Si me quieres escribir - KOZARA le film

In this part of the movie, the partizans hold the front line and prepare for the night. A student enroled in the partizan unit reads the latest news from the front as written by Radio Free Yugoslavia emitting from USSR and a veteran of the international brigades recalls his affair with a spanish lady whom he left in Spain, this officier then sings an unknown version of "Si me quieres escribir" in half serbo-croat half spanish.

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The Battle of Kozara was fought in 1942 on and around the mountain of Kozara in northwestern Bosnia. It was an important battle of the Yugoslav partisan resistance movement in World War II. It later became an integral part of Yugoslav post-war mythology, which celebrated the courage and martyrdom of outnumbered and out-gunned Partisans and civilians.

Certain sources mistakenly identify the Battle of Kozara as the Third anti-partisan offensive.

In the spring of 1942, Yugoslav Partisans in central and west Bosnia liberated Bosanski Petrovac, Drvar, Glamoč and Prijedor. On May 20, the 1st Krajina Assault Brigade was founded, and the next day it obtained tanks and a modest air force. The free territory stretched from the river Sava south across the mountains Kozara and Grmeč.

The German and Ustaše authorities realized that the city of Banja Luka and the iron mine in Ljubija were in danger and organized an offensive to destroy the movement. Germans engaged 15,000 soldiers, the Independent State of Croatia (the Ustaše) about 22,000 soldiers, and Hungarians participated with 5 monitor ships.

The Partisan group had about 3,000 soldiers, but recruited reserves from the 60,000 civilians in the free territory.

After intensive battle, in the night July 3 some partisan units broke the siege, but the main group again came under siege the next night and was mainly destroyed. In Široka Luka about 500 wounded Partisans were killed. It is estimated that during the battle, the Partisans lost about 1,700 soldiers, while the Axis forces lost about 7,000. Many thousands of people from Kozara were sent to concentration camps.

About 900 Partisan soldiers survived and founded the Fifth Krajina Brigade.

At the same time, the main Partisan group with Tito moved from East Bosnia to West Bosnia. After the Axis offensive forces withdrew, parts of lost area were regained in September 1942.

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[JOSIPBROZ3000]

what is a bit annoying in this old Yugoslav movies is that the weapons on the german side are not always genuinely "german". In this movie, they have used russian T34 painted with german signs...OK I know the german used to reuse enemy's tanks but here the use of a T34 in 1942 is a bit anachronic.

[grummeper]

so is it in most "old" films -

I have seen a film about Ardennerne - same kind... german in Sherman, T34 etc. ...

[JOSIPBROZ3000]

Even in the Uzicka Republica, You'll see a bunch of T34 with nice german signs burning as they are ambushed by the partisans...and we are only in 1941...and the first T34 was produced in 19...40...LOL !!!

The T34 has a very typical profile, I can recognise it among hundreds of other models

[grummeper]

Can we have you upload the film?

[JOSIPBROZ3000]

yes I can do it but currently I've got no time.

I can do it surely ! please wait for a few days.

[FAEMINOSMITH]

VIVAN LAS BRIGADAS INTERNACIONALES!!!

Thanks to all the Jugoslavijan volunteers which came to Spain for fighting for Freedom and Democracy.

Marvellous documente Josip!!!

Tito showed the world that socialism was succesful.

Germans and Americans felt they had to finish with this fact.

I'm so sorry for all that happened and how ended the great legacy of Tito.

[grummeper]

... and super information under (more info)!

[anarkrap]

¡¡¡No Pasarán!!! ¡¡¡Nosotros Pasaremos!!! Brigadas Internacionales ,muchas gracias por venir , por luchar aquí.

Salud! VIVA LA REPÚBLICA Y MUERTE AL FASCISMO

[ganlesat]

In the JARAMA River FRONT (Spain, February 1937), the yugoslavian 'Dimitrov' Batallion (12 International Brigade), defending the Arganda's Bridge side by side of the italian Comrades of the 'Garibaldi' Batallion against the fascist divisions !!!!!!!!

[grummeper]

T-37 ?

[grummeper]

... and at the very beginning some US/UK thanks?!

Good film anyway - and this one seem too..!

[grummeper]

SUPERman!!!