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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Summary
Walter Defends Sarajevo (Валтер брани Сарајево; ) is a 1972 Yugoslav partisan film, directed by Hajrudin Krvavac and starring Bata Živojinović, Ljubiša Samardžić and Rade Marković. The film centres around a mysterious figure named 'Walter', who is actively disrupting the attempts of German commander Alexander Löhr to retreat from the Balkans. The film's eponymous character, Walter, is loosely based around Vladimir Perić, whose nom de guerre was 'Valter'.
In late 1944, as the end of World War II approaches, the Wehrmacht's high command determines to pull out General Alexander Löhr's Army Group E from the Balkans back to Germany. They plan to supply the tank columns with fuel from a depot in Sarajevo. The Yugoslav partisans' leader in the city, a mysterious man known as Walter, presents a grave danger to the operation's success, and the Germans dispatch Standartenführer von Dietrich of the SD to deal with him. As no one in the city seems to know what Walter even looks like, Dietrich manages to have an operative infiltrate the resistance under the guise of Walter himself. The partisans are caught in a deadly game of betrayal, fraud and imposture while trying to frustrate the Germans' plans.
At the end of the movie, von Dietrich muses that he has finally realised why he never managed to defeat his nemesis Walter; standing on a hill he points at Sarajevo below and remarks in German: Sehen Sie diese Stadt? Das ist Walter! ("You see that city? That's Walter!") This was intended to send a message of unity consistent with the official politics of the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia.
Bata Živojinović as Pilot (Walter)
Ljubiša Samardžić as Zis
Rade Marković as Sead Kapetanović
Slobodan Dimitrijević as Suri
Neda Spasojević as Mirna
Dragomir Gidra Bojanić as Kondor
Pavle Vuisić as train dispatcher
Faruk Begolli as Branko
Stevo Žigon as Dr Mišković
Jovan Janićijević as Josic
Relja Bašić as Obersturmführer
Hannjo Hasse as Col. von Dietrich
Rolf Römer as SS-Hauptsturmführer Bischoff
Fred Delmare as Sgt.
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