Not that there haven't been plenty of adaptations, but done with a lot of historical and cultural accuracy, a Serbian-Croatian adaptation of Romeo and Juliet would pack a lot of punch. The grittiness of actual feuding, the all too real animosity...
"My Serbian friend was walking hand in hand with his Croatian girlfriend," Reddit user EvolvedBacteria explained. "When an old lady asked her how she could dare to walk next to a Serb, she kissed him. (For more, click here.)
On a similar note, there was a pretty good miniseries on the Hatfields and McCoys with Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton starring as the namesake patriarchs. I looked up some of the history online, and while the series tried to fill in some details, the actual history was at least as strange as the show depicted. It was as though some cosmic soap opera had been written for their lives.
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