Branko Cvejić
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Biography: Branko Cvejić was a Serbian actor. In the period 2002-2011 he was director of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia
Birthday: August 25, 1946
Deathday: July 26, 2022
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sweet of Dreams
Overview: Deni, a young woman working in McDonalds, has dreams of fame. When a producer discovers her singing talent he gets her into the game. However, she soon feels overburdened. Fortunately, the ghost of Elvis is there to help her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-04-12
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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Overview: 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 the 20th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Alexander of Yugoslavia
Overview: A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-08-24
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Overview: This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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Balkan Express
Overview: In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Balkan Express 2
Overview: A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Battle of Kosovo
Overview: In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-06-12
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Tomorrow Morning
Overview: After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2006-08-30
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Truckers Ride Again
Overview: New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-05
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The Last Lap at Monza
Overview: The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-12-19
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The Fragrance of Wild Flowers
Overview: A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-12-28
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And Now, Goodbye!
Overview: On the morning of 31st December at a Belgrade market, Spic and Djosa are selling baby pigs and Christmas trees. The European mad cow madness is doing harm to their profit, mostly because Lister, an upstart with shallow past, is persuading people not to buy pork. The locals are waiting for a New Year's Eve with the sound of trumpets and popular songs of the past century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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The Elusive Summer of '68
Overview: For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-01-30
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Overview: 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 Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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Something in Between
Overview: An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Better Than Escape
Overview: A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-07-15
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The Girl in the Park
Overview: The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, the closing of that love because of conflicts with exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-17
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Petria's Wreath
Overview: This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-22
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Erogenous Zone
Overview: Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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Strawberries in the Throat
Overview: A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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Golden Apple
Overview: In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Deceased
Overview: An architect Pavle is furious with his wife for conducting an affair with his best friend and business partner. Weeks later, a deformed corpse is found washed up on the river banks and is identified to be that of Pavle. Three years later, Pavle, now the deceased, unexpectedly returns.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Mister Dimkovic
Overview: The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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Chauvinistic Farce 2
Overview: A sequel of the locally acclaimed theater play in which a drunken Serb and a drunken Croat argue over who’s the better nation.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Plum Juice
Overview: DJ from a small town plans to organize a great artistic happening. His plans coincide with those by local bigwigs who desperately want to promote a local food company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Ever-Ready Women
Overview: Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Razor
Overview: A game of destiny or cosmic justice?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-03-01
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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Overview: Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-03
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There's Love, There's Not
Overview: Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Miss
Overview: Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Body Scent
Overview: Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Other Man
Overview: Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-12-22
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The Harms Case
Overview: Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced by the Soviet authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Underground
Overview: A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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It Will Be Better
Overview: A local bar/restaurant run by a feuding husband and wife find themselves and their business threatened by a not so bright group of extortionists. With the help of their patrons who wish to preserve their quiet mode of patronage and a motor cycle riding stranger, they take the fight directly back to the villains with some non conventional approaches.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Loving Glances
Overview: Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Strawberry in the Supermarket
Overview: An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-02-06
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The Outlaw
Overview: After WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and gets imprisoned, but escapes soon. A former hero becomes an outlaw hunted by the police.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Karlovci Experience of 1889
Overview: A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Deserter
Overview: During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1992-06-15
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The Border
Overview: The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Overview: 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 returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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Happy Family
Overview: Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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The Woman from Sarajevo
Overview: The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-07-02
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Smoke
Overview: 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 mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and who returns from prison after serving the minimum sentence. Coincidentally, planned revenge takes a different turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-13
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And This Will Pass, Too...
Overview: Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-04-15
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The Magpie Strategy
Overview: Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-06-17
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My Brother Aleksa
Overview: The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family from Mostar, in conservative social environment, in controversial times in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. As a young man, he falls in love with the Slavonian girl, Anka Tomlinovic, daughter of poor photographer, leaving her under pressure of his family. Later, he meets Zorka Solina, young and rich girl from Mostar who, again because of the interests of her family, leaves the poet. In his mature years, Aleksa Santic engages himself passionately in social and political life of his age. Disappointments, poverty, sickness and loneliness follow. And the certainty of early death. His older brother tells the story of poet's life, while he is dying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-06-26
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Free Fall
Overview: Nikola is getting ready to parachute jump from an airplane. During the jump he falls into a state near death and lives through a series of dream-like sequences in which he recapitulates his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Handymen, Handymen
Overview: The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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What a Country!
Overview: A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2018-12-17
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Thirteen
Overview: Two girls who study theatre & drama and their friend photographer decide to rob a bank, using all sorts of their creative force and imagination to implement the idea.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Living Man
Overview: A melancholic comedy dealing with the question „What is freedom?" and focusing on a man who, after a series of big disappointments, is now trying to regain his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-05-20
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