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- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicDusica ZegaracSeverin BijelicA lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister's treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.Not bad, but extremely boring
I realize that storytelling is not what this movie intended to do, not even characterization, but simply attempt to represent one dark period of our past. And it does it really well. But that does not change the fact that this movie is boring to death. I may be stupid, but for me, this is just one more in the long line of completely redundant accomplishments in YU/Serbian cinematography. Recommendation to those who suffer from insomnia.
4/10 - DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.Nesrecnik sam od malena,
od sve tuge pesme pevam.
Voleo bih, majko mila,
da sve ovo samo snevam.
10/10 - DirectorMilivoje 'Mica' MilosevicStarsNikola SimicMilan 'Lane' GutovicRahela FerariIn this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking for work, unsuccessfully; his son is a would-be astronomer who wants to spend his life studying without working; and his other son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.Verovali ili ne, upravo sam po prvi put u životu gledao "Tesnu kožu". Preostala tri dela neću ni da pokušavam da gledam. Znao sam da je "Bela lađa" proizašla iz "Tesne kože", ali sam stvarno očekivao da će original biti bolji. Nažalost nije. Isto sranje, drugo pakovanje.
4/10 - DirectorMilan JelicStarsDragomir Bojanic-GidraLjubisa SamardzicOlivera JezinaLast school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty, hope, plans, wild love "for the rest of the life", and parents with their ambitions, and it would be all incomplete, if not for professors who are slowly losing their authority. Senior prom is the central place for serious and funny events in which parents, professors and pupils are involved.Redundant
I was always wondering why Yugoslavia and then its independent ex-parts persistently make this kind of movies. Slow, without action to keep your attention, without depth to make you think, not bad, just completely redundant and unneeded. It is a drama, but the drama is nowhere to be found, it is a comedy but it is not funny, there's no message hidden between the lines, absolutely nothing to make it worth watching. For an hour and a half something is almost happening and then it ends. Where have you been, what were you doing, two hours wasted... Compared to this one, "Žikina dinastija" deserves Nobel prize for humor.
4/10 - DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsSlavko StimacDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicMira BanjacFor the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.Beautiful women, great Bata Stojkovic and probably the best role of Slavko Stimac. Movie that never gets boring.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsBogdan DiklicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicPavle VuisicThe Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.Najbolji domaci film i, po meni, jedan od najboljih filmova uopste. Savrsen u svakom pogledu.
<3 10/10 <3- Sunce li ti jebem zarko, ti ces meni zivot da zagorcavas, je li?!
- Evo i tatu ste mi probudili.
- Ko na nas krene iz mesta je najeb'o.
- Koje dete?! To je kreten!
- Ponovo radi bioskop!
- Sve moze da propadne, da nestane, samo je smrt siguran posao.
- Njegov poslednji prijatelj je umro krajem prosloga veka.
- Ja sam rekao svoje, drukcije ne pristajem!
- Mo's misliti, ti me volis, volim i ja tebe pa te ne napadam.
- Mars napolje, bando pokvarena!
- Sta ce biti s kucom?! - Zapalicu je!
- Pa krvi cu ti se napiti.
- Laki je malo nervozan.
- O, Boze, s kim ja zivim...
- Vracaj dedinu sliku da ne bih s tobom probao furunu!
- Ko mi jos jednom pomene ovo cudo glavu cu da mu razbijem!
- Ljudi, pa ovo i nije tako lose.
- Da znate da je ukusan Pantelija.
- Umro si u cvetu starosti...
- Ocu svoj deo, necete da me prevarite.
- Njemu se i ne isplati da izlazi iz groba.
- Sad mu nije nista, ubio si ga ko zeca.
- Dalje od mene s mrtvacem, smrt je prelazna bolest.
- Kad se sad nisam slogirao, nikad necu.
- Izlazi iz mog groba.
- Ko je vas poznavao ni pakao mu nece tesko pasti.
- Iskopace tebe Bili, ja ti kazem.
- Sta to radis, kume?! - Pa probamo, kume, vezbamo za film. Ti ces ovo isto da radis, samo sutra.
- Svi su mi govorili da si kurva, svi, a ja nisam verovao.
- A ja sam govorio da pseto treba ubiti.
- Pa jesi l ti ikad puc'o iz pistolja? - Jesam. - Gde si puc'o? - Na svadbama. - A u sta si puc'o? - U vazduh. - Pa jesi pogodio vazduh?
- E tako se to radi, kratko ali jebitacno.
- Tata spalio Djenku. Ostali samo dugmici.
- Ala je opravio, svaka mu cast.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsNeda ArnericStevo ZigonRanko ZidaricA married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.Avoid at any cost
I cannot remember who recommended this to me, and that's a good thing because revenge would be cruel. The movie is boring, needless, lousy made and even naked Neda Arneric can't improve the impressions. The story could be told in 20-30 minutes and with better directing it maybe could be a decent movie, because the basic idea is good. But when you slubber that idea and stretch it to two hours result is agonizing boredom. Something like this you can find only in YU cinematography. We do not have OK movies. We have masterpieces like "Maratonci trce pocasni krug" i "Ko to tamo peva" drowned in a heap of nonsense like this one. And then, after decomposition of YU, the new wave of movies comes, movies that are modern and much better produced, more westward, but even if they are not boring like before, they are equally needless. Respect to exceptions like "Lepa sela lepo gore" and a few more. All in all, I will definitely give up on domestic cinematography, except if a particular movie is recommended by at least a dozen people I trust.
4/10 - DirectorMilan JelicStarsDragan NikolicRadmila ZivkovicOlivera MarkovicCheda is a clerk, pushed around by everyone. He is "everybody's girl". He walks his poodle, makes coffee for a group of poker players and their wives. Cheda goes to sanatorium because his mother-in-law decided to go on vacation just then, and he is her obligatory companion. When he returns alone, because of his job, he finds big fuss in his house, many tempting, unknown girls, local bullies and other, funny creatures. He is wondering how to get out of it.Čedomorac
14 December 2016
As if it's not enough that it's winter, cold, gloomy and depressing, but everything you reach for goes wrong. And then you simply toss everything, sit on the couch and watch "A Big Mess", and the day starts to look much more cheerful.
I really can't attribute any special qualities to this movie, but at the same time, this is a movie you simply can't dislike.
7/10 - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.At the very top of Serbian cinema. In my opinion, only "Lepa sela lepo gore" can compete with "Angels". Of course, I'm talking about Serbian, not Yugoslav film. Movies made from World War II until the breakup of Yugoslavia are completely different category and I think that these two periods can not be ranked together at all.
10/10 - DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan MicanovicNatasa TapuskovicNikola SimicComedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.Maybe it's not one of the best, but it surely is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMirka VasiljevicUros DjuricIn this sequel of "We Are Not Angels", a highly successful Yugoslavian comedy, a former playboy must cope with his daughter's adolescence, as well as numerous boys that keep knocking at her doors. A worried father thinks she may get in type of troubles he used to cause when he was just the age of her wooers.Sweet
I have no expectations when it comes to sequels, but if I did, this movie would exceed them. Sure, it cannot be compared to the original movie, but almost nothing can race against first Angels, so that's not a real shortcoming. Easy entertainment on a very satisfying level. Warm recommendation.
7,5/10 - DirectorJovan AcinStarsGala VidenovicRelja BasicNebojsa BakocevicIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsSonja DamjanovicNikola DjurickoBranko VidakovicSeveral people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.The budget was so low that none of the actors got paid
I'm searching online for last hour and I find only negative reviews. I gave fair chance to negative argumentation and I absolutely disagree with all those reviews that underrate this movie. I saw it on the big screen when it was released and I left theater under strong impressions. 15 years later after watching it again on my computer I still have the same opinion. This is a great movie. Of course, it is not a masterpiece of cinematography, but which slasher horror is... This movie is important as first real Serbian horror. Many domestic movies have horror elements, but this is first completely horror movie. And within slasher horror genre it is excellent. Good story, strong acting, original ambient, and the overall atmosphere is perfect for this kind of film. To this day no movies came even close to this one, except maybe "A Serbian Film" (2010).
8/10 - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society."Sve mi se čini, rođaci, da sam ipak prošao bolje od vas."
10/10 - DirectorMiroslav LekicStarsDragan NikolicMaja SabljicBranislav LecicAn aging gambler and womanizer returns home after 20 years, haunted by the suicide of his friend.When Serbs decide to make a thriller... Is it really needed to say anything more... Good idea, interesting plot, but the lousy realization, although it is a big budget movie within Serbian standards. Within post-Yugoslavian Serbian cinematography this is weak eight, overall it's barely six.
7/10 - DirectorVladimir BlazevskiStarsBojana MaljevicBranislav LecicMiralem ZupcevicA love story between a teenager girl and a small time mob set in Belgrade during the times of great political turmoil.Life role of Bojana Maljević and the only movie where Lečić isn't annoying.
7/10 - StarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRajko ProdanovicZarko LausevicVery grim and naturalistic description of life in the reform school.After first episode I was about to quit, but I didn't and soon I was hooked. Even if story isn't "your cup of tea", realistically dark atmosphere is strong enough to keep your attention on its own. In just 12 episodes they succeeded to develop characters deep enough to make you feel you were there. This is thanks to good script, but also to fact that cast is made mostly of the most famous names on YU scene. For many of them this show was jumping board for their careers. And not to forget legendary song "All I Want in This Moment". They slightly spoiled it with last episode, which is, in my opinion, complete failure, but all in all, it's one of the strongest shows in history of YU television.
8/10 - DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.Good movie, terrible name
At first, I was rejected and disgusted, but then I decided to give it another chance without prejudice.
Technically speaking, the movie is very well done, far better than almost every other Serbian movie I ever saw, and as I am Serb I saw quite a few. Story... OK, it's morbid, sick, disturbed, even insane, but the warning is clearly stated: drama/horror/mystery, so those who do not like horrors are warned and should skip it. Nobody forces them to watch. However disturbing it may be, in its own genre it is not so shocking, no more than "Hostel" or "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" for example. It has an easy introduction, a good plot, few nice twists, and an ending typical for its genre. The quality screenplay, pretty good acting and, for Serbia, fantastic production. Within the genre, it's surely the very best Serbian movie.
The main issue with this movie, the thing that makes it controversial and repulsive for a domestic audience and even lovers of the genre, is its name. "Hostel" was not named "Czech Movie", it was named "Hostel". This country, if we had a real one thou, should have censored this title and force authors to change its name before releasing the movie. They had no right to represent our country this way. There's enough prejudice against Serbia and other Balkan countries already, we do not need more negative representations. After all, it is just a movie and it should be observed like fiction that it is, but under a different name, more fitting to the horror genre, it would be much better accepted.
For the movie: 7/10
For the title: 0/10, and the one who came up with it should be sued or simply kicked in the butt. - DirectorNikola KojoStarsNikola KojoVesna TrivalicZoran CvijanovicThis is a hilarious satirical comedy about life behind the camera.Since for decades, in almost all domestic films, we are watching all the same actors, sometimes I wonder to what extent goes their objective quality and how much is it clouded by our habit and emotional attachment to the faces we grew up with. Anyway, something like this should be far below their level. Nikola, Zoran, Vesna, Natasa, why the hell?! I understand political satire and it's completely in place, but why did it have to be this vulgarly obvious?! Production is not included in the rating, because this is Serbia, but ridiculous budgets are not excuse for totally uninspired scenario. Except few decent jokes and performances of leading actors, there's nothing worthy in this movie. I don't even know why did I watch it through at all.
4,5/10 - DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsTasko NacicNikola SimicSrdjan SaperA mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer."Ipak, jednu metropolu možda najtačnije određuje hronika zločina. Uzalud široki bulevari, uzalud saobraćajne gužve i metroi, ako u jednom gradu nema manijaka taj grad nije metropola."
7,5/10
"However, a metropolis is maybe most accurately determined by the chronicle of the crime. In vain are wide boulevards, in vain traffic jams and metro, if in one city there is no maniacs, this city is not a metropolis." - DirectorMarija PerovicStarsOlga PakalovicBranimir PopovicMijo JurisicMina comes to the seaside mental hospital to find Andrej, who ended up there due to events from their common past that affected everybody's lives. There she gets in clash with authoritative doctor Vukcevic, but also with her own bygone, a kind of a labyrinth of dark familial stories.Montenegrin drama "Look at Me" from 2008 is a very strange film for this region. It's slow, it develops in several time lines and it's so vague and confusing that I'm not even sure how many timelines are in question. The film was so boring that I was on the verge of giving up on it all the time, and again there was a kind of hypnotizing atmosphere that kept me going little by little, step by step, to the very end. And then the story unreveled and everything I've been watching so far has become painfully clear and I was no longer sorry I "wasted" an hour and a half. An unusual and emotional movie, for its time and climate surprisingly well-acted and directed and followed by very atmospheric music. Nevertheless, although the ending puts the first hour in a completely different perspective, it does not change the fact that most of the movie is terribly boring and that many viewers will give up on it before they experience the powerful end. That's why I can not rate it higher than
7/10 - DirectorDanilo BeckovicStarsPetar StrugarSergej TrifunovicTihomir StanicA dark ethnic comedy about a Montenegrin teenager who is sent to Serbia in order to evade a blood-feud caused by his father's reckless behavior. Little does he know that even greater dangers await for him. In Belgrade he will face both the men who want to go after him and this metropolis' very own nightlife and foxy ladies. And in cities like Belgrade - women and nightlife can be deadlier than a bullet.As much as Yugoslavia had reputation for good movies, especially in the 1980s, ex-Yu republics are doing their best to destroy this reputation without mercy. This was meant to be a black-comedy about the Montenegrins, their tradition of vendetta and their "occupation" of Belgrade. Also, the same story could have been done as an action drama. Unfortunately, it's neither. The story dramatization and characterization are tragic. Characters are completely two-dimensional, and the story acts as a dismal joke about Montenegrins stretched for an hour and a half. Jokes based on prejudices about Montenegrins are too exaggerated for a serious film, and yet insufficiently humorous for a comedy. True, I laughed here and there, but that does not change the fact that this is a very stupid movie.
4/10 - DirectorDjordje MilosavljevicStarsDejan LutkicIvan JevtovicDragan Petrovic-PeleTwo brothers of completely different behavior, an ex-mob and a goody-goody, pay their visit to grotesque family of the mob's old flame, in order to improve her stand about him and win her heart again.I laughed. Aloud. Since cult comedies of the 1980s, this is an extremely rare phenomenon. Production is lousy as usual, story is nothing special either, but it can not be denied that it's really entertaining.
7/10 - DirectorDanilo BeckovicStarsPetar StrugarHristina PopovicNikola KojoThe Samurai in Autumn is a social melodrama with laughs, tears and heartbreaks and lot of fistfights. It's a story of a karate champion who falls from grace after being caught in a doping scandal. He returns to his birthplace, a small town in Serbia and finds redemption by falling in love with a single mother whose son participates in his karate class. Unable to maintain a lifestyle, he secretly enters the underground fighting circuit and risks losing it all.Although I do not like Dimitrije Vojnov, I must admit that he wrote quite decent screenplay, and for director Danilo Bećković, after Mali Budo, this is a significant jump in a positive direction. If you are familiar with Serbian cinematography in the last few decades, it makes little sense to comment on production that is more or less constantly at the same level, as well as acting because once again we have default cast with their default performances. Is it work of art - it's not, is it masterpiece of cinematography - it's not, is it fun - yes, it is. For me it was pleasant surprise and I really enjoyed it.
7/10 - DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan NikolicNikola DjurickoKatarina ZuticDuring 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.I can't believe how bashed this movie is. Many reviews consider it one of the worst domestic movies overall. The fact is that there are many flaws from the technical point of view. In some scenes we can see modern buildings, children wearing Nike, air conditioners and similar things that didn't exist back during WWII. But believe me, I didn't notice any of that while watching it for the first time. Only after I read about it online and played the movie again I saw these oversights. Why didn't I notice those quite serious mistakes first time? Because movie is so entertaining that all of my attention was focused on characters and their adventures, and even if there were spaceships or dinosaurs in the background I believe I would fail to notice them. Guys, this is Serbia. Budgets are tragicomic and you can't expect Berlin scenes to actually be shot in Berlin, or complete fake town from those times, or Marvel-like CGI. This is shot more like theater play. We are where we are, we managed to get some basic props and let's go make this movie. Objections to screenplay, acting or directing are acceptable, but stop bashing low-budget movies because of cheapness and lousy production. Or show us how it can be done better in given circumstances.
Story is good and interesting. Dragan Nikolic and Nikola Djuricko are Bighead and Picklock, two burglars who consider themselves artists of the robbery. When Germany occupied Belgrade, they cunningly manage to get out of jail, get the papers and go out to rob the bank in the very heart of the Third Reich. Nikolic and Djuricko are great. Katarina Zutic, Isidora Minic and Katarina Radivojevic didn't shine but they are good enough for light comedy. The only serious objection to acting is that half of the movie is in German and all actors are domestic and even to me, who doesn't know single word of German language, they sound quite unconvincing. German speakers claim that most of the actors have learned their German lines by heart and they speak shamefully bad. All right, I can take this remark as a serious disadvantage of the film, but us, who do not speak German, this will not bother too much.
All in all, I enjoyed the film very much and I consider it one of the few domestic flicks of the 21st century that does not disgrace tradition of cult films of the eighties and nineties. This, of course, is not at the level of the Marathon Family or the Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, but it's far above almost all the domestic films I've been watching since 2000.
8/10 - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranko DjuricNatasa Janjic MedancicMLADEN (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Croatian Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, SONJA (40), who is married to METOD (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.I'm watching and crying. Not because the film is moving, but because Yugoslav cinema is dying in pain. I will not waste my words on this movie, I really have no nerves. It's not a drama nor a comedy, lousy story, lousy acting, lousy directing... Watchable, but total waste of time.
4/10 - DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDimitrije VojnovLazar RistovskiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.Jajca i krompira... (Eggs and potatoes)
One of those movies, specific to the Balkans, which are intended only for the domestic audience. If you were born in this region before the disintegration of the SFRY, you will almost certainly love it. For the younger generations I do not guarantee, and foreigners probably couldn't understand it's essence and humor. For me, it's alongside with cult comedies of the eighties.
9/10 - DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.This is the first feature film shot entirely in the Romany language, and I was forced to watch the domestic film with English subtitles, because I did not understand almost anything without it. Except for cursing, of course. The film received five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and Kusturica won the Best Director award. Totally deserved, because this surreal drama is probably his life's achievement. The somewhat fairy-tale atmosphere of this movie totally hypnotized me and over two hours flew by in a moment. A special acknowledgment should be given to the cast, as its major part consists of amateurs with only a few professional actors. In particular, I have to single out the scene of St. George celebration on the river, which is one of the most impressive movie scenes I've ever seen in my life, and which would probably have provided Academy Award to this film, if it was an American movie.
10/10 - DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.Legendary but highly overrated
To me, the story is lousy and boring, and dialogues, monologues and narrators are catastrophic. The only thing worth seeing in this movie is Eva Ras. She was really pretty girl in her youth, and this is the first Yugoslavian film with explicit nakedness. The scene in which the black cat is lying on Isabel's naked body is known not only within domestic but also the world cinematography.
3/10 - DirectorMilan JelicStarsZarko BajicGizela VukovicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicMilan, a 15-year-old, has difficulty dealing with work. His father has gotten him a killing-bugs job at the bakery he works in. He is unsuccessful in this and continues to be unable to keep his work.Mediocre comedy
"The Bug Killer" continues the tradition of mediocre films that try to cover up their shortcomings with good boobs. The story is lousy, but at least it's not boring, and even has a few hilarious moments. In comparison to "PTT" the acting is better, naked tits are also better, and there are more of them. Since "PTT" has already shown an explicit nudity, "The Bug Killer" has been forced to go one step further by increasing its presence on the screen and adding some really perverse moments that balance on the edge of the sick. I would recommend this to lovers of Yugoslavian cinematography only, and the rest of you better skip it.
5/10 - DirectorVladimir AndricStarsPavle VuisicMilan 'Caci' MihailovicMiroslav AleksicThe true story of a rather unusual gymnasium class at the end of the 19th century and their professor. Full of intellectuals and young scientists, writers and artists, this class was jam-packed with potential and many of them became famous in Serbian history.Soothing and witty
The story of a professor of the German language in the First Male Gymnasium from the end of the nineteenth century, the head of the class attended together by poet Milorad Mitrovic, historian Pavle Popovic, famous Mika Alas, Jovan Cvijic and Jasa Prodanovic. Pavle Vujisic is excellent in the role of Professor Kosta Vujic, and there's a few more famous actors of the Yugoslavian scene. Accompanied by good music, the film is a light, humorous, gentle and incredibly relaxing. Objectively, it deserves about a 5/10, but it fills the soul for a 10/10.
7/10 - DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDragan NikolicBogdan DiklicGorica PopovicOne week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.Some of the greatest YU actors in a very entertaining drama about a twenty-seven-year-old driver, who in all ways tries to evade the army to advance in a racing career. The film depicts typical Balkan family and general human relations in the time of socialism and the delayed puberty of Brana Floyd, whose life is reduced to avoiding any kind of responsibility, while chasing skirts all over Belgrade, in his racing Zastava 750. In my opinion, one of the best roles of Dragan Nikolic.
7,5/10 - DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicSvetislav 'Bule' GoncicRados TerzicThe film follows the life of a homeless but very well-read Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for the miseries in his life.
- I believe my own eyes, and I saw you when you put his prick in your cunt with your own hand.
- Good Lord, I'll jump in the river now. I... I caught it... and held it, because I didn't want to let him put it in me... because I love you.
The movie has too much idling which makes it pretty boring. Although at times it is quite witty and funny, the overall impression is lousy and I would not watch it again.
5/10 - DirectorPetar LalovicStarsPetar KraljIt is a love story. When the twelve-breasted boar's sow farrows thirteen piglets, not having enough "sucking space" for the thirteenth, she rejects it and for the most part such piglets die. This drama from the world of animals paints the harshness of nature to the unwanted "thirteenth piglet", which we named Gile Baksuz (Gile Bad Luck). The rejected piglet is taken and given shelter by another species - a roe and her fawn. But there comes a calamity, a great flood strikes. Animals attempt to save themselves swimming towards a large sandbar. Among them are the roe, the fawn and poor piglet. Surrounded by water, the sandbar becomes an island of refugees. All sort of beasts are there, but the peril brings them together and no one attacks! The buck, having reached the security of the shore, leaves the shelter and sets out to find his female and fawn. Within reach of them he'll drown, entangled in branches. Waiting on the sandbar, gazing in the direction from which her "husband" may appear, the roe dies of sorrow or maybe something else, leaving her fawn and the little pig. When the water withdraws and the animals leave the isle, our couple: the fawn and the pig also reach the safety of the shore. Gile's mother is saved too, but she has lost all twelve of her favorites and mournfully she cries for them.And how am I supposed to eat pork now...
Four years after the success of the documentary film "The Last Oasis", Petar Lalovic releases "The Vanishing World". The only copy that I managed to find has sound so damaged that it was torture to watch, but since it stayed in nice memory since I saw it the first and only time as a child, I simply had to see it again. In the first or second grade of elementary school, our teacher led us to the cinema to see this documentary, and I remember that many wept, making sure that no one would notice. Wild boar has twelve nipples and when it gives birth to thirteen piglets one remains without milk and most often dies. But not Gile. This natural documentary shows the world of wild animals in Baranja, but focuses primarily on Gile, the thirteenth piglet, and his adventures after he was rejected by his family. As much as his unexpected friendship with the small fawn is warm and gentle, that much cruelty of nature causes a cramp in the stomach. There's more death than in "Game of Thrones" and close-ups of corpses as in average slasher horror. Nevertheless, this is a love story and, although not as good as the "Last Oasis", I warmly recommend it.
7/10 - DirectorStevan FilipovicStarsRadovan VujovicStasa KoprivicaMilos TanaskovicWhen an ancient book is recovered by a highschool nerd Stanislav all hell brakes loose involving his classmates who try to stop the evil that has risen from it.There's hope for fantasy genre in Serbia
"Sheitan Warrior" is Serbian homage to teenage slasher-horror-comedy movies from the eighties and, if you are at least a bit familiar with this genre, there's no need for me to describe you the story itself. The movie combines elements typical of high school comedies from the '80s and '90s with a slasher-horror story in the style of Freddy Krueger or Jason, but does it in the Serbian way. Here you will find a comedy based on a social critique of the society, characters who are representatives of various classes and groups that the local audience will easily recognize, especially if they grew up in the nineties, but also interesting pseudo-historical/mythological elements that we have not met before in domestic cinema. In terms of effects and production, "Warrior" is lagging behind the world, but it is also quite ahead of what we are accustomed in the domestic film and its flaws are quite covered by good directing and acting. The cast is mostly amateur, but in minor roles there are also many great names of domestic cinema and theater, such as Petar Bozovic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Marko Nikolic (for the third time in his career in the role of Karadjordje), Branislav Lecic, Dragan Nikolic, Irfan Mensur, Teofil Pancic, Eva Ras, as well as Bora Djordjevic. The amateur part of the cast is occasionally over-the-top, with several shame-transfers, but it is possible that it is deliberate. Most of the kids very convincingly play typical representatives of various teenage groups, and Vladimir Tesovic is simply hilarious in the role of nerd who is constantly bullied, which drives him to utter madness and makes him turn to the forces of evil.
Objectively, in terms of world cinema, this is not a particularly good movie, and probably does not deserve the rating I gave it, but considering that, for this climate, the film is quite genuine and brings a breeze of freshness to the stale Serbian scene, as well as the fact that it is made by inexperienced students with a budget ridiculous for such a project, as well as invested effort worth every respect, from this point of view rating seven is an insultingly low.
7/10 - DirectorDusan KovacevicBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBora TodorovicMira BanjacConvinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.A tragicomic depiction of the paranoia of a man crazed by political ideology
In the beginning, I was slightly bored, but in the second half, this movie becomes madhouse you'll never forget. As for the audio-visual experience, it is quite irrelevant whether you watch this movie in the theater or on a mobile phone, but the screenplay and dialogues made history. The acting and anthological monologues of ingenious Danilo Bata Stojkovic are magnificent and, although he has accomplished many good roles, most of us will always remember him for this one.
8,5/10 - DirectorDarko BajicStarsMirjana JokovicSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBoris MilivojevicTwo boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend.On October 1st, 1985, a group of minors destroyed a city. Behind them, there was a desolation and a question: Why?
Every teenager and anyone who still remembers what it's like to be a teenager, each abandoned child, and anyone who can, at least roughly, imagine how it is to be one of them, should be able to feel the answer to this question, even if they do not know how to explain it rationally. This drama is, like the most of the domestic movies, pretty lousy made, and it's impossible to find good, or at least decent copy, so it is really tiring to watch. However, the film has quite a strong and moving story, good actors who provoke sympathy, and the great soundtrack by Lazar Ristovski and Vlatko Stefanovski, which provides a really good atmosphere.
6,5/10 - DirectorLjubisa SamardzicStarsNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicIvan JevtovicBelgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.In 1999, I was a 20 years old boy in Belgrade, so I suppose I liked this movie only because I was there
For almost two decades I've been in the delusion that this film is based on basketball, which I am not least interested in, and for that reason, I did not see it until tonight. when I realized what it is about, I decided to give it a shot. I did not regret this decision, but I'm not thrilled either.
The film is about a group of young men, their families and neighbors, during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, about people who refuse to succumb to despair and try to maintain sanity and an illusion of normal life as much as possible. The local basketball court has been demolished during the bombing and they join forces to restore it and play the basket again, despite the everyday airborne danger. A film about family, friendship, love, youth, memories of better times, traditional Serbian defiance and suffering.
The story is simple, but full of emotion and life. Actors that we are accustomed to seeing in almost every domestic movie deliver their usual performance - they are not bad, but they are far from excellent. Technically, the film is on par with the most domestic films of its generation, but I think that we are all used to cheap production and we no longer pay attention to it. Personally, in domestic movies after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, I pay attention only to the story and acting, and here both of these aspects are above average. I was irritated only by the ending, because I think it is totally unnecessary tragic. The movie sent its message even without the death of the main character, which is, in my opinion, there only as a trick to elicit tears from the audience and to seemingly intensify the power of the film. Two hours of bad movie with a powerful ending will most probably leave a better overall impression than a top movie that fails in the end. The whole movie has quite equable strength and atmosphere, so the final punch felt inadequate and pathetic. I mean, it was pretty predictable and expected, but I was still hoping that I was wrong and that maybe screenwriter intentionally misleads us to finally surprise us with something completely different. It seems, however, that it is quite naive to expect the original plot twist from a domestic movie.
7/10 - DirectorPetar LalovicStarsSerif AljicZoran RadmilovicA documentary who takes an 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 remind to those of humans, regenerates itself and lives in spite of destruction."As she caresses and licks it, at the same time she absorbs its smell..."
Shame on you, perverts, it's not what you think. A hind sniffs her youngling, so she could later easily find it by smell. Although, to be honest, the film is full of animal sex. Literally animal.
This beautiful documentary by Petar Lalovic shows the belt of untouched nature between the rivers Danube and Drava, and the rich and diverse wildlife that resides there. But it doesn't do it in the sterile manner we are used to in most TV shows about nature. Lalovic brings us closer to individual animals in the way that feature films develop their main roles, and tells us their life stories in a romantic, but also deeply touching way. The powerful impression is greatly contributed by the voice of Zoran Radmilovic as a narrator. It took me a little time to get "Radovan III" out of my head, but when I did, I realized it would be hard to find a voice that could contribute the way Zoran did. His voice and pleasant music are so relaxing that I thought I would fall asleep, but when this movie draws you into the story and atmosphere it simply can not happen. Although full of love and beauty, I would not recommend this documentary to younger children, because it shows life honestly and in its entirety, and contains a really sad, shocking, and even scenes bordering horrible. From pristine nature and playing cubs, through funny scenes and witty remarks, males fight over females, to explicitly shown death in the jaws of predators, deer dying of old age and a multitude of bird corpses trapped in the ice. And the story about herons, that stretches through the whole movie, even made me cry in the end. And I don't even like birds.
If it was American, this film would surely win some Oscars.
8,5/10 - DirectorDragan KresojaStarsDragan MicanovicBranka KaticJelisaveta 'Seka' SablicBelgrade in 1992. - breaking up of Yugoslavia, blockade, shortages, food queues, student rebellion. Life of two Belgrade families and personal drama of their members, caused by social breakdown and civil war......and full of terrors.
In 1992 I was 13 years old. I was old enough to remember everything clearly, and I think the characters in this movie are so exaggerated that they border with caricatures. On the other hand, I was too young to clearly perceive and understand the situation that surrounds me, so maybe I'm wrong. However, for the entire duration of this film, I had a painful cramp in the stomach and the desire to strangle certain characters with bare hands, which I think is the effect intended by the authors. I'm absolutely incapable of analyzing it.
"It is an illusion, my professor, that everything that was was better than it is now, only the illusion." - DirectorDjordje MilosavljevicStarsDragan MicanovicAnica DobraLjubisa SamardzicOn his way to visit his father, a young Nemanja was caught in a heavy rain, so he decides to seek lodging for the night in nearby motel. The place happens to be notorious as a meeting place of bad, dangerous and weird people."Točkovi" (1998), "The Hateful Eight" (2015)... Think about it.
I can not believe what I just saw and that no one recommended it to me earlier. The domestic cinematography has not seen anything like this before this movie nor after. I do not want to write anything related to the plot itself, because it would really be a shame to spoil it to somebody, so I will only give you some general impression. If Tarantino was a Serb, he would make "Wheels". The story is dark, morbid, brutal and bloody, and still wacky and ridiculous, at the same time predictable and full of unexpected twists. Set design, camera and direction are excellent and achieve an atmosphere that reminded me somewhat of "Twin Peaks" and "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," while retaining the Serbian charm. and music shocked and thrilled me. Anica Dobra, Bogdan Diklic, Neda Arneric, Svetozar Cvetkovic and Manda presented their roles at the usual level, Pele and Isidora Minic are the weakest points in this film, but Dragan Micanovic, Ljubisa Samardzic and Nikola Kojo nailed it. After decades of drama and comedy, someone has finally made something else. If not for anything else, take a look at this movie to make sure that Serbian black humor horror thriller really exists.
9/10 - DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsRade MarkovicBogdan DiklicDragan NikolicDuring the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead."Sve je isto u mom kraju, samo mene više nema"
I didn't like this movie at all and, to me, it was quite a boring experience. But since it is generally accepted as a masterpiece of domestic cinema, I suppose it is more to me than to film, so I'm probably not competent to analyze it. Also, I have no desire to waste time writing about something that is completely uninteresting to me.
4,5/10 - DirectorSlobodan SkerlicStarsLazar RistovskiNikola DjurickoNebojsa GlogovacOvercome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true indentity and become part of the estabishment.The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge,deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony. Finally, the police arrive ...Pointless
For days I have not been able to watch movies, and now, when I've finally found the time, I've fucked up in the selection. I can not say that it is poorly done, but except for a few relatively good jokes and action scenes above average for this area, the film does not have a much to offer. It's meaningless and redundant. I watched it primarily because I heard that it could be compared with "The Wounds" and even with "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame", and if you approach it with such expectations you will be extremely disappointed. To compare this empty action with the aforementioned masterpieces of domestic cinema is blasphemy of epic proportions.
4/10 - DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicDubravka MijatovicGoran Radakovic1993 Serbia is a place torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his painter friend and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone-sex hotline and the two eventually fall in love. Another friend of his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple plans to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.The first and the best
"Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe" is a directorial debut of Radivoje Andric and, given the budget and the circumstances in which it was filmed, it turned out quite good. It may not be a masterpiece of a domestic cinema, but it's certainly better than the next two that he made. This romantic crime-comedy will touch the heart of anyone old enough to remember life in Serbia in the early nineties. Unfortunately, for the full experience, it is necessary that you are from Balkan, but it is a characteristic of most local films, so it can not be considered a flaw. If nothing else, watch it as a curiosity, a domestic film from the '90s, in which there is neither Bjelogrlic nor Kojo.
7/10 - DirectorGorcin StojanovicStarsBranka KaticNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicMen, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogden recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.All true romances are sad
Branka Katic is a young photographer who, in Belgrade, during the war with Croatia, writes a book about her grandmother, a member of the Belgrade aristocracy at the end of World War II. In parallel, the story follows her love for a wounded man determined to return to the front and her grandmother's tensions between a former lover and a primitive Partisan officer who could save her stepfather and smooth her the transition to communism. The film, rather plausibly and realistically, shows the situation in Belgrade in the early nineties, the echoes of the horrors of war that reached Belgrade, as well as Partisan "occupation" of Belgrade half a century earlier. The story is simple and everyday, so charged with emotions that I was unable to objectively grasp the technical aspects of the film. This is one of those movies where objective quality is not so important, that overwhelms you on a much deeper, human level, and if you are at least a little bit of a movie-weeper like me, it's guaranteed to leave you in tears.
8/10 - DirectorMiroslav LekicStarsZarko LausevicBojana MaljevicAleksandar BercekIn attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanovic discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called.Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he finds the road to his faith...Faith brings you closer to God, religion is a highway to Hell
I get creeps every time I hear a split on Serbs and Muslims. Being a Serb is a national affiliation, being a Muslim is a religious affiliation. It's as if we divided cars into German and sports, or movies into comedies and black and white. The tragedy of this area is ironic and I do not know what these people have sinned so much to deserve such karma. Demos divided into three religions, imbued and poisoned with religious hatred, brainwashed to slaughter each other again and again. It would be funny to me if I didn't belong to that folk. As if we have fallen out of some morbid joke. If we neglect the production and flaws of the domestic film that we learned to ignore, we are left with a story that perfectly and painfully portrays all the irony and all the meaninglessness of the Balkan wars. For most of the movie I felt disgust and shame, and in the scene where Halil crossed on his knees over the ruins of the church, I've shed a tear. I think it's one of the most powerful scenes in domestic cinematography. Draskovic wrote this novel in 1982, and with all my heart I would like to believe that the bullcrap of the 1990s would not happen if everyone had read it then. But I don't.
8/10 - DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsNikola DjurickoSonja KolacaricTara ManicTwo brothers, Lemi and Kiza, having spent all their money, try to relocate their dead grandfather from Belgrade to Vrsac at the lowest cost, but he goes missing along the way."I'm not going to tell you, bald"
That's about the only scene that made me smile, which is a serious problem when you take into account that it is a comedy. Milorad Milinkovic's directorial debut is a comedy of confusion, but while the idea is good, it worked out badly. It relies more on vulgarity in the expression and behavior of the characters, as well as our sympathy for well-known actors, than on the qualities of the story itself, which is rather lazily written. The movie is not boring, but it is not particularly funny either, and apart from the idea and strong cast, I have nothing to praise and recommend.
6/10 - DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature."One kiss for a dead man?"
Festivals in Venice, Cannes, and Berlin have dismissed this film as Serbian propaganda, thus causing it a great injustice. Yes, it can be viewed from this angle, but more or less everything can be pulled out of context and misused. "Pretty Village" sends the same message as "The Knife" and shows all the meaninglessness of the war in Bosnia, only as a medium, instead of depressing drama, it uses black-humored comedy. But this humor is not cheerful humor, but rather underlines the horrors of war, perhaps even more striking than drama. To me, this is by far the most powerful war film I have ever watched and the best domestic film since the breakup of Yugoslavia.
10/10 - DirectorDejan KaraklajicStarsMilena DravicLjubisa SamardzicMilivoje 'Mica' TomicTrajkovic family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning."I've decided, I want the first time to be out of love."
"Love?! Where did you read that?"
"I haven't read it, I want it that way."
Trajkovic family has been building bridges for generations. But you can't build bridges all the time in the same place, so this profession involves frequent moves from city to city, from country to country. The youngest offspring of this family is already tired of new schools every semester, new friends that he has to leave just as he made them, and most of all, his love life suffers. Shy 17-year-old Budimir Trajkovic needs more time to gather the courage to approach a girl he likes than his family spends in one place. When they finally move to the capital and Budimir experiences true love for the first time, he decides to take his life into his own hands.
This is a coming-of-age story, a story about family, about youthful love, about those things that we all went through in one way or another, that formed us as personalities. The story and its pace are very realistic and natural, the young protagonists, Predrag Bolpacic and Marina Nemet, are not experienced actors, and the camera and direction leave an amateur impression, which is probably a consequence of cheap production, but in this particular case, it just makes the story more believable.
The film is conceived as a romantic and family comedy, in a manner typical of Yugoslav cinema of the 1970s. While our young protagonists carry the dramatic part of the story, Budimir's family gives the film a 'comic relief', similar to the one in "Foolish Years". Ljubisa Samardzic and Milena Dravic have great chemistry and charisma and with their 'love-hate' relationship they almost overshadow the main thread of the story. There are also Mica Tomic in the role of a grandfather (a bit like the one from "Only Fools and Horses"), Bata Zivojinovic, young Neda Arneric, and Sonja Savic and, what many do not notice when watching, Irfan Mensur and Dragan Nikolic lend voices to Budimir and his friend Zvonko.
"The Love Life of Budimir Trajkovic" is not a masterpiece, far from it, but it is a light, relaxed, emotional, at times quite funny, and very dear to me, movie in which, I believe, each of you can find themselves and evoke some fond memories.
7/10