Yugoslav films of the 1960s
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- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsDusica ZegaracBoris DvornikBranko TaticIn order to save Jewish girl from the Nazis and their colaborators, Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their young son. Young man is displeased with sudden end to his careless youth and he doesn't seem to like the girl or the whole idea. However, when she gets caught in a street raid, it is too late - he must face the fact that he loves her. Young man starts looking for her, even if it means hat he would go to the very center of concentration camp - the Ninth Circle.
- DirectorZdravko VelimirovicStarsNikola PopovicKarlo BulicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThe adventures of four convicts who were given fourteen days of freedom on the basis of good conduct, and their attempts to adapt in rather changed environment.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBeba LoncarMiha BalohMilos ZuticA young man falls in love with the girl who he met by accident.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsGötz GeorgeHans NielsenRudolf PlatteA German choir consisting of eight men is on a vacation in Yugoslavia. Most are middle-aged former Nazis. They arrive at a village populated solely by women who avoid contact with the men. 20 years earlier the Germans murdered all the males in the village. The choir tries to lighten the mood with a German song, but then avoidance is replaced by hostility. When asking to buy bread they are referred to a woman who gives them a box with 437 empty bullet shells, leftover from the murders. By using a book, "Yugoslavian for tourists" a young boy makes contact with a woman who became mentally ill then. She misunderstands his words and thinks that she will get her son back if she will bake bread. Meanwhile the men steal and slaughter a pig. The women then throw their car down a mountainside. On the next day the choir and the women reconcile. A priest from a nearby village finds a car that the men may borrow for one day. Since their own car is insured they do not report the women. When they leave, the mentally ill woman runs after them to give them the bread she has baked.
- DirectorVeljko Bulajic"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajic about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of Skopje). The filming started three days after the earthquake and lasted for four months. After that, Bulajic spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsDragan NikolicRuzica SokicNeda SpasojevicThe story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
- DirectorZvonimir BerkovicStarsStevo ZigonMilena DravicRelja BasicEvery Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.
- DirectorAnte BabajaStarsManca KosirVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicFabijan SovagovicBeautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicSeverin BijelicIdealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicDusica ZegaracSeverin BijelicA lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister's treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsPavle VuisicSergio Mimica-GezzanBoris DvornikA grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsBoris BuzancicPavle VuisicBoris DvornikPartizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsMia OremovicRelja BasicFabijan SovagovicThe parents of two boys remarried after divorce. The older one stayed with his father and his attractive young wife, while the younger one stayed with his mother and her new husband. On Sundays, the two boys visit the other family alternately, and the younger, Djuro, soon realize that they have much more in common.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsDragoljub AleksicBratoljub GligorijevicVera JovanovicDocumentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicJanez VrhovecEva RasA love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
- DirectorRados NovakovicStarsZoran MilosavljevicVasa PantelicSpela RozinAn influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsMilena DravicLjubisa SamardzicBoris DvornikYoung Mikajilo and his girlfriend Malena attend yet another work action. This time Mikajilo meets a student Nada and falls in love with her. Malena, who has many times before gone after Mikajilo even though she was not needed in work actions, is left behind. Mikajilo's flirting with Nada provokes general laughter and ridicule and the ambitious "Don Juan" returns to his brigade and his old girlfriend.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsIlija DzuvalekovskiHusein CokicVladimir PopovicThis movie, one of the first who spoke of Yugoslav socio-political system with some criticism, is set in one company. On the routine workers' council meeting a few brave workers stand against a corrupt manager.
- DirectorIgor PretnarStarsMajda PotokarRudi KosmacVladimir SkrbinsekA story set in a medieval time where two lovers suffer from their environment's intolerance.
- DirectorStole JankovicStarsGizela VukovicRade MarkovicVesna KrajinaGerman retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When first men appear in the village after the war, Kata Plecas believes they will renew the village. But these men die as well and the question if Radopolje will be the "village of black scarves" again remains.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsAleksandar GavricLjuba TadicNikola JovanovicOne Serbian army battery in the First World War, in forced march with no stopping and rest, arrives to Cer Mountain, and, in decisive moment, enters the fight and throws off Austrian troops which penetrated into the country. This is not only the chronicle of the Battle of Cer, but Serbian drama and drama of one nation who made impossible possible during the fight against the empire which wanted to take away their country. This drama is based on credible events and authentic documents.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicSnezana LukicMaks FurijanAn ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAli RanerSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThree stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAntun NalisFaruk BegolliWW2. Four partisans suffering from typhus in the snowy mountains of madness.
- DirectorMiodrag PopovicStarsMira StupicaRade MarkovicSvetolik NikacevicDuring turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsJovan Janicijevic-BurdusAnka ZupancDusan JanicijevicIn a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change attitude towards them, disarming and shutting them off, but the pilots were able to escape. Palming off the corpses of two other killed prisoners to the Germans, who have since captured the real pilots, the Chetniks make local people enraged, despite their captain's attempts to cover up this wrongdoing, done on a public holiday.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsBekim FehmiuIlija DzuvalekovskiNada SuboticA man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicNeda ArnericMilena DravicThe war has ended leaving a deep trace in people. Going through a different conflicts in the first days of peace - dealing with a former enemy's collaborators and executing traitors - a former soldier continues with killing even in peace. So, the war goes on, a struggle within himself and with the people around him.
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsBranko PlesaLjuba TadicVesna KrajinaTwo men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shot, but missed on purpose.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicMihailo 'Misa' JanketicOlivera KatarinaYoung people in 1941 dream of the future in spite of the German advances, and continues to dream knowing that dreams cannot be taken away.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsMilja VujanovicBogdan TirnanicCedomir RadovicA group of young persons are going to make a revolution, but in real life everything is not the same as in smart books.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsFabijan SovagovicAdem CejvanJagoda KaloperSmall village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. One day two members of secret police come to the village and everybody knows they are going to arrest somebody, but nobody knows whom.