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Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day (2026)
Directed by Ivona Juka
Drama, Romance · 2h 17m
Spanning decades, the film follows lovers Lovro and Nenad and their friends Stevan and Ivan, a group of gay partisans who fought against the Ustashas and Nazis. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers navigating life in post-WWII Communist Yugoslavia. As they rise to fame, they are forced to create propaganda for the regime, risking everything to protect their identities and each other. In 1957 their sexual orientation raises suspicion, and a communist party loyalist named Emir is assigned to sabotage their careers and lives, a party loyalist hiding his own secrets, whose loyalties begin to falter. The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival for the artists, while Emir's beliefs are challenged. Lush, intimate, and politically charged (and with startling parallels to our current political climate), Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a poignant story of resistance — against oppression, against silence, and for the freedom to live and love without fear.
Cast
Dado Ćosić
Lovro Horvat
Emir Hadžihafizbegović
Emir
Slaven Došlo
Stevan
Đorđe Galić
Nenad Miličić
Elmir Krivalić
Ivan
Dražen Čuček
Goran Drenković
Anja Šovagović-Despot
Lovrina majka
Vojislav Brajović
Lovrin otac
Asja Jovanović
Ankica
Milica Mihajlović
Sanela Servar
Svetozar Cvetković
Godež Klemac
Crew
- Director
- Ivona Juka
- Writer
- Ivona Juka
- Director of Photography
- Dragan Ruljančić
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Brook
- Editor
- Nenad Pirnat, Nina Velnić
- Producer
- Anita Juka
Details
- Original title
- Lijepa večer, lijep dan
- Release date
- 2026-01-23
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- HR
- Spoken languages
- Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
- Countries
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Poland, Cyprus, United States of America
- Production
- 4Film, Quiet Revolution Pictures, Orka, Caretta Films, Depo, Tastemakers Studio