Janez Vrhovec
Also Known As: Янез Врховец
Biography: Janez Vrhovec was a Serbian actor. Vrhovec appeared in a number of Yugoslav and Serbian films, as well as many international productions, in a career spanning almost five decades.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia
Adult: No
Birthday: January 19, 1921
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 07, 1997
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A Bloody Tale
Overview: Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Blood Road
Overview: Yugoslav Partizans, captured by Nazis, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population help some Partizans survive or flee to neutral Sweden.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1955-02-14
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Man Is Not a Bird
Overview: A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Overview: The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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The Tiger
Overview: 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 father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-04-30
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The Beach Guard in Winter
Overview: Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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The Dog Who Loved Trains
Overview: A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Gates to Paradise
Overview: In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk, returning from Holy Land, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love and hopes for freedom, the true nature of their enthusiasm is homosexual. In fact, if the children follow Jacques, it is more for romantic than religious reasons. They take literally the famous phrase: “Love one another”.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-31
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The Oppenheimer Case
Overview: During World War II, the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer was at the head of the research work for the production of the atomic bomb. He was removed from that position in 1953 due to disagreements with the US Atomic Commission regarding the development of the hydrogen bomb. The investigation that was conducted against him during the infamous time of anti-communist hysteria and the "witch hunt" during the time of Senator McCarthy is testimony to the great moral and psychological dilemma in which the scientists of that era found themselves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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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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Catherine of Russia
Overview: Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-12
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Happy Hell Night
Overview: 25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-13
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The Return
Overview: An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Raindrops, Waters, Warriors
Overview: A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs' work: Zivojin Pavlovic's dialogue-free "Live Waters" set in 1943, Marko Babac's "Warriors" about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac's "Raindrops" about alcoholic's decaying relationship with his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Prometheus from the Island of Viševica
Overview: A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Before and After the Victory
Overview: A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of the regime.
Genres: War
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1967-03-30
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The Knife
Overview: A popular singer is found murdered and two police detectives are investigating his past in order to catch the killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Restless Ones
Overview: One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. It was actually three teenagers who stole Peugeot 404 to drive around for fun, but the girl who hitch-hiked them left the car in the middle of highway. They have been chased by the police and crashed fatally. The police continues their intense search to find the fourth person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-03-16
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Enclosure
Overview: In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-18
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Send a Man at Half Past One
Overview: A young slacker circumstantially gets involved in the smuggling of falsified English pounds via Trieste-Yugoslavia route. He helps the police to solve the case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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Bloodshed at the Wedding
Overview: The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Dream of Dr. Mišić
Overview: Doctor Mišić comes to the Jabučevački cacstle, a place known as haunted by ghosts and wraiths. He's stubborn supporter of common sense and logic, taking all assumptions about transcendent world and fourth dimension to be silly. However...
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Perfidy
Overview: A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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The Last Race
Overview: Twelve-year-old son of a divorced parents live in a skyscraper, but the drab of urban living is somewhat improved by the proximity of hippodrome and horse farm. Boy's favorite is a former champion named Evergreen, a stud whom the administration decides to sell to the slaughterhouse. After an unsuccessful attempt to change their mind, children steal the horse and disappear. After realizing what this horse mean to them, they give it as a present to the boy's class.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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The Feast
Overview: In 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 the pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Boom Town
Overview: Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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The Gypsy Girl
Overview: Burdened with prejudices, Haji-Toma kills his son who wants to marry a beautiful Gypsy girl Koštana, who is then forced to marry the man she's not in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1953-04-08
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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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Yellow Devil
Overview: When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-20
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Sasha
Overview: A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Sun Is Far Away
Overview: Down under the constant attacks of the German and Bulgarian forces, headquarters one of the partisan detachment in the midst of a severe winter and snow and difficult terrain, with many wounded, he decided to leave the mountain Jastrebac. Gvozden, a peasant from that area, brave warrior, opposes such a decision, was gets ready to leave the unit before detachment. In the interests of discipline, however, Gvozden was convicted and executed on the spot, although it regrets the whole squad.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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Shoot and It Shall Open
Overview: Three young delinquents, two boys and a girl - go through their personal drama alongside wrongdoings they do. The local chief inspector gives his best to help them, besides the fact that he's beholden to arrest them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-04-16
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The Triumph of Robin Hood
Overview: Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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Atomic War Bride
Overview: At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria seek to be reunited.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-07-23
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The Verdict
Overview: In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned to the brigade, Mitko was declared a deserter and was disarmed and bound. Since he lost his weapon, the Commissioner sent him to patrol the action to take weapons from the Germans. All partisans patrol that went with him dying and the only Mitko and Vane, who was seriously injured remain alive. Thinking it was dead Vane, Angelov returns to the brigade. But the commander did not believe him, thinking that he had fled from the battle, and that is why the prison in the basement. In the meantime, get wounded fighter Vane, and the story of the heroic struggle led by Mitko. But at the same time, a military court condemned him to death for desertion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1977-07-12
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Little Man
Overview: A boy named Mišo runs away from home and befriends new people who happen to be criminals.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Days of Temptation
Overview: In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1965-07-30
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Adventure at the Door
Overview: Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-07-10
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The Last Stop
Overview: A former partisan Tone, who once believed in the idea of a new, just society, now barely living as a municipal employee. Has an ex-wife and daughter, who live in his apartment, and he lodger. Even his relationship with a waitress, Magda is not without problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Security Service Closes the Circle
Overview: A foreign spy service sends Mitar Petrović, an engineer, to Belgrade. His mission is to contact an enemy group that for some time has been planning to sabotage a project of great significance to the Yugoslav economy. The enemy action also has a political dimension as it is planned to take place during an international symposium of scientist in Belgrade. Stopping at nothing, Mitar's group prepares the final coup. Gradually the security service uncovers this clever and well-planned plot…
Genres: Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-03-28
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The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
Overview: A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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A Nun and a Commissar
Overview: After the war, a partisan hospital is set up in a monastery, with the nuns working as nurses. A beautiful young nun, Maria, becomes very fond of the partisan leader, Commissar Nenad.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-15
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Two Nights in a Day
Overview: Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Oath
Overview: Vuko, a young servant of Kotor prince, makes entourage with his brother and friends in order to obtain for the daughter of Venetian Doge for the prince's son. They spend seven weeks of drinking, whoring and without thoughts of anything else. And then, one morning, running through narrow streets before the army, Vuko accidentally witnesses the fight between the knights and the guards. Vuko falls into the hands of guards, and finds himself imprisoned. Even without knowing beforehand who is Maltese, Vuko is being sworn in on the eve of execution, so that the knight would deceive his miserable destiny at least a bit.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Trek
Overview: A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Miracle
Overview: A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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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 Flight of Dead Bird
Overview: Three brothers struggle to survive on the harsh, inexorable and melancholy plains of Slovenia's Prekmurje region. The oldest flees from home in search of a better living, the middle brother survives by refusing to comply with tradition and the youngest, who received his education as a vet in the city simply cannot get used to the slow pace of country life. Will their father live to see the day when respect for the traditional ways will heal the wounds of the impoverished land?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1973-12-27
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In the Net
Overview: A small coastal town, where almost everybody are into fishing. Niko and Mato are friends, both in loved with the same girl Visnja, in charge of the fishermen's strike against the owners of the fishing boats. After being caught, Mato betrays his friends. Thus he becomes the subject of scorn both by the entire village and Visnja, who then marries Niko.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Witness Out of Hell
Overview: Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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The Good Sea
Overview: A simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1958-05-24
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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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The Demolition Squad
Overview: The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Vortex
Overview: Yugoslavian anthology movie with three stories. "Father": Germans are taking hostages, peasants from local fields. One old man is begging for German officer to release his sons. Officer offers him releasing of one of his sons, but other will be shot. "Swamp": Two Partisans are in swamp, surrounded by enemies. One of them is wounded, and other one wants to save him by any cost. "Ada": Story about twist of fate, when father and son find them self on different side of the gunpoint.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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Heretic
Overview: The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1986-10-30
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Three Girls Named Ana
Overview: A retired tram driver tries to find his daughter named Ana whom he lost in the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-11-09
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Fourteenth Day
Overview: The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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Eclipse
Overview: A drunkard is obsessed with a young attractive lady who refuses his advances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-06-12
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The Man in the Photograph
Overview: Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-07-07
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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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Hell River
Overview: Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Love and Fashion
Overview: In order to make money for the aerial review, a group of students organize the fashion program for the "Yugochic" company, doing some small frauds as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-11-22
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The Serbian Girl
Overview: The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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The Colonel's Wife
Overview: Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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The Betrayal
Overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-24
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Lucia
Overview: A melodramatic story of Lucia, who serves as a charwoman on the Podlogar family's rich farm, and makes a fuss among householder's sons, as she becomes pregnant with one of them. A decision on whether one should be forced into marriage with the pregnant charwoman and her child, ends tragically. Will Lucia be able to sustain psychological pressure, contempt and pity of the Podlogar brothers?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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Solaja
Overview: Life of Simo Šolaja (1905-1942), a Yugoslav partisan national hero from Bosnia.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Little Things
Overview: Wife of a doctor, who's busy with his work over the top, lets herself to adventure. Much effort is needed to overcome "little" argues and to find the way of understanding and respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-03-12
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Radopolje
Overview: German 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Three Stories
Overview: Three stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1955-02-21
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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 Jailers
Overview: A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1990-10-09
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Murder Commited in a Sly and Cruel Manner and from Low Motives
Overview: An eminent Belgrade physician is found murdered. The investigation reveals dark side of his character - illegal abortions and abuse of his wife. The wife's lover becomes the prime suspect. The newspaper reporter, however, starts his own investigation. Besides being a crime story, this movie in quasi-documentary fashion presents alternative cultural scene of Belgrade in late sixties.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Massacre at Noon
Overview: 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 German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Wonderful Dust
Overview: 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 the same attitude towards them.
Genres: War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1975-03-19
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Transgression
Overview: A TV journalist making a documentary in a factory finds out that the workers have been on strike and tries to analyze the strike in his film, but is thwarted by the TV company. His failure at his job is interwoven with his failed marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1980-01-17
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The Queen of Hearts
Overview: It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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The Tenth Brother
Overview: Based on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a family returns to the family home to take revenge on his father who had abandoned him as a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Burden
Overview: A young man who lives and works in the big town, comes to his native village to visit his family. He meets his old love, who had finished school but can’t find job. He spends his time with old friends in the bars. At the same time, one of his friends comes from Germany full of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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The Boy and the Violin
Overview: The war is over. Children without mothers and fathers, children of fighters who fell for freedom...This is the story about such boys who placed in the homes for children of fallen soldiers. One of these homes was especially for boys with gift for music. One of them was a boy named Goran. he and his best friend exchanged violins. The difference in violins was only in color, but this one reminded him strangely of the past he past. All his boyish feelings and is tender memories of his mother killed in war, Goran put into his music, producing wonderful sounds on the dark violin. But it was this violin that caused many misunderstanding in the Home.
Genres: War Drama Music
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-01-24
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Heroin
Overview: This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Caroline of Rijeka
Overview: The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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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The Great Day
Overview: Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-07-24
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Low Tide
Overview: A remote village in Serbia in 1941. Through the fate of rural residents and the destiny of a partisan detachment reflected is the horror and absurdity of war in Serbia during World War II. On one hand, ordinary people and partisans; the Germans and the Chetniks on the other.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-04-22
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The Camp Followers
Overview: In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-17
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The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors
Overview: When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the German pipe.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: 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 encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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Tempest
Overview: A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Longest Journey
Overview: March 1903. The Ottoman Empire is in a process of disintegration. Only Macedonia is not still liberated in the Balkans. The Macedonian revolutionary movement is in full growth. The Turks are trying to keep their last bastion in Europe. The Macedonian people are being exposed to the most severe oppressions as it is due to the revenge of the Turks for supporting and protecting the komitas - Macedonian freedom-fighters. In such a case the Turks besiege a village where a weeding ceremony is taking place. They shoot at the peasants, round them up and most of them are being taken away. More than two hundred people are taken prisoner in the fortress. The Turks sentence them to from 15 to 101 years in prison. Then the prisoners are loaded on a ship and are transported to Asia Minor. On their way through the desert the Macedonians are exposed to various humiliations. A lot of them overeat and die. In October 1908, the prisoners arrive at the place where they are to serve the sentence.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
Overview: A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-03-18
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Natural Boundaries
Overview: A middle-aged man married a young woman but his war memories and her lack of them stand between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-07-15
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Bread
Overview: A small story of a small but happy man and his fight against poverty and drought. The story takes place in Kosovo in mid-seventies, and describes one family and her fight for survival.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Wide Blue Road
Overview: Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Suleiman the Conqueror
Overview: Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Partisan Stories
Overview: The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-07-26
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The Last Bridge
Overview: A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-11
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The Igman March
Overview: The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-06-26
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Commandments for a Gangster
Overview: Northon is a retired gangster wants to avenge the death of his sister, who was married to Frank Cline. Cline disappeared while transporting a large shipment of the Organization's gold, leaving three dead bodies behind him. Northon follows the trail to the sunken ship and tries to beat rival gangsters to the lost gold.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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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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Hit and Run
Overview: The unfortunate journalist Fred falls in love with the young wife of an older business tycoon. Fred's involvement with her involves him in both blackmail and murder.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-15
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Dark Echoes
Overview: The zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Falcon
Overview: Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-03-29
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The Trojan Horse
Overview: During the WWII, the communist resistance, with the help of a few local anti-fascists, makes sabotage and obstructs the actions of the Yugoslav quislings.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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