4 real historical locations · Bosnia and Herzegovina
A 1969 Yugoslav epic following Tito's Partisans as they break through a combined German, Italian, Chetnik, and Ustasha encirclement in Bosnia in 1943. One of the most ambitious European war films ever made.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yugoslav Partisan forces fight German and Ustaše troops at the Neretva River crossing, 1943.
The Battle of Neretva (February-March 1943) was one of the largest Partisan operations of the Yugoslav war. Tito's forces defeated a combined German-Italian-Ustaše offensive while evacuating 4,000 wounded soldiers acr...
View location →The Axis Fourth Offensive (Case White) opens with a combined German, Italian, and Croatian assault aimed at encircling and destroying Tito's Partisan forces ...
Operation Weiss (January–April 1943) deployed 90,000 Axis troops against 20,000 Partisans. It was the largest anti-Partisan operation in occupied Yugoslavia and nearly succeeded in destroying Tito's command.
View location →Tito orders the destruction of the Neretva bridge to block Chetnik forces, then orders a makeshift crossing to ferry 4,000 typhus-ridden wounded Partisans ac...
Tito's decision to destroy then improvise a crossing at Jablanica in March 1943 saved the wounded and broke the Partisan column out of encirclement. The twisted bridge and recreated crossing survive as a museum.
View location →Partisan columns break through encirclement near Konjic and turn south, routing the Chetniks and beginning the march that would take Tito's forces into Monte...
Konjic was a key objective in the Neretva valley fighting. After the battle, collaboration between the Chetniks and Axis forces was exposed, permanently delegitimising Mihailovic's movement.
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