Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.

Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and France and his friendship with an African immigrant.

Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war; but she refuses to go to him when summoned, because of a warning dream. On Hassan’s return, he throws her out of his house.

A village girl finds herself in a big city and becomes a secretary. She attracts the attention of her boss and becomes a modern woman, which includes shaving her armpit as well.

An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.

A young boy is on vacation at the beach with his family. He becomes bored and wanders onto the set of a television production about pirates aboard a ship.

Based on a novel by Ivan Slamnig.

Lidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.

A fictitious meeting of the two famous Serbian writers Ivo Andrić and Miloš Crnjanski in a train back in 1919.

An educational film on abortion.

The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.

A terrified young man is being pursued by a mysterious man in black. He hides out in a nearby mental hospital, but can he escape his fate?

The main protagonist is a young fellow who tries to live his life within 30 frames. He's a person suitable for any atmosphere, which makes him different from the rest. He's like a plant that differs from others, an informer who wants to escape out from his skin. This man loves, hates, eats, drinks, lies ill, laughs, cries, kisses, plays... These are agonies of a contemporary man.

Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.

A returnee finds disapproval in his hometown he once left.

Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.

A story set in a Slovenian town during WW2. The White Guardists bring a wounded partisan to doctor Koren, but he kills their lieutenant, thus helping them both to escape.

The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero goes to America in order to find her.

Macedonian TV drama depicting the historical event of Smilevo Congress.

A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.

Short 8mm experimental footage film.

Godina was ordered to make a short film glorifying the army, but instead made a film about making love, not war. The censors hacked it up, but he managed to save one complete copy.

Goran Markovic's first movie, based on the short story of the same name by Boris Pilnyak. In the movie, a man is killed in the middle of nowhere, seemingly on someone's orders. After finishing the job, the killer returns to Belgrade, where he came from.

A rather simplistic film produced in black-and-white about a worker’s troubles with the factory; with its fairly brilliant, collage-like use of cutouts of actual factory machinery.

This film was made on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ilinden (St. Ellias Day) Rebellion. This panoramic film depicts the most significant historic figures and places situated in the Aegian, Pirin and Vardar regions.

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.

An intimate portrayal of a middle-aged married couple.

I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.

Animated film based on the folk tale 'The Little Sorceress' about the love of the Prince and the Little Sorceress.

The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.

Rose is a young woman who lost her husband in WW2, leaving her and their daughter behind. She gets close with his good-natured brother Drago. However, an unscrupulous smuggler Vincenzo is always around him, and things get tough for the couple.

A German soldier in Yugoslavia refuses to participate in a firing squad.

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.

Under a police pursuit, Pavle tries to transfer a group of illegals on a free liberated territory. Pavle hopes to find a hideaway at an old friend Stevan, but these expectations fail. However, help unexpectedly comes from Stevan's little son Aca.

A documentary short film about the genocide at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia in World War II.

A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his 20 year old son back in their country of origin. However the son plans to marry his German girlfriend, and doesn't even think of returning to their land.

A subtle play of characters, in which people who live isolated lives in concrete skyscrapers are tempted in particular situations.

Short experimental 16mm film.

A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend resting in nature and self-examination. In the mountains, in a lonely house near the lake, he meets a woman, also unadjusted and lonely. The consequences of this encounter are beneficial. Capable to love again, he gets his moral strength, and disease retreats. He breaks off his contacts with his wife's family and with "petit bourgeois" of his former life, confronts his boss and wins, realizing that this is only a first victory which has straightened him up.

The film follows Ruža, a woman who returns to her hometown after a long absence. She faces challenges and conflicts related to her past and her relationships with the people around her.

Industrialization brings progress, but also harmful influences on the environment. Warning of the dangers of waste materials dumped into the air and the waters.

Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or profession to reply. From 7000 arrived letters, about 30 heroes were picked up for the movie and its story was made based on what they wished to play.

A young enthusiastic teacher comes to the mountain village to open a school along the party lines. The head of the municipality helps him with that, for he believes that the lofty goals justify all the means to achieve them. But, on the field, things among the peasants are not going smoothly.

A woman trapped in a marriage with aging husband she doesn't love, fatally falls in love with another man and gets pregnant.

The plot of the film is set in 1964, in a small provincial town, inside the Golubović pharmacy, which was once famous. Immobile Gustav Golubović spends his last days of life in the attic of the house.

Vladimir Kante, a high-ranking police official whom everyone refers to simply as "Doc" or "the Doctor" remains in office after the Italian occupation, but soon establishes ties with the Liberation Front. His hard work as a double agent pays off with many lives saved and a number of the enemy's plans revealed to the resistance. When the Germans march into Ljubljana (after the Italian capitulation), the Doctor continues with both his official and his secret work, but is caught by the Germans shortly before the end of the war. Will the Doctor remain loyal to his mission until the end, despite the death threats and brutal torture he is subjected to?

Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.

Resistance member is sent to infiltrate Nazi intelligence during WW2.

Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.

The true story of a rather unusual gymnasium class on the end of the 19th century and their professor. Full of intellectuals and young scientists, writers and artists, this class was highly with potential and many of them became famous in Serbian history.

The action takes place in a Bosnian town during the Second World War and shows how anti-fascist illegals try to protect their intelligence network from the Germans and their Ustasha allies.

A stage play by Dušan Kovačević which tells the story of a successful manager of a publishing company that gets an unexpected visit in his office from a stranger who claims to be a former secret agent.

A group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.

A farmer's spiteful death against fascists who chase him down through his cornfield.

A middle-aged couple is under impression of a young couple who moved in the apartment next to theirs. Noises coming through the wall make them question their activities and remind about their own lives. Each line of the dialogue is spoken in rhymes.