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‘Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day’ Review: How Croatia Defied Censorship
VarietyStory by Stephen Saito
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A Croatian film defies censorship to expose the harsh realities of a notorious Yugoslav prison colony.
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- Writer-director Ivona Juka's 'Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day' takes viewers inside Barren Island, a grim penal colony where inmates were kept in line by the deadly sea itself.
- The film faced censorship challenges in Croatia, but director Juka persisted in bringing this untold story to the screen, shedding light on a dark chapter of Yugoslav history.
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Ivona Juka, Yugoslavia, 'Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day'