OCCUPATION IN 26 PICTURES (1976) (Church of Film)

Three youths, a Croat, Italian and Jew, are inseparable friends in Dubrovnik as war looms. When their country is taken over by Fascist Italy and Germany, their friendship is fractured as sides are taken, and their sleepy city turns into a carnival of debauchery and slaughter. Lordan Zafranovic’s OCCUPATION IN 26 PICTURES remains perhaps Croatia’s most controversial film. With stunning cinematography by Karpo Godina, and generous nods to Visconti, Bertolucci and Pasolini, it’s an impressive, uncompromising, and shocking anti-fascist statement that continues to divide critics and audiences.

(CW extreme violence, sexual violence)