FIVE MINUTES OF PARADISE



Director: Igor Pretnar

Screenwriter: Vitomil Zupan

Cinematografpher: Eduard Bogdanić

Scenography: Veselin Badrov, Mirko Lipužić

Costume Designer: Alenka Bartl

Music: Vojislav Vanja Bjenjaš

Editor: Vojislav Vanja Bjenjaš

Cast: Lojze Rozman, Stevo Žigon, Mira Nikolić, Milan Vujanović, Strahinja Petrović, Dubravka Gal

Production:

Bosna film

Synopsis:

This is the story of Lucijan and Stevan, two Yugoslav prisoners of war who had been ordered to conduct a horrifying task – to defuse unexploded air bombs - one morning in the final days of World War II. As SS soldiers wait outside, at a safe distance, the two men enter a luxurious villa of the retired German general Von Schlanckes and inside unexpectedly get a five-minute window of opportunity for escape. By chance, they are joined by Lisette, a young, French deportee. The prisoners and the deportee face two separate dangers. On one hand, they are under threat of execution by SS soldiers and on the other, they are in danger of being killed by the bomb of unknown characteristics but known to be of the same type as bombs that had previously blown several divine detachments into smithereens. They must escape, but how?