Slovenian film guide 2026

Don't Come Back by the Same Way

by Jože Babič

Po isti poti se ne vračaj, 1965, fiction, film 35mm, b/w, 90 min

SI, YU

Finished

In their lives away from their families, seasonal workers from the south of Yugoslavia working in Slovenia resort to alcohol and brawls, football and escapism in order to keep their minds off their homesickness, their problems in relationships with Slovene girls and the derisive attitude of some of the real Slovenes they work with. Is nationality really the decisive factor which determines who is your brother and who your enemy? And are there not things more painful even than the cutting edge of a knife or the silence amongst the walls of looming skyscrapers?
Jože Babič
Awards
Festival Award Year
13th Pula Film Festival
Diploma (Jury Award), best directing
1966