Stevo Žigon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Birthday: December 08, 1926
Deathday: December 28, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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In Agony
Overview: After Laura's husband commits suicide, her lover Ivan Krizovec and her spend a torrid night together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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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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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Overview: Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.
Genres: Thriller War Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-04-12
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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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How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
Overview: The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-05
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Sixth Gear
Overview: Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-03
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The Feverish Years
Overview: A story about two people who didn't find their way in big city. He came from the countryside and works in steel factory, she's working in factory restaurant. Their lives change when they meet and fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-07-14
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Ward Six
Overview: A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Rondo
Overview: Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Scene of the Crash
Overview: A young married woman Jelena finds about her husband's car accident from an unknown stranger named Vlatko, but also that he wants to be visited by his mistress rather than her. The encounter with her father, an ex-politician, will be another shock, but that's when she accepts Vlatko's courtship without being able to see his self-interested nature.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-02-09
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Official Position
Overview: The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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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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Oxygen
Overview: In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Summer in the South
Overview: The story describes a staid and apparently very ordinary Austrian teacher on holiday on the Southern Adriatic coast. The sensation of renewal and refreshment from the sea, sun and salt air is described in physical terms.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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The Red and the Black
Overview: This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Haloa - The Feast of the Whores
Overview: A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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June Turmoil
Overview: The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was the most powerful public criticism of "red bourgeoisie" - members of communist apparatus, who suppressed creativity and affirmation of new generations throughout Eastern block.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Memento
Overview: A day before the earthquake in Skopje, Wily Muller, a German conductor, while passing through the concert meets a young girl Jana, a student from Skopje. After several years they meet again at the "Solidarity Meetings" event, which is held in Skopje, where Wily Muller is a conductor at a concert held on that occasion. Those several days, spent together with the conductor, for Jana mean fulfillment with a kind of reminiscence of her family tragedy experienced during Skopje's earthquake, and also a wondering and search for a way of starting life again, which stopped on the day of the earthquake. Although the possibility of going with Muller is very attractive, Jana stays in Skopje. Her place is beside the young man whom she loves and belongs to, with whom she is related with true love...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Journalist
Overview: Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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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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The Written Off Return
Overview: Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is assassinating resistance sympathizers, and Prle and Tihi must return to Belgrade deal with it. In order to cross through enemy lines, they use cars, clothes and documents of captured pro-Nazi minister. During their journey the minister escapes and warns the Gestapo.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-12-14
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The Neglected Land
Overview: The father remained in the village to farm land, while the son lives far away from their homeland and country for business. At one point, the son returns to the village and then the crucial question is: who will take care of the land when the father dies?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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The Written Off
Overview: Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-04-28
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X-25 Reports
Overview: Resistance member is sent to infiltrate Nazi intelligence during WW2.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1960-07-24
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I'll Be Back
Overview: A war disabled lieutenant colonel, who did not make it in the society, after many years of loneliness meets happy woman who loved him in the past, and not forgotten him despite the fact that she married meanwhile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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British Gambit
Overview: Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former Yugoslavia. One of them was delegate with the Chetniks, while the other one was with partisans.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Kala
Overview: The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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The Idealist
Overview: The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's strictures become somewhat milder, Martin is transferred to a more friendly environment, but all the injustices he has experienced have already bitten too deep. Unlike his wife, Martin finds it very difficult to accept changes. When his son dies, it seems as though he has lost all his elan and the will to live. Will he be able to go on bringing the light of knowledge to the ignorant masses, or will his ideals be buried forever like a man in a snowdrift?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Fear
Overview: The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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The Time Has Come for Love to Try
Overview: Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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The Saint-Fiacre Affair
Overview: A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Maria
Overview: On her deathbed, the sister tries to help her brother who, burdened with his poor background, can't figure out his life's directions after completing studies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-06-02
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Say Why Have You Left Me?
Overview: The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-06-15
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Five Minutes of Paradise
Overview: Two concentration camp prisoners are taken by Nazis to disable un exploded bombs in German towns. When they work on the ruins, with their guards safely away, they enjoy a few precious moments of freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-23
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Girl from the Mountains
Overview: The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not thinking in those moments of what the horrors of war can bring.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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Amandus
Overview: The film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious intolerance with Amandus, a Catholic priest, determined to persecute local Protestants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1966-02-28
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Marital Travels
Overview: Professor Gerasim and assistant Tugomir are in a ski-resort where opportunity for cheating and love is around every corner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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Ward Six
Overview: A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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P.S. - Post Scriptum
Overview: A three-part omnibus drama that shows destinies of three grown men: first segment (Escape) is about a sculptor, the second segment (Shade) is about a loner, while the third segment (Ring) is about a movie star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Endeavor
Overview: A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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The Last Ones
Overview: A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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The Case of Graduate Wagner
Overview: This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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