Don't Look Back, My Son

Neven Novak is an engineer. He is also a leftist working underground. He is caught during the Second World War. The Ustashas take their prisoners by train to the Jasenovac camp. Novak jumps from the train on the way and escapes. He goes straight back to Zagreb. What he wants is to find his son Zoran. The boy is in an orphanage. But Zoran has been brought up there on fascist teaching. He learns that his father is an enemy of the regime. Once he learns it he refuses to go with him. Novak wants to take the boy to partisan territory. Meanwhile the police come after them. The tension between father and son holds all the way. Bert Sotlar and Zlatko Lukman take the leads, with Lila Andres also in the cast, in Branko Bauer’s Yugoslav film of 1956.