Number 55

Number 55
Directed by Kristijan Milić
Written by Ivan Pavličić
Starring Goran Bogdan
Alan Katić
Production
company
Telefilm
Distributed by Croatian Radiotelevision
Release dates
  • 20 July 2014 (2014-07-20) (PFF)
Running time
90 min
Country Croatia
Language Croatian

Number 55 (Croatian: Broj 55) is a 2014 Croatian war film directed by Kristijan Milić.

Plot

Movie takes place during the Croatian War of Independence. The film is based on a true story that happened on the eve in autumn of 1991 in the small Croatian village of Kusonje, near Pakrac. A small group of Croatian soldiers went on a patrol in an improvised armored car that they had made. In Kusonje they get ambushed by Serbs and are forced to hide in a nearby abandoned house that bears the house number 55. Their resistance to the forces of the rebel Serbs, the JNA and Serbian special forces takes almost 24 hours. In parallel the film follows the efforts of their fellow soldiers to pull them out of the encirclement.

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