Fliers of the Open Skies

There are various ways filmmakers can present the horrors of war to the audience. One of the more effective, but trickiest to achieve, is to show the war from the perspective of little children. *Fliers of the Open Skies*, a 1977 Yugoslav war drama directed by Marijan Arahnić. The plot is set in a small Croatian town during the first years of WW2. The protagonist is Ante (played by Ramiz Pašić), an orphaned boy whos…