Talk:The Deer Hunt

Language: Serbian or Croatian or what?
The IMDb used to use Serbo-Croatian as its standard for Yugoslav films. Closely related languages on a dialect continuum.

In this instance, the IMDb actually says Serbian, rather than the expected Serbo-Croatian.

This WP article is labelled as a Croatian stub. But every film by its director, a Croatian, is labelled here as Croatian. It sounds like ex-Yugoslav nationalism.

The corresponding article in Croatian WP gives the language as Croatian. But it also gives the country as Croatia, when no such country existed in 1972. Nationalism, again?

The Croatian article WP sources this with a dead link, and the source, from its title, is a nationalistic one.

Croatians working in 1970s Yugoslavia were using the common lingua franca of the time, which is to say Serbo-Croatian, understandable to the majority.

I think the language issue here is unresolved.

Croatian WP is definitely nationalist here, while the IMDb is clearly less nationalist since it lists the country of origin correctly: Yugoslavia.

So I have opted for the IMDb for the language as well.

Varlaam (talk) 15:39, 17 February 2012 (UTC) (former senior IMDb researcher with an emphasis on languages)