Severin Bijelić
Also Known As: Северин Биелич, Северин Бијелић
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Birthday: February 10, 1921
Deathday: July 28, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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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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Wild Seed
Overview: A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-03-18
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The Last Railway
Overview: A group of railroad workers decide to make extra money by smuggling forbidden goods and engaging in other criminal activities. The first crime film made in Yugoslavia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Saturday Night
Overview: Three stories set in Belgrade by night: A loving couple who alarms public uproar for kissing in the street, a lonely boxing handler whose help isn't really appreciated, and two young people who never manage to get to know each other due to dress code issues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-07-31
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The Ambush
Overview: Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-06-30
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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 Rats Woke Up
Overview: An unsuccessful attempt of a lonely guy to change his pointless life. In search for a job and money he falls in love with a girl next door believing that she will change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Crows
Overview: A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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A Trip Around the World
Overview: A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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How Romeo and Juliet Loved Each Other
Overview: The story of unfortunate lovers from contemporary Belgrade, a young woman married for money, and a student whom she loved before marriage. Juvenile love romance gets extinguished by social intolerance, calculated and upstarted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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When I Am Dead and White
Overview: The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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Black Pearls
Overview: Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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The Cabinet Minister's Wife
Overview: After becoming a minister's wife, Živka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after being involved in a scandal. Based on highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nušić.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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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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Big and Small
Overview: Under a police pursuit, Pavle tries to transfer a group of illegals on a free liberated territory. Pavle hopes to find a hideaway at an old friend Stevan, but these expectations fail. However, help unexpectedly comes from Stevan's little son Aca.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1956-07-15
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Comrade President Center-Forward
Overview: Through several entangled stories, province atmosphere is shown, in which new ideas are hard to penetrate. Parallel with the seventh anniversary of peasant's cooperative farm, activity of a priest, who wants to restore the iconostasis, is followed. Local photographer intrigues - in small town in which the villagers want to become football champions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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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Heaven without Love
Overview: With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-22
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To Come and Stay
Overview: In search for the better life, three peasants Radovan, Jeremija and Gaša leave for a big city. Despite their expectations, there are many trials and temptations. Radovan manages to fit in by going to the evening school. The oldest of them, Jeremija, goes back to the village, while Gaša, after unreturned love, leaves to look for happiness somewhere else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Overview: An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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Palm Tree Among Palm Trees
Overview: An ex-prostitute, now a washerwoman, asks for a pension for her previous "employment", which socialism, with its human principles, does not disapprove. To realize her right, she needs two witnesses, and she has many more. But none of them will testify. A whole society shows its selfishness, false morality, prejudice. She dies without realizing her great wish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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The Dreams Came by Coach
Overview: Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Song from Kumbara
Overview: Story of the revolt of the people of Serbia against the Turks, who ruled the country for four centuries. The battle and the fall of the fortress of Belgrade in 1806.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1955-11-14
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Moment of Decision
Overview: A story set in a Slovenian town during WW2. The White Guardists bring a wounded partisan to doctor Koren, but he kills their lieutenant, thus helping them both to escape.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1955-04-05
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Priest Cira and Priest Spira
Overview: Life of the village elite, the two priest families, goes quietly in mutual understanding and friendship. The discord is inserted when a young teacher is able to marry the daughter of only one of the priests. Based on a popular novel by Stevan Sremac.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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The Last Day
Overview: A group of former members of the Gestapo participates in espionage activities, helped by a group of locals, dissatisfied with the new authorities. However, members of the Yugoslav secret police, the infamous UDBA, are on their track. This is the first Yugoslavian spy film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1951-09-04
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Plug Impermeable to Water
Overview: A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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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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Two Grapes
Overview: After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1955-04-22
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Legends of Anika
Overview: Based on a story by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić. When a young man's affair with a married woman ends disastrously he spurns the girl he'd once loved. She reacts to his contempt by becoming the town harlot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Double Circle
Overview: Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Genres: Action War Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-04-15
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Shepherd
Overview: The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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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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Quo vadis Zivorad!?
Overview: Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions, becoming a police inspector who is looking for hashish, a scientist, a man who rises agriculture land and whatnot...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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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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Alone
Overview: A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the novel by Mihajlo Ranovcevic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-03-12
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Operation Belgrade
Overview: In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-09-20
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Three-Hearts Locket
Overview: A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-03-23
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People's Deputy
Overview: Film adaptation of “People’s Deputy” by Branislav Nusic, one of the most frequently staged plays in the history of Serbian theatre. It tells the story of a politician who’s only interested in personal benefits and chair in the national assembly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat
Overview: The true story of a rather unusual gymnasium class on the end of the 19th century and their professor. Full of intellectuals and young scientists, writers and artists, this class was highly with potential and many of them became famous in Serbian history.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-02-24
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Story of a Factory
Overview: Shortly after country's liberation, one of few factories tries to enhance its production. A group of reactionary individuals fails to stop its work and building of new production units.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1949-12-03
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