Maks Furijan
Also Known As: Макс Фуријан, Макс Фуриан
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Goricak near Ptuj, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]
Adult: No
Birthday: September 19, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 25, 1993
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Red Wheat
Overview: An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1970-12-28
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Enclosure
Overview: In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-18
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The Bridge
Overview: In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Alphabet of Fear
Overview: In order to gather informations about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement sends a girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-11-27
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Secret Society of PGC
Overview: A children’s classic story wrote by post-war authors, who, inspired by the real life of young people in that period of time, addressed their topical issues through depicting their unusual adventures. Thus many generations used to grow up along with the very popular Society of Pingoclavulus.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Maya and the Starboy
Overview: The story about a class of star-boys who travel with their research spaceship to "Outdoor School" to see life on Earth. Since they wear "snurke" - a kind of shiny badges, they are invisible to Earthlings. But the star-boy Gubang's desire to meet the Earthlings in personal is so strong that he can not resist. He befriends a girl named Maya and gives her "snurko" so that she could see him. This causes severe complications both on Earth and in spaceship. Of course, everything finishes with a happy end.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1988-06-25
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Sword of Damascus
Overview: Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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Picnic on Sunday
Overview: After film school, Godina’s first professional work as a director was “Picnic on Sunday,” a 1968 black-and-white short without any words that shows how seven different people spend a Sunday. A simple concept, but in Godina’s hands the short is suffused with both sexuality and revolution. - Paste
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Triumph of Robin Hood
Overview: Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Overview: The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1965-11-22
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The Enemy
Overview: An ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-06-11
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The Only Way Out
Overview: A group of partisans goes to destroy a German gas warehouse at Postojnska Jama. One of them grows distrustful towards the new commander, and it spreads among the rest of the squad. The situation culminates when the mentioned partisan remains cut off inside a cave.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Good Sea
Overview: A simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1958-05-24
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The Esophagus Battle
Overview: Based on a novel by Prežihov Voranc, it tells a story about a farmer's family who live in Northern Slovenia before WW2.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Demolition Squad
Overview: The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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My Dear Iza
Overview: The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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Kala
Overview: The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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The Return
Overview: Vrnitev is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Fiction TV Film. Featuring Miha Baloh, Maks Furijan, Ivanka Mežan. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Ljubljana. It has received 1 award.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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The Descent Upon Drvar
Overview: German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Valley of Peace
Overview: When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way a black American pilot, who jumped of a shoot-down plane, joins them. Although American planes have killed the boy's parents, he accepts the pilot with enthusiasm. The children communicate with him in German and the valley of peace seems like the last paradise place of refuge. The Slovene boy, the German girl, and the American pilot represent a symbolic triangle of peace in this adventure happening in the middle of the War of Liberation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1956-07-23
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Kill Me Softly
Overview: An old house by the sea is the scene of a number of puzzling crimes and deaths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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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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Amandus
Overview: The film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious intolerance with Amandus, a Catholic priest, determined to persecute local Protestants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1966-02-28
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The Jailers
Overview: A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1990-10-09
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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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Displaced Person
Overview: Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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The Sarajevo Assassination
Overview: A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Love
Overview: In 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang in Ljubljana, experiencing all the problems of his age. With Lenka he's experiencing his first "pure" love, while discovering sexuality... The Italian occupation brings many changes, gang breaks up, some join the liberation movement, the others join collaborationist forces. Marjan remain "unlisted". Italians surrender, and hand over the city to Germans. Frivolous Milena, who has good connections with them, seduces Marjan whom she lost her innocence with. The war is over and the partisans win. The new authorities mistakenly imprison Marjan.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1984-11-05
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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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