Milan Erak
Also Known As: Ećko, Milan Erak 'Ecko', Milan Erak 'Ećko'
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kikinda, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Birthday: January 23, 1950
Deathday: January 20, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Scenes from a Life
Overview: A TV drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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What Are You Doing Tonight?
Overview: A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An unemployed paleonthologist spends his nights sewing dresses for his beloved one. When she sets off to countryside for work and doesn't call back, he becomes suspicious and decides to solve this sudden departure on his own. The movie was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 1991.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-06-29
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When the Pigeons Start Flying
Overview: A group of children build a loft in an abandoned yard, but instead of pigeons, a man and his two sons move into it. At first, boys try to get rid of the unwanted intruders, but eventually they befriend with them. However, the municipality sends their men to tear down the illegal housing, but the children decide to stop them at all costs.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-16
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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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Swedish Package Holiday
Overview: Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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The Long Life of the Kos's, a Married Couple
Overview: While expecting the imminent end of their lives, an old couple leaves their large and beautiful home to a young married couple – their doctors, who live in a single room apartment with their two children. As the olds are getting stronger by the day, one of the four decides to “take care” of that.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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Escape from Sobibor
Overview: The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Genres: Drama Thriller War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-12
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Vukovar Poste Restante
Overview: The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.
Genres: War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Days to Remember
Overview: They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, energetic career woman who has managed to work her way up to become a successful television journalist. She goes to visit her parent's country, to do a story about the children of immigrant workers in their home country. Although she says she doesn´t need a "home" any more, even she feels strange in her own country. Peter is a rather "untypical" sort of man: a dreamer, a thinker. He has given up his steady job as a composer for advertising films and is divorced. He goes to Jugoslavia to find something out about the past. He travels to the places where his father was stationed during the Second World War.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Soldier's Love
Overview: Young Belgrade playboy, spoiled child of a rich family, changes for the better after spending some time in the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Silent Gunpowder
Overview: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-03-15
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Overview: Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-06-07
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The Hottest Day of the Year
Overview: Marko, Zoran and Saša are best friends, living a casual student life in Belgrade. They plan to escape the sweltering summer heat by driving to the coast. To guarantee their departure they swap favors. But events take a wrong turn. A road movie - fueled by dreams, propelled by unforeseen events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-08-15
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: 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, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Be Damned, America
Overview: A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Way South
Overview: A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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