Valter brani Sarajevo
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Valter Brani Sarajevo film poster
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| Directed by | Hajrudin Krvavac |
| Produced by | Petar Sobajic |
| Written by | Đorđe Lebović (main writer) Hajrudin Krvavac Savo Pređo Momo Kapor |
| Starring |
Bata Živojinović Ljubiša Samardžić Rade Marković |
| Music by | Bojan Adamič |
| Cinematography | Miroljub Dikosavljević |
| Edited by | Jelena Bjenjaš |
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Bosna Film
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Running time
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133 minutes |
| Country |
 Yugoslavia
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| Language |
Serbo-Croatian German |
Walter Defends Sarajevo (Serbo-Croatian: Валтер брани Сарајево/Valter brani Sarajevo) is a 1972 Yugoslav partisan film, directed by Hajrudin Krvavac and starring Bata Živojinović.
In late 1944, as the end of World War II approaches, the Wehrmacht's high command determines to withdraw General Alexander Löhr's Army Group E from the Balkans back to Germany. They plan to supply the tank columns with fuel from a depot in Sarajevo. The Yugoslav partisans' leader in the city, a mysterious man known as Walter, presents a grave danger to the operation's success, and the Germans dispatch Standartenführer von Dietrich of the SD to deal with him. As no one in the city seems to know even how Walter looks, Dietrich manages to have an operative infiltrate the resistance under the guise of Walter himself. The partisans are caught in a deadly game of betrayal, fraud and duplicity while trying to frustrate the Germans' plans.
At the end of the movie, von Dietrich muses that he has finally realised why he never managed to defeat his nemesis Walter; standing on a hill he points at Sarajevo below and remarks in German: Sehen Sie diese Stadt? Das ist Walter! ("You see that city? That's Walter!") This was intended to send a message of unity consistent with the official politics of the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia.
Although not aiming to reflect history, the film's leading character was named after the partisan leader Vladimir Perić, known by his nom de guerre 'Walter', who commanded a resistance group in Sarajevo from 1943 until his death in the battle to liberate the city on April 6, 1945. Hajrudin Krvavac dedicated the picture to the people of Sarajevo and their heroism during the war.
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