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By Orgate-Hamilton

Updated 18 March 2023

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Artist	Nenad Martinovič
Credit	Own work
License	cc-by-sa-3.0
Desc	Bridge on Neretva river, damaged in WW2.
Usage	Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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1969 film by Veljko Bulajić

Battle of Neretva

Released	1969 (53 years, 6 months ago)

Director	Veljko Bulajić
Genre	war film
Nominated for	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Composer	Bernard Herrmann
Country of origin	Germany, Yugoslavia and Italy
Screenwriter	Veljko Bulajić and Ugo Pirro
Producer	Henry T. Weinstein and Steve Previn

About Battle of Neretva

Battle of Neretva (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Neretvi / Битка на Неретви, Slovene: Bitka na Neretvi,) is a 1969 Yugoslavian partisan film. The film was written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Battle of Neretva is the most expensive motion picture made in the SFR Yugoslavia. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the year after Sergei Bondarchuk (playing the role of Martin in Neretva) won the honour for War and Peace. The score for the English-speaking versions was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Its soundtrack was released by Entr'acte Recording Society in 1974. It was re-released on Southern Cross Records on CD.

One of the original posters for the English version of the movie was made by Pablo Picasso, which, according to Bulajić, the famous painter agreed to do without payment, only requesting a case of the best Yugoslav wines.