Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

After destruction of the world, life returns slowly and in convulsions. The being finds its home on the exact place where it was before the catastrophe, and this is the happy end.

A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the novel by Mihajlo Ranovcevic.

Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.

Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

On the morning of 31st December at a Belgrade market, Spic and Djosa are selling baby pigs and Christmas trees. The European mad cow madness is doing harm to their profit, mostly because Lister, an upstart with shallow past, is persuading people not to buy pork. The locals are waiting for a New Year's Eve with the sound of trumpets and popular songs of the past century.

Three families who live in a shared backyard wait their problems to be solved by others. Drama develops when owner of the house comes back from America with his rich pension. His family starts to fantasize what will they do with all this money once he passes away, but old man dies after a month without leaving a written testament behind.

Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.

About a traditional custom of bird-hunting with alive bait. The film was shot in Omiš, Croatia.

A young slacker circumstantially gets involved in the smuggling of falsified English pounds via Trieste-Yugoslavia route. He helps the police to solve the case.

Based on a play, it consists of three one-acts: "Merry Home", "At the Break" and "Before a New Life". The author depicts the grim world of the Belgrade outskirts, and the people who are bound by a common yard and common destiny, those faced with a wall of hopelessness.

Jennifer is doubly challenged--as a professional journalist, she's trapped on a pleasure boat with Russian ultra-nationalist and macho pig Vladimir Zhirinovsky, conducting an interview which turns into a battle of wills. At home, her lesbian lover teases and insults her relentlessly. Weaving together scenes that present encounters with both characters, the story reveals their unlikely similarity by employing a dispassionate style that renders each power play more insidious.

The story of a nurse who, during her night shifts, kills patients with her gentle talk and diligent care instead of healing them.

TV special about French popular chanson and the river Seine.

A young man goes off to his military stint, leaving his father and wife alone in a remote forest cabin. While he’s gone the two try to fight against their mutual attraction.

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who have been fallen into the river while trying to catch him. Since the guard's job is now to keep an eye on him in the cell, they spend a lot time together and their hatred turns into a sincere friendship. The guard wants to help inmate to escape again.

After some typical Western hero actions, a theatrical gunfighter interacts with his fans.

A group of partisan illegals entangled in a love triangle during Ustasha reign in Nazi-occupied Zagreb.

Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.

A writer is astonished to see the characters from his story come to life. However, the situation complicates when he tries to deal with his creations.

Two men meet through a car accident and they start a bit strange friendship. The screenplay was written by known Croatian author Zvonimir Majdak.

Shot in various villages throughout Yugoslavia, this is a disturbing document of a time when people were stabbing each other with knives without any real reason. Murderers, people who witness these murders and the families of victims all talk about the senseless violence and the human condition.

In the center of this docudrama are the events and tensions of the shooting of a feature film about Belgrade in the future. The director sets up unrealistic requirements to the producer, who breaks the law by overstepping the budget. During a court trial where the crew members are at the witness stand, we follow up the drama of how a film is made.

Based on the play by Milan Begović. One day a stunning yacht enters the Split harbor, the owner is an American who served as young boy in local aristocratic household.

The remake of the first Yugoslavian hardcore porn film, made with different actors.

A Parisian painter meets his old flame fifteen years later.

Back in 1982, a group of friends was celebrating the 10th anniversary of graduation. From their memory, through flashbacks, emerge the spirits of youth, the unrepentant sins of adults who instigated the anarchist rebellion of high school graduates and politics involved in their thoughts and plans.

A man lives his life while endlessly falling from a tower.

Macedonian TV drama about the Macedonian revolutionary Goce Delčev.

A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić.

Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.

Couple of guys from a small town in Montenegro come to the big city, they plan to leave their mark in the new environment by winning in street fights but keep the chivalry they brought from back home. One of them (Dragomir Stojanovic), deals with injustice with his fists, hiding behind "tough guy" facade his deep sensitivity. Along the way he finds love with a pretty young girl.

Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying her, and on the other he has a wife and an adult son with whom he constantly comes into conflict. When Mile's wife realizes what life is like, things take another direction.

A young man who masturbates to porn finally becomes sexually active when his sister brings a female tenant to their flat.

Primer Vladimirja Pavlina is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Short Fiction Film. Featuring Brane Ivanc, Gojmir Lešnjak, Ksenija Mišič. It was directed by Jan Zakonjšek. It was produced by UL AGRFT - Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo. It has received 2 awards.

A made-for-TV musical comedy featuring popular Yugoslav music ensemble Sedmorica mladih, in which they act as a traveling troupe and perform various numbers in a circus settings.

A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.

Since the beginning of time, there has been a conflict between the forces of good and evil in man. From time to time, evil forces loom over both the individual and all of humanity, causing cataclysmic situations that ultimately mean the self-destruction of humanity, and these are, of course, wars waged with modern weapons, the consequences of which were felt most keenly by the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upon whom the two atomic bombs were dropped. This film marks, in a metaphorical way, the threat of wars, while through the images of the horrors of the consequences of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, an appeal is expressed to humanity that this should never happen again.

Gojko Santic plays Njegos (AKA Rade), famous Montenegrin poet and philosopher.

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment.

Clumsy but lovable young man named Buki wanders around beach at the Sava river and old Belgrade airport.

After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.

The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.

Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the liberation of Istria at the end of the World War II.

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.

The arrival of an unknown man wanted by the local authorities disturbs the small town. However, it turns out that the suspect is mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.

About the life and work of Grigor Prlichev, a Macedonian revivalist and poet from Ohrid.

Short experimental 16mm film.

Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.

Two lower level employees in the Ministry of food try to pass the time. Failing to explain what lead to their fight will bring the whole system upside-down

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

After getting into conflict with the head of the construction company, the party secretary and even majority of his fellow workers who took the management’s side, Perisa writes a letter to the Central Committee asking for his labor rights. Just before the arrival of the press, an accident occurs.

In this lyrical comedy, the writer portrays a girl from the outskirts who explains a strange story about his three fathers to her boyfriend. Of course, none of them were her real parents, but in order to make her past prettier, she choses three people whose occupations give her the desired prestige.

A TV drama made in Yugoslavia.

A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger is sleeping with their wives.

Woodcut-style animation accompanying Jure Kaštelan’s famous Yugoslav partisan poem, depicting hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.