Severin Bijelić

Severin Bijelić

Birth : 1921-02-10, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Death : 1972-07-28

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Severin Bijelić

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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Vozač kamiona
An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat
Krunoslav Spasić, kamenorezac
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.
Shepherd
Stric Dobrivoje
The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
Plug Impermeable to Water
Gliša
A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
A Bloody Tale
Piljakov otac
Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.
Crows
Đukin trener
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
The Ambush
Zeka
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Quo vadis Zivorad!?
Jevrem
Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions, becoming a police inspector who is looking for hashish, a scientist, a man who rises agriculture land and whatnot...
Case Belgrade
Timotije / Timing
In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.
The Trek
Ruski general
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
When I Am Dead and White
Oficir
The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
Smoke
Policajac Rihter
The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and who returns from prison after serving the minimum sentence. Coincidentally, planned revenge takes a different turn.
Palm Tree Among Palm Trees
Pasko
An ex-prostitute, now a washerwoman, asks for a pension for her previous "employment", which socialism, with its human principles, does not disapprove. To realize her right, she needs two witnesses, and she has many more. But none of them will testify. A whole society shows its selfishness, false morality, prejudice. She dies without realizing her great wish.
The Rats Woke Up
Lale fotograf
An unsuccessful attempt of a lonely guy to change his pointless life. In search for a job and money he falls in love with a girl next door believing that she will change his life.
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Religiozni seljak
The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
Wild Seed
Dobrivoje kovač
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.
How Romeo and Juliet Loved Each Other
Radoš Milovanović
The story of unfortunate lovers from contemporary Belgrade, a young woman married for money, and a student whom she loved before marriage. Juvenile love romance gets extinguished by social intolerance, calculated and upstarted.
To Come and Stay
Vozač kamiona
Three villagers try their luck in the big city.
A Trip Around the World
The Sheriff
A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.
People's Deputy
Jovica Jerković
Film adaptation of “People’s Deputy” by Branislav Nusic, one of the most frequently staged plays in the history of Serbian theatre. It tells the story of a politician who’s only interested in personal benefits and chair in the national assembly.
The Man in the Photograph
Gazda Kasine
Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.
Double Circle
Tomo Oljačić
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Three-Hearts Locket
Pavle, brodski oficir (segment "Priča 1")
A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
Sasha
Jova, otac od Dugog
A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.
Comrade President Center-Forward
Mirko
Through several entangled stories, province atmosphere is shown, in which new ideas are hard to penetrate. Parallel with the seventh anniversary of peasant's cooperative farm, activity of a priest, who wants to restore the iconostasis, is followed. Local photographer intrigues - in small town in which the villagers want to become football champions.
Love and Fashion
Rođak
In order to make money for the aerial review, a group of students organize the fashion program for the "Yugochic" company, doing some small frauds as well.
The Dreams Came by Coach
Vozač diližanse
Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.
Heaven without Love
Inspektor Naumović
With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.
Alone
Komandir
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.
Black Pearls
Marko, novi upravnik popravnog doma
Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.
The Cabinet Minister's Wife
Čeda Urošević
After becoming a minister's wife, Živka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after being involved in a scandal. Based on highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nušić.
I'll Be Back
Jovan Martinović, učesnik u tuči
A war disabled lieutenant colonel, who did not make it in the society, after many years of loneliness meets happy woman who loved him in the past, and not forgotten him despite the fact that she married meanwhile.
Priest Cira and Priest Spira
Arkadije crkvenjak
Life of the village elite, the two priest families, goes quietly in mutual understanding and friendship. The discord is inserted when a young teacher is able to marry the daughter of only one of the priests. Based on a popular novel by Stevan Sremac.
Saturday Night
Vodnik
Three stories set in Belgrade by night: A loving couple who alarms public uproar for kissing in the street, a lonely boxing handler whose help isn't really appreciated, and two young people who never manage to get to know each other due to dress code issues.
Big and Small
Žika, agent
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.
The Last Railway
Toma
A group of railroad workers decide to make extra money by smuggling forbidden goods and engaging in other criminal activities. The first crime film made in Yugoslavia.
The Song from Kumbara
Milisav Čamdžić Čamdžija
Story of the revolt of the people of Serbia against the Turks, who ruled the country for four centuries. The battle and the fall of the fortress of Belgrade in 1806.
Two Grapes
After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.
Moment of Decision
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.
Echelon of Doctor M
Ramadan
Continuing their exploits against the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, the Ballists attack an echelon of wounded warriors led by Dr. M. He takes the wounded to a nearby town. Aware that the justice is on the side of Doctor M., Ramadan, son of one of the Ballist leaders, joins him and contributes to defeat of the Ballists.
Legends of Anika
Jakša
Based on a story by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić. When a young man's affair with a married woman ends disastrously he spurns the girl he'd once loved. She reacts to his contempt by becoming the town harlot.
Perfidy
Ivo Ledinić
A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
The Last Day
Bruno
A group of former members of the Gestapo participates in espionage activities, helped by a group of locals, dissatisfied with the new authorities. However, members of the Yugoslav secret police, the infamous UDBA, are on their track. This is the first Yugoslavian spy film.
Story of a Factory
Shortly after country's liberation, one of few factories tries to enhance its production. A group of reactionary individuals fails to stop its work and building of new production units.