Yugoslavia

  • Bahrudin ‘Bato’ Cengic – Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji AKA The Role of My Family in the Revolution (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseBahrudin 'Bato' CengicCultYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji (1971)
    Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji (1971)

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    Screen adaptation of the popular novel of the same name by Bora Ćosić, published in 1969, for which he won the NIN Award for Novel of the Year in the same year. The film was screened at the Pula Film Festival and was later banned.

    An ironic and parodic view of the revolution, the war, the great historical events are described from the boy’s perspective. His story, abbreviated and simple, reveals all the absurdity and lies of the world “outside the family”. It is a story about the revolution that happened in 1945, together with the national liberation. With the National Revolution, there was a smaller one – a revolution within the family. The film tells what is left of one family that enters a revolution and what is left of a revolution that enters one family.Read More »

  • Matjaz Klopcic – Sedmina AKA Funeral Feast (1969)

    Matjaz Klopcic1961-1970ArthouseDramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Sedmina (1969)
    Sedmina (1969)

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    Funeral Feast, the film with the unforgettable masterfully-edited seven-minute shoot-out in the Tivoli park, takes place in the spring of 1941, when the war engulfs the lives of the Ljubljana youth as well. The affairs of the heart result in a liaison with an enemy officer, while the rebellion leads to organized resistance.

    Like in the majority of Slovenian films, in Funeral Feast the actors from the other former Yugoslav republics were overdubbed by Slovenian actors: Boris Juh lent his voice to Rade Šerbedžija, Mojca Ribič to Snežana Nikšić, and Štefka Drolc to Milena Dravić.Read More »

  • Stjepan Cikes – Daleko nebo AKA Distant Sky (1982)

    1981-1990ActionDramaStjepan CikesYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Daleko nebo (1982)
    Daleko nebo (1982)

    Here’s interesting comment from imdb’s user dima-12:
    Yugoslav Top Gun made five years prior to Tony Scott’s

    ‘Daleko nebo’ is a film by Stjepan Cikes who is mostly known for documentaries. Cikes was employed by Yugoslav Army Film Company and his field of work were aviation documentaries. Thus it comes as no surprise that he directed ‘Daleko nebo’ a film that can easily be described as ‘Top Gun’ before actual ‘Top Gun’. This is a propaganda piece about a young MiG-21 pilot who experiences a traumatic flight and the tension triggers memories of his lifelong fascination with flight. Among other things this memories include clashes with his mother who tried to prevent him from entering Yugoslav Air Force School in Mostar since his father died as a Yugoslav Army pilot. Afterwards, in school he faces other pressures coming from the fact that his father is a legend among Yugoslav Army pilots. ‘Daleko nebo’ essentially threads the same path like ‘Top Gun’. Read More »

  • Zivko Nikolic – U ime naroda (1987)

    Zivko Nikolic1981-1990DramaYugoslavia
    U ime naroda (1987)
    U ime naroda (1987)

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    In a industrial town one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to the agile director Todor, his successful policy of “World breakthrough” the whole town look forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director’s driver Milutin is the center of absurdly dramatic relations in which base manipulation dominates. His lonely, consequent, and reasonable admiration for Todor, his honesty and goodwill bring him into situations to which he can’t and won’t adapt to, nor will he quit…Read More »

  • Aleksandar Petrovic – Skupljaci perja AKA I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) (HD)

    1961-1970Aleksandar PetrovicArthouseDramaYugoslavia
    Skupljaci perja (1967)
    Skupljaci perja (1967)

    From Klassiki:
    One of the first films from Eastern Europe to explore the lives of the Roma in sympathetic detail, and to cast Romani-speaking Roma in order to do so, Aleksandar Petrović’s Cannes-winning classic builds a complex and humanistic narrative out of the misery of life in a Vojvodina village. Ill-fated romance leads the central trio of swaggering, mean-spirited Bora (Bekim Fehmiu), folk singer Lenče (Olivera Vučo), and young beauty Tisa (Gordana Jovanović) through a whirlwind of unforeseen circumstances, captured in striking colour and intricate period detail. Aleksandar Petrović was always the most accessible of the directors who made up Yugoslavia’s “Black Wave” avant-garde in the 1960s and ‘70s, and this tribute to unruly freedom is his most populist work.Read More »

  • Zivko Nikolic – Jovana Lukina (1979)

    Zivko Nikolic1971-1980DramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Jovana Lukina (1979)
    Jovana Lukina (1979)

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    A beautiful young woman lives with her husband in a rocky Montenegrin terrain. The different people who travel by their house share their fates with them, thus generating the evil inside her, and destroying her view of marriage as an idyllic process.Read More »

  • Djordje Kadijevic – Pohod (1968)

    Djordje Kadijevic1961-1970DramaWarYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Pohod (1968)
    Pohod (1968)

    A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn’t be much easier for them even after the liberation day.Read More »

  • Zelimir Zilnik – Zurnal o omladini na selu zimi (1967)

    Zelimir Zilnik1961-1970DocumentaryShort FilmYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Zurnal o omladini na selu zimi (1967)
    Zurnal o omladini na selu zimi (1967)

    Story follows a weekend in a village where young adults after a hard working week let there steam off in taverns eating, drinking, singing, breaking glasses and occasionally other things every Sunday.Read More »

  • Darko Bajic – Pocetni udarac AKA Kick-Off (1990)

    Darko Bajic1981-1990DramaYugoslavia
    Pocetni udarac (1990)
    Pocetni udarac (1990)

    A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.Read More »

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