''Fuse'' (, "The Fire is Burning") is a Bosnian comedy/drama film directed by

Pjer Žalica Pjer Žalica (born 7 May 1964) is a Bosnians, Bosnian film director, screenwriter and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His father Miodrag (1926–1992) was a noted dramaturgist and poet who scripted several TV movies. H ...

. It was released in 2003.

Synopsis

The plot takes place in the small town of

Tešanj Tešanj ( cyrl, Тешањ) is a town and municipality located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality has a population of 43,063 inhabitants, whil ...

in the

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: ''Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine'' / ''Федерација Босне и Херцеговине'') is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities composing Bo ...

, two years after the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

. The town is overridden by corruption, prostitution and organized crime. People of Tešanj live in peace, though the war scars are visible everywhere in town, as well as in people's souls. After the war, the population of Tešanj consists almost exclusively of

Bosniaks The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

. Ethnic

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian lan ...

now live in surrounding villages. It is announced that U.S. president

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

will pay a visit to the town. Western bureaucrats arrive to Tešanj to supervise the preparations for the visit. Everything in the town must be in order, including the faked brotherhood between Bosniaks and Serbs.

Cast

Enis Bešlagić Enis Bešlagić (born 6 January 1975) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian actor. In the 2000s, he starred in several films such as ''Fuse (film), Fuse'' (2003), ''Summer in the Golden Valley'' (2003), ''Ivko's Feast'' (2005), ''Ram za sliku moje ...

- Faruk *

Bogdan Diklić Bogdan Diklić ( sr-Cyrl, Богдан Диклић; ; born 1 August 1953) is a Serbian actor. He has been active since the late 1970s and starred in over one hundred Yugoslav films and television series. Diklić made ten films with director Gor ...

- Zaim * Saša Petrović - Husnija *

Izudin Bajrović Izudin Bajrović (born 9 February 1963) is a Bosnian theater, film and television actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1986. Recent activity In 2017, Bajrović signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs ...

- Mugdim * Emir Hadžihafizbegović - Stanko * Jasna Žalica - Hitka *

Senad Bašić Senad Bašić (born 26 August 1962) is a Bosnian film, theater and television actor, and comedian. He also works as a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo, Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, specializing in acting. Bašić ...

- Velija *

Feđa Štukan Feđa is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic male given name, which is a hypocorism of the name Fedor derived from the Russian name, or Teodor, both derived from the Greek language, Greek name Theodoros, meaning "gift of god". Feđa is the common ...

- Adnan * Hubert Kramar - Supervisor * Admir Glamočak - Hamdo * Aleksandar Seksan - Pic * Almir Čehajić - Osman * Alban Ukaj - Glavar

Soundtrack

Bosnian folk singer Emina Zečaj recorded music for the film.

Music

The music and original background score for ''Identity'' were composed by Jakes Bejoy. The same year, the film's soundtrack album, titled "Gori Vatra", was released. The album included 2 Turkish songs. The songs "Yazık Oldu" and "Özledim",whose lyrics were written by Aylin Atalay, were sung in Turkish by Candan Erçetin. The lyrics and music of the other songs in the album belong to Saša Lošić. The first song on the album, originally "Canı Sağolsun" (Turkish), was sung by Candan Erçetin on the '' Melek'' album, and was re-sung in Bosnian by Jasna Žalica under the name "Iznad Tešnja Zora Sviće". Track listing

Awards

* Silver Leopard,

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...

- 2003 * Golden Star,

Marrakech International Film Festival The Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM) (, Amazigh: ⴰⵏⵎⵓⴳⴳⴰⵔ ⴰⴳⵔⴰⵖⵍⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵍⴼⵉⵍⵎ ⴳ ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ) is an international film festival held annually in Marrakech, Morocco. It was established i ...

- 2003 * Best First Feature,

Sarajevo Film Festival The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, and brings internatio ...

- 2003

References

External links

Official website
* {{Authority control 2003 films Bosnia and Herzegovina war films Bosnian-language films Bosnian War films Films set in Bosnia and Herzegovina Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film winners Bosnian War in fiction Bosnia and Herzegovina comedy films Bosnia and Herzegovina drama films Films scored by Saša Lošić