Balkan 'forbidden' love comedy smashes stereotypes and records

When two students in London tell their families they are going to get married, it should be one of the happiest moments of their lives.

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But there's a catch -- she is Croatian and he is Serbian.

The rivalry between the two Balkan neighbours becomes comedy gold in the smash hit film “Wedding”, which has audiences in both countries laughing at themselves.

The Croatian-Serbian co-production mocks stereotypes of the two peoples who share a very similar language but who ended up fighting in a bloody war in the 1990s when Yugoslavia, the country they shared for generations, collapsed.

The young couple's families are horrified by the looming “mixed marriage”.

The Croat Catholic father senses something is amiss from his daughter's voice when she calls to share the news that a baby is on the way -- only to learn the “shocking truth” that the father and future son-in-law is a Serb.

There's a similar reception on the Serbian side, where the grandmother calls her future in-laws “Ustashas”, a slur alluding to Croatia's World War II pro-Nazi regime.

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