Četverored was aired on television only a week after its theatrical release in Zagreb, in what was widely characterised as an electoral ploy to support the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, which subsequently lost the elections.

The film shows the atmosphere in Zagreb before the arrival of the partisans and focuses on the fate of a group of HNK actors who decide to go into exile with parts of the defeated army.

In the second part of the chronicle, after the surrender and capture on the Bleiburg field, the refugees go through a harsh captivity on the Way of the Cross, where they are tormented by hunger and thirst, and death lurks at every step.

[1] Historian Jelena Batinić writes that, despite the film's high production value and prominent Croatian actors, it "rarely rises above the level of a propaganda pamphlet with crude ethnic stereotyping" as the mostly Serb Partisans are portrayed as vicious murderers and Croat prisoners as innocent victims.

[4] Professor Dijana Jelača of Brooklyn College lists Četverored as among the post-Yugoslav nationalist revisionist films which use events of the past, reconstructing them in order to "warn generations to come" of the never-ending threats to nationhood.