Ranko Gučevac
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kučevo, Serbia
Adult: No
Birthday: February 26, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 18, 2001
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Kuduz
Overview: After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Love and Rage
Overview: The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-03-09
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Heads or Tails
Overview: A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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Manifesto for Freedom
Overview: 6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Nights and Days
Overview: A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-14
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Buffet Titanic
Overview: Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Ninth Miracle on the East
Overview: Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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The Spring
Overview: Zagorka is young and beautiful peasant woman, abused by her ignorant husband because of her alleged infertility. One morning, a handsome neighbour offers her a lift into town.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-06-04
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The Carpet
Overview: Based on short story by Nedžad Ibrišimović. At the very beginning of the 20 century, guy from Sarajevo slips on railway bridge and stays hanging in the air. In order to save him, gathered people begin to search for large, firm carpet on which he could jump.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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The Human Factor
Overview: A TV drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-05-08
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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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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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Ivan
Overview: The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Musician
Overview: The action takes place in the village where the master Milun tries to use the servant Sreja and his knowledge “to play nicely on the harps” which is well paid and to make a contract with him to Sreja's detriment, all with the help of village fraudsters, his faithful tricksters.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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Virtual Reality
Overview: A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl who, unwittingly, in his new world, the world of drug addiction and pulled his best friend.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2001-10-06
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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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Pollen Dust
Overview: A young journalist is sent to a small Bosnian town to interview people on happiness. He mixes up with local affair and has a romance with a student. He gets a shock when he finds out that he is going to be important due to childhood mumps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Samek
Overview: Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-02-03
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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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Cat Under a Helmet
Overview: A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Gunfight at Casino Cabaret
Overview: Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Rams and Mammoths
Overview: One weird but at the same time very difficult and sad story about the Bosnians, the temporary workers in Slovenia. Their survival and the constant demand for a better place under the sun. It also movie speaks of the great longtime animosity between Bosnians and Slovenians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1985-06-11
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Silent Gunpowder
Overview: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-03-15
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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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A Lighter Case of Death
Overview: This poetic story of growing up and maturing sudden two boys and concerns of adults who fail to understand the changes that occur in their lives, is set in the sixties.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-06-15
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Holiday in Sarajevo
Overview: A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Evil Woman
Overview: Sultana and the bootmaker's wife Pela looks very much like each other, with replacement clothing and residence, Sultana becomes Pela and Pela becomes Sultana. The consequence of disguise is that the Sultana are undergoing torture from Pela's husband which changes her nature, which makes positive impact on her environment. The script abounds with musical numbers that contribute to the atmosphere, establish era and the place of action, and in this play bring vaudeville jollity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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A Breath of Air
Overview: The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1983-07-05
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Overview: Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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Do You Know Pavle Pleso?
Overview: Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-10-30
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Looking Into the Night
Overview: The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-03-09
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Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1
Overview: The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-07-16
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The Magpie Strategy
Overview: Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-06-17
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The State of the Dead
Overview: When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2002-07-25
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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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Gazija
Overview: Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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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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Regular Trains Station
Overview: In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Open Space
Overview: Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.
Genres: Action Crime Drama History
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-04-28
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