Ljubisa SamardzicFilmography

Ledina

Crew: Director

Actors: Nikola Nikic, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Ksenija Pajic

Synopsis: Belgrade circa 1995 was not an easy place to live, but one Serbo-Croatian family gets by as best they can in director Ljubisa Samardzic's second directorial effort, Ledina (Bare Ground). Petar (Nikola Nikic) lives with his Serbian father (Dragan Bjelogrlic) and Croatian mother (Ksenija Pajic) in a Read More

Nebeska Udica

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Nebojsa Glogovac, Ana Sofrenovic, Nikola Kojo

Synopsis: Billed as "a warm human story about bombings and basketball," director Ljubisa Samardzic spins this feel good sports drama set in Belgrade during the height of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. Former basketball star Kaja (Nebojsa Glogovac) struggles not only with daily Read More

Tockovi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dragan Micanovic, Anica Dobra, Nikola Kojo, Ljubisa Samardzic, Bogdan Diklic

Synopsis: Serbian cartoonist turned director Djordje Milosavljevic creates this darkly comic psychological thriller that makes subtle references to the political madness of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Nemanya (Dragan Micanovic) leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a Read More

Jugofilm

Actors: Merab Nindze, Michi Jovanovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Eva Mattes, Tamara Simunovic

Synopsis: Though they have safely reestablished themselves in Austria, a Serbian family find themselves unable to escape the horrifying conflict that ripped the former Yugoslavia apart. In making his tragic drama, screenwriter/director Goran Rebic used no actual war footage and shows less than a minute of Read More

Ubistvo s predumisljajem

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Set during the Belgrade anti-war student demonstrations of 1992, and based upon a novel by Slobodoan Selenic, this Serbian drama uses the parallel romantic tales of two generations of Serbian to comment upon and compare the brutality inherit in Milosevic's regime to that of Tito's with the point Read More

Kazi Zasto Me Ostavi

Actors: Zarco Lausevi, Ljubisa Samardzic, Katanna Gojkovic, Dragan Jovanovic

Synopsis: This film, produced in Former Yugoslavia, chronicles the horrors of Yugoslavia's meaningless civil war and it's effects upon a group of friends. The three main characters are Pedja, Ljuba, who is involved with the brother of Pedja's girlfriend Ivana, and Rabe an older friend. The threesome are Read More

Kuca Poreo Pruge

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Slobodan Bestic, Andelka Milivojevic, Meto Jovanovski, Dusica Zegarac

Synopsis: A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Moslems rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local townspeople of their new community. Meto Jovanovski Read More

Hey, Babu Riba

Actors: Gala Videnovic, Milan Strljic, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Goran Radakovic, Nebojsa Bakocevic

Synopsis: Music and a changing culture provide new expressions for teen angst in this insightful story of the aspirations of several teens living in Belgrade in the 1950s. Four young men and their friend Esther (Gala Videnovic) form a band, hang out, and try to adjust to their changing lifestyle. Given Read More

Andjeo Cuvar

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Neda Arneric, Saban Bajramovic

Synopsis: The Guardian Angel in this harrowing film is the one who doesn't protect gypsy children from being sold into virtual slavery with gangs of organized beggars, pickpockets, and thieves all over Europe. Once "on the job," these young children are treated viciously, and even the mildest disobedience Read More

Anticasanova

Nije Lako S Muskarcima

Dobrovoljci

Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Boro Begovic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Bogdan Kiklic

Synopsis: In this amusing anti-war comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops Read More

Orkestar Jedne Mladosti

Secerna Vodica

Actors: Sonja Savic, Svetislav Goncic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Milena Dravic

Synopsis: In this light comedy that does not have much going for it except the lead actress Sonja Savic, a young woman decides it is time to have an adult relationship with a man, and believing that her nose is too unattractive, she opts for cosmetic surgery. Along with the change in her facial Read More

Medeni Mjesec

Actors: Slobodan Milovanovic, Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: This weak story about a country oaf who goes after a con artist because the guy ran off with his girlfriend is the occasion for several sexual encounters between the innocent country boy and the bad women in the city -- though in the end, the exhausted fellow realizes that an honest and pure life Read More

Moj Tata Na Odredjeno Vreme

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Boris Dvornik, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Nikola Kojo

Synopsis: This standard, family comedy is about a divorced mother with a 12-year-old son and how her ex-husband tries to win her back by spreading false rumors about the man she now loves. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Smrt Gospodina Goluze

Savamala

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Ruzica Sokic, Gordana Bjelica

Synopsis: Director and co-writer Zika Mitrovic has put together a series of skits to illustrate life in 1936 in the ghetto of Savamala in Belgrade. His characters include a funny, endearing woman (Ljubisa Samardzic), a young fellow hoping to earn a living through his cartoons and caricature drawings, and Read More

Kraljevski Voz

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent (Ljubisa Samardzic) carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo Read More

Visoki Napon

Actors: Bozidarka Frajt, Vanja Drach, Milan Strljic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic

Synopsis: This historical drama is about the turbulence in Yugoslavia between 1946 and 1956 when Tito instituted his own version of socialism, thereby alienating both East and West. The political climate and divisions at that time are reflected in actual documentary footage within the narrative itself. The Read More

Gosti Iz Galaksije

Actors: Zarko Potocnjak, Ljubisa Samardzic, Lucie Zulova, Ksenia Prohaska

Synopsis: In this children's movie, the imaginary friends of a young boy suddenly spring to life and create all kinds of problems in his little town. The story is a lively blend of live-action and animation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Partizanska Eskadrila

Synopsis: This film is a tribute to the Partisan Squadron, a group of Yugoslav airmen who flew out of England in the early days of WWII to defend their homeland from the Nazis. ~ Forest Ray, All Movie Guide Read More

Bosko Buha

Actors: Zarko Radic, Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: Young teen partisans during World War II are small enough to get past obstacles in order to toss grenades into armed locations such as bunkers and houses. In this film, the youngsters are brave on and off the battlefield, and one of them has a brief romance before dying for his country. ~ Clarke Read More

Stici Pre Svitanja

Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Peter Carsten

Synopsis: Noted Yugoslavian communists have been imprisoned by the Germans and collaborationists, in this World War Two adventure. In the story, they tunnel to freedom, leaving behind a dead informer, and they join the partisan resistance movement. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Aller Retour

Actors: Dusan Janicijevic, Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: In this bleak melodrama, a family of Yugoslavian farmers, led by their obstreperous father, immigrates briefly to France in order to find work. They land at first in Paris, staying with other Yugoslavs, whose ramshackle, condemned home is under siege by the police because of their refusal to Read More

Tigar

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Vera Cukic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Pavle Vujisic

Synopsis: In this tragicomedy, an aging pro boxer, never a champion, is encouraged by his wife to quit this non-lucrative field and earn more money for her to spend. He agrees to fight a final bout and retire. His manager secretly improves his odds of winning the final fight by arranging for a woman to Read More

Ljubavni Zivot Budimira Trajkovica

Actors: Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Mica Tomic, Marina Nemet

Synopsis: The teenaged son of a family of bridge-builders is in a bad way. His parents never stay in one place long enough for him to get to know any girls. In this comedy, however, that is not for want of trying. The boy is supported by his mother, who is no happier about the constant moving than he is. Read More

Specijalno Vaspitanje

Actors: Slavko Stimac, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic, Aleksandar Bercek

Synopsis: A quite young boy, whose mother is a prostitute and who has turned to stealing in order to survive, is caught and sent to a juvenile detention home in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. There, he finds a friend in a nearly mute older boy, and in the new and empathetic instructor who is in charge of both of Read More

Lude Godine

Actors: Rialda Karic, Vladimir Petrovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra

Synopsis: Lonely, and beset by unsympathetic parents, the two teens in this film turn to each other for comfort and solace. Fired by youthful desires, they make love in every remote place they can find, and the girl becomes pregnant. Unable to turn to their parents, they seek the help of their friends to Read More

Belle Trave

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: The two young people in this movie are very much in love, but cannot make up their minds whether to marry. They go together to work at an agricultural commune, and encounter an unhappy childless couple. That encounter, curiously, results in their feeling they should marry. They do so, and move Read More

Divota Prasine

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: One of the two partisans in this Yugoslavian tale has lost his pants and must lug around a huge machine gun, the other is a young boy who hero-worships him. They are caught behind German lines and are in as much danger from their cowardly countrymen as they are from the Germans. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Crvena Zemlja

Actors: Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: Early losses suffered by the Yugoslavian population and the partisans in their struggle against the Germans are the focus of this work. In this Yugoslavian "partisan film" almost the entire population of a village is executed by Germans as a reprisal for partisan activities. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

Bombasi

Sutjeska

Actors: Richard Burton

Synopsis: This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later became the unrivalled ruler of that troubled country. During that war, he was instrumental in resisting Nazi efforts to exterminate the Yugoslav partisans. The film details Read More

Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrdusa Donja

Synopsis: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience of the whole town. The village commissar, who knows nothing of the Read More

Valter Brani Sarajevo

Siroma Sam Al' Sam Besan

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Nikola Milic

Synopsis: This comedy finds a young man setting up a barber shop in a small town near the border. Most of the residents work on a collective farm, resenting outsiders and constantly gossiping. An affair with a local female singer is followed by an infatuation over a beautiful farm girl. Her sister seduces Read More

Biciklisti

Actors: Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Mija Aleksic

Synopsis: Cafe patrons are forced to decide what side to fight on when the Nazis invade Yugoslavia in World War II. When the Nazi flag is raised in town, they go underground to discuss their political allegiances. A core of partisans holds out against the Germans as the enemy tracks them down. When a Czech Read More

Bitka na Neretvi

Actors: Yul Brynner, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World War II. Yul Brynner stars as a guerilla leader whose mission in life is to eradicate all Nazis from his homeland (recently revealed instances of Yugoslav collaboration are Read More

Podne

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Neda Arneric, Faruk Begoli, Mija Aleksic, Ljuba Tadic

Synopsis: This political drama finds a young couple divided between love and loyalty to their countries. A Russian boy and a Yugoslav girl fall in love and are encouraged to marry. When diplomatic relations between their two countries turn icy, their burning passions are frozen by the Cold War. In parallel Read More

Goli Covik

Diverzanti

Actors: Rade Markovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: Yugoslavian resistance fighters send out eight men on a suicide mission to bomb the airport in this World War II action drama. The locals have successfully kept the Nazis at bay on the ground, but the German Luftwaffe looms as a bigger and more dangerous threat. The film was popular at the box Read More

Jutro

Actors: Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Mija Aleksic

Synopsis: Director Purisa Djordjevic combines the past, present, and future in this symbolic character study of people affected by the aftershocks of war. The anti-war sentiment of the film is underscored as people march for peace to a tune by Pete Seeger. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

San

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Mihailo "Misa" Janketic, Olivera Vuco

Synopsis: Dream sequences and comedy are used in this World War II drama that alludes to the stress of the human condition under the confusion of battle. The theme of partisan resistance to the Nazis is a familiar one, but the feature serves as a political commentary about the state of affairs in Yugoslavia Read More

Orlovi Rano Lete

Devojka

Actors: Milena Dravic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Rade Markovic

Synopsis: A young woman is saved by a resistance member when she wanders into enemy territory and into a Nazi encampment in this tragic World War II drama. The woman accidently enters the zone when she looks for her family members who have been killed by the Germans. The man and woman try to avoid death by Read More

Sticenik

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic, Spela Rozin, Rade Markovic

Synopsis: When a young poet comes to Belgrade, he still feels the sting of his rejection by publishers, and he is fueled with seething determination to prove his worth. After he writes editorials critical of university students who ignore the rights of others, he is beaten up by angry readers. He marries a Read More

Dani

Actors: Ljubisa Samardzic

Synopsis: While her husband is away, Nina sets out to combat boredom. The wealthy woman visits an elderly aunt and frequents the stores and boutiques of downtown Belgrade. She spends the day with a handsome stranger who is obviously enamored with Nina, but the two separate at the end of their memorable day Read More

Kozara

Actors: Bert Sotlar, Mihajlo Kostic, Davor Natolic

Synopsis: For a long time, virtually the only Yugoslavian-made films to reach American shores concerned the anti-German partisans of World War II. The title Kozara refers to a Yugoslav village where the citizens are forced to uproot and evacuate by the invading Nazis. The partisans must not only sabotage Read More

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