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 thay 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.

External links

Number 55 at the Internet Movie Database

Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival

As Yugoslav Film Awards (1957–90)	Priests Ćira and Spira (1957) H-8 (1958) Train Without a Timetable (1959) The Ninth Circle (1960) Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud & The First Fires (1961) Kozara (1962) Face to Face (1963) Official Position (1964) Prometheus of the Island & Three (1965) Monday or Tuesday (1966) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) When I Am Pale and Dead (1968) Downstream from the Sun (1969) Handcuffs (1970) Red Wheat (1971) The Master and Margaret (1972) The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) The Republic of Užice (1974) The House (1975) Idealist (1976) Don't Lean Out the Window (1977) Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978) Trophy (1979) Petria's Wreath (1980) The Fall of Italy (1981) Body Scent (1983) Balkan Spy (1984) When Father Was Away on Business (1985) Happy New Year '49 (1986) Reflections (1987) My Uncle's Legacy (1988) The Meeting Point (1989) Silent Gunpowder (1990)

As Croatian Film Awards (1992–present)	Story from Croatia (1992) Countess Dora (1993) Washed Out (1995) How the War Started on My Island (1996) Mondo Bobo (1997) When the Dead Start Singing (1998) Madonna (1999) Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000) Slow Surrender (2001) Fine Dead Girls (2002) Here (2003) Long Dark Night (2004) What Iva Recorded (2005) All for Free (2006) The Living and the Dead (2007) No One's Son (2008) Metastases (2009) Just Between Us (2010) Kotlovina (2011) A Letter to My Father (2012) A Stranger (2013) Number 55 (2014) The High Sun (2015)

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