H-8 is a 1958 Yugoslav film directed by Nikola Tanhofer starring Đurđa Ivezić, Boris Buzančić, and Antun Vrdoljak.
H-8 | |
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Directed by | Nikola Tanhofer |
Written by | Zvonimir Berković Tomislav Butorac |
Starring | Đurđa Ivezić Boris Buzančić Antun Vrdoljak Vanja Drach Marijan Lovrić |
Cinematography | Slavko Zalar |
Edited by | Radojka Tanhofer |
Music by | Dragutin Savin |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Yugoslavia |
Language | Serbo-Croatian |
During a rainstorm, a reckless car driver causes the collision of a bus and a truck on a two-lane road between Zagreb and Belgrade. The film covers the events on the bus and the truck leading up to the crash, and the lives of the characters who end up in the crash.
The movie is based on a true story, in which the driver that caused a fatal 1957 bus-truck collision was never identified. "H-8" is the beginning of that driver's license plate, the only available information on the culprit's vehicle.[2][3]
In a 1999 poll among 44 Croatian film critics and film historians, H-8 placed second in the list of all-time best Croatian films, behind One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away.[4] In a similar 2020 poll, it placed first.[5]