Music from the film in the opening credits (above video) is by Davorin Popović (from the band Indexi) and is called “Žute dunje”. It was co-written by Abdulah Sidran, famous Bosnian poet, dramatist and a writer who is also responsible for writing the screenplay for When Father Was Away on Business.
Kuduz was filmed in 1989. The score was done by now famous Goran Bregovic and it was inspired by a true story about Junuz Keci, last Bosnian outlaw. It deals with a small time criminal called Becir Kuduz who marries a local girl called Badema after he gets out of jail (despite the age difference). She has a five year old daughter which he takes in as his own. Despite finding each other and becoming newlyweds, the happyness doesn’t last between Becir and Badema and soon we find out that she doesn’t want to settle down just yet.
Even though his marriage isn’t perfect, the love for his stepdaughter is genuine and touching to the audience. When Badema runs away and has an affair with another man, he kills her and her lover then runs to the mountains.
Junuz Keco, whom this movie is based upon was jailed subsequently and was sentenced to be released on 11th February 2001. Due to the start of the conflict in Bosnia, he fled from the prison and joined the Bosnian army becoming a commander of a scouting group during the war. He was killed by a sniper when he tried to rescue his stepdaughter, who was wounded by a sniper. He would have been 58 when he would have been released from prison if the war never happened.
People still say that in prison in Foča there is still graffiti on the wall that he wrote:
A man cannot fight against the forces which he cannot see and understand…
