Once Brothers (2010)

"Dreams brought them together Reality tore them apart"
Audience Score
73
Once Brothers
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball Together they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights After conquering Europe they both went to USA where they became the first two foreign players to attain NBA stardom But with the fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991 Yugoslavia split up A war broke out between Petrovics Croatia and Divacs Serbia Long buried ethnic tensions surfaced And these two men once brothers were now on opposite sides of a deadly civil war As Petrovic and Divac continued to face each other on the basketball courts of the NBA no words passed between the two Then on the fateful night of June 7 1993 Drazen Petrovic was killed in an auto accident This film will tell the gripping tale of these men how circumstances beyond their control tore them apart and whether Divac has ever come to terms with the death of a friend before they had a chance to reconcile
DirectorMichael Tolajian
WriterMichael Tolajian