You Love Only Once

Original title: Samo jednom se ljubi

1981
1h 43m

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Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family.... Read allTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities co... Read allTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.

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The film was voted the 12th best Croatian film by Croatian film critics in the article in Slobodna Dalmacija on the 28th November 1999.

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10/10

One of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen.

Forget Hollywood and all the blather it represents.

This story is reality. The reality of forever having to re-invent yourself to cope with society, the reality of having to justify yourself to others so you're not forever hounded, the reality that you truly do only ever love once. As the title song states, "you only love once, everything else is a lie."

If you manage to get a chance at viewing this masterpiece, watch it at all costs. I guarantee that you won't come out the same person. This story touches deeply on so many levels that I still shed a tear thinking of it (and that doesn't come easily for a middle-aged biker!).