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Inert petit-burgeoisie place in pre-war Yugoslavia. Two politicians are fighting for voters, while their children fall in love…Read More »
Yugoslavian Cinema under Tito
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Velimir Stojanovic – Cetiri kilometra na sat AKA Four Kilometers per Hour (1958)
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Matjaz Klopcic – Moj ata, socialisticni kulak AKA My Dad, the Socialist Kulak (1987)
1981-1990ComedyDramaMatjaz KlopcicYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoYear 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the sisbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. His wife Mimika and their children Tincek and olga know only that he had deserted the German army and gone over to the Soviet Red Army. Mimika works a a hired hand for the farmer, Medved, who givesher bread and milk for her child instead of regular wages. This is not at all to the liking of her relative Vanc. One fine day, father Malek comes home and the family is happilly reunited. Vanc tells Jozeabout the agrarian reform, through which the Maleks even get their own plot of land. In exchange of this, they have to remove all the religious symbols from their home.Read More »
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Jovan Zivanovic – Gorki deo reke AKA Bitter Part of the River (1965)
Jovan Zivanovic1961-1970DramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoQuote:
While trying to push away a little boy who keeps coming near his cottage at the river, a whimsical mayor meets boy’s mother. These people find hard to make contacts because of their own trouble marks from the past, even though they know that the common effort is needed for the future and survival.Read More » -
Krsto Papic – Izbavitelj AKA The Rat Savior (1976)
1971-1980HorrorKrsto PapicSci-FiYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoA poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film’s story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.Read More »
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Bogdan Zizic – Ne naginji se van aka Don’t Lean Out the Window (1977)
1971-1980Bogdan ZizicDramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoNe naginji se van (1977)
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Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.Read More » -
Aleksandar Petrovic – Bice skoro propast sveta AKA It Rains in My Village (1968)
1961-1970Aleksandar PetrovicDramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoBice skoro propast sveta (1968)
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A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.Read More » -
Mate Relja – Vlak u snijegu AKA Train in the Snow (1976)
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The year is 1932. At the behest of their teacher, fourth grade schoolchildren in a small Croatian village found an old-style Slavic Zadruga and organize a field trip to Zagreb. On their way back, their teacher gets ill and must stay in a hospital. As the children travel back on their own, the train gets blocked by a snowdrift. With the help of the children, the railroad workers manage to clear the way.Read More » -
Jovan Zivanovic – Cudna devojka AKA Strange Girl (1962)
1961-1970DramaJovan ZivanovicRomanceYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoAn interesting drama by Yugoslav director Jovan Zivanovic about a young woman with internal conflicts, Minja (Spela Rozin) leaves her provincial town suffering from some sort of trauma caused by an older man, her drawing class teacher. As she is on her way to studying in at the big university she runs into a journalist and though she is angry, embittered, and temporarily without grounding, she has a one-night-stand. Her morals take a downward turn after arriving in the city and for awhile, it looks as though there is little hope of her recovering from her past wounds.Read More »
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Bostjan Hladnik – Ubij me nežno aka Kill Me Softly (1979)
1971-1980Bostjan HladnikCultDramaSloveniaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoBoštjan Hladnik (30 January 1929 – 30 May 2006) was a Yugoslav/Slovene filmmaker.
Hladnik was born in Kranj. He started with amateur short films after acquiring a projector and a 8mm camera in 1947[1]. From 1949 he studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and made a name for himself with several highly acclaimed short films. In 1957, Hladnik moved to Paris to apprentice under French filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol, Philipe de Broca, and Robert Siodmak. Hladnik’s early-’60s features, Ples v dežju (Dance in the Rain)[2] (1961) and Peščeni grad/Sand Castle[3] (1962), influenced the course of Yugoslav cinema, through integrating influences from the nouvelle vague into it. Read More »