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Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

maurice yacowar Goran Radovanovic pulls Enclave toward an inexorably tragic conclusion but pulls back to find redemption. Three characters find redemption. The Serbian boy Nenad survives near-death — buried under the new church bell in a burning tower — to make a new life in the multicultural Belgrade. His father Milena comes in from the embittered alcoholic's cold to help his son make that new life. The vengeful Albanian shepherd Baskim finds a conscience just in time to save Nenad's life.If the isolated, fragile Christian church bell tower expresses the vulnerability of that ethnic minority in Kosovo, four years after the war, Baskim's role as shepherd carries both Christian and poetic connotations. The shepherd is traditionally the figure of pastoral innocence and purity, but here the Serbs' murder of his father has turned him into a violent malevolence. The shepherd is also Jesus, of course, so Baskim and the church bell frame the climax in Christian terms. The film details the tensions between the Albanian community and the small Serbian enclave that barely survives in the antagonistic ethos. Armoured tanks convey the citizens between the two zones' borders. The boys are raised into their fathers' war, until Nenad's hunger for friendship — any friendship, even with the Albanian toughs — draws him into the Albanian "society" and Baskim discovers the error of his anger.Writer/director Radovanovic himself plays the Serb who joins the Albanian multi-ethnic police force, placing the larger peace-keeping role ahead if his ethnic identity. His conversion is not guilt-free. That compromise Milena spurns on principle. But the ethic of the film promotes the suspension of ethnic wars in favour of rediscovering our common brotherhood. Hence the Christian framework.The happy ending is not a sell-out. Rather, it points a way out of the self-perpetuating rage and murders that poison and destroy the idealists in any civil war. This story of redemption is more constructive than the tragic conclusion would have been. The grandfathers are dying or unchangeable, the fathers are disillusioned and impotent, so to the children fall the need and hopes for peace. Hence the interweaving of the Serbian grandfather's death and funeral with the Albanian's supervision of his grandson's wedding. The cycle of community trumps the cycle of violence.

Nenad Pirnat Pirke A DROP OF HAPPINESS, AN OCEAN OF SORROWFilm: "The Enclave", written and directed by Goran Radovanović; Cast: Filip Šubarić, Denis Murić, Nenad Stanojković, Milan Sekulić, Nebojša Glogovac, Anica Dobra, Meto Jovanovski, Miodrag Krivokapić, Nenad Jezdić; Duration: 92 minutes; Production: Serbia /Germany, 2015.Motion picture history comprises numerous great movies about important topics and important messages, with the story being told from the perspective of children. What comes to my mind are Kusturica's "When Father Was Away on Business", Kiarostami's "Where Is the Friend's Home", Panahi's "The White Balloon" or Majidi's "Children of Heaven", "The Color of Paradise" and "Father"... A bright example of this kind of films is without a doubt "The Enclave" written and directed by Goran Radovanović. Radovanović deals with the enormous difficulties faced in life by the Serbian communities, living - after the rather recent war and terror pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija - in small, isolated zones - the enclaves, and talks about this from the perspective of Serbian and Albanian children. With full might, a just measure and touching humanity. In every movie drama is greater and stronger and hurts more if all the categories existing in the adult world are reflected through the eyes of child characters. Viewers' emotions are then also amplified, and in all this covertly lies the trap of the film slipping into pathetic. Radovanović skillfully avoided this in the "The Enclave" by sternly guiding the child actors (and the entire cast) and with his mature dramaturgy that follows a melodramatic line of action decently and convincingly, pointing to the causes and consequences of mistrust and violence. With full authorial responsibility and with great sensitivity, aesthetically sophisticated, Radovanović dives together with his young movie heroes, and with the viewers into the world of daily uncertainty of life in a sort of ghetto quite unique in present day Europe. Into the world of children with a wronged childhood, forced to grow up too quickly. In solitude, with no friends, their eyes fixed on the world of adults who gradually teach them hatred and fear - feelings that are utterly unnatural for children. Such a world is ruled by limited freedom of movement, being transported to and from school and demolished churches and cemeteries in the dark and cramped womb of a KFOR APC, and by everyday problems with Albanian neighbors... This is where young Nenad (Filip Šubarić) is growing up, alongside his father (Nebojša Glogovac) who is trying to obliterate his sorrows by drinking, his grandfather Milutin (Meto Jovanovski) who is on his deathbed and is also the boys best friend as he has no other, and with the everyday presence of the only remaining priest (Miodrag Krivokapić) determined to build a new church on the charred remains of the old one. Equally lonely is the Albanian young shepherd (Denis Murić) from the neighboring village, growing up without a father behind the high walls of his relatives' house which is full of weapons, hostility and yearning for revenge. There are two other Albanian boys (Nenad Stanojković, Milan Sekulić), who stone the KFOR armored transporter every time it drives by carrying Nenad. They do it not because of hatred but out of childish jealousy. They would like to take a ride in the APC, but not being Serbs their only chance of realizing their wish is to have Nenad intercede for them. Children easily find a common language ... This seemingly simple plot, brings to the surface all the difficulties, the complexity and the tragedy of life in Kosovo and Metohija. Radovanović gradually introduces other characters - Nenad's aunt Milica (Anica Dobra), coming from Belgrade to be by her dying father's side, a bus driver (Nenad Jezdić) who stoically bears being harassed along with his passengers, a Serbian member of the Kosovo Police (Goran Radaković), the German EULEX representative... - thus expanding the overall picture of a given space and time, steering the film with determination and firmness to the very end. All the way to Nenad's encounter as a refugee with the accelerated, parvenu and self-centered Belgrade, where he will immediately be given the nickname "Albanian". And to his essay in class titled "My best friend", when the Albanian shepherd that saved his life, and is now so far away, reappears before his eyes... "The Enclave" - with the masterful photography by German cinematographer Axel Schneppat which is one of the pillars of the film, with the sophisticated editing by Andrija Zafranović, the production design by Vladislav Lasić and functional music by Eleni Karaindru and Irena Popović - is also a film based on modern and dynamic cinematic language, wonderfully selected actors (the meddling of the experienced casting director Boban Dedeić can be noted). It is also a film in which Goran Radovanović skillfully integrated his documentary-film experience in a visual-poetic feature film, offering the possibility of a catharsis, and indicating the possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation. "The Enclave" is a film in which the drop of happiness is so small and the ocean of sorrow is immense. But the sorrow is not of the kind that crushes, but rather induces awareness, purifies and heals. If you let it.Dubravka Lakić Published: 03/20/2015

djokovic75 I don't write reviews. Don't know why anyone read reviews anyway, it would be smarter just to go and watch whatever you think its interesting for you to watch. But for this movie, I have to say something.I'm from Kosovo. Born and raised there. And I very well know the whole situation, and movie has been placed well. Everything that you see is true - all the pain and suffering of a little Serbian boy, all the bad treatment of his father, the Serbian Albanian relationship, corrupt police, very cynical international police, everything is right, correct and in place, not at all exaggerated, its even worse, if you ask me.But, I have to state some critics as well (but it will not matter for you if you ex-pat and not from Kosovo):1. It's not possible that father and son have two different accents. They are not extremely different, but they are different, and thats were director failed, and where main actor who's really good actor, but born in Bosnia and Hercegovina and raised in Belgrade, in which accent is really different (difference between the accents of Kosova and Belgrade is something like being from Bristol and Leeds, or even better -Newcastle)) failed as well.2. There are many holes in the script, but just to mention big one - it doesn't matter that their grandmother was Serbian but no 10year old Albanian kid would ever know how to speak Serbian in 2004 (or later)I'll stop here. Would like to mention once again that all the minuses are not relevant if you are foreigner, but they are visible for someone who's from Kosovo.Anyway, please watch the movie, its worth watching.

petar-simic8 Enklava is a great movie which very realistically shows the life on Kosovo,province of Serbia.It doesn't stand on neither side,nor Serbian,nor Albanian.It just shows the rough life that it is.Great performance from one of the best Serbian actors Nebojsa Glogovac.Very lovable roles of a Serbian and the Albanian boys.Anica Dobra has a good performance as Vojas(Glogovac) sister who fled to Belgrade.The end is very heartbreaking as it shows young boy Nenad who moved to Belgrade and his first day in new school and the children who make jokes of him and don't understand what he has been through.Movie is very deep and moving,it really makes you think about all the benefits of your life and the horror of war.