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Battle for southern railroad

Genre:
War film

Director:
Zdravko Velimirovic

Short description:
Partisans in southern Sebia and Macedonia get order, in Autumn of 1941. from the Headquorters, which requests constant disabling of traffic communications. Among them, tactically important are Nis-Skopje-Salonika and Nis-Pirot-Sofia railroads. The battle for this southern railroad, between the Partisans on one side, and German, Bulgarian and quisling formations on other, was ruthless and meant the strike on German communication system artery as well as contribution to faster freedom arrival.

Producer:
CFS Kosutnjak, Beograd, Avala Film

Writer:
Zdravko Velimirovic, Mladomir (Purisa) Djordjevic

Music:
Zoran Hristic

Cinematographer:
Stevo Radovic

Production design:
Miodrag Miric

Costume design:
Ljiljana Dragovic

Country of origin:
Jugoslavija, Srbija

Film editing:
Miodrag Petrovic

Duration:
106 minutes

System:
Standard, color

Premiere:
30.6.1978.



Cast:

Bogoljub (Boban) Petrovic
as Aleksa
Boro Begovic
as oficir za vezu
Bozidarka Frajt
Danica Kotarcevic
as Jelena
Danilo Lazovic
as major
Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra
as Stankovic
Dusan Djordjevic
as masinovodja
Dusko Vojinovic
as vojvoda
Marko Nikolic
as partizanski rukovodilac
Milos Kandic
as Nedja
Miodrag (Miki) Krstovic
as Dragi
Mladen Barbaric
as Robert
Nada Vojinovic
as Rosa
Neda Spasojevic
as opatica
Ratislav Jovic
as Banetov otac
Slavko Stimac
as Bane
Veljko Mandic
as gradonacelnik
Voja Miric
as bombas

Film database is created as a joint effort of following companies and organizations: "Balkan Media GmbH" Mannheim, Germany, " Balkanmedia d.o.o." Beograd, Yugoslavia
We are grateful to: "Avala Film Beograd", "Delta Video Beograd", "Centar film Beograd", Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Institut za film Beograd