Milena Dravić
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Milena Dravić (1940–2018) was a Serbian actress. Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet. In 1959, while in high school, director František Čap saw her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers group photo and decided on the spot to approach her about being in his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. After appearing in few more films she decided to pursue acting full-time and successfully enrolled in Belgrade's Dramatic Arts Academy. Her big break came in 1962 when she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress award (which was the Yugoslav equivalent of Academy Award) for her role in Branko Bauer's film Prekobrojna. This was the moment that sent her on the way to becoming Yugoslavia's first and arguably the biggest female movie star. Milena Dravić continued with long and prolific career during which she showed great talent and versatility. She was equally memorable and believable as the tragic heroine in state-sponsored World War II epics, eccentric protagonist of experimental arthouse films like WR: Mysteries of the Organism and romantic comedies. She especially excelled in the latter during 1970s and 1980s. She won the Cannes Best Supporting Actress Award in 1980 for Special Treatment. For her roles and contributions to domestic cinematography, she received the prestigious "Pavle Vujisić" award in August 1994.
Milena Dravić was married three times. Her third husband was the prominent Serbian actor Dragan Nikolić, with whom she had co-hosted the popular 1970s television program Obraz uz obraz. She died on 14 October 2018, after a long battle with illness.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.143 |
Birthday | 1940-10-05 |
Place of Birth | Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia |
Also Known As | Milena Dravic Djordjevic, Milena Dravik, Milena Dravikj, Милена Дравич, |
2008
Love and Other Crimes
5.9/8
Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solar...
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Love and Other Crimes
1969
The Battle of Neretva
6.636/44
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia....
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The Battle of Neretva
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
5/1
Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West...
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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
1971
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
6.144/80
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinai...
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
1984
Una
5.9/8
A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of two people: student Una and a respected professor. She...
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Una
2009
St. George Shoots the Dragon
6.3/13
Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Bal...
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
1998
Cabaret Balkan
7.7/23
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
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Cabaret Balkan
2007
Agi and Ema
4.2/5
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Agi and Ema
2002
Zamfir's Zona
6.3/19
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Zamfir's Zona
1965
Man Is Not a Bird
6.1/19
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
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Man Is Not a Bird
2003
Loving Glances
5.3/8
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Loving Glances
1962
Kozara
6.1/12
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Kozara
1989
Battle of Kosovo
6.4/12
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1996
Three Summer Days
5.8/4
Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.
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Three Summer Days
1971
Adrift
4.7/3
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Adrift
2000
Sky Hook
7.9/24
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Sky Hook
1973
The Battle of Sutjeska
6.4/20
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The Battle of Sutjeska
2008
Thy Neighbors
0/0
One day in the lives of the Belgrade tower’s tenants, whose destiny is never going to be same from then on.
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Thy Neighbors
1977
Group Portrait with a Lady
5.1/10
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
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Group Portrait with a Lady
1985
It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
4/6
A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
1987
It Happened on This Very Day
6.6/8
Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about lo...
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It Happened on This Very Day
1981
Sixth Gear
6.3/6
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Sixth Gear
1962
Superfluous
5.9/6
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena,...
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Superfluous
1969
The Ambush
5.625/8
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinatio...
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The Ambush
1965
Klaxon
6/4
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Klaxon
1960
Shared Apartment
5.8/4
A group of people move to a half-finished building, but soon a Cold War occurs between some of them. Based on a play.
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Shared Apartment
1978
Breakdown
4.6/5
A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his...
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Breakdown
1967
Before and After the Victory
5.7/3
A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of th...
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Before and After the Victory
1966
Rondo
6.3/9
Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Ne...
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Rondo
1960
It Is Better to Know How
5/4
Mane Karakas comes to a small coastal town to dig a hole for watering system. He tries to brighten up the town's sleepy atmosphere. The local journali...
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It Is Better to Know How
1980
Part-Time Work
6.5/4
A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married si...
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Part-Time Work
1982
My Part-Time Dad
6.5/4
The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined...
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My Part-Time Dad
1986
Part-Time Divorce
5.7/3
While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at Montenegrin coast due to mistake made by travel agency....
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Part-Time Divorce
1964
Official Position
7/3
The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.
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Official Position
1980
Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
5.7/3
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of...
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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
1988
Blackbird
6.8/5
A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.
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Blackbird
1967
The Restless Ones
5.4/5
One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. It was actually three teena...
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The Restless Ones
1965
The Girl
6.2/4
A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.
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The Girl
1977
The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
5.3/7
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimi...
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
1983
Sugar Water
3.3/7
Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begin...
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Sugar Water
1962
A Sand Castle
4.4/5
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she...
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A Sand Castle
1981
A Great Guy at Heart
5.8/6
After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing and finds a job as a housemaid at Sava Mitrovic house....
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A Great Guy at Heart
1974
Nocturno
0/0
After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear i...
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Nocturno
1976
We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry
5/3
A story about prizewinning agriculturist, whose dream is to find his soul mate who would agree to marry him and live in the countryside. In one of his...
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We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry
1965
The Camp Followers
6.6/29
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers...
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The Camp Followers
1986
Pretty Women Walking Through the City
4.5/6
Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of t...
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Pretty Women Walking Through the City
1961
Boom Town
6.6/4
Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Si...
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Boom Town
1972
The Lion Is Coming
5/3
Lion, a boy of lion's heart, can't make decision which one of the two girls to chose - tender Mihaela or fatal Marjeta. The girls decide to make choic...
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The Lion Is Coming
1973
Freckled Girl
0/0
Keti runs through her life, cheating on everybody who she encounters. She joins the company of two burglars, unawarely participating in a burglary. Wh...
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Freckled Girl
2001
Boomerang
6.6/12
Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.
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Boomerang
1988
The Dark Side of the Sun
4.9/58
Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom and love along the way.
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The Dark Side of the Sun
1995
Third Time Lucky
5/3
Older but wealthiest man in the village Života waits for his Russian bride, but when his freshly single nephew Dragoljub arrives he falls for the girl...
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Third Time Lucky
1992
The Policeman from Cock's Hill
6.4/5
The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring father.
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The Policeman from Cock's Hill
1961
Summer Is to Blame for Everything
5/2
Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Višnja has to travel to the seaside before her husband. After arrival many men start romanticizing...
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Summer Is to Blame for Everything
1974
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
6.7/7
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as...
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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
1978
The Coach
5/1
A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a loc...
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The Coach
1982
Sunday Lunch
4.2/4
A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
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Sunday Lunch
1967
The Morning
7.1/6
In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not ev...
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The Morning
1968
Poor Maria
6.3/3
A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.
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Poor Maria
1969
Horoscope
5.2/4
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. T...
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Horoscope
1971
The Macedonian Part of Hell
5.4/5
At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the perse...
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The Macedonian Part of Hell
1985
Horvat's Choice
5/4
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forest...
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Horvat's Choice
1960
The Dreams Came by Coach
6.5/3
Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.
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The Dreams Came by Coach
1988
Spy In High Heels
5/3
A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the re...
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Spy In High Heels
1980
Eight Kilos of Happiness
5/1
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
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Eight Kilos of Happiness
1974
Deps
6.3/3
A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.
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Deps
1983
The Man with Four Legs
5.8/5
On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to face...
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The Man with Four Legs
1969
Funeral Feast
9/5
The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by...
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Funeral Feast
1959
The Door Remains Open
5/5
A juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in WWII. After being accepted with much love and care, he...
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The Door Remains Open
1965
Man of the World
5.5/4
A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.
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Man of the World
1964
Mad Summer
5.2/4
A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.
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Mad Summer
1985
Anticasanova
5.7/3
Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apart...
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Anticasanova
2005
Lost and Found
6.3/8
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of 'generation'.
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Lost and Found
1986
Revenge
0/0
After 15 years spent working in Germany, forty-something-year-old Nada is getting divorced. Her husband is returning to the home country, opens the me...
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Revenge
1966
Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun
6.3/3
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
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Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun
1970
The Cyclists
5.7/3
A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor and two Czech artists, their joining the partisans. Al...
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The Cyclists
1989
The Best
5/1
A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and with no visible reason, leaves his home town, girl, paren...
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The Best
1974
Fear
5.5/4
The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman ch...
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Fear
1973
Mortal Spring
5.2/3
An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.
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Mortal Spring
1980
Special Treatment
5/5
Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eat...
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Special Treatment
1991
Sekula Is Getting Married Again
0/0
After so much unrequited love and so many failed marriages, yet with the heaps of children he's left with, Sekula decides to change his life and get s...
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Sekula Is Getting Married Again
1992
Sekula Innocent Accused
0/0
This time Sekula does not have any problems with women but is accused of stealing electricity.
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Sekula Innocent Accused
1976
Belgrade Kids
0/0
Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.
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Belgrade Kids
2001
Normal People
4.9/5
The plot follows Steva, who is in love with an actress, Duja, who adores his motorcycle, and Bane, who plans to steal the motorcycle. Nikola desperate...
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Normal People
1972
The First Murder
5/4
Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is afraid of being tu...
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The First Murder
1979
The Return
4.8/4
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under...
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The Return
1963
Radopolje
6/4
German retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When first men appear in the village after the war, Kata Pl...
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Radopolje
2003
Bare Ground
5.5/2
The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In the...
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Bare Ground
1990
Strange Night
5/1
A student of veterinary and his girlfriend meet Sanja in the park, the wife of his friend. The student starts some sort of romance affair with Sanja,...
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Strange Night
1967
On the Run
5.7/3
The feeling of being incapable of controlling your own life and general uselessness make people want to escape the world around them. In spite of the...
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On the Run
1978
Aller retour
5.2/6
The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecutions, and a constant struggle for survival.
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Aller retour
1975
Pavle Pavlovic
5/3
Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board, take...
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Pavle Pavlovic
1964
People's Deputy
5/4
Film adaptation of “People’s Deputy” by Branislav Nusic, one of the most frequently staged plays in the history of Serbian theatre. It tells the story...
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People's Deputy
1989
The Cabinet Minister's Wife
0/0
Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, sin...
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The Cabinet Minister's Wife
1967
Hassan-Aga's Wife
5.7/3
Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war; but she refuses to go to him when summoned, because of...
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Hassan-Aga's Wife
1967
Smoke
5.7/3
The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandato...
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Smoke
1969
Cross Country
5/4
A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in...
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Cross Country
1985
The Istrian Way
0/0
An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.
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The Istrian Way
1972
How the Two Fools Loved Each Other
6.3/3
A short film based on Dusko Radovic writings.
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How the Two Fools Loved Each Other
1964
Destination Death
8/3
A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were...
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Destination Death
1996
Duel for Three
0/0
Divorced couple receives a farewell VHS cassette from their son who voluntarily joined military forces in Bosnia. Only then they realize whole futilit...
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Duel for Three
1993
The Tear and Her Sisters
0/0
A teenager girl who studies medicine meets young but wounded war volunteer at the city hospital during her practice. They fall in love with each other...
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The Tear and Her Sisters
1971
The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
5.8/5
After WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and declamation of new songs. The family soon forgets their...
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The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
2003
Pula Confidential
0/0
A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
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Pula Confidential
2018
The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater
4/1
The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater explores the position of an artist in the Socialist FR Yugoslavia, focusing on the political and social...
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