Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

When I was growing up in Sarajevo during those times I never thought that this film in the later years will be called Communist propaganda. It really is that, just that, good action Yugoslav Communist propaganda. It is really popular in China. I am not sure why, but it is. Even today Chinese tourists come to Sarajevo to visit filming sets.As far as plot goes it is a typical WWII action film. Nothing that particular or special about it. Yugoslavia produced number of these during those years. Pity these countries left from Yugoslavia do not have the budgets or capabilities to produce even better film then those. But film industry has changed a lot over the years, and with break up of Yugoslavia, things changed dramatically.

This movie is good for one soul purpose, it was a creation of one of the best Bosnian director ever (and Bosnia have Oscar winners directors), Hajrudin Krvavac.Hajrudin Krvavac was real "engine" behind this movie, not main actor Bata Zivojinovic, who was in that time communist regime actor n°1, so any director who created in that time bigger movie in Bosnia or in former Yugoslavia, was ordered by communist regime to take Zivojinovic like main actor. Every movie of Krvavac are pretty watchful, like Most (Bridge), or Partisans Escadrille.Beside Zivojinovic acting performance in that movie was very weak, one of the worst in that movie. Beside in real life, Zivojinovic is opposite from Valter in movie, he is some kind of the fake Valter in real life, he was in 90s in Milosevic's Chetniks party, so real Valter in reality fought Chetniks and those like Zivojinovic, because they were on side of the Axis.Also it is wrong to say that country of origin of this movie is Yugoslavia.Yugoslavia don't exist, it was a communist union created by six countries, and this movie was not financed from Yugoslav budget, but by Bosnia Film from Sarajevo, and majority owner of that movie "house" was Bosnia. So owner of that movie is Bosnia, not Yugoslavia.It was Bosnian movie and Bosnian director. Also Serbo-Croatian language don't exist, it was artificial "language" created 1954 in Novi Sad by Serbian and Croatian communists and imposed by them to all others in former Yugoslavia.This movie languages are Bosnian and German!

The lyrics of U2's 1997 hit 'Discotheque' apply perfectly to "Valter brani Sarajevo" and sum up my feelings about the movie:'......you know you're chewing bubble-gum,*** you know what that is, but you still want some,*** you just can't get enough of that lovie-dovie stuff........'On one hand, this is another one of the ridiculous state-sponsored war bonanzas taking up a large part of 1960s and '70s Yugoslav cinematography - most of them high on propaganda, cheap stereotypes and tear jerk moments seen coming from a mile away, designed to glorify the struggle of 'Yugoslav peoples' against German occupiers & domestic traitors. However, on the other, it is also a pretty well made 'lemonade with lotsa sugar' action flick with a decent plot and good characters that pull the viewer right in and don't let go.It, of course, stars Bata Zivojinovic and Ljubisa Samardzic in yet another role that calls for 'Yugoslavia's top duo' to outsmart, outwit and eliminate as many Germans as humanly possible. Supposedly, "Valter brani Sarajevo" was a hit of huge proportions in China where to this day our boy Bata is an enormous star. Well, I guess billion Chinese can't be wrong.

the action is non-stop, the plots are perfect. i cannot found any ww2 movie better than this one. the first time i watched this movie in 1976 when i was 6 years old back in china. they keep showing it from 1976-1979. i have never been bored even though i watched it over and over again. i used to memerize all the senarios and scripts. i still want to watch again now i am 30 years old. can anybody help me to get a copy?