Ljubiša Samardžić
Ljubiša Samardžić (1936-2017), sometimes referred to as Smoki or Smoki Samardi, was a Serbian actor and director. Nowadays he is perhaps best known as Šurda in the Yugoslav TV series 'Vruć Vetar'. Born to the family of a coal miner, his acting talent was discovered very early and he won a scholarship with respected director Bojan Stupica. After graduating from the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy, he obtained a role in Igre na skelama (1961). Samardžić was a member of the Central Committee of Yugoslav Communist Party in late 1980s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.163 |
| Birthday | 1936-11-19 |
| Place of Birth | Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia |
| Also Known As | Ljubisa Samardzic, Љубиша Самарџић, Smoki Samardi, Любиша Самарджич, 柳比沙·萨马尔季奇, |
1969
The Battle of Neretva
6.6/44
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
1978
Boško Buha
6.5/13
The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At...
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Boško Buha
1993
Three Tickets to Hollywood
6.7/11
The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a...
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Three Tickets to Hollywood
1962
Kozara
6.1/12
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. T...
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Kozara
1972
Walter Defends Sarajevo
7.1/26
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can en...
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Walter Defends Sarajevo
1978
The Tiger
6.3/3
Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his...
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The Tiger
2007
Black Horses
5.1/4
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Th...
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Black Horses
2004
Goose Feather
5.8/4
Goose Feather (Serbian: Jesen Stiže, Dunjo Moja) was Serbia submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
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Goose Feather
1989
Poltroon
3.5/4
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
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Poltroon
1967
Boxers Go to Heaven
6.5/4
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
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Boxers Go to Heaven
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
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
1977
Special Education
7/18
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a m...
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Special Education
1961
Scaffolding Games
6/3
While trying to remain faithful to his own life philosophy of permanent independence and denial of love, a characteristic so peculiar for his generati...
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Scaffolding Games
1979
The Battle of the Eagles
6.3/13
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
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The Battle of the Eagles
1966
The Climber
6.5/4
A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladder. But the whirlpool of compromises and corruptio...
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The Climber
1966
Eagles Fly Early
7.4/8
A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose....
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Eagles Fly Early
1967
The Knife
5.8/4
A popular singer is found murdered and two police detectives are investigating his past in order to catch the killer.
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The Knife
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
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
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
1963
Days
6.9/6
A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for a couple of days.
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Days
1983
Honeymoon
5/3
The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebre for the participants and equally infamous for it...
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Honeymoon
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
1970
I'm Poor But Angry
0/0
A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the locals and farmers, makes friends with them and eve...
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I'm Poor But Angry
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
1982
Visitors from the Galaxy
4.5/19
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra...
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Visitors from the Galaxy
1984
Watch Your Step
6.3/3
Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty, hope...
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Watch Your Step
1989
Tempting the Devil
4.9/5
Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Ž...
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Tempting the Devil
1982
The Death of Mr Goluza
5.2/4
Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
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The Death of Mr Goluza
1995
Premeditated Murder
8.6/15
Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandm...
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Premeditated Murder
1968
Noon
5.5/4
The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.
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Noon
1971
In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
5/2
A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but Nale, a young love...
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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
1999
From Every Man I Loved
0/0
A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.
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From Every Man I Loved
1987
Guardian Angel
6.7/6
A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a young boy.
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Guardian Angel
1986
Volunteers
4.3/6
In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes...
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Volunteers
1966
The Dream
5/4
In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream...
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The Dream
1982
Two Halves of a Heart
5.7/3
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
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Two Halves of a Heart
1997
Yugofilm
6.1/6
The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Ca...
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Yugofilm
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
1988
The House by the Railway Tracks
6.3/3
A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assa...
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The House by the Railway Tracks
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
1984
Jaguar Jump
6.6/5
The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero...
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Jaguar Jump
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
1982
Savamala
5/3
In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and...
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Savamala
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
1987
On the Road to Katanga
5.4/5
Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to t...
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On the Road to Katanga
1994
The Awkward Age
5/1
Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the yea...
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The Awkward Age
1985
Life Is Beautiful
7.6/9
After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, music...
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Life Is Beautiful
1970
X + YY: Formula for Evil
0/0
Playboy Red Mitchell suffers from chromosome malformation X+YY, a dangerous deformity of the libido. At night, driven by inner turmoil, he roams the s...
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X + YY: Formula for Evil
1981
Broad Are the Leaves
6.3/3
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film...
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Broad Are the Leaves
1965
Don't Come Back by the Same Way
7.4/7
The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carr...
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Don't Come Back by the Same Way
1981
Some Other Woman
5.7/3
The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.
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Some Other Woman
1970
Zarki
5/4
In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one villa...
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Zarki
1975
A Naive Person
5/3
Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint...
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A Naive Person
1989
Migrations II
8/2
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lota...
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Migrations II
1973
The Bombers
5.6/5
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
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The Bombers
1986
Protest Album
0/0
Events surrounding the life of a female pop star in which several men are involved as well. The story starts to develop when one of them kills her...
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Protest Album
1981
The Train for Kraljevo
5.3/3
It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent c...
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The Train for Kraljevo
1981
High Voltage
5.7/3
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first...
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High Voltage
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
1968
The Naked Man
5/3
The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even...
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The Naked Man
1988
Extramarital Travels
4.4/5
Tugomir, a student, wants to write a dissertation on Love, but fails to complete it before being obligatory drafted in the army. There, he succumbs to...
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Extramarital Travels
1967
The Demolition Squad
6.7/6
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit...
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The Demolition Squad
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
1975
Doctor Mladen
6.2/6
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other but...
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Doctor Mladen
1963
The Descent Upon Drvar
5.8/6
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
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The Descent Upon Drvar
1998
Wheels
7.2/12
Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpour in a seedy hotel called The Wheel. The hotel is...
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Wheels
1973
The Battle of Sutjeska
6.4/20
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the e...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
1998
The Hornet
7.7/12
A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
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The Hornet
1977
Foolish Years
6.9/12
Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a plan to help the young couple out.
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Foolish Years
1975
Massacre at Noon
5/4
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any...
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Massacre at Noon
1968
Operation Belgrade
5.7/6
In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogation...
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Operation Belgrade
1978
Arrive Before Daybreak
6/3
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
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Arrive Before Daybreak
1993
Say Why Have You Left Me?
5.8/4
The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months....
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Say Why Have You Left Me?
2008
Waning Moon
5/1
A story about rich lady who invites a poor fellow to her house with intentions to marry him. He accepts her offer, yet it soon proves that the reason...
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Waning Moon
1991
The Little One
6.7/3
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ide...
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The Little One
1989
Uros the Stupid
0/0
The Zivkovic family lives on a hilly village, on cleared part of land. Having many relatives, their lives are interlaced, and jobs distributed. Their...
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Uros the Stupid
1975
Wonderful Dust
0/0
Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just t...
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Wonderful Dust
1976
White Grass
5/2
When Dane returns from the army, Vera awaits him at the station, ready to live together with him. Yet beneath the veil of enthusiasm lies anxiety for...
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White Grass
1980
The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
6.3/3
Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he...
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
1985
Orchestra of One Youthhood
4.4/5
True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
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Orchestra of One Youthhood
1972
Ninth Miracle on the East
5.3/3
Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
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Ninth Miracle on the East
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
1983
The Timok Rebellion
5.7/3
In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he...
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The Timok Rebellion
1965
Inspector
5/3
Having used someone else’s I.D. he had found in a barber shop, Boda is mistakenly being proclaimed an inspector. He finds himself in all sorts of adve...
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Inspector
1987
Long Live Freedom
5/3
Old man Repovz recalls experiences of the WWII in an entertaining, comic way rather than tragic. A man breaks his arm to avoid being drafted; the othe...
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Long Live Freedom
1985
Hey Babu Riba
5.6/10
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esth...
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Hey Babu Riba
1968
Out of Step
5.5/4
A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of...
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Out of Step
1991
A Night at My Mother's House
5.5/2
A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest...
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A Night at My Mother's House
1998
Blues for Sara
2/1
Private detective Emil Marlovsek can boast a wealth of solved cases of run away and lost dogs. He is assisted in his work by his secretary Beba and Mi...
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Blues for Sara
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
2003
Yu
5.4/8
The experiences and adventures of three “thirty-something” buddies who involuntarily find themselves caught up in civil unrest. At first it is simply...
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Yu
2016
Sevdalinka: The Alchemy of Soul
0/0
Sevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sevdalinka is an integral part of the Bosniak culture, but is also spread...
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