Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Also Known As: Семка Соколович-Берток
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Birthday: December 22, 1935
Deathday: March 04, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Overview: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Love and Other Crimes
Overview: Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solarium and runs a protection racket. Anica is determined not to grow old in this dump where neither love nor life seems to offer her a decent future. One grey winter’s day Anica has an idea to steal money from Milutin’s safe, get on a plane and leave the country forever.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-09-17
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The Fourth Man
Overview: A man awakens from a two-month-long coma. Total amnesia. A bullet fired point blank. He doesn't remember anything. He's told that he had a wife and a son. They've been killed. He's revealed his past identity by the Colonel, who insists they are best friends. He's a Major of the Military Security Agency. An inspector from the State Security Agency appears affirming that he has information on people responsible for the massacre of his family. The Major is discharged from the hospital. He tries to patch together a normal life but is confronted with emptiness and despair. His only chance of discovering his identity and the assassin of his family is to accept the game that the Inspector has set up for him with the Businessman, the Mafioso and the Politician. He agrees... Discovers that he was a war criminal... Realizes who took a shot at him... Finds out who killed his family... Discovers the Fourth Man!
Genres: Mystery Action Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-02-20
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Let's Make Love 3
Overview: Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-11-19
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Nobody Will Laugh
Overview: A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Badass Grandmother
Overview: One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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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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Taiwan Canasta
Overview: A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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Official Position
Overview: The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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In the Jaws of Life
Overview: Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-04
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Bloodsuckers
Overview: The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century, and tells Franz that the members of his family, Glogovac, were famous vampire hunters. Naturally, Franz does not take him seriously but his wife, Barbara, likes the stranger a lot and even believes his story. In the meantime, Franz's two relatives, Jambrek and Jurek, arrive and get caught up in the mess.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Mor
Overview: Sue, the only daughter of a squire comes back from a fashionable European resort where she spent vacation. Arno, an impoverished nobleman wins her heart and they soon get engaged. But in the farm is the manager's son named Mor whom Sue spent her childhood with. Their reunion flare up old emotions, but soon strange things begin to happen. The stories about a werewolf start to circle around.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Days and Hours
Overview: Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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Roko and Cicibela
Overview: A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day
Overview: It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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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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Guardian of the Frontier
Overview: A canoe trip down the river Kolpa becomes a journey of discovery for three female students.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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Scent of Quinces
Overview: Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Kapo
Overview: Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-27
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Fat and Thin
Overview: An imposter and thief called Dumpling escapes prison and arrives to a respectable institute of doctor Strukl in Balm Sanatorium. The doctor is a specialist for reduction and gaining of weight, and wanted by many celebrities, especially because it is known that he has specialized in Switzerland. Dumpling, discovering that he is physically similar to doctor, and seeing his big chance in it, disables the doctor and takes his place at the sanatorium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-17
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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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Wild Angels
Overview: A group of juvenile delinquents go to a coastal resort town after successful robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-11-03
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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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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Overview: The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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The War Boy
Overview: The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Spadijer: One Life
Overview: A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-06-20
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Born to Ride
Overview: The US Army has decided to modernize its cavalry, so Colonel James E. Devers is ordered by a general to convert a horse unit to motorcycles, but his men are easily outclassed as riders by a pack of rowdies, especially Grady Westfall; when he is arrested risking a long jail term, he's given one way out: enlisting as Corporal, assigned as driving instructor. Unit commander Captain Jack Hassler reviles his unorthodox boyish methods as undermining discipline and tradition, not to mention flirting with the Colonels daughter Beryl Ann, but he's needed, especially when his unit is deployed on a secret mission in Spain.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Balkan Perestroika
Overview: A modernized comedy of Branislav Nusic's novel, about the life and work of a "small manufacturer", his professional and familial relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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A Shot
Overview: In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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Violet
Overview: Ljubica is a middle-aged woman who lives in Zagreb and works as an audio pedagogue with deaf-mute children. She herself has a small child, while her husband she hardly communicates to, works in Germany. Coincidentally, she starts an affair with Zlatko, a much younger yet a man from a wealthy background. Although Zlatko is not much concerned about bourgeois views of his parents and has sincere love for Ljubica, it seems that their relationship has no future...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-04-04
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Charuga
Overview: This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-04-11
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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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Promised Land
Overview: Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-03-20
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Azra
Overview: Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-06-28
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When Nobody Is Looking
Overview: A suspicious cop tracks his own wife in this romantic thriller about hypertrophied jealousy.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Each Time We Part Away
Overview: After his wife's murder and house burnt, a young soldier is in search for new home for his daughter. But coming to chaotic at the beginning of the war Zagreb is no place for hope...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-11-30
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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Overview: A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Seventh Cronicle
Overview: In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Anticasanova
Overview: Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-27
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Back of the Medal
Overview: A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Overview: An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Tractor, Love and Rock'n'roll
Overview: Breza, a country boy from a godforsaken Prekmurje village, wishes to perform at the village festivities playing his electric guitar, but is faced with fierce competition in the form of a traditional Roma band entertaining the villagers by playing popular folk music. Nevertheless, his music seems to be the key to the heart of Silvija, a village beauty and the daughter of a wealthy gastarbeiter from Switzerland, who was sent home to find a healthy Slovene husband. However, the story of Breza and Silvija only marks the beginning of the plot whose main character is actually Düplin, an eccentric outsider, a deaf-and-dumb tramp or, as Breza's mother, the old Popovka, a farm owner and a fortune-teller also referred to as Strina, called him "a lad from a citrus producing country".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2008-08-10
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New Year's Eve Robbery
Overview: Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-12-29
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Project Alien
Overview: In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown disease they have a closer look at the military's activities...
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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A Summer to Remember
Overview: Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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