Slobodan Aligrudić
Also Known As: Слободан Алигрудић, Слободан Алигрудич
Biography: Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Adult: No
Birthday: October 15, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 13, 1985
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When Father Was Away on Business
Overview: Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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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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The Warrior's Talent
Overview: A contemporary story of the film crew who visits the site in order to prepare for the shooting, where they fall into many situations that reflect local mentality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Overview: After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-09-22
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Overview: A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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The Ambush
Overview: Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-06-30
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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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The Promising Boy
Overview: A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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National Class Category Up to 785ccm
Overview: One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-09
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When I Am Dead and White
Overview: The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Overview: Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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Yellow
Overview: A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a wanderer, although she has a burning desire for home and quiet life. The big city life laws get her in troubles, sad and, at least for her, unintelligible...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-06-07
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This Crazy World of Ours
Overview: A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-07-14
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Tailors for Jeans
Overview: Illegal business abroad. Conditions: the boss takes the shoes along with a passport, and the salary is 25 francs, payment when the job is done. A reversal takes place. The boss returns the shoes and the passport, but there is no money. There is blackmail and the arrival of labor reinforcements.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-06-10
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Erogenous Zone
Overview: Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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Blacklist
Overview: It catches the essence of the no man’s land in which an accused artist found himself. In the hysteria of the political witch hunt neither society nor the law offered a way out.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Overview: An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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More Than a Game
Overview: Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-20
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Indian Mirror
Overview: A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Great Transport
Overview: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-04
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A Naive Person
Overview: Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Early Works
Overview: Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Plug Impermeable to Water
Overview: A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Train for Kraljevo
Overview: It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Let's Move On
Overview: The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of Liberation and emancipation. A young teacher – Partisan arrives in a small Serbian town. His wartime, partisan “pedagogy” conflicts with the old methods of work in schools. The children, of course, stand by their teacher, their true friend. The film is a child’s memory and remembrance of an evil, cruel period that left deep imprints in the children’s sensitive and delicate soul of entire generations whose childhood was wounded in the war. The story unfolds over a period of several months, between the fall of 1944 and the summer of 1945, when somewhere far away, in Japan, the atomic bomb is fried to announce a new-atomic era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Quo vadis Zivorad!?
Overview: Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions, becoming a police inspector who is looking for hashish, a scientist, a man who rises agriculture land and whatnot...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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Variola Vera
Overview: An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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The Colonel's Wife
Overview: Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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Happy Family
Overview: Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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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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Who's Singin' Over There?
Overview: On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group of passengers is headed for Belgrade...
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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Homo sapiens
Overview: The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill an oversized barrel using a woefully small tub of water. Shot in stark black and white and edited to achieve a dreamlike quality, the man’s devotion to this task is tested and taunted by a young couple that frolics around the barrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-09-30
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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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