written and directed by: Zelimir Zilnik 
camera: Milivoje Milivojevic 
edited by: Kaca Stojanovic 

production: Panfilm, Pancevo 

The film consists of  three basic motives: 
1. It is the folk (shown in the film), who carried on war with their own hands, started  the change from capitalism to socialism and lived on breaking up the earth. The folk live and they are not upset: they never lilved in better conditions. They were witnesses as long as the king ruled over the country, and when he fell, fascism marched over the folk. But they fought and survived, even the Russians came and parted again. The folk are the basis out of which I anticipate the right answer to any crisis. 

2. Such a film about a war includes  also the social status  of its participants - into a dialogue of memories with the real life of today. 

3. There should be made an end with the cinematographical manipulation of the war subject. The films created in this way are often so privileged, so spectacular and expensive, so strikingly without the  participation of the people, that you really lose the conviction that there could ever be made an honest, true and simple film about the Yugoslav war and the Yugoslav revolution. 

My film shows that we have people who made war and revolution out of their own forces. This folk should be  made the main hero of the films about  war and revolution subjects. 

Zelimir Zilnik, at  the festival in Oberhausen, 1973 (19.Westdeutche Kurzfilmtage 'Weg zum Nachbarn') 

Der Film kehrt zuruck zur Thematik des Partisanenkampfes der jugoslavwischen Baueren in einem modernen und kunstlerisch interesanten Stil. 

 festivals: 
- 19.Westdeutche Kurzfilmtage 'Weg zum Nachbarn', 1973 
- Cannes Film Festival, 1973