Build a movie plot around this: How long do the Chetniks have to surrender? 18 hours
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In the opening scene, German troops and tanks are shown invading the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while bombers attack the capital Belgrade. When the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians invade Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, Serbian army colonel Draza Mihailovic forms a band of guerrillas known as the Chetniks, who launch a resistance movement against the Axis occupation. Mihailovic's forces then engage in an attack on the German and Italian forces, forcing them to employ seven Axis divisions against them.The Chetniks capture an Italian supply convoy. Mihailovic then radios German headquarters in the nearby coastal town of Kotor in Montenegro and offers to exchange Italian POWs for gasoline. Infuriated, general Von Bauer refuses, but when Mihailovic threatens to notify the Italian High Command of his decision, Gestapo colonel Wilhelm Brockner orders Von Bauer to comply.Brockner, who has been unable to capture Mihailovic, is convinced that the Yugoslav leader's wife Ljubica and their two children, Nada and Mirko, are hiding in Kotor. He plans to use them as hostages to blackmail Mihailovic into surrendering. Brockner warns the townspeople that anyone caught aiding the Mihailovic family will be executed, and prepares the deportation of 2,000 men from Kotor to Nazi Germany.Brockner's secretary Natalia, however, is a spy for the Chetniks and is in love with Alexa, one of Mihailovic's aides. Forewarned by Natalia's information, the Chetniks attack the train transporting the two thousand prisoners and free them. In retaliation, Brockner decrees that no food will be distributed to the citizens of Kotor until Lubitca and her children are turned over to the Germans. Lubitca tries to surrender to Brockner but is stopped by Natalia, after which Mihailovic asks to meet with Von Bauer and Brockner.After Mihailovic arrives at German headquarters, however, Von Bauer declares that, since the official Yugoslav government had capitulated, international law does not prevent him from killing Mihailovic, even...