Red Star Belgrade

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Peter Wolf - Red Star Belgrade

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Bill Nighy plays Vratar - a Yugoslav goalkeeper in the Second World War.

Belgrade, 1941: Bomb survivors in the football team at a Nazi prison camp play a match against their guards. Starts Bill Nighy.

Belgrade, 1941: As the Nazis begin their invasion of the Balkans, half the football team are wiped out as the pitch is bombed.  

In prison camp, the survivors form a new team to play a match against the Prison Guards, but the price of winning this match against their fascists captors will be their lives.

Starring Bill Nighy.  

Wartime drama written by Peter Wolf.  

Vratar    ......    Bill Nighy
Igrac    ......    Mark Bazeley 
Bozo    ......    Stephen Critchlow
Gretl    ......    Tracy-Ann Oberman
Zdenka    ......    Janice Acquah
Gazde    ......    Philip Joseph
Devet    ......    Jonathan Keeble
Osam    ......    Gordon Reid
Sedam    ......    Kenny Blyth

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2001.

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