Word: ustachi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brush Strokes. The film's story is simple, at least in synopsis. Marko (Jacques Charrier) is the leader of the Ustachi, a group of Croatian anarchists who made forays from Hungary into Yugoslavia before World War I. Winter Wind deals with the particular events leading up to the group's assassination of Alexander I and the French foreign minister in Marseille in 1934. But Jancsó has relatively little interest in the incident itself or in the characters of the people who instigated it. He is, instead, obsessed with illustrating the forces that drove the individuals involved...
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