Janez Albreht
Also Known As: Янез Альбрехт
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
Birthday: March 23, 1925
Deathday: March 01, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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On Paper Wings
Overview: A love story of a couple who both reconsider the meaning of their former lives, only to come up with decision that they should marry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1967-07-14
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Alone Against Rome
Overview: A Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best interests to cooperate. However, the Tribune left in charge of the garrison proves to be cruel and demanding.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Dancing in the Rain
Overview: Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , who is considerably older, a fact that Peter is quick to point out. As an aging actress, struggling for parts in her local theatre, she oozes insecurity and breathes uncertainty. Together, they spend their time in the local restaurant, smoking, drinking and trading verbal blows. "I bet you'll just end up a drunk," she tells Peter each time. Peter just grins and tells her how old she looks. Compounded by a thankless director who soon shows her the door, Marusa finds her identity being squeezed harder and harder against the wall. To escape, Peter and Marusa dream...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1961-03-26
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A Cormoran
Overview: A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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A Sand Castle
Overview: Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental hospital in bikini and coat. Some of the staff were searching for her. But when she sees them she commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Our Car
Overview: A photographer decides to buy a car with the money he'll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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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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Operation
Overview: Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.
Genres: War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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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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The Fugitive
Overview: WWII - Slovenia under Italian fascist occupation. Two friends separated by a woman they both loved, and then by war as well: one of them joins partisans, the other Italian occupying forces.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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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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A Real Pirate
Overview: A young boy is on vacation at the beach with his family. He becomes bored and wanders onto the set of a television production about pirates aboard a ship.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1987-01-06
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Five Days in May
Overview: A young soldier enters a conflict with his superiors and because he does not get the exit for the May Day holidays, he decides to escape. The escape of the weapon is a serious offense, and because there are no routes back to the barracks, the fate of the violence that leads to a bloody bribe begins to unfold. The story goes back to the time of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Life in Kajzar
Overview: A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claimed possessions of lands, woods, and churches after communist party seized the power hold a party where a member of so-called reactionary forces (kulaks, clergy and Axis collaborators) tries to break in and stop it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1952-12-21
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The Good Old Piano
Overview: Composer and pianist Blaz Gaber lives only for his music and does not want to know anything about the outside world, where the war is raging. Upon his arrival from his poorly attended concert, he finds himself in prison for having stars drawn in his notebook by a little boy. A young illegal activist seeks refugee in the school, where the pupils hide his pistol inside the Gaber's piano. A German officer comes with his soldiers to find the hidden illegal, orders the school to be evacuated and takes the piano together with him on a train.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1959-06-13
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Wasteland
Overview: Set in the Tolminsko province of Slovenia in 1713, shortly after the Peasants' Uprising. The Grogovc family are forced to live in exile in a wasteland area of the country, where they suffer from the plague which gradually kills off the colony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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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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Executioner's Fresco
Overview: In a small seaside town, a group of people discover their dark past and repeat their bad habits, even those from the time of inquisition and persecutions of witches. They're ought to repeat these actions as long as they start to experience love and forgiveness in some of the following stages of reincarnation.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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