Early Yugoslavian cinema, great and popular comedy produced by Jadran film, Zagreb.
It is based on Simo Matavulj’s novel of the same name.
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A film about the fate of the village lad named Ivo who goes into monastery to become a friar, and so to help his family in the difficult economic situation.Read More »
Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.Read More »
Dvoje was Petrovic’s first full-length feature film and obviously quite influenced by the French new wave. The film was in competiotion at 1962 Cannes festival. As Daniel Goulding puts it: “…It is an antioptimistic manifesto exploring a failed love relationship, played out in an alienated urban environment. An intimate film, it explored new possibilities for film language by replacing traditional narrative structures with intricate visual metaphors. “Read More »
Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students’ imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.Read More »
Tito’s break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison. The story is told from the perspective of Malik, his young son who believes the mother’s story about father being “away on business”.Read More »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »