Transatlantic (1998 film)

A movie epic about emigration, roots, America, Croatia, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether thatlife in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human.This taboo-theme in Croatian culture is brilliantly realized in the genre of a social psychological drama with melodramatic, criminal and adventure elements.Forced by poverty and possible mobilization, Jakov flees to America in 1918., as a war deserter, together with his cousin Luka.The opportunity came when Miho, the owner of the immigration hotel in Pittsburgh sends a letter to Jakov to find him a Croatian wife.In America, Miho understands the situation and instead of marrying Zorka, he is generously sending money home for Jakov's escape.
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