Even by today's standards one of the best Jugoslavenian/Croatian television miniseries based on an excellent novel written by Ante Kovacic. A drama in which we follow a life of young Ivica and his path of growing up from a rural child to a city gentlemen when on the other side the story portraits all of the best and worst of Croatian rural and city life of the mid 19th century. The series is not boring, but indeed interesting mostly because of the all other side stories. Ivica's family, life in the country to which he returns but it is never the same, his inability to cope the rural and the city way of life, the love story, and probably the most interesting; the backgrounds of the all of the side characters who ultimately seem to be ones to hold the action throughout the series.
This series is unfortunately a lost pearl to anyone who is not a Balkan inhabitant, and I would personally recommend it to anyone who likes to see a good and deep story, a beautiful scenery, and would like to know a life of central Croatia during the mid 19th century; even though the series was filmed in the 70's.
This series is unfortunately a lost pearl to anyone who is not a Balkan inhabitant, and I would personally recommend it to anyone who likes to see a good and deep story, a beautiful scenery, and would like to know a life of central Croatia during the mid 19th century; even though the series was filmed in the 70's.