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Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day

Drama · Romance

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day

6.5(2) 1/23/2026 2h 17m
DramaRomance

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.

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Top Cast

Dado Ćosić

Dado Ćosić

Lovro Horvat

Emir Hadžihafizbegović

Emir Hadžihafizbegović

Emir

Slaven Došlo

Slaven Došlo

Stevan

Đorđe Galić

Đorđe Galić

Nenad Miličić

Elmir Krivalić

Elmir Krivalić

Ivan

Dražen Čuček

Dražen Čuček

Goran Drenković

Anja Šovagović-Despot

Anja Šovagović-Despot

Lovrina majka

Vojislav Brajović

Vojislav Brajović

Lovrin otac

Directed by

Ivona Juka

Production

Reviews

Brent Marchant

6/10

9/21/2025

When a filmmaker comes up with a good idea for a movie, it’s essential to make sure that all of the key elements are in place when production begins and that carry through into the finished product. This is particularly true for nailing the items intended to have the most impact and eliminating the flotsam that can clutter the final cut. But, in the case of writer-director Ivona Juka’s third feature outing, the filmmaker only gets the formula half right. Without a doubt, Juka scores big on the high-impact material, but the completed work truly could have used another round of script revisions and ruthless film editing to chop out the extraneous material linking these sequences, dead weight that often tends to sink the flow of the picture like an overloaded hammock. This release follows the

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