The Price of Life
1994, Croatian. Directed by Bogdan Žižić.
Time passes slowly when darkness rises
Vojvodina, 1991. A Croatian civilian POW named Ivan manages to escape a Serbian prison camp. Finding nowhere else to go, he spends the night on a seemingly wealthy plot of land. The next morning, he's discovered by its owner, a Serb named Stevan, who offers him two choices. Either Ivan stays and does Stevan's dirty work, or he surrenders him to Serbian paramilitary authorities. During his stay he meets Ana, Stevan's daughter-in-law, whose trapped in a loveless marriage with his violent son Dušan, whose currently situated on the frontlines somewhere in Croatia. Finding company in each other's sorrow, the two Croats slowly begin to fall in love.
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Croatian
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- Released
- 1 January 1994
- Original title
- Cijena života
- Country
- Croatia
- Written by
- Bogdan Žižić
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The Price of Life runs 103 minutes (1h 43m).
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The Price of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1994. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Price of Life?
The Price of Life (1994) was directed by Bogdan Žižić and stars Slavko Juraga, Barbara Vicković, Ivan Tomljenović.