Our Daily Bread Give Us Today (1978)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 14M
Director : Vlatko Filipović
Sinopsis
The film shows the work of the Red Cross in Sarajevo during Yugoslavia. The Red Cross has been present in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1912, and thanks to its work, many families had a hot meal every day.
Jagoda (Fresa, en español) es una joven cajera de un recién inaugurado supermercado que sueña con encontrar a su príncipe azul. Harta de trabajar, despide con malas palabras a una clienta anciana que ha entrado después del cierre. Al día siguiente, un joven vestido de guerrillero asalta el supermercado.
Jeanne, una chica que trabaja en una librería de París, conoce a un joven pintor de origen yugoslavo, y entre ambos surge un amor apasionado.
During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.
At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" to Tito's hometown of Kumrovec.
Ambientada en los años 20. Un lujoso Rolls Royce Phantom II de color amarillo va pasando, a través de los años, por las manos de los más extraños personajes. Así, será testigo de las pintorescas historias de amor que protagonizan sus dueños, todos ellos orgullosos de poseer tan elegante vehículo: un aristócrata inglés engañado por su esposa francesa, un gángster de Chicago que pasa las vacaciones en Italia con su prometida, y una intrépida millonaria americana. (FILMAFFINITY)
In 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.
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
En 1971, en plena resaca del Mayo del 68, el cineasta yugoslavo Dusan Makavejev se convierte en el artista escandaloso del momento con esta especie de falso documental sobre sexo y política, en el que se combinan noticiarios, entrevistas, ficción y ocurrencias surrealistas varias. El guión, apenas esbozado, gira en torno a la vida y obra del psiquiatra austriaco Wilhelm Reich, descubridor de la energía orgásmica, y a las peripecias de dos jovencitas comunistas con muchas ganas de experimentar con sus respectivos y pimpantes cuerpos. Todo ello mezclado con imágenes manipuladas de Stalin, escenas de sexo explícito e incluso una sesión de electroshock real. (FILMAFFINITY)
En este breve documental Werner Herzog posa su mirada sobre un saltador de esquí cuya ocupación diaria es la carpintería. A través de las pruebas deportivas en las que compite, Herzog muestra su resistencia física y mental, así como sus momentos de derrota y gloria, de adrenalina y exaltación.
The Happy Child is a story of "New Wave" rock genre predominant in the ex-Yugoslavia during the socialist 70's and 80's.
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
La conmovedora historia de una chica sordomuda a la que envían a una plataforma petrolífera para cuidar de un hombre que se ha quedado ciego en un terrible accidente. La chica tiene una habilidad especial para conectar con los hombres a bordo.
El departamento de Estado norteamericano encarga a Mike Kells una misión en Salzburgo. Una vez allí, debe subir a un tren para encontrarse con su colega y amigo Sam Carew, que le entregará un documento importantísimo sobre los planes de Stalin para invadir Europa. Pero Carew, que viaja en compañía de una joven llamada Janine, es arrojado a las vías del tren antes de poder hablar con su colega. Mike seguirá las huellas de Janine hasta Trieste.
Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1943. Mallory y Miller, los héroes que destruyeron los cañones de Navarone, son enviados a Yugoslavia en busca de un fantasma del pasado.
This eye-opening and bittersweet chronicle of the Yugoslavian film industry recounts how the cinema was used—often with direct intervention from President Josip Broz Tito—to create and recreate the young nation’s history, replete with heroes and myths that didn’t always hew closely to reality.
El peso de las cadenas es un documental canadiense que tiene una mirada crítica sobre el papel que los EE.UU., la OTAN y la UE han desempeñado en la trágica desintegración de un Estado europeo, una vez pacífico y próspero – Yugoslavia.
Set in socialist Yugoslavia in 1986, a humble and diligent factory worker falls into a 10-year shock right at his working place. He wakes up from coma in hospital in 1996 capitalist Slovenia, only to find out that he's left without job as being redundant.
A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he'll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.
Esta película narra la batalla de Sutjeska (mayo 1943) - la más dura en la que participaron los partisanos yugoslavos, que fueron el principal movimiento de resistencia en la lucha contra las fuerzas del Eje en los Balcanes durante la II Guerra Mundial.
Bread and Circuses is a comedy with a sent of nostalgia about socialistic Yugoslavia's last breaths looking forward into brighter future days than they appear to be at the moment. Family Novak from a small town Velenje is drawn by lot to participate in a TV family quiz. The mother and the daughter are thrilled about appearing on TV, whereas the father and the son do not like the idea that much, especially because the show will take place during the carnival. On their way to the TV show the family gets into a misunderstanding with the police, at the TV station they get confused by a group of dressed up cocks, and things get truly interesting when the family gets to know the quiz moderator Jos Bauer better. Everything about the TV station seems quite different from up close and the family members' values are turned upside down.
