KEY Films From Ex - Yugoslavia
Key films from the former yugoslavia and present new states till now
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- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicDjurdja IvezicAntun VrdoljakA bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicJagoda KaloperAn homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsBoris DvornikLjubica JovicJoza SebMartin and his girlfriend Zorica are two students who live as subtenants in separate flats. Since that situation has devastating effect on their love life, they yearn after the place of their own. When Martin's landlords go to the hollidays, it seems that their prayers, at least temporarily, had been listened to. However, the idilla is very short one, because other people also want to use the situation.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicJanez VrhovecEva RasA love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsMetka GabrijelcicVladimir BacicRelja BasicThree children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacSlobodan AligrudicLjiljana BlagojevicA young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsTamara MileticMilorad MargeticNiksa StefaniniAn one-legged engineer of hydro construction and a war veteran meets a blind girl in a mountain sanatorium of Ophthalmology during winter. She's waiting for a surgery that can restore her eyesight. Soon the two fall in love with each other, but he feels unpleasant because of his handicap she's yet aware of.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsMiha BalohIlija DzuvalekovskiSenka VeletanlicA train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDragan NikolicBogdan DiklicGorica PopovicOne week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
- DirectorAnte PeterlicStarsDragutin KlobucarIvo SerdarAna KaricThe two friends are trying to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsFranjo MajeticMirjana BohanecRelja BasicThe story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, but wants to marry off the aunt. After a couple of invitations to their Zagreb home, the father becomes aware of Fulir's passes at his wife...
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsOlivera MarkovicLia Rho-BarbieriInge IlinThe story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.
- DirectorObrad GluscevicStarsBoris DvornikMilena DravicNikola-Kole AngelovskiA young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorVladan SlijepcevicStarsStanislava PesicAli RanerIlija DzuvalekovskiA young woman tries not to become conformist like her parents, while her fiancé who had similar views, gradually became one. However it turns out that she cannot distance from her own background either.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsMetka GabrijelcicFranek TrefaltJure FurlanThree students try to pass their final exam by reluctant task of wooing their professor's daughter, but the unlucky winner, decided by a coin toss, will completely forget about studying once he meet her.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsBekim FehmiuMilena DravicFabijan SovagovicA film about a small-time gangster, a loser who finally seems on the road to going straight.
- DirectorMate ReljaStarsSlavko StimacGordana InkretZeljko MalcicOne class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. Teacher gets sick and the class is forced to go home without him. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsRade VergovicTeodora ArsenovicMilena DravicA juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in WWII. After being accepted with much love and care, he reconsiders his initial plan to rob the family.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsIvo GregurevicIvica VidovicMirjana MajurecAt the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
- DirectorTomislav RadicStarsBozidarka FrajtRuza RosociVesna VeselicAn unemployed actress remembers her war-torn childhood while she unsuccessfully tries to find a job.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorObrad GluscevicStarsSlavko StimacZeljko MataijaIvan StimacA boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with the food.
- DirectorVanca KljakovicStarsIvica VidovicEva RasRelja BasicOur hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
- DirectorObrad GluscevicStarsBeba LoncarMilena DravicMilutin MicovicA summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsBert SotlarLila AndresZlatko LukmanA partisan comes secretly to town to find about what happened to his little son who barely remembers him. He is horrified when he finds out that his son is raised in a colaborators' orphanage, brought up to hate communists and partisans. He decides to take his son to the freed territory with him, but will he manage to escape the police checkings?
- DirectorVeljko Bulajic"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajic about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of Skopje). The filming started three days after the earthquake and lasted for four months. After that, Bulajic spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsBoris DvornikIvica VidovicCharles MillotA party commissioner Ivica is sent to the lowland village in purpose of monitoring the partisan batch, made up of locals. Regardless of disagreements with their leader Dikan, they befriend and plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an Ustasha officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsSlobodan CusticSnezana BogdanovicBozidar BunjevacAfter the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for years. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Keco, last Bosnian outlaw.
- DirectorMihailo VukobratovicStarsMilena DravicLjubisa SamardzicAna SimicA divorcee and her two teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsVesna BojanicJosip ZappalortoNada KasapicIn order to gather information about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement is sending one girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.
- DirectorRudolf SremecA state-propaganda about the Rasa mine in Istria.
- DirectorDusan VukoticTwo men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsDusica ZegaracBoris DvornikBranko TaticIn order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn't seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late - he must face the fact that he loves her. Young man starts looking for her, even if it means hat he would go to the very center of concentration camp - the Ninth Circle.
- DirectorBranko BelanStarsMilorad MargeticTamara MileticMirko VojkovicMan escapes from an Italian camp and returns to his island in occupied Dalmatia only to find himself victim of a plot denouncing him as an enemy agent.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicNeda ArnericMilena DravicThe war has ended leaving a deep trace in people. Going through a different conflicts in the first days of peace - dealing with a former enemy's collaborators and executing traitors - a former soldier continues with killing even in peace. So, the war goes on, a struggle within himself and with the people around him.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsAleksandar GavricMarija TocinoskiMiha BalohThe movie is based on true events that occured in Croatian city of Karlovac in 1941. In order to save the imprisoned high ranking member of the resistance movement, the group of Partizans are conducting daring raid in the very center of the enemy stronghold.
- DirectorMate ReljaStarsIlija DzuvalekovskiDusan BulajicStane PotokarAfter the war, a Yugoslav army captain, Vladimir, is in charge of suppressing armed supporters of the former king's regime, led by major Momir. After Vladimir's best friend is killed, he joins the rebels pretending to be one of the king's supporters. However, one of Momir's supporters, a man who harbors rebels, has an attractive daughter who is engaged to marry Momir. She knows that Vladimir is an officer of the Yugoslav army, because she has seen him wearing a Yugoslav uniform. Vladimir fears that she might betray him.
- DirectorPetar KreljaStarsAnja Sovagovic-DespotZarko LausevicMiodrag KrivokapicYoung social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.
- DirectorOktavijan MileticStarsBranko SpoljarLidija DominkovicSena JurinacBiography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.
- DirectorIgor SeregiStarsRene BitorajacMatija KacanMarko CindricSeries of events leading to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.
- DirectorEdson RamírezStarsAljosa AsanovicSlaven BilicMiroslav Blazevic Jr.Croatian War of Independence narrated trough the experiences of the players of the National Soccer Team who won the third place during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, in France. Their victory delivered joy to a war torn population and it is the highest achievement of a post Yugoslavian nation in soccer competitions.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJosip KuchanMarko MatanovicIvo GregurevicWistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.