Yugoslavia

  • Dimitrie Osmanli – Bunt na kuklite AKA Dolls’ Rebellion (1957)

    1951-1960Dimitre OsmanliDramaShort FilmYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Quote:
    A child has a fantastic dream. After playing with toy soldiers, the child dreams about them and identifies with them, forgetting about his child games and friendships. In the dream, the toy soldiers get together and rebel against the child and win. The child awakens and realizes that friendships and child games can not be replaced by anything.Read More »

  • Nikola-Kole Angelovski – Tatko (Kolnati sme, Irina) AKA Ukleti smo, Irina AKA Father (We’re Cursed, Irina) (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaNikola-Kole AngelovskiYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Quote:
    Among the country boys who go in the army is the recently married young man, Damjan, the only son of Vitan, the miller. The young bride stays in her father-in-law’s house… days keep passing for both of them. They bear and share the hard work in the mill as well as on the whole estate. During the long and monotonous nights the young Irina looks forward to the return of her husband Damjan. The frequent visits while passing by of Mecheto, a man called the Little Bear, who is both a churchman and a salesman, disturb Irina. She cannot stand him because of his inappropriate jokes about her youth, her prettiness and nonetheless loneliness. …Read More »

  • Vatroslav Mimica – Makedonskiot del od pekolot AKA Macedonian Part of Hell (1971)

    1971-1980DramaVatroslav MimicaWarYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Quote:
    The film is made according to a real event. At the end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, the Bulgarian occupiers intensify the oppression and torture of the civilians in order to prevent the spreading of the Revolution for the liberation of Bitola’s environs. After the treachery of the peasant Dime Paftar, who informed the occupiers of the presence of partisans in the village of Lavci, among whom is the legendary partisan Todor Angelov – the Teacher, for whom a warrant has been issued, the Bulgarian chief of the police staff and the major of the Bulgarian soldiers in Bitola organize a joint action to attack the village. Read More »

  • Emir Kusturica – Bife ‘Titanik’ (1980)

    Emir Kusturica1971-1980DramaTVYugoslavia

    Film description from kustu.net:
    Quote:
    Titanic has almost nothing to do with the steamer of the same name. Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize, this film is set in Sarajevo. But the catastrophe is nevertheless coming. Often badly translated under the title of Buffet Titanic, it is in fact the Titanic Bar, the name of the bar of jewish Mento Papo, character physically and psychologically marked by its doubts and its defects : its establishment is hiding a prohibited back gaming room, he is rather easy on drinking, he does not cease quarreling with his concubine, he is scorned by the Jews of Sarajevo, etc. The story is set during the Second World War, and when the news of the war arrive in Bosnia, Mento Papo is not ready.Read More »

  • Vlatko Gilic – Dani od snova aka Days of Dreams (1980)

    1971-1980EroticaRomanceVlatko GilicYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Jelena spends her summer holiday tending a flock of sheep. A plane from a nearby aerodrome attracts her attention and she and the pilot engage in spontaneous games.Read More »

  • Frantisek Cáp – Nas avto (1962)

    1961-1970ComedyFrantisek CápYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Summary:
    A photographer decides to buy a car with the money he’ll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.Read More »

  • Jovan Acin – Bal na vodi AKA Hey Babu Riba (1985)

    1981-1990DramaJovan AcinRomanceYugoslavia

    Quote:
    In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They’d last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.Read More »

  • Eduard Galic – Nikola Tesla (1977)

    1971-1980Eduard GalicYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    TV series produced by RTV Zagreb (Croatian TV) with participation of Jadran Film Zagreb, a comprehensive biography of Tesla, shot in numerous international locations, in his native ex-Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Graz, Wienna), France (Paris), USA… with some archival footage and patent papers.
    10 episodes – approx. 60 minutes each.Read More »

  • Zelimir Zilnik – Stara Masina AKA Old Timer (1989)

    1981-1990DramaTVYugoslaviaZelimir Zilnik

    The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the “Radio Student” in Ljubljana. He notices that the janitor Miha works for the police, tapping the walls and observing the journalists who are critical of the regime.

    After a clash with his editor, Igor decides to leave for Greece by his old bike DKW from 1938, via Bosnia and Serbia. Rahela, the girl who left Igor’s son because of his snobbery, joins him on the trip. Traveling through Yugoslavia, Igor becomes involved in unexpected turmoil: in the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa there is the scandal about Fikret Abdic. At the same time, Milosevic’s “antibureaucratic revolution” starts in Serbia and Vojvodina.Read More »

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