Josif Tatić
Also Known As: Josif Tatic
Biography: Josif Tatić is a Serbian actor. His most famous roles include the role of Slobodan Mihajlovic in "Šovinistička farsa," Bozidar Soldatović Jataganc" in "Bolji Život" ("Better Life") and Tanasije Vitorović in "Grlom u Jagode". His parents Branko and Kristina were also actors.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Novi Sad, Serbia
Birthday: April 13, 1946
Deathday: February 08, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Life Is a Miracle
Overview: Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-05-14
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Broad Are the Leaves
Overview: The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Love and Other Crimes
Overview: Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solarium and runs a protection racket. Anica is determined not to grow old in this dump where neither love nor life seems to offer her a decent future. One grey winter’s day Anica has an idea to steal money from Milutin’s safe, get on a plane and leave the country forever.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-09-17
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The Robbery of the Third Reich
Overview: During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.
Genres: Crime Comedy War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-02-16
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Certified: No Mines
Overview: October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-05-09
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Huddersfield
Overview: Raša is 30, lives with his alcoholic father and trying, and failing, to make ends meet by giving literature lessons to teenage girls and hosting a program on the local radio, presenting new books and interviewing authors. Ivan, a promising judo fighter in his teenage years, has since had a history of neurosis, psychotic episodes, hospitalization, being heavily medicated, involvement in various occult groups and practices, prior to having been baptized in the Orthodox Church.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-05-07
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Let's Make Love 3
Overview: Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-11-19
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The Tour
Overview: Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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The Knife
Overview: In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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Labyrinth
Overview: The story evolves around the Arian sect. During the III century AD they have seriously shaken the very foundations of Christian world. It is also known that in this region they had a stronghold between towns of Sirmium and Belgrade. "Labyrinth" is not only the story about our times, but a story of our roots.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2002-08-26
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This Time Only
Overview: A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody knows that the old man is mortally ill.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Fade to Black
Overview: Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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It Happened on This Very Day
Overview: Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-06-28
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Special Education
Overview: Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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Born to Be a Warrior
Overview: Couple of guys from a small town in Montenegro come to the big city, they plan to leave their mark in the new environment by winning in street fights but keep the chivalry they brought from back home. One of them (Dragomir Stojanovic), deals with injustice with his fists, hiding behind "tough guy" facade his deep sensitivity. Along the way he finds love with a pretty young girl.
Genres: Action
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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The Last Lap at Monza
Overview: The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-12-19
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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Overview: The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Three Tickets to Hollywood
Overview: The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962. start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khruschev and J.F.K. have failed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-04-09
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Kir Janja
Overview: A comedy of characters in three acts by the Serbian writer Jovan Sterija Popovic from 1837. Sterija presented Kir Janja as a negative comic hero whose passion for money deformed his personality. He keeps complaining, even though he is very rich.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-02-04
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Truckers Ride Again
Overview: New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-05
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Chauvinistic Farce 2
Overview: A sequel of the locally acclaimed theater play in which a drunken Serb and a drunken Croat argue over who’s the better nation.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Introduction to Employment
Overview: Dragi, young intern with his experienced colleague went to the province on a business trip. Older colleagues has the task to introduce a younger colleague into the business. They are sellers of books. But time is socialism. How to sell a book?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-10-14
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The Professional
Overview: Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-05-21
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Let's Make Love 2
Overview: Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-09-19
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Strawberries in the Throat
Overview: A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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The Brothers Bloom
Overview: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Horoscope
Overview: A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-21
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When Spring Comes Late
Overview: Based on war-themed diary of Fadil Hoxha, the film tells the story of one particular phase of partisan revolution in Kosovo during WWII.
Genres: War
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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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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Wolf of Prokletije
Overview: Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Byzantine Blue
Overview: The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
Overview: Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic and is mentioning suicide constantly, he simply doesn't want to accept that the relationship is over. He has self-pitying sessions with his friend Bane (Milos Samolov) everyday. Despite Bane's advice, Alek keeps calling Teodora who has fallen in love with Nemanja (Branislav Trifunovic) in the meantime. However decisive and tough Teodora is when she is with Alek, she is as indulgent and helpless when she is spending time with Nemanja. The problem is that Nemanja is not in love with her but with Marina (Vanja Ejdus), a girl by a few years younger. Unfortunately, Marina is not in love with him, she is very attracted to Alek's "Slavic depression". She doesn't know that reason for his "charm of a desperate" is his failure with Teodora, she thinks Alek was born like that.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-06-13
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A Film with No Name
Overview: The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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July 13th
Overview: This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Underground
Overview: A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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Mortal Spring
Overview: An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Made in YU
Overview: The lives of three brothers who left their small village in Serbia to live in Sweden. The first one escaped from police, while the other two followed his path.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Tight Skin 2
Overview: At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-11-02
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The End of War
Overview: As WW2 comes to an end in the former Yugoslavia, a man without an arm and his young son are on a mission. Their goal is to find and kill five members of the fascist militia who had tortured and killed their wife and mother
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Taiwan Canasta
Overview: A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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Package Deal
Overview: A three-part omnibus. First story: A young couple agrees to pretend to be in love with each other. Second story: After deciding to leave his band, a young bassist shows up for an audition for a drummer. There he meets a man who offers him money to kill his wife. Third story: Two successful robbers go through a hard time when one of them starts to pay to much more attention to his guitar playing skills than the job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-03-14
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The Secret of Family Treasure
Overview: Tihomir Stojkovic suspects that there's a hidden treasure in the property of his neighbors. Since this piece of land belongs to a man who has unmarried daughter, Tihomir persuades his friend Djosa to marry her so they could get in possession of that jar full of money. The characters are based on TV series "Family Treasure".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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The Trophy
Overview: A committee made up to investigate illegal masonry in Yugoslavia causes more problems both for the builders and government, and in fact no one have any use of it. The pressure from all sides makes committee work less diligently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-03
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Daredevil Times
Overview: Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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The Cabinet Minister's Wife
Overview: Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka 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 a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Escapes
Overview: Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-28
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Lazar
Overview: A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-09
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Poor Little Hampsters
Overview: Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that follow without stop.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-08-26
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The Outlaw
Overview: The life of a man who dared to unfold the corruption and mismanagement in his factory takes a wrong turn as his marriage ends, his lover leaves him and he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital. After completing his stay in this mental institution, the gates of the factory are now closed for him. Will he be forced to apologize, or blood must be shed?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Battle of Kosovo
Overview: In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-06-12
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Four Days to Death
Overview: Between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia was ruled by a monarchy. This movie explores the difficulties faced by a Communist Party organizer under that regime when an order goes out to kill anyone threatening the current regime. At first he is willing to leave the country, but his experience of the situation of workers moves him to stay. Despite efforts of captors to help him escape, he refuses, and dies a martyr's death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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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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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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Open Sea
Overview: For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Hey Babu Riba
Overview: In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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Cabaret Balkan
Overview: 20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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In the Middle of Nowhere
Overview: The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-07-02
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Grobljanska Street
Overview: The story of people from the outskirts of town. Luca, who lives with her adult son, longs for understanding and happiness. Dana and Ona maintain tombs and sell flowers. Their daily routine is filled with small worries and big dreams. Wanting more than he can accomplish, her son goes to jail and Luca meets a prison educator. Much-anticipated bond appears in sight.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Bishop vs. Rook
Overview: State security inspector Ivan reveals an inserted terrorists in Yugoslavia, sent there by Croatian emigrants, enemies of the above socialist state. Their mission is to select the appropriate places on Adriatic coast which they would later blow up. The terrorists are expected to set a series of explosions that would cause a public disturbance and uncertainty in the Yugoslavia's position in Europe. Ivan follows Pavle and Elsa who are staying in Croatia as tourists, stepping into action in a crucial moment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels
Overview: The title protagonist is Aleksandar Ignjatovic, a modest young man who spoke against the occupiers during the German occupation in the Second World War. In addition to the acted part, it also contains documentary segments, i.e. contemporary interviews with his friends, acquaintances and relatives.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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