Selling the war action classic 20€ The Battle of the Neretva World stars are sacrificed in the biggest encirclement battle of World War II. Among them were stars like Yul Brynner, Curd Jürgens, Hardy Krüger, Orson Welles, Winnetou star Mihal Baloh, and cult Django Franco Nero. Action: The narrow valley along the Neretva River in Yugoslavia was the scene of one of the fiercest battles of World War II in 1943. Here, Josip Broz Tito and his partisan army forced a breakout from the encirclement formed by the German Wehrmacht, the Italian army, the royalist Chetniks, and the fascist Ustaše. THE BATTLE OF THE NERETVA - This impressive film, starring Oscar winners Orson Welles and Yul Brynner as well as German superstars Curd Jürgens and Hardy Krüger, uses spectacular battle scenes to illustrate the relentless harshness and cruelty of war during the Yugoslavs' fight for freedom.