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Two Benchwarmers (2006)
During the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, the Croat Ante and the Serb Duško fought on opposing sides. After the confilct had concluded, as many others before and after them, they moved on with their lives and found happyness in other places. Ante returned to his small village in the Dalmatian Hinterland and turned to alcoholism. Duško moved to Banja Luka and continued his life as a professional volleyball player, trying to be the best possible father for his young daughter Ingrid and get over the recent news of his wife's affair with his best man. Their routine is suddenly thwarted when a mysterious man in black named Antiša enters their lives and takes them away to an abanndoned warehouse near Zagreb, offering them a large sum of money under one simple condition: if they testify against a war criminal on an international tribunal.
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During the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, the Croat Ante and the Serb Duško fought on opposing sides. After the confilct had concluded, as many others before and after them, they moved on with their lives and found happyness in other places. Ante returned to his small village in the Dalmatian Hinterland and turned to alcoholism. Duško moved to Banja Luka and continued his life as a professional volleyball player, trying to be the best possible father for his young daughter Ingrid and get over the recent news of his wife's affair with his best man. Their routine is suddenly thwarted when a mysterious man in black named Antiša enters their lives and takes them away to an abanndoned warehouse near Zagreb, offering them a large sum of money under one simple condition: if they testify against a war criminal on an international tribunal.
Rating:
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Written By:Dejan Šorak
In Theaters:4/29/2006
Box Office:
Runtime:113 minutes
Studio:Maj Film, Hrvatska Radiotelevizija, Interfilm
Cast
Dejan Šorak
Director
Goran Navojec
Ante Jukić
Borko Perić
Duško Katran
Tarik Filipović
Antiša
Dora Lipovčan
Stela
Renne Gjoni
The Hague Investigator
Rea Kamenski Bačun
Ingrid
Ana Marija Bokor
Prevoditeljica
Dražen Bratulić
Službenik Tribunala
Ivan Brkić
Švercer ljudima
Snježana Tomljenović 'Buba'
Šminkerica
Mijo Debanić
Fotograf #2
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