Walter Defends Sarajevo

This movie is a typical Partizan "western" with "black-and-white" characters. The movie is losely inspired by actual events from WW II but its content could not be called historically true.

What is the most interesting thing about this movie is that it was immensely popular in the People Republic of China. I talked to quite a few Chinese people born in sixties, and literally everybody went with school to see the movie. I think that "Valter brani Sarajevo" could easily be the most popular foreign movie in China.

During NATO action in Serbia, when USA hit the Chinese embassy, the actor who played Valter, Bata Zivoinovic, visited wounded Chinese people in hospital, and they cherished his appearance there...

Valter Brani Sarajevo is a film that I can always watch with pleasure

In this film, Bata Zivojinovic showed why he is the best Yugo actor of all time

In this film we also have great actors like Ljubisa Samardzic, Rade Markovic, Gidra Bojanic, Burdus, etc.

The best part of the movie for me is the end when von Dietrich points to the city of Sarajevo and says Das ist Walter

Even though it is a movie from 1972, it has everything a movie should have.

I think anyone who hasn't seen this movie doesn't know what they're missing

I should also mention the music in the film, this music fits really well with this phenomenal action

By the way, I set my phone to ring with that music

10/10 really a movie that will be remembered for a long.

Valter was one of, if not the, most admired movie heroes in China.

When it was in the theater, I was a 8 years old boy, after the movie, this character is absolutely rooted in my heart.

He is the hero for almost one generation of Chinese.

Anyway, this movie was shown in 1980, though produced in 1972.

I am truly happy to know Valter is still alive.

God bless you, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic .

Wish you could visit China and our city one day. I am planning to organize a fan club here in Dalian city, we need some movie posters of this Valter movie.

Please tell us where to buy it.

Thanks.

I am a Chinese of the 60s. Agree with everything my fellow Chinese says. The only other film/TV series close in my opinion is Band of Brothers. Not mentioned above is the fact the beautiful music which is such an integral part of the film. The great thing about the film is they don't picture the Germans as stereotypical demons, which makes it more convincing to the audience. I did some research on Yugoslav's part in WWII and would really like to know more about them. Unfortunately, the materials in Chinese and English are very limited. Really want to know about the musicians but no info on them is available either.Also just found out that all the German officers are played by German actors, which makes it very convincing. What is so pathetic is the hero was only ranked #9 of the best Serbian Actors & Actresses... Just dug out the history between the countries within Yugoslav and I can understand why they don't think that highly of the film like the Chinese do.

The movie was amazing. The characters were amazing and memorable. The story was very interesting. It made me shiver, smile and frown every time I watched it. There were so many good and memorable quotes. The battle between the good and the bad was really interesting and fun. You never know who's going to betray who and what tricks will they use to outsmart the opposition. The movie is very rewatchable, some individuals might have to watch it a few times to really understand the story. The sound design is phenomenal. Simply amazing for a film that was released in 1972. I highly recommend this old gem! I'd say it's even better than some films released in these past years.