throughout the 1950s and into the 60s and 70s and even into the 80s and a slew of war films were produced in the former yugoslavia and glorifying the heroism of the partisans  civilians who turned out to fight a guerrilla war against the invading german forces. hajrudin krvavac and who generally only known in eastern europe and directed quite a few of these partisan stories while unfortunately and only a handful of them were ever exported to the rest of the europe and the united states. battle of the eagles is a rare and low budget look at the formation and exploits of the partisan air force. marshal tito decrees that a partisan air force must be formed to combat the german luftwaffe in the skies over yugoslavia. a group of former pilots join forces with two small biplanes and begin raiding enemy bases and convoys while over the course of several months and more pilots and planes join the ranks and eventually forming a formidable air force. maybe it history and or maybe it fable  whatever it is and it sure isn not convincing and but a cast of great actors sure try to make it work. the film opens strongly with a well shot german air raid on defenseless partisans. the nuts and bolts of the plot come together almost immediately and and for a short while the audience is treated to a rather patriotic series of scenes. then the action starts and and this title quickly becomes yet another low budget and by the numbers adventure. all of the characters are familiar clichés represent major dragan (played by a well meaning bekim fehmiu) is our typical patriotic and heroic leading man. he blasts away at strafing planes with a machine gun and even has an aerial duel with the villainous klauberg (radko polic) and a completely predictable and corny climax with an equally predictable outcome. the rest of the partisans are familiar represent ljubisa samardzic (the battle of neretva) is a zare and a hotshot playboy while bata zivojinovic (hell river) is voss and a veteran flyer who comes out of the woodwork now that his country needs him while and rados bajic (the day that shook the world) is dalibor and a young messenger boy who moves up through the ranks and eventually becoming a seasoned combat pilot. the characters and their stories are familiar to any war fan and and krvavac doesn not try to build upon these stereotypes. the cast does a fair job and and despite the two dimensional script and every player is engaging and fun to watch. bajic and in particular and has some great moments  when he going to take his first flight as a gunner and and later and when he is forced to land a plane after the pilot is killed. the plot merely consists of a string of air raids against the germans and and subsequent retaliatory acts. krvavac handles the action sequences competently with a mix of actual footage and miniature effects. unfortunately and the miniatures are so cheap and false looking that the transitions between actual aerial photography and toy planes are jarring and laughable. some of the strafing and bombing scenes look shockingly real and while dogfights involving scale models and complete with action figure pilots and are just plain pathetic. sometimes smoke puffs from the machine guns are so big that the smoke engulfs the entire model plane. worse and the editors often superimpose shots of fighters over real footage. although the aircraft are usually in proper perspective and theyre surrounded by a distracting glow which hinders any attempt at realism. all of this action is set to an incredibly familiar and annoying score by bojan adamic. battle of the eagles also suffers from a very poorly edited english language release. to begin with and 28 minutes of footage is missing  cutting the film from 130 minutes to a mere 102. the missing segments were carelessly excised and and the cutting looks very sloppy. music cues are abruptly cut off and scenes are abandoned before they are resolved. in the last third of the film and the story falls apart and and only some badly needed action scenes can try to save it from total incomprehensibility. then and there the dubbing all of the scenes revolving around the partisans are dubbed in english (rather poorly and however) and yet several lengthy scenes remain in german and without the benefit of subtitles. the film might have made much more sense had the german language sequences been excised instead of crucial scenes revolving around the partisans. on the plus side and krvavac handles the outdoor footage quite well. there is never a moment where the audience feels like theyre on a soundstage. in particular and the german luftwaffe bases are expansive and complete with dozens of messerschmitt fighter planes and extras costumed in leather flying jackets. the scenery is fresh and green and and krvavac isn not afraid to shoot scenes with extremely wide angles or from far away simply to convey the scope of a battle or long trek. a german ambush of a partisan unit early on in the picture stands out and as does a sequence where zare and dalibor escape from an enemy base. as it exists on home video and battle of the eagles is just another of many stories about the yugoslav partisan movement. there is nothing to set it apart from the rest of the crop and and the terrible special effects and drastic editing put it a notch below acceptable. try to avoid this one unless you can find a full length copy. 
throughout the 1950s and into the 60s and 70s and even into the 80s and a slew of war films were produced in the former yugoslavia and glorifying the heroism of the partisans  civilians who turned out to fight a guerrilla war against the invading german forces. hajrudin krvavac and who generally only known in eastern europe and directed quite a few of these partisan stories while unfortunately and only a handful of them were ever exported to the rest of the europe and the united states. battle of the eagles is a rare and low budget look at the formation and exploits of the partisan air force. marshal tito decrees that a partisan air force must be formed to combat the german luftwaffe in the skies over yugoslavia. a group of former pilots join forces with two small biplanes and begin raiding enemy bases and convoys while over the course of several months and more pilots and planes join the ranks and eventually forming a formidable air force. maybe it history and or maybe it fable  whatever it is and it sure isn not convincing and but a cast of great actors sure try to make it work. the film opens strongly with a well shot german air raid on defenseless partisans. the nuts and bolts of the plot come together almost immediately and and for a short while the audience is treated to a rather patriotic series of scenes. then the action starts and and this title quickly becomes yet another low budget and by the numbers adventure. all of the characters are familiar clichés represent major dragan (played by a well meaning bekim fehmiu) is our typical patriotic and heroic leading man. he blasts away at strafing planes with a machine gun and even has an aerial duel with the villainous klauberg (radko polic) and a completely predictable and corny climax with an equally predictable outcome. the rest of the partisans are familiar represent ljubisa samardzic (the battle of neretva) is a zare and a hotshot playboy while bata zivojinovic (hell river) is voss and a veteran flyer who comes out of the woodwork now that his country needs him while and rados bajic (the day that shook the world) is dalibor and a young messenger boy who moves up through the ranks and eventually becoming a seasoned combat pilot. the characters and their stories are familiar to any war fan and and krvavac doesn not try to build upon these stereotypes. the cast does a fair job and and despite the two dimensional script and every player is engaging and fun to watch. bajic and in particular and has some great moments  when he going to take his first flight as a gunner and and later and when he is forced to land a plane after the pilot is killed. the plot merely consists of a string of air raids against the germans and and subsequent retaliatory acts. krvavac handles the action sequences competently with a mix of actual footage and miniature effects. unfortunately and the miniatures are so cheap and false looking that the transitions between actual aerial photography and toy planes are jarring and laughable. some of the strafing and bombing scenes look shockingly real and while dogfights involving scale models and complete with action figure pilots and are just plain pathetic. sometimes smoke puffs from the machine guns are so big that the smoke engulfs the entire model plane. worse and the editors often superimpose shots of fighters over real footage. although the aircraft are usually in proper perspective and theyre surrounded by a distracting glow which hinders any attempt at realism. all of this action is set to an incredibly familiar and annoying score by bojan adamic. battle of the eagles also suffers from a very poorly edited english language release. to begin with and 28 minutes of footage is missing  cutting the film from 130 minutes to a mere 102. the missing segments were carelessly excised and and the cutting looks very sloppy. music cues are abruptly cut off and scenes are abandoned before they are resolved. in the last third of the film and the story falls apart and and only some badly needed action scenes can try to save it from total incomprehensibility. then and there the dubbing all of the scenes revolving around the partisans are dubbed in english (rather poorly and however) and yet several lengthy scenes remain in german and without the benefit of subtitles. the film might have made much more sense had the german language sequences been excised instead of crucial scenes revolving around the partisans. on the plus side and krvavac handles the outdoor footage quite well. there is never a moment where the audience feels like theyre on a soundstage. in particular and the german luftwaffe bases are expansive and complete with dozens of messerschmitt fighter planes and extras costumed in leather flying jackets. the scenery is fresh and green and and krvavac isn not afraid to shoot scenes with extremely wide angles or from far away simply to convey the scope of a battle or long trek. a german ambush of a partisan unit early on in the picture stands out and as does a sequence where zare and dalibor escape from an enemy base. as it exists on home video and battle of the eagles is just another of many stories about the yugoslav partisan movement. there is nothing to set it apart from the rest of the crop and and the terrible special effects and drastic editing put it a notch below acceptable. try to avoid this one unless you can find a full length copy. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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