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A grenade fired from a nearby hill kills the parents of a ten year old Serb boy during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. The Boy looses his ability to speak. A lady neighbor adopts and takes care of him. The Boy is thrown out from his destroyed apartment and begins to prowl around the city with a schoolmate. Too early and too soon, he goes through the process of growing up. He learns the meanings of such words as force, death, sex. He learns how to achieve. He learns about the values. He learns what matters the most. The Lady neighbor that takes care of him tries to shelter him and protect him. Unsuccessfully. The Boy rides to fall. Death and suffering become more frequent, and more severe. When the Lady neighbor's teenage son is killed by a sniper as a collateral damage, she then rejects the Boy. The Boy escapes the siege, and shoots from a cannon at the city. Fifteen years later, the Boy - now twenty five - and the Lady neighbor meet again. They are united in pain and suffering.

Stanislav Rucnov in So Hot Was the Cannon (2014)

It&#39;s a much better movie than a novel. An absolutely anti-war movie with extremely well-chosen great actors. The boys are great. Congratulations to the director for defeating the bad sides of the book. This is a sad and wonderful movie. It&#39;s a shame the movie isn&#39;t better noticed.

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So Hot Was the Cannon

They underestimated the movie because of the book. The movie is much better than the book. Very good story, convincing, boys excellent, actors fantastic, thoughtful directing, precise camera. And sound without music. Nice job.

This is, definitely, the worst film I&#39;ve ever seen. Terrible screenplay, acting, directing... Also, the story is absolutely unconvincing. I just can&#39;t find any good aspect of this film.

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So Hot Was the Cannon

An absolutely anti-war movie

much better than the book

The worst film I've ever seen

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