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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Lazar shoots himself, believing the army has finally caught him.]]
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* IWantMyMommy: Towards the end of the movie, Jovana starts calling out for her mother and leaves Lazar's car, apparently to look for her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, Jasna has been killed. Her corpse is in the back seat of Lazar's car.]]
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Lazar says "Please don't leave me alone" when Jovana wanders off close to the end of the movie.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: After Lazar defected from the army, he was so traumatized by what he'd seen and done that he spent most of his time drunk.
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* BrokenRecord: Jovana's echolalia causes her to sound like one sometimes.
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* CryIntoChest: Jovana cries into Lazar's chest after [[spoiler:Jasna is killed]].
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* IDieFree: After he defected, Lazar threw away his Kalashnikov, but he kept his revolver so he could kill himself if the soldiers ever caught him.
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* ShowerOfAngst: When she's scared, Jovana runs into the bathroom, turns on the shower, and stands under the water with her clothes on.
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* BallroomBlitz: During his time in the army, Lazar looked through the windows of a house and saw a group of people gathered around a table, singing and celebrating. He and his fellow soldiers smashed the windows with Kalashnikovs and killed everyone in ten seconds.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: Lazar was conscripted into the army and forced to commit atrocities against civilians.
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* MookFaceTurn: Lazar defected from the army after participating in a particularly gruesome masacre.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Lazar still suffers from nightmares and flashbacks of his time in the army.
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* WarRefugees: Jasna and Jovana fled their hometown after Jasna's family was killed and their house was burned.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Jovana doesn't usually look people in the face, despite Lazar's attempts at forcing eye contact on her.
* HonoraryUncle: Lazar refers to himself as Jovana's Uncle Lazar.
* HonoraryUncle: Lazar refers to himself as Jovana's Uncle Lazar.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jovana's father walked out on her when she turned out to be disabled.
* ParentalSubstitute: Lazar becomes one to Jovana, and even tells his family she's his daughter.
* ParentalSubstitute: Lazar becomes one to Jovana, and even tells his family she's his daughter.
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* AngryCollarGrab: Lazar does this to a man who harasses Jasna at her job.
* CatapultNightmare: Lazar has these when he dreams about the war.
* CatapultNightmare: Lazar has these when he dreams about the war.
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* MsExposition: Jovana's teacher, who explains autism to Lazar.
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* TearsOfRemorse: Lazar cries when he goes to visit [[spoiler:the mother of his best friend, whom he killed in a drunken bar fight]].
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* ChangelingTale: The teacher at Jovana's special needs school tells Lazar that some people think autistics are changelings, as they don't seem to be of this world.
* SensoryOverload: Jovana spends a lot of time with her fingers in her ears, such as when a group of overenthusiastic sports fans surround Lazar's car, or when the audience applauds her in the school play.
* SensoryOverload: Jovana spends a lot of time with her fingers in her ears, such as when a group of overenthusiastic sports fans surround Lazar's car, or when the audience applauds her in the school play.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Jasna has tried all kinds of bogus treatments for Jovana's autism. Now she has more or less come to accept it, but she still longs for Jovana to wake up normal someday. Meanwhile, Lazar makes several ill-advised attempts at drawing Jovana out of her "shell," including an exorcism.
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''Midwinter Night'sDream'' Dream'', originally titled ''San zimske noći'', is a 2004 Serbian drama film about UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars written by Filip David and Goran Paskaljević and directed by Paskaljević.
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Lazar (Lazar Ristovski) returns to his hometown after finishing a ten-year prison sentence to reclaim his dead mother's house. When he gets there, he finds two [[HouseSquatting squatters]]: Jasna (Jasna Źalica) and her autistic daughter Jovana (Jovana Mitić). His first instinct is to kick them out, but he decides to let them stay when he sees the miserable conditions of the homeless shelter. He soon falls in love with Jasna and comes to see Jovana as a daughter.
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Lazar (Lazar Ristovski) returns to his hometown after finishing a ten-year prison sentence to reclaim his dead mother's house. When he gets there, he finds two [[HouseSquatting squatters]]: Jasna (Jasna Źalica) Žalica) and her autistic daughter Jovana (Jovana Mitić). His first instinct is to kick them out, but he decides to let them stay when he sees the miserable conditions of the homeless shelter. He soon falls in love with Jasna and comes to see Jovana as a daughter.
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''Midwinter Night's Dream'' is a 2004 Serbian drama film about UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars written by Filip David and Goran Paskaljević and directed by Paskaljević.
Lazar (Lazar Ristovski) returns to his hometown after finishing a ten-year prison sentence to reclaim his dead mother's house. When he gets there, he finds two [[HouseSquatting squatters]]: Jasna (Jasna Źalica) and her autistic daughter Jovana (Jovana Mitić). His first instinct is to kick them out, but he decides to let them stay when he sees the miserable conditions of the homeless shelter. He soon falls in love with Jasna and comes to see Jovana as a daughter.
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!!''Midwinter Night's Dream'' contains examples of:
* StrugglingSingleMother: Jasna works a crappy job as a waitress to support herself and Jovana.
* TitleIn: "Serbia, winter 2004."
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Lazar (Lazar Ristovski) returns to his hometown after finishing a ten-year prison sentence to reclaim his dead mother's house. When he gets there, he finds two [[HouseSquatting squatters]]: Jasna (Jasna Źalica) and her autistic daughter Jovana (Jovana Mitić). His first instinct is to kick them out, but he decides to let them stay when he sees the miserable conditions of the homeless shelter. He soon falls in love with Jasna and comes to see Jovana as a daughter.
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!!''Midwinter Night's Dream'' contains examples of:
* StrugglingSingleMother: Jasna works a crappy job as a waitress to support herself and Jovana.
* TitleIn: "Serbia, winter 2004."
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