Zoran Simjanović

Zoran Simjanović

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Zoran Simjanović

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Delirium Tremens
Music
Dagi is a famous actor, but a heavy drinker. At one point his condition becomes critical and he ends up in the hospital where he is diagnosed with delirium tremens. Having lost sensation in his limbs, incapable of grasping what is happening around him, imagination plays tricks on him, and as he falls into delirium he finds himself in surreal situations. Once he comes round, he realizes that his life has been ruined and attempts suicide. Saved at the last moment, Dagi remains in the hospital overcome with apathy. However, things change when Lisa, a therapist from England, appears with a revolutionary new method of therapy for severely affected patients known as - psychodrama.
The Tour
Music
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.
Sueño de una noche de invierno
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Serbia, invierno de 2004. Cuando Lazar regresa a casa tras diez años de ausencia, es un hombre diferente: ha recuperado la libertad, se ha liberado de la pesada carga del pasado y ha empezado una nueva vida en otro país. Se encuentra con que su apartamento está ocupado por una mujer que ha huido de Bosnia y su hija, una niña autista de doce años. Lazar no tiene valor para echarlas a la calle. Poco a poco, estos tres seres marginados empezarán a sentirse cada vez más identificados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Serbia, Year Zero
Music
Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power. Personal testimony alternates with analysis of a disintegrating society.
Cabaret Balkan
Original Music Composer
20 people's paths crisscrossing one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Sic transit gloria
Music
About ecology, hypocrisy and transience.
The Tragic Burlesque
Original Music Composer
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.
The Hundred Years of a Century
Music
Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Film Art. In the Grand Cafe-like ambiance a star-baby is born, starting it's journey through the first century of the glorious history of film.
Terrace on the Roof
Music
Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love and a better life, outside the strife of Yugoslavia's civil war, are short-lived as jealousy and army duty tear them apart.
Hole in the Soul
Music
A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life.
Hole in the Soul
Original Music Composer
A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life.
Virgina
Original Music Composer
"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.
Regular Trains Station
Music
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...
Swedish Package Holiday
Music
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Compositor
An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Music Director
An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
The Beauty of Vice
Original Music Composer
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
Taiwan Canasta
Music
A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
Papa está en viaje de negocios
Original Music Composer
Yugoslavia, 1948. La ruptura de Tito con Stalin marcó el principio de un período de represión. Mesa es un buen hombre, casado y padre de dos niños. En una ocasión se le escapa un comentario crítico sobre política, y su amante, resentida, se lo cuenta al hermano de él, un funcionario del gobierno que hace que lo condenen a trabajos forzados. La mujer de Mesa consigue sacar la familia adelante y al más pequeño de sus hijos le cuenta que papá está haciendo un largo viaje de negocios. (FILMAFFINITY)
Double Impact
Music
A group of partisans in Syrmian front gets task to break in the German back up platoon and find out what happened to the previous group of partisan agents who have disappeared without a trace. As it usually happens, the betrayal, personal tragedy and mutual distrust are being unfolded.
Come to Me and Go from Me
Music
Marija and Boba are moving into an apartment and the financial problems came to a crisis in their marriage. Affected consumer fever make them neglect each other and the child. In addition, Zika and Milan persistently interfere in their lives.
Variola Vera
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An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
The Marathon Family
Music
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
¿Te acuerdas de Dolly Bell?
Music
Años 60. En los suburbios de Sarajevo vive Dino, un adolescente rockero de 16 años criado en una familia autoritaria encabezada por un padre tiránico. Dino se mueve entre dos mundos antagónicos: la fascinación por la música y las modas occidentales y la rigidez inmutable de la vida en Yugoslavia. El chico busca la libertad en la vida marginal de las calles, y un día tiene que esconder a Dolly Bell, una prostituta de la que se enamora.
Petria's Wreath
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This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
Buffet Titanic
Original Music Composer
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
Special Education
Music
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
Erna
Music
A two-minute poetic micro-manifesto of ecological and social warning about the endangerment of people and the world's nature in the 1960s.