A “Romeo and Juliet” story that takes place in the late 16c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures Read More »
Tag Archives: Yugoslavia
Genghis Khan (1965) Henry Levin, Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Mostly fictionalized account of the life of Ghenghis Khan, the Mongol warlord whose 13th century armies conquered much of the known world. Read More »
The Crooked Road (1965) Don Chaffey, Robert Ryan, Stewart Granger, Nadia Gray
An investigative reporter (Robert Ryan) travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its dictator’s family secrets. Read More »
Sunday Lunch (1982) Milan Jelic, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Karlo Bulic
A story about a surgeon, highly regarded man who, in his fifties, falls into a crisis. Logic on which he built his life starts to fail. Read More »
The Deserter (1971) Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors
Bitter over his wife’s death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. Read More »
The Naughty Ones (1967) Spela Rozin, Marko Todorovic, Dusica Zegarac
One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. Read More »
Young and healthy as a rose (1971) Jovan Jovanovic, Dragan Nikolic, Aleksandar Gavric, María Baxa
A director with a very distinctive style, Jovan Jovanovic has filmed in 1971 one of the most significant works in the history of contemporary Serbian film. Read More »
Time of Leopards (1985) Zdravko Velimirovic, Armando Loya, Ana Mazue, Santos Mulungo, Action, Drama, War
As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides. Read More »
A Time of Destiny (1988) Gregory Nava, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Drama, War
Josie elopes with Jack against her father’s wishes. Her father follows her to the hotel where they are staying and forces Josie to go with him. Read More »
Sibirska Ledi Magbet / Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Andrzej Wajda, Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Drama, Mystery, Romance
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »
Dvoje / And Love Has Vanished (1961) Aleksandar Petrovic, Beba Loncar, Miha Baloh, Milos Zutic, Drama, Romance
Mirko tells the relationship between an amateur photographer architect, and Jovana, music student. Read More »
Covek nije tica / Man Is Not a Bird (1965) Dusan Makavejev, Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras, Drama, Romance, Comedy
A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job Read More »
Splav meduze / The Medusa Raft (1980) Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Drama
In the early 20’s there’s a group on anarchic artistic yugoslawian yahoos traipsing around the rural never-lands of what then was the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Read More »
Variola vera (1982) Goran Markovic, Rade Serbedzija, Erland Josephson, Dusica Zegarac, Drama, Horror
One pilgrim, infected with an unknown illness, enter the country. Relocated from place to place is dying, and disease spreads. Read More »
Leptirica / The Butterfly (1973) Djordje Kadijevic, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Drama, Horror
Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »