See You in the Next War is a 1980 Yugoslav

Cinema of Yugoslavia

-SFR Yugoslavia:The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had an internationally acclaimed film industry.Prominent male actors included Danilo Bata Stojković, Ljuba Tadić, Bekim Fehmiu, Fabijan Šovagović, Mustafa Nadarević, Bata Živojinović, Boris Dvornik, Ljubiša Samardžić, Dragan Nikolić and...

 war film

War film

War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...

 directed by Živojin Pavlović

Živojin Pavlovic

Živojin "Žika" Pavlović was a Serbian film director and writer. In his films and novels, he depicted the cruel reality of small, poor and abandoned people living in the corners of society; he was one of leaders of Serbian the "Black wave" in film in 1960s, a movement which portrayed the darker...

. It competed in the Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival

1982 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Giorgio Strehler *Jean-Jacques Annaud *Suso Cecchi d'Amico *Geraldine Chaplin *Gabriel García Márquez *Florian Hopf *Sidney Lumet *Mrinal Sen...

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The film's screenplay is based on the Vitomil Zupan

Vitomil Zupan

Vitomil Zupan , who also wrote under the pseudonym Langus, was a Slovenian writer, poet, playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important authors in the Slovene language of the second half of the 20th century.-Biography:Vitomil Zupan was born in Ljubljana, then part...

's novel Menuet za kitaro (A Menuet for Guitar), published in 1975. Like the novel, the film takes place partially in Nazi-occupied Slovenia

Slovenia

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 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, and partially in Spain

Spain

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, where the main character, a former partisan, meets his former German adversary in a summer resort.

Cast

• Jozica Avbelj
• Ivo Ban - Tujcko
• Hans Christian Blech
  Hans Christian Blech
  Hans Christian Blech was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success both in his native land and in Hollywood....
  
  
• Joze Horvat
• Zvone Hribar
• Boris Juh
• Barbara Levstik
• Metod Pevec
• Tanja Poberznik
• Milan Puzic
• Janez Starina
• Ruth Gassmann