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Go West

Country: Bosnia Herzegovina, Language: Serbian | French, 97 mins

Original Title

Batiya Hücum
  • Director: Ahmed Imamovic
  • Writer: Ahmed Imamovic; Enver Puska
  • Producer: Jasmin Durakovic; Ahmed Imamovic

CGiii Comment

Culture shock, strange story.

There are some plausibility issues - but, it is totally original.

Dreams, aspirations and disguise are not quite like this in the West - some people will do anything to get what we, in the West, take for granted

Emerging Eastern Europe is a whole new world with unimaginable challenges. Important voices that need to be heard, loud and clear!

A landmark film that will push all acceptable boundaries to the point of creaking. The things humans are capable of...for love...is nothing less than astounding.

Be astounded!


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The(ir) Blurb...

In the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and there they take shelter, waiting for Milan's father, Ljubo, to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and begins to present him as his wife, Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion, is Ranka, a waitress in a local café, a woman whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers ...

Cast & Characters

Mario Drmac as Kenan;
Tarik Filipovic as Milan;
Rade Serbedzija as Ljubo;
Mirjana Karanovic as Ranka;
Haris Burina as Lunjo;
Jeanne Moreau as Journalist;
Nermin Tulic as Priest Nemanja;
Almedin Leleta as Alen;
Almir Kurt as Drago;
Milan Pavlovic as Milo;
Orijana Kuncic as Posilna;
Vanessa Glodjo;
Miraj Grbic as Dragan;
Terry F. Smith as Cop