Goodbye Heroes
Logline
Two ninety-year-old partisans, the filmmaker who grew up worshipping them, and one absurd mission: to save the monument a million children built for a country they outlived, and heroes almost no one wants to remember.
Synopsis
Miša and Zdenko are among the last living child Partisans of WWII Yugoslavia, once national heroes, now two old men in their nineties. Vladimir, the filmmaker, grew up worshipping them, then watched the country that made them tear itself apart. When the memorial to their fallen comrade Boško Buha, built by a million Yugoslav children, is quietly put up for sale, Vladimir pulls the two reluctant veterans into one last, half-absurd mission to save it.
Miša, a courier turned beloved actor, and Zdenko, a former colonel and arms-export chief, keep trying to talk about the present and keep ending up back in the war. Weaving rare archival footage with intimate, wry observation, Goodbye Heroes becomes a poetic meditation on memory and disillusionment and, beneath the monuments and the ideology, on the passing of lives and the generations who keep fighting the same battle, again and again.