The Ambush
Release date: 1969-06-30
Votes: 8
Genres: Drama, War
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
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