Veljko Despotović

Películas

Cinema Komunisto
Himself
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.
The Tour
Production Design
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
Labyrinth
Production Design
The story evolves around the Arian sect. During the III century AD they have seriously shaken the very foundations of Christian world. It is also known that in this region they had a stronghold between towns of Sirmium and Belgrade. "Labyrinth" is not only the story about our times, but a story of our roots.
The Tragic Burlesque
Production Design
In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.
Gorilla Bathes at Noon
Production Design
A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.
Fuera de control
Art Direction
Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other visitors, and soon must fend for their lives against drug smugglers.
Fuera de control
Prom Photographer
Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other visitors, and soon must fend for their lives against drug smugglers.
Misión de héroes
Production Design
En 1943, la sede de los partisanos yugoslavos en Vojvodina decide enviar refuerzos al este de Bosnia. Un convoy de voluntarios que llevan comida y medicinas se embarca en una misión peligrosa.
Conan, el bárbaro
Art Direction
En la historia de la humanidad, los tiempos más recordados son aquellos de las grandes hazañas y fantásticas aventuras. Esa es la época de Conan el Bárbaro. Conan es capturado cuando tan sólo era un niño después que sus padres fueran asesinados por el malvado Thulsa Doom, el cabecilla de una secta de adoradores a la Serpiente. Quince años de agonía forjarón a Conan como un guerrero insuperable. Liberado por su dueño, Conan, en compañía de sus amigos Subotai, Mongol y Valeria, Reina de los Ladrones, emprenden un viaje en busca de venganza y sabiduría.
Línea no regular
Production Design
La película, una comedia negra tan absurda como irreverente, ambientada en 1941, narra las peripecias de un grupo de pasajeros de un autobús que hace su camino desde el interior hasta Belgrado, durante el inicio de la II Guerra Mundial.
El secreto de Tesla
Production Design
Cuenta la vida de Nikola Tesla, escritor del destino de la electricidad
The Man to Kill
Production Design
After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.
La cruz de hierro
Art Direction
En 1943, el sargento Rolf Steiner es el encargado de dirigir hasta Rusia a un grupo de soldados de la Wehrmacht, las fuerzas armadas unificadas de la Alemania nazi. Cuando llegan al frente, toma el mando el capitán Stransky, un hombre que se entrega en cuerpo y alma a Hitler y a la guerra, y cuya mayor aspiración es ser condecorado con la misma cruz de hierro que ya tiene Steiner. El choque entre ambos no tarda en surgir, pero pronto Stransky descubre que tanto el pelotón de Steiner como el propio sargento pueden servirle para conseguir sus fines.
Pasqualino. Siete bellezas
Art Direction
En el Nápoles de los años 30, el taimado y oportunista Pasqualino intenta por todos los medios hacer carrera en la camorra, para alcanzar una posición de relieve dentro de su clan. Irónicamente apodado “Settebellezze” (siete bellezas), por la fealdad de sus hermanas, este pendenciero quiere rescatar su propio honor amenazando al hombre que ha obligado a prostituirse a una de ellas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Backbone
Production Design
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.
El violinista en el tejado
Art Direction
Teyve es el lechero de un pueblo ucraniano. Vive feliz con su esposa y sus cinco hijas, todas ellas solteras. Una tarde, mientras hace su reparto, conoce a Perchick, un pobre estudiante de Kiev con ideales revolucionarios. Los dos simpatizan y Teyve le ofrece casa y comida a cambio de que le dé clases a una de sus hijas. Al mismo tiempo, Lazar Wolf, un rudo carnicero que se ha quedado viudo, pide a Teyve la mano de Tzeitel, su hija mayor, y éste se la concede.
My Crazy Head
Set Decoration
A Yugoslavian spoof of Dirty Harry and James Bond movies. A young inspector called Crazy Head goes after bandits that do not hesitate to use all kinds of vicious means in their shady ventures.
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Production Design
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.
Bitter Fruit
Production Design
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad and Tita.
The One Eyed Soldiers
Production Design
Action - The body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief Colonel Ferrer (Andrew Faulds) arrives in time to hear the dying Berens last words: "July the 18th! The One Eyed Soldiers." - Dale Robertson, Luciana Paluzzi, Guy Deghy
La conquista de un imperio
Art Direction
El joven Marco Polo inicia su viaje a la lejana China, con el objetivo de brindar ayuda a Kublai Khan y combatir a la rebelión que se oponen al gobierno de este emperador. Los rebeldes están encabezados nada menos que por su propio hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pyramid of the Sun God
Production Design
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Art Direction
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
In the Wild West
Production Design
When Black Bill's father is murdered and his uncle kidnapped, he sets out in pursuit of the perpetrators.
Los invasores
Art Direction
Según una antigua leyenda, no existía en el mundo objeto más valioso que la campana de oro de Saint James. De hecho, fueron muchos los hombres que dedicaron su vida a la búsqueda de tan fabuloso tesoro. Tras descubrir su escondite, el aventurero vikingo Rolfe zarpó en un gran barco robado rumbo a la fortaleza mora de Shiekn el Mansuh, quien también buscaba la campana.
The Bloody Shirt
Art Direction
A film about blood revenge in Montenegro.