Zoran Radmilović
Also Known As: Zoran Radmilovic, Зоран Радмилович
Biography: Zoran Radmilović was a Serbian actor, beloved for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He studied law, architecture and philology at the University of Belgrade, only to discover acting as his true calling. After graduating at Drama Arts Academy he joined Beogradsko dramsko pozorište (Belgrade Drama Theatre). In 1968 he joined Atelje 212 Theatre, where he became famous for his role of Kralj Ibi (King Ubu), during which he showed great improvisational ability. He preferred theatre to film and television, but he nevertheless managed to give memorable performances. International audiences know him best for his role in 1971 cult film WR: Mysteries of the Organism. Audiences in former Yugoslavia know him best for his roles of Bili Piton in 1982 cult comedy The Marathon Family and Radovan Treći in Dušan Kovačević's play with the same name Radovan Treći (Radovan III). One of his last roles was in 1985 film When Father Was Away on Business, in which he appeared together with Slobodan Aligrudić. He died shortly after the film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Aligrudić died shortly after him, leading many film critics of former Yugoslavia to state that "heaven had received a huge boost".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zaječar, Serbia
Birthday: May 11, 1933
Deathday: July 21, 1985
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Gender: Male
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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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Radovan the Third
Overview: A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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The Marathon Family
Overview: The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Overview: What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-05-10
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One Hell of an Actor
Overview: Friends and colleagues talk about the life and work of Zoran Radmilovic (1933-1985), one of the best Serbian actors of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-11-01
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What a Day!
Overview: Zoran leads a quiet family life with his wife, a primary school teacher Ana, their son, and Ana’s brother. Zoran works as a clerk and has a great desire to attend a symposium in Dubrovnik, but the manager will not sign the travel order.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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The Last Oasis
Overview: A documentary which takes artistic approach in presenting the untouched environment between the rivers of Danube and Drava in Yugoslavia. This strange world, in which the laws of nature incredibly resemble to those of humans, regenerates itself and lives on despite destruction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Handymen, Handymen
Overview: The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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March on the River Drina
Overview: A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-17
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Sixth Gear
Overview: Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-03
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Death Fury
Overview: A woman who killed her husband by accident comes out of prison after sixteen years to meet with her two children at municipality office. Before children's arrival, she recalls her supposedly happy marriage that turned into a nightmare when her husband's brother came back from Germany and begun to influence her husband in a bad way.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ward Six
Overview: A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Strange Girl
Overview: Minja, a 19-year-old girl leaves her provincial town after her affair with the professor of drawing in order to avoid the scandal. In the big city, she meets Nenad and changes under the influence of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-02-17
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King Ubu
Overview: Primitive, cowardly, greedy and fame seeking father Ubu, persuaded by his wife, mother Ubu, kills the honorable king Wenceslas and his family. This makes Ubu king of Poland. In the beginning he is popular and showers his subjects with gold coins. But, later on he brings on himself peoples rage when he decides to kill all the noblemen and officials and introduces unreasonable taxes. Russian czar Aleksey starts a military campaign against the bloody despot Ibi. After a defeat, Ubu and his wife escape to France.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Sugar Water
Overview: Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-12-18
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Clay Pigeon
Overview: The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-07-17
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: A retired professor returns to his estate with his beautiful young wife Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his now-deceased first wife; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. The professor's daughter Sonya, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable, and calls Dr. Astrov to treat his gout, then sends him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Yelena's presence introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household: Astrov and Uncle Vanya fall in love with her and she spurns them both.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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The Damned Yard
Overview: Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-12-17
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Stardust
Overview: A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-06-11
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The Bitter Part of River
Overview: While trying to push away a little boy who keeps coming near his cottage at the river, a whimsical mayor meets boy's mother. These people find hard to make contacts because of their own troublemarks from the past, even though they know that the common effort is needed for the future and survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-07-15
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Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One
Overview: Five boys befriend a young loner who becomes their teacher of the adult world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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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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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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Burning
Overview: Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija
Overview: The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Real State of Affairs
Overview: A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Hotshot
Overview: A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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The Grump
Overview: The man who was fighting fire is being forcibly sent to seaside hotel to recover, where he spends time with other guests who came there for group holiday. He rejects their company claiming that they live by established norms, but they reject him as well 'cause they think he's no different at all.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Holding the Air
Overview: The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his teachers, friends, and mostly his "only brother".
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-07
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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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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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The Great Day
Overview: Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-07-24
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Ward Six
Overview: A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Wooden Coffin of Thomas Wolfe
Overview: Two characters spend days in over-questioning themselves and arguing about the first and last matters of ephemeral human existence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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Kako upokojiti vampira
Overview: A parable about a man who lost his memory. The drama criticizes the milieu that's become totally false and hypocritical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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