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Actors: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Srdjan Todorovic, Daryl Haney, Aleksandar Bercek, Dubravka Mijatovic
Actors: Lazar Ristovski, Radmila Shchogolyeva, Dragan Nikolic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Danilo "Bata" Stojkovic
Synopsis: At the time of this film's release, Lazar Ristovski was the most popular Yugoslavian actor on stage as well as on screen, having had recently played Blacky in Underground and the boxer in Bare Baruta. He was the director, producer, screenwriter, and lead actor of this first film about a Read More
Actors: Ivana Surdic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Neda Arneric, Miodrag Krivokapic, Svetlana Bojkovic
Synopsis: Documentarian Petar Lalovic made his feature-film debut with this family drama. Student and musician Lela (Ivana Surdic) lives in Belgrade with her mother Vida (Neda Arneric), who is divorced from Dushan (Miodrag Krivokapic). When Lela gets leukemia, there are no bone-transplant donors, and Vida Read More
Synopsis: Though cloaked in explosive black humor, the serious anti-war message of this bitterly satirical and politically charged Yugoslav film cuts like shrapnel. Set in Bosnia during 1980 and 1992 (like a pendulum, the time frame swings back and forth), and allegedly based upon a true story, the plot Read More
Actors: Mario Selic, Anja Rupel, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Rade Serbedzija, Elizabeth Spender
Synopsis: Peter Berdon (Mario Selic) joins a group of Stalinists after his father is killed by the Nazis in this grim political drama. The film begins with his arrest and uses flashbacks to tell the events that led to his incarceration. His abuse is chronicled both in and out of prison after he falls in Read More
Synopsis: The daughter of a wealthy American entrepreneur is sent to a monastery on a remote Yugoslavian mountainside, where it is rumored the monks have developed an exquisite cognac recipe. The money-making American wants his daughter to get the recipe so they can market the spirits. Things complicate Read More
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Horst-Günter Marx, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Rade Serbedzija
Synopsis: In this melodramatic tale, the well-made plans of a career-obsessed woman are derailed when she sets her sights on a young man who is plainly not very interested in her. In the story, Katherina is an ambitious reporter for German television, and her Yugoslavian family background makes her a Read More
Actors: Svetislav Goncic, Zoran Cvijanovic, Zarko Lausevic
Synopsis: Luka has graduated from college, and he has traveled abroad and seen how people live there. Recently, he returned from his trip and was arrested at the border on a drug charge. They only took his passport, though. He has no job, so he hangs around with his buddies wherever he can, getting into Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Marko Ratic, Gorica Popovic, Neda Arneric
Synopsis: This excellently told tale of revenge follows along the same lines as Francois Truffaut's 1967 film about an avenging woman, The Bride Wore Black, with the exception that the avenger(s) is a man and his son. The time is 1944, and Bajo (Bata Zivojinovic) is now able to begin the long hunt for the Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Dara Dzokic, Vjenceslav Kapural, Vanja Drach
Synopsis: Framing this interesting, dramatic story about a cooperative farm's seething conflicts is a trial for murder. The story, told largely in flashbacks, deals with Markan (Bata Zivojinovic), the leader of a large cooperative who was instrumental in getting forcibly displaced, independent farmers Read More
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
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
Actors: Gorica Popovic, Bogdan Diklic
Synopsis: In this romantic drama, two parallel stories about a pair of professional, middle-aged women looking for romance with different degrees of motivation eventually converge at the end -- the twist is that one of the women is fictional. Dunja is a filmmaker writing a television series called "Stephie Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Miodrag Krivokapic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Krunoslav Saric, Danko Ljustina
Synopsis: Todor the Terrible (Bata Zivojinovic) and his band of fellow klutzes are out to rob their way to riches in this crime comedy by Dejan Sorak set at the end of World War I. Todor and his toadies inhabit a godforsaken region of Bosnia-Croatia, left alone by everyone except the police and the Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Gorica Popovic, Pavle Vujisic, Mladen Andrejevic
Synopsis: In this standard action film, a taxi driver who was once a boxer comes up against the drug world when he discovers that his wife is an addict. He wants to see that those who are responsible for her plight get their due, and as events unfold, all the Belgrade taxis have to turn out in force to help Read More
Actors: Dragan Nikolic, Bora Todorovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Tanja Boskovic, Olivera Markovic
Synopsis: In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express." They tour the country and vie with each other for how much they can pilfer, scam, con, or lift from the unsuspecting Read More
Actors: Lazar Ristovski, Branislav Lecic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic
Synopsis: During the frozen days of January in 1942, a group of Yugoslavian soldiers were surrounded by Germans and had to walk over the mountains and past Sarajevo in sub-zero temperatures. This film spins a fictional tale around their forced march, including scenes of the after-effects -- such as Read More
Actors: Aleksandar Bercek, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Rada Zivkovic, Vladica Milosavljevic, Bane Vidakovic
Synopsis: In this melodrama about companionship and life, two friends are released from jail for different reasons -- one has a weekend pass, and the other is terminally ill -- and they go out looking for the past they left behind when they were imprisoned. As the healthy prisoner searches for his wife and Read More
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
Actors: Dragan Nikolic, Ena Begovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Danilo "Bata" Stojkovic, Pavle Vujisic
Synopsis: In a series of humorous anecdotes, the life of a down-to-earth teacher and his class of orphans in a one-room Yugoslavian schoolhouse is filled with the most unlikely events. The class continues between late 1944 to the summer of 1945, and much happens during that time. The school's cook and Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Neda Arneric
Synopsis: A surgeon (Velimir Zivojinovic) who has everything a man could possibly want: a good career, a loving family, an attractive wife, and a beautiful mistress as well -- decides that everything is not enough, and aims to grab the directorship of a new and prestigious medical clinic. In order to obtain Read More
Actors: Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Gorica Popovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic
Synopsis: The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with Read More
Actors: Miki Manojlovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic
Synopsis: Miki Rudinsky (Miki Manojlovic) is a disk jockey for a small provincial radio station who would like to move up the ladder to bigger and better positions. With that thought in mind, he organizes a gala event for the town sponsored by the local plum-processing factory. Unbeknownst to Miki, a big Read More
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
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Radmila Zivkovic
Synopsis: As a background to this story, both Greek and Yugoslavian Macedonians fought in WW II against the Nazis, but after the war, Macedonians were divided between the communist Yugoslav sector, and the Greek sector that was primarily non-communist. That situation led to a 10-year civil war in Greek Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Darko Dameski, Meto Jovanovski
Synopsis: During a chaotic and dangerous period in the Balkans, Dorotej (Gojko Santic), a young and handsome monk, is dedicated to helping the ill and ailing with his knowledge of herbal medicine. As he travels around the countryside, he is called to aid a sick abbot, and in the process of curing the Read More
Actors: Aleksandar Bercek, Milena Dravic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Drago Cuma, Predrag Ejdus
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Pavle Vujisic, Radko Polic, Dragan Nikolic
Synopsis: In his old age, a man looks back on his life as an anti-fascist partisan during the Second World War. The losses he suffered then are still painful to him, as are his memories of the atrocities committed by otherwise decent people. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
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
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
Actors: Svetlana Bojkovic, Irfan Mensur, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Dusan Janicijevic, Bata Stojkovic
Synopsis: This slice-of-life story of an amoral drifter is an unusual product for the Yugoslavian film industry of its day, and it features a catchy title song. Having been imprisoned as a result of drug peddling, Mika manages to escape from a prison train and hooks up with a man who does horse-riding Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ruzica Sokic, Nikola Simic
Synopsis: A television film is being made about their high-school, and the students there, who otherwise seem a pretty ordinary bunch wholly occupied with sports and romance, reveal a more thoughtful perspective as they are interviewed about their school. However, hijinks are not wholly prevented by the Read More
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
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
Actors: Vojislav Brajovic, Aleksandar Bercek
Synopsis: In this wartime comedy, a troupe of partisans have an assignment which requires that they pretend to be a minister of the collaborationist Serbian government and his staff. The need to get into a city and execute the members of a German-trained group which is systematically killing communists. Read More
Actors: Fabijan Sovagovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Pavle Vujisic, Franjo Majetic
Synopsis: In the Middle Ages, the conditions endured by peasants and serfs were in some ways worse than those endured by slaves, and periodically there were peasant uprisings. Very few of these were even slightly successful. This Yugoslav film chronicles such an uprising in Croatia and Slovenia in 1573 Read More
Synopsis: After some years of working as a crane operator in Germany, Adam (Bekim Femihu) tires of living as a foreign guest worker and returns to his native Yugoslavia. Despite possessing needed skills, he cannot get work without paying off a particular gang which controls hiring in his region. As he Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Ottoman Empire, sections of Yugoslavia were under Islamic Turkish rule until as late as the 19th century. Among the different flavors of belief practiced in Islam is a mystical variety known as Sufism, which has an offshoot group of followers known as Dervishes. Since people in the Read More
Actors: Rod Taylor, Adam West
Synopsis: Featured performances by American performers Adam West (best known in the U.S. as television's "Batman") and Rod Taylor distinguish this Yugoslavian action film about partisans. Anna is a Jewish girl who hopes to rescue her grandfather from the concentration camps. She encounters an Austrian Read More
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
Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi
Synopsis: This strident Yugoslavian/Italian film is a very uneven adaptation of a small portion of the famous and much-loved whimsical novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulghakov. It attempts to deal only with the Moscow portion of the novel. Even so, it was a brave attempt to film the unfilmable Read More
Synopsis: In this dark Yugoslavian melodrama, a railroad worker quits his job to search for his missing girlfriend, a prostitute. While he met her professionally, they soon became lovers. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Fabijan Sovagovic
Synopsis: The beautiful photography of Tomislav Pinter often overshadows the tragicomic plot in Breza. A young woman named Janica is considered to be the most beautiful among the villagers. An elderly woodsman introduces Janica to a young gamekeeper named Marko. The couple is married and a baby is added to Read More
Synopsis: In this German tragedy, a generally humane bureaucrat ruins his life by too rigorously enforcing the rules concerning honest weight. Taking place in the years just prior to World War I, the film is set in a colorful village in Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because of his efforts to Read More
Synopsis: Of commissars and peasants, there are many tales told. This Yugoslavian film explores the many-sided character not only of those seeking to bring communist collectivism to a rural village, but of those being changed, the peasants. Each side brings its own mix of humor, kindness, and cruelty into Read More
Actors: Mira Stupica, Ljuba Tadic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic
Synopsis: The Nazis invade a small town in Yugoslavia and force the men to dig trenches. The children do odd jobs for the invaders like shine shoes and resort to petty theft while listening for information about the enemy. Partisans attack the Nazis, who line up the men shoot them as they try to run across Read More
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
Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Vuco, Oleg Vidov, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Pavle Vujisic
Synopsis: The inhabitants of a Yugoslav village are rounded up by the Nazis for their sadistic pleasures. They have all the cloth in town dyed as to upset the burial process that requires a certain shade of fabric to conduct the ceremony properly. A local man who dyes the cloth for the ceremonies is denied Read More
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
Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Vuco, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Gordana Jovanovic, Mija Aleksic
Synopsis: The Yugoslavian leading man Bekim Fehmiu plays a charismatic but mean-spirited gypsy, married to the submissive woman (Olivera Vuco). The gypsy couple's various escapades end up in a desperate flight from the Law. The authenticity of I Even Met Happy Gypsies is amplified by the use of genuine Read More
Actors: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Leticia Roman, Larry Pennell, Mario Girotti
Synopsis: This colorful western saga finds Old Surehand (Stewart Granger) and his comical sidekick Old Wabble (Paddy Fox) hot on the trail of a cold-blooded murderer. His brother has been killed, and the heroic duo sets out to bring the varmint to justice. Meanwhile, Surehand must mediate the trouble Read More
Actors: Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Voja Miric
Synopsis: In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the crowd insists that three soldiers arrest him. The Read More
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
Actors: Olivera Markovic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Dragomir Felba
Synopsis: This conventional drama by Yugoslavian director Veljko Bulajic (Train Without a Timetable) is strictly for audiences with interests in work crews, industrial endeavors, and all the headaches that come with trying to finish a project on time. At issue is the construction of an enormous blast Read More
Actors: Antun Vrdoljak
Synopsis: This conventional post-nuclear holocaust drama from Yugoslav director Veljko Bulajic seems to be at cross purposes. On the one hand, its anti-war sentiments are clear, as well as its realistic scenarios of destruction, and on the other hand, the director and scripter Cesar Zavatini have turned the Read More
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