Jože Zupan
Also Known As: Йоже Зупан, Joza Zupan, Joža Zupan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Laibach, Carniola, Austria-Hungary [now Ljubljana, Slovenia]
Birthday: August 25, 1909
Deathday: November 13, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Kekec's Tricks
Overview: A story of the witty boy Kekec, his friends and their adventures in the mountains of Slovenia during the summer.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1968-12-23
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
A Minute for Murder
Overview: An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1962-10-14
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
On Our Own Land
Overview: Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the town in the last years of occupation.
Genres: War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1948-06-10
Popularity:
One Fine Day
Overview: A story set in a Slovenian village during Italian occupation. Stefuc, a man who has been widowed twice and has four daughters, wants to get married for the third time with Zana, who's already engaged and pregnant with Ludvik. Stefuc tries to separate them away, but realizes that he'll have to marry Hedvika, a nice looking girl who has just returned from Milan. In the meantime, Italian fascist authorities decide to eradicate five Slovenian songs with the help of local traitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1962-10-04
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Downstream from the Sun
Overview: Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
Mount of Lament
Overview: Lado Tajovic, a student, is charged by the communist party to go to his home in the Montenegrin Mountains, to illegally spread the liberation movement's propaganda. Alone, surrounded by enemies, always awake and ready to evade traps and ambushes, Lado fights on the verge of sleep, against people which are cowards ready to betrayal. He fights his own temptations, hallucinations that constantly besiege him. Although he perseveres in holding to party directives: no killing and no revenge, Lado at one moment of weakness falls to a primal human act vengeance.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-05-01
Popularity:
The Vicar Martin Cedermac
Overview: The adaptation of notable work by Slovenian writer France Bevk about catholic priest who maintains national dignity among his villagers, and doesn't fall under fascists' influence during Italian occupation of the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
Popularity:
In the Gorge
Overview: Trials and tribulations of a woman in prewar Yugoslavia who after being seduced by a rich man, marries a poor one and struggles on. Based on a novel by Ivan Cankar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1971-01-28
Popularity:
The Flight of Dead Bird
Overview: Three brothers struggle to survive on the harsh, inexorable and melancholy plains of Slovenia's Prekmurje region. The oldest flees from home in search of a better living, the middle brother survives by refusing to comply with tradition and the youngest, who received his education as a vet in the city simply cannot get used to the slow pace of country life. Will their father live to see the day when respect for the traditional ways will heal the wounds of the impoverished land?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1973-12-27
Popularity:
Beyond
Overview: Two stories - two truths are confronting. Former Partisan Miha is trying to tell a shocking story from the war times in the modern day disco club, where young people are having fun in a crazy rhythm of music with alcohol and drugs... Amongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1970-07-14
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Little Shepherds
Overview: Depicts the lives of children of the coastal hills and pastures who work as shepherds from an early age to earn a living.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1973-12-02
Popularity:
The Cyan-Blue Seagull Brotherhood
Overview: It talks about a orphan who lives without a father and he loves boats.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1969-03-19
Popularity:
Blossoms in Autumn
Overview: Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week's visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik's daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work. But he cannot forget Meta and he makes his mind to buy a property not far from the Presecnik home and and to become a farmer. He does indeed buy a farm and sets out again to the Presecnik home to ask Meta to be his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1973-06-20
Popularity:
Lucia
Overview: A melodramatic story of Lucia, who serves as a charwoman on the Podlogar family's rich farm, and makes a fuss among householder's sons, as she becomes pregnant with one of them. A decision on whether one should be forced into marriage with the pregnant charwoman and her child, ends tragically. Will Lucia be able to sustain psychological pressure, contempt and pity of the Podlogar brothers?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1965-07-09
Popularity:
Three Stories
Overview: Three stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1955-02-21
Popularity:
Trieste
Overview: Despite all actions taken in attempt to conquer Trieste, Gestapo forces fail to do so. The surrender of Italian fascist state gives partisans an open way in seizing the power with the help of domicile population.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1951-01-05
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Wonderful Dust
Overview: Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.
Genres: War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1975-03-19
Popularity:
Stronghold of Toughs
Overview: War orphans rebel against teachers and authority figures in their reform school in this somber social drama. Danny is a teen punk who organizes a breakout, only to become a victim of the code of toughness by which he lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1967-04-25
Popularity:
Mother Died, Stop
Overview: An elderly woman pays visit to her mother who resides in nursing home. Few days later she receives a telegram that the mother died, but it turns out that the address it was sent to was wrong. However the guilt of neglect starts to torment the mourning daughter nonetheless.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
Wild Growth
Overview: Slovenian countryside in the 18th century. The future lord of the manor, Ožbej, falls in love with the new maid, Meta. His family, however, is opposed to the match and successfully plots to keep the young couple apart. Although Meta must endure scorn and degradation at the hands of the villagers, Ožbej still cannot tear himself away from her. Five children are born of their union, all of whom are looked upon as bastards by the manor folk. Although driven by desperation to return to the manor, Ožbej still harbours the hope that he will one day be able to live together with his love. Can he survive without the woman he loves and without his children? Will he be able to survive at all?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1963-07-12
Popularity:
The Fifth Ambush
Overview: A partisan battalion falls into enemy trap more than once, which makes them suspect it's about treason. Their commissar and commander move the unit in a remote settlement in order to discover the enemy agent. This draws a lot of suspicion and distrust within the unit, and finally it was the head of the battalion who was charged as guilty, and executed. However, was he the real intruder? The commissar and the commander take the battalion to a new battle without definitive knowledge of the whole present situation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1968-09-25
Popularity: