Serbo-Croatian

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Krsto Skanata approached his subjects in the style of direct cinema. He tried to follow the path of the truth and make films that would reveal the essence of the problem. At the same time, he was smart enough to nuance his approach in such a way that censors would accept and approve the film. One of his first films, In the Shadow of Magic/U senci magije (1955), uncovers the deep backwardness in socialist Yugoslavia. His film First Case-a Man/Prvi padez-covek (1964) addresses the human dignity of a miner who loses his arm and has to struggle on his own. Soldier, At Ease!/Ratnice, voljno! (1966) focuses on the tragedy of a soldier who fought in the war and believed in a certain ideology that he later realised was false.Read More »

This film is a typical representative of the Serbian 60s Black Wave film. It attacks some social aspects of Tito’s communist regime, depicting two practically indigenous brothers that came from a small highland village and joined the communist partisans in WWII. After the war, they return to their village, revealing to each other that each has stolen a submachine gun from the army. It’s social critique is quite obvious, according to the film trend in Yugoslavia of that time. It’s plot line is blurred by some surreal inserted symbolical shots. Whereas some of these are brilliant , some of these are quite hard to explain and comprehend. A great film to be seen, (quite hefty cinematography) with some extraordinary choices in visual composition of the contents of particular shots. However, some parts are bit confusing, even more so, I assume, to the non-Yugoslavian audience.Read More »

Obsessed by dreams of a comfortable life, the son of a copper miner returns to his native country with plans to sell his father’s house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of old and new love, and the events in and around the mine, all test his obsession with Catanga.Read More »

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The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations are exposed.Read More »

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when the Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement, and their activities bring their names to Gestapo’s termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.Read More »

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Shortly after the WW II, in a remote Bosnian village… After one of the pupils lost his pencil in the classroom, the other children and the teacher accuse Dika that he stole it. Wrongly accused and bullied by his classmates, Dika is trying to prove that he is innocent…Read More »

This is the story of the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.Read More »

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The story follows a couple of young people, Sejda and Hanka. After Sejdo gets a job in a bey family that starts a quarrel among the two. The main cause is the bey’s wife who tries her best to separate the young couple that follows with a tragedy.Read More »

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The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, about the extinguishing of that love due to conflicts with the exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.

The plot of this film relates to the lives of several young people from a school in Belgrade, as well as their problems. It mainly follows the life of Miloš Petrović (Gojko Drulović), who meets Višnja (Neda Arnerić). Višnja is portrayed as a very beautiful girl who likes to flirt and please people, which doesn’t suit Miloš, who is in love, because he wants to have what he loves next to him…Read More »