Živka Matić

Birth : 1923-06-19, Požarevac, Serbia

Death : 1998-05-15

Movies

Truckers
Baba
The adventures of a truck driver and his fellow associate, who both leave their company refusing to meet the newly introduced criteria of having elementary school degree. Being in their 40s and totally talentless for education, they decide to leave the company and go private. However, the world outside their company has been completely changed over the years, and after the series of bad lucks, they will summarize their position and go back to school.
The Time of Horses
Tetka Dana
After his uncle returned from the WW2 on a white horse, the boy Danko immediately falls for the animal and they become inseparable. Danko rides it on his way to school, gallops by the river… Yet this causes envy of Danko’s friends, but also of hungry locals who only see the horse as a food source.
The Bug Killer
Soja
A teenager fails to find (and keep) jobs which makes his father doubt the reason might be the boy's lack of sexual experience. As all his efforts prove to be unsuccessful, the father gives up, but not the boy's aunt.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Landlady
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Plug Impermeable to Water
Baka
A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
Milorad: The Place to Be
Stamena
A new year's special dedicated to the popular comedy "Ljubav na seoski nacin".
Dear Irena!
Baba
Students Marko, Dragan, Misko and Cutko make a foursome living in the spirit of their high-school "gang". One day they meet Irena, a student of medicine, who subsequently has an affair with Marko. Relationships within the foursome begin to deteriorate.
Crows
Gazdarica
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.
Before the Truth
Đorđeva sekretarica
Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shot, but missed on purpose.
Poor Maria
Strina
A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.