UBISTVO S PREDUMISLAJAJEM (PREMEDITATED MURDER) Yugoslavia

Premeditated Murder contrasts a recent love story ( 1992) with a past romance (1944), both doomed by the inhumanity of Yugoslav politics. While Builka takes photos of anti-war sit-ins and demos at the university for a with-it young publisher, she stumbles across Bogdan, a soldier on leave from the front with a broken leg. He ends up sleeping on Builka’s couch. She teases him for being a “warrior” and a bumpkin, he protests against her swearing and modernity, and the two fall in love. But nothing can stop the tragic call of the battlefields. In a parallel story, Builka reconstructs her beautiful grandmother Jelena’s diaries from WW II. Jelena’s wealthy family has had a country house confiscated by Tito’s partisans, and the head of the family is in prison. To help her father, Jelena gets involved with rough partisan leader Krsman, whom she despises yet is attracted to. A dangerous triangle forms with her stepbrother Jovan, and tragedy inevitably looms. -Deborah Young, Variety