Aleksandar Đurica
Also Known As: Aleksandar Đurica
Biography: Aleksandar Đurica is a Serbian actor. He was 22 years old when the war started. Over the course of the war, he studied acting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and participated in street demonstrations against the war and the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. In his 15-year career, Djurica has worked steadily in film, TV and theater, in Vojvodina and Belgrade. He has received several awards for his work, and in 2008 he was nominated for best actor at the festival Grand Off, European Off Film Awards, for his work on the Milos Pusic's film "Lullaby for the Boy." He currently lives in Belgrade, where he is a member of National Theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Novi Sad, Serbia
Birthday: November 01, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mother Mara
Overview: Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing to communicate with friends and family. However, when she meets Milan, Nemanja’s close friend, she finds solace and comfort in their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2024-08-18
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The Belgrade Phantom
Overview: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979; a mysterious "Phantom" occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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Loan Shark
Overview: Mundir is a loan shark in a small Serbian town, a former boxer with diabetes. He is old school, he realizes the times have changed, and that money lending business is not what it used to be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-05-25
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Alexander of Yugoslavia
Overview: A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-08-24
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Redemption Street
Overview: Ustanička ulica is a Serbian political thriller. Dušan Ilić (Gordan Kičić), employed at the Serbian state prosecutor's office, gets a top secret case to investigate a war crime committed by a disbanded paramilitary unit. He manages to find Mićun (Uliks Fehmiu) who's the only surviving witness.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2012-03-13
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Awakening from the Dead
Overview: The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a discouraged democrat and a columnist, dismissed from a famous daily newspaper, emerges from his own grave and enters into his own life. Within 48 hours, he will try to achieve all those things he couldn't while he was alive. At the same time, post-mortem, he will try to save the dignity of his own community and his tribe, not taking too much care of himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Lost and Found
Overview: A group of relatively young (30-35 years), college-educated, smart, urban people, whose youth was destroyed in the events during the breakup of Yugoslavia, in a late search for their identity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Working Class Heroes
Overview: Lidija is working for a dubious real estate company. It is her job to protect the construction site’s image and cover up the dirty tracks left by Serbian turbo-capitalism. But when the workers rebel, her complicity is put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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Love Comes After
Overview: In this romantic tragedy, love drama, three stories are interwoven with characters that are trying to solve their emotional problems and unresolved relationships from the past during one night. Each of the characters survive their loneliness with others.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-04-03
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Jar Full of Air
Overview: In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-11-18
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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Overview: “The Beheading of St. John The Baptist” paints a portrait of a family and of Jovan (John), its youngest member and black sheep. The entire story takes place in just one day, in one apartment, during the celebration of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. Jovan’s parents are hiding the fact that they are getting divorced from their son and their guests, and Jovan is hiding from them that he is using drugs while hoping that aliens will save him from the hopeless and meaningless existence on Earth.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2023-02-07
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On Life and Death
Overview: The story is set on the day of bombing of RTS (Serbian national TV) in 1999, which follows five characters whose paths intertwine on the fateful night.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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Liberta - The Birth of the City
Overview: The first film saga about Novi Sad, a work signed by directors Gvozden Đurić and Žanko Tomić, and will show the interweaving of Serbian culture and tradition with European ideals and challenges of the 18th century.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-07-17
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Lullaby for a Boy
Overview: A police investigator is violently interrogating a boy accused of subversive activities. Meanwhile, at home, his wife is tending to their gravely ill son. There is a strange link between the pain he is inflicting upon his prisoner and the recovery of his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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The Golden Boy
Overview: Seventeen year old Milan is one of the world's top young soccer players. Trying to protect him from preying agents will unite his divorced parents.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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Secondhand People
Overview: After a surprise invitation, an enigmatic media mogul Dragan Ivanovic returns to his hometown to examine his extremely hostile relationship with neurotic younger brother, as well as brother's new and suspicious romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
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Stairless
Overview: Slavisa suffers from the Alzheimer's disease and his life in the community is becoming more complex, both for himself and for his household. His daughter and son-in-law are of the view that it is time for Slavisa to be placed in a nursing home. Slavisa desperately tries to convince them and show them that everything with him is still all right. With time this becomes more and more difficult to prove.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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For the King and Fatherland
Overview: The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a member of the "Ravnogorski pokret". The storyline narrates his memories of the past and the war events in the spring of 1941 interwoven with the contemporary moments, the author features the attack of fascist Germany, the April war and the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the misfortune placed upon the Serbian people, loss of freedom, birth of the freedom movement in Serbia and one Serbian soldier, who after 70 years of expatriation in America returns to his homeland.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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A Stinking Fairytale
Overview: Moma is a hobo and suffers from depression. Ema is a hobo and had been treated for alcoholism. Moma lives in the abandoned factory premises. Ema lives in the shaft. Moma liked Ema at first sight. Ema liked Moma at second sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools
Overview: The story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Kočić spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade, Kosta Herman, finds out that Kočić is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-12-27
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Santa Maria della Salute
Overview: The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-12-20
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Blue Train
Overview: Blue Train is Serbian atipic teenage comedy. Just before Tito's death a high school graduates in Belgrade live their normal life before the end of the school year. Spring is relaxed and they organize the election "Princess Of Spring" for the most beautiful girl in school. Vojislav is in love with Anica, friend from class. While his best friend, convinces him that the organization of the miss elections is the best way to win Anica's heart. Milena has crush in Vojislav, and she want to spoil his plan. After the death of professor of Marxism, in the school comes a new, very young and ambitious professor Božičković, a former pupil of the school. His charm and informal dress manages to win the sympathy of students, especially girls. Professor Božičković like Anica, and he shows that in front of the class. Anica and Vojislav do not appritiate that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Patria
Overview: A movie about sinners and their quest for salvation. But God is hard to find.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-10-12
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Apophenia
Overview: Relying on the work of Letonian scientist Constantine Raudive, Marko Mazibrada, a psychiatrist disappointed in his profession, performs experiments aimed to empirically determine whether there is life after death, by phenomenon of apophenia. Together with Simon Besedić, alcoholic and editor of Armageddon Monthly, the magazine that deals with the paranormal phenomena, Nikola Mrzopoljić, manual labourer and paterfamilias, and Eta, pharmacist and unusual prostitute which Besedić offers a relationship, he experiences a sequence of weird events...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-03-06
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Death of a Man in the Balkans
Overview: A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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Autumn in My Street
Overview: The main story is about two twenty year old guys who spend day in a remote suburb of Novi Sad. The are gathering money to go to seaside for the very first time since they finished primary school. Despite all the signs that this will be just another autumn day, on this trip they will experience the moment that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-06-10
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The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow
Overview: A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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Menagerie
Overview: "Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attraction between Srna and Jovan, they still don't want to be married by the wish of their fathers. Suddenly Petar, the ex-forester who was seven years in jail for killing Strain's older son, returns to the village. His return changes lives of all characters in this story indicating the uncertain end of it.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2012-06-17
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Offenders
Overview: Guided by their maverick sociology professor, three students set up separate experiments around the city to prove his "Tetris" theory of chaos: that human nature inevitably deteriorates from order to anarchy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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Leeches
Overview: Writer Petar Miric, at the time of the great social and political crisis in Serbia represents attitudes that conflict with the principles of the political regime. A close encounter with the State Security Authority leads him to life in paranoia and searching for the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Soldier's Lullaby
Overview: Stevan Jakovljević, a biology teacher and World War I veteran who fought for the Serbian army, arrives to the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war and the opening of an ossuary in the village where he used to be stationed with his first company, the Fifth Artillery Battery. There he encounters only the aged Commander, and through their flashbacks we see the fate of the Fifth Battery which was disbanded in that very village.
Genres: War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Someone Is Still Waiting
Overview: 1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital, waiting to be called to prepare for abortion. This unexpected meeting will start a lot of questions in their mind, and make them reconsider their decision. 2nd STORY: The Road. A country, somewhere in Serbia: mother is taking her daughter, along the road, to the doctor who lives alone in a wagon, in which he makes illegal abortions. All over that journey there is collision between mother's traditional attitude against pregnancy before marriage and daughter's youthful wish for a birth of a new life from love. 3rd STORY: Water. Nada, a young woman in late twenties, remembered in a prison cell, the tragical events which made her kill her husband. In the hospital, where she was taken by a police car, for making abortion of his child, she met a person, who she didn't expect to meet.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-06-09
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Observers
Overview: Three separate stories of young people targeted for human trafficking: Tamara, a girl who starts a relationship with a man who offers her attention and freedom from her empty life; Petar, who gets blackmailed after sending nude photos of himself to someone he thought was a girl online; Kaca, whose parents are financially struggling and suddenly offered a substantial amount of money for their daughter to go out of town for a period for a babysitting job.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-10-17
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Panama
Overview: A thriller that depicts how digital communication, pornography and vanity obstruct true emotions and love.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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Spring on the Last Lake
Overview: The film follows the celebrated writer and Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during WWII, when diplomats and diplomatic staff from Yugoslav missions from countries occupied by the Third Reich, including Andrić, who was ambassador of the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Berlin, were deported to a hotel on Lake Constance.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2020-03-02
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February
Overview: Husband and wife are going to their vacation cottage to overcome marriage crises, caused by his affair with another woman. In one moment she demands from him to take her and show mistress's home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2017-07-07
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The Party
Overview: In the summer of 1991 the war broke out in Croatia. In a holiday house in Fruška Gora hills in Serbia, near the border with Croatia, a group of young people are having a birthday party. They try to have some fun and act like nothing is going on. The party is shattered by the war. They can hear the artillery, but something is also happening between them. Inevitably, some of the boys end up on the frontline and everyone of them is effected by the war that is starting to rage. "The Party" is about individual destinies of the characters trapped in isolated house in hills and surrounded by growing paranoia of the officially not yet declared war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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Milena
Overview: Twenty years after Milena and Stevan fled from war-torn Croatia to Serbia, a journalist investigating refugee stories comes to speak with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2024-06-26
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Son's Will
Overview: In the post-apocalyptic future, Jovan, a young man must choose whether to take revenge on his enemy Tudjin for all the crimes he has committed against his family, or peacefully continue his life in the mountain, thus securing his family legacy.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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