Danilo "Bata" Stojković

A three-part anthology film.

The story about typical Montenegrin family Miletic in post-war Yugoslavia, which shows personal tragedy of a father, whose only son comes back from the war as a different man.

A sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.

Что значит человеческая жизнь, когда вокруг бушует война, делающая сердца людей каменными, а умы — безразличными ко всему? Еще недавно цветущая, а ныне — разодранная на куски и обильно орошенная кровью, земля Югославии жестоко мстит за свою боль. Лишь вера в себя помогает молодым героям противостоять мраку, сгустившемуся над пороховой бочкой Европы — Балканами…

Картина, охватывающая период с 1991 по 1997 год, беспристрастно показывает общество, раздираемое кровавой братоубийственной бойней, самой ужасной жертвой которой стала невинность.

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.

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.

В дни Второй мировой войны в Белграде подпольщики-антифашисты организовали целую фабрику по производству оружия. Война давно закончилась, а они продолжают свою деятельность. И все эти годы «наверху» жизнь течет своим чередом, а в «подполье» — своим.

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.

The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...

In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.

Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugoslavia. The film is constructed around the video 'correspondence' between two branches of a family, one living in Germany and pursuing 'modern' life and the other one living in a little village in Yugoslavia clinging to tradition. Through the home video 'letters' sent back and forth, petty jealousies, love liaisons and financial squabbles drive the family to the brink of war, a situation that reflects the collapsing state of affairs in what was then Yugoslavia.

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

A stage play by Dušan Kovačević which tells the story of a successful manager of a publishing company that gets an unexpected visit in his office from a stranger who claims to be a former secret agent.

A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution, when communist zealots hunt down everyone who will not forswear their Orthodox Catholic ways.

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying her, and on the other he has a wife and an adult son with whom he constantly comes into conflict. When Mile's wife realizes what life is like, things take another direction.

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

A subtle play of characters, in which people who live isolated lives in concrete skyscrapers are tempted in particular situations.

The drama is about several prominent people of Serbian culture and art. Milan Savic, a well-known doctor from Novi Sad and writer from the turn of 20th century, feels a personal obligation to take care and deprive his friends of existential worries.

The whole movie is made out of only one cut. It shows how a command is twisted from the moment its was given by a colonel till the time it riches a regular trooper.

A professor of geography and a farmer befriend during their military service. On a day of taking the solemn oath, a farmer's father who rejected him when he was little suddenly appears. Refusing to meet him, he sends his friend to replace him.

The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his teachers, friends, and mostly his "only brother".

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

1968 год, по всей Европе гремят молодёжные выступления против войны, за свободу слова, сексуальную революцию. К этим выступлениям присоединяется и молодежь Югославии, которая в Белграде выходит поддержать своих братьев по духу из Парижа. На этом фоне разворачивается семейная драма и история первой любви и страсти. Петар живёт в сербской Воеводине, в небольшем городке Суботица под неусыпным контролем отца. В отличие от многих юношей своего возраста, он мечтает встретить «девушку всей своей жизни», а пока без ума от своей преподавательницы социологии. Отец намерен наставить сына на правильный путь, чтобы отпрыск достиг больших высот, чем удалось достичь ему. Это противостояние отца и сына приводит к ряду комичных ситуаций и краху семейной идиллии.

The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father's house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests.

On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to face the power-cut in the middle of her shower..

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

Действие картины разворачивается в промежутке между двумя Мировыми Войнами. В семье Топаловичей, состоящей из пяти поколений мужчин, младшему из которых 25 лет, а старшему — 120, назревает конфликт в результате того, что младший член семейства отказывается заниматься семейным бизнесом — продавать гробы. Он считает, что в мире есть более достойные и честные занятия, в чем его поддерживает девушка Кристина и лучший друг Дзенька, владелец небольшого кинотеатра. Отец Кристины, Билли Питон, поставляющий гробы семейству Топаловичей, требует повышения оплаты за свои труды. Таким образом, конфликт возникает и между этими семьями. Для решающего поединка подойдут любые средства.

WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.

5 апреля 1941 года в автобусе, отправляющемся в Белград, собралась очень замечательная компания…

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.

Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.

One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.

Story of children growing up in Yugoslavia right after the end of World War II.

Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students' imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.

A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.

Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.

A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge, the boy sets the German corn on fire. An intelligent and shrewd Gestapo officer Šicer arrives to investigate. He does not even suspect that he is up against a group of small boys, led by Milan and Vaso, and orders that all men from the village be taken to custody. He announces that one man will be shot each day unless the real culprit steps forward. Children contact the partisans.

A man and a woman, each with a stable marriage of their own, meet in the wagon compartment. The short encounter of two strangers causes restlessness within their personal views about the world, implying possible romance. Once the train reaches its destination, they go apart without a single word spoken, and return to their world of security.

Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board, takes his statement back, but looses the trust of his colleagues. He starts all over again: in another company he gains new friends, however while facing the criminals who illegally transport workers abroad, he loses his life.

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.

A man comes back to life after his physical death in order to identify his persecutors, who may be real or not.

Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.

В советской Москве 20-х годов — месте где никто не верит ни в Бога, ни в Дьявола, драматург Николай Афанасьевич Максудов (Уго Тоньяцци) пишет пьесу «Понтий Пилат». В своем произведении Максудов описал своё видение библейских событий, и о том, в чем заключался конфликт между Пилатом и Иешуа (Иисусом Христом). Такое смелое произведение быстро не понравилось критикам — Латунскому, Ариману и Лавровичу. Отказался поставить пьесу в своем театре и директор Римский (Таско Начич). Единственная, кто смогла понять пьесу Николая — его возлюбленная Маргарита (Мимси Фармер), оценившая гений Мастера. Меж тем таинственный иностранец Воланд (Ален Кюни), представляющийся профессором чёрной магии, со своими инфернальными подручными Коровьевым (Велимир «Бата» Живойинович) и Азазелло (Павле Вуйисич) объявляется в Москве и начинает жестоко наказывать всех причастных к гонению Мастера и его ссылке в сумасшедший дом...

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.

В центре картины Стив, мелкий преступник, рожденный в Белграде, всегда проблемный, враг режима страны, находящийся под влиянием общества и фильмов и его приход к власти вместе с наркотиками, сексом и с помощью местной полиции.

After WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and declamation of new songs. The family soon forgets their old customs and principles.

A young fella's chance encounter with a girl on the street that didn't have a romantic epilogue.

A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.

A middle-aged man married a young woman but his war memories and her lack of them stand between them.

Three poor musicians become rich and famous, due to an appearance on a TV show. Unexpected success and money tears old friends apart. The bass player, Burduš, lonely and lost, decides to go and find new friends.

Действие фильма происходит в 1944 году в Югославии. Немецкие войска постепенно оставляют занятые территории и отступают. Командование союзников задействовало секретный план, целью которого была помощь югославским партизанам в саботаже и уничтожении последнего поезда в Берлин с золотым запасом страны. Выполнить задание союзники назначили офицера американской армии, ведь он родился в этих краях, и рассказывали даже что он вызвался на это задание сам, в надежде разыскать своего отца. Матея, молодой и пламенный партизанский командир, специалист-подрывник, встретился с ним, и операция началась...

Девочку-подростка Лилику отдают в детский дом, когда её мама перестает с ней справляться. Последней каплей для её матери стало то, что Лилика крала фрукты на местном рынке. Лилика оберегает своего младшего брата и умственно отсталого друга и испытывает симпатии к своему воспитателю. Она мечтает об обычной жизни и о том, как выберется из детского дома, который считает тюрьмой. Она любит мечтать о своем будущем.

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who have been fallen into the river while trying to catch him. Since the guard's job is now to keep an eye on him in the cell, they spend a lot time together and their hatred turns into a sincere friendship. The guard wants to help inmate to escape again.

A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of the show is admonished for trying to incite the public against the system. The media, the man and the television manager gather to try to talk out the misunderstandings they all experience with the system of slow-moving social injustices. The message of the film also states that the days of media scrutiny and public-opinion feedback are here to stay.

Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.

Two soldiers can't deal with peacetime.

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.

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.

During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.

История о любовном романе между взрослым, респектабельным инженером, который приехал в промышленный город, чтобы выполнить работу эксперта и молодой парикмахершей, в доме которой он находился, и последствиях этих отношений после того, как вовлеченным в это оказывается молодой водитель.

An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of a black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains steady connection between the town and mountain, and organizes a resistance movement. Shepard falls in love with her, but suspects that she possibly wants gold instead.

A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation to him.