Abdurrahman Shala
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 25, 1922
Deathday: March 09, 1994
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Kozara
1962-07-25
Kozara
Overview: 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. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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A Trap for the General
1971-11-26
A Trap for the General
Overview: Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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The Man of Earth
1984-05-21
The Man of Earth
Overview: Sokol is a middle-aged Kosovar Albanian who, together with his family, emigrates from Kosovo to Turkey, and faces the foreign and unknown world. After some time he becomes homesick, eventually leaving his last will he gave to his son that when he dies, his bones will be returned to his native country. He dies near of a cliff at the Black Sea coast. In his native village, the news that Sokol has been returned from emigration are being spread.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1984-05-21
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The Dervish and Death
1974-07-11
The Dervish and Death
Overview: Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Captain Lechi
1960-04-28
Captain Lechi
Overview: Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain. As Ramiz is trying to get Ahmet out of the gang and hunt down the rest of the Balists, 2 new girls arrive in town. One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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Doctor Homer's Brother
1968-01-01
Doctor Homer's Brother
Overview: This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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From the Beginning
1988-10-03
From the Beginning
Overview: A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Slobodan Šćepanović, starring Suzana Petričević, Vojislav Krivokapić and Milan Strljic.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-10-03
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Stand Up Straight, Delfina
1977-01-01
Stand Up Straight, Delfina
Overview: A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Under the Same Sky
1964-01-01
Under the Same Sky
Overview: Three partisans come to a fascist held town at the end of the war to create diversions. Their protector is tortured to reveal their whereabouts, but the partisans arrive in time.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Shots in the Sky
1958-01-01
Shots in the Sky
Overview: Upon returning home at war's end, a young lieutenant discovers that his family has been murdered by the Nazis. It's all the handiwork of a treasonous "Chetnik," who during the war worked against the partisans on behalf of the Germans. In bitter retaliation, the lieutenant sets about to decimate the Chetnik's family. He stops short, however, when he realizes that the sins of the fathers are not always passed down to the innocent children.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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When Spring Comes Late
1979-07-11
When Spring Comes Late
Overview: Based on war-themed diary of Fadil Hoxha, the film tells the story of one particular phase of partisan revolution in Kosovo during WWII.
Genres: War
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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Wolf of Prokletije
1968-09-26
Wolf of Prokletije
Overview: Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Times without War
1969-06-29
Times without War
Overview: Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1969-06-29
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Before the Rain
1994-06-09
Before the Rain
Overview: The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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The Bombers
1973-07-28
The Bombers
Overview: Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-28
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A Film with No Name
1988-05-30
A Film with No Name
Overview: The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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The Oak and the Tree
1979-01-01
The Oak and the Tree
Overview: The story follows the Kosovar partisan hero known as Lisi (Oak), from WWII days, subsequent liberation, until mid-1960s. Lisi was a brave warrior, yet he and his generation remains largely uneducated. However his nephew starts as a courier, and becomes doctor afterwards.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Proka
1984-01-01
Proka
Overview: Story about local fruitcake who keeps being assured in human callousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Requiem
1970-07-14
Requiem
Overview: An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-07-14
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How to Die
1972-03-20
How to Die
Overview: Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Gunfight
1962-03-12
Gunfight
Overview: In this sequel to "Captain Leshi", a group of Albanian nationalist movement (ballists) continues obstruction of the new Yugoslavian authorities even after the war. Captain Leshi manages to fight them successfully, as well as to fulfill his romance with beautiful Azira.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-03-12
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Three People Overpass the Mountain
1981-01-01
Three People Overpass the Mountain
Overview: A small village during World War II. Due to deep poverty, some villagers engage in trade of goods, contraband, across the mountain border. A great gap opens between the villagers and those fighting the enemy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Echelon of Doctor M
1955-02-14
Echelon of Doctor M
Overview: Continuing their exploits against the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, the Ballists attack an echelon of wounded warriors led by Dr. M. He takes the wounded to a nearby town. Aware that the justice is on the side of Doctor M., Ramadan, son of one of the Ballist leaders, joins him and contributes to defeat of the Ballists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1955-02-14
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Operation Cross Eagles
1968-01-01
Operation Cross Eagles
Overview: War - In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress. "Operation Cross Eagles" is a story of suspense and intrigue that will have you on the edge of your seat one moment and blast you back the next. - Richard Conte, Rory Calhoun, Aili King
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Ballad of the Ferocious One
1971-04-02
The Ballad of the Ferocious One
Overview: Deeply hurt by his wife's adultery, a man leaves her and his son to live high up alone in the mountains of Montenegro. Many years later, the war breaks out and the two enemy factions must cross the very mountain. One of them seeks the man's help to find a path through the snow. Later that day, he finds out that one of the other side's members is no other than his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Red Blow
1974-07-16
Red Blow
Overview: At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-16
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The Swelling River
1981-01-01
The Swelling River
Overview: In a mining plant in Kosovo, as occurs in many work organizations across the country, workers continue to win new positions in the self-management. The former miner and fighter - now general manager of the factory - is on the side of the workers, but has troubles in personal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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A Dangerous Track
1984-06-08
A Dangerous Track
Overview: A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Gazija
1981-07-15
Gazija
Overview: Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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Winnetou and the Crossbreed
1966-08-17
Winnetou and the Crossbreed
Overview: On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-17
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