Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.
In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the hundred year old Maddona Makantuna, a dispossessed land owner.
Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
Immediately after WWII, the Yugoslav government launches massive colonization of the rich villages of Vojvodina, abandoned by German farmers. Germans were being replaced with poor Bosnian peasants. Based on a novel by Branko Copic.
