7.8| 1h20m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 30 June 1969 Released
Producted By: Filmska Radna Zajednica (FRZ)
Country: Yugoslavia
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Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.

Genre

Drama, War

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Director

Živojin Pavlović

Production Companies

Filmska Radna Zajednica (FRZ)

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The Ambush Audience Reviews

Protraph Lack of good storyline.
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
pscamp01 It's hard to review this movie since it seems to require a knowledge of post-WW II Yugoslavia that I don't have. I certainly enjoyed it but was never able to escape the feeling that I was missing important points. The movie is set (I think--it's never made explicit) in the days right after WW II and is about a high school student who is a member of the communist party but is witness and participant of a number of incidents that make him question the motivation of his fellow party members. It is hard to believe that a movie that cynical about how the communists took over was able to be made in a communist country. (Although there are many close ups of pictures of Stalin so I got the impression that the director was laying a lot of the blame of the excesses of the period on him.) The story is told with a lot of humor and with short jerky scenes that often raise more questions than they answer. Bonus points for lots of great folk music, which would be reason enough to watch even if the rest of the movie wasn't so enjoyable.