Ivan (Sutjeska)

Ivan is a partisan in the 1973 film Sutjeska. He hails likely from the Dalmatian city of Split. He is friends with Nikola, Vera and until he was killed by the Waffen SS, Sime who was also Dalmatian and he is also shown to be on good terms with Sime's father Barba. In Nikola's squad he is second in command. He also has a fondness of uniforms, sharks, Chinese women and Vera whom he has an infantile crush on (though this could be him simply trying to annoy Nikola who is married to Vera). He is one of the more humorous characters in the film such as telling his best friend's wife he'll bring her flowers (which he almost ends up doing before dying), dressing in a German officer's uniform, taking multiple cigarettes from a BEF officer and complaing to Nikola.
== Notes ==
*Ivan is a Sinophile as evident by his obsession about Chinese women and shark hunting
*Ivan along with Danijlo and Rado the gunners he's a comic relief character
*His final words are "Tell Vera your Dalmatian man has left you. Tell her the Dalmatian is a theif, a liar, a villan... yet still he was a good man"
*He seemingly wants Vera to be proud of him such as when he asks Nikola not to tell Vera "how afraid" he was after being shot
*His close friendship with Nikola reflects how Boris Dvornik and Bata Živojinović were in real life