
Ružica Sokić
Actor · 1934 – 2013 · Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Ružica Sokić (December 14, 1934 – December 19, 2013) was a notable Serbian and Yugoslav actress best known for her performances in films such as When I Am Dead and Gone (1967), Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967), and Yellow (1973). Throughout her career, Sokić appeared in more than 70 films and numerous television and theatre productions, becoming one of the most respected actresses of Yugoslav cinema. She received two Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival, for her performances in Yellow (1973) and Guns of War (1974). She passed away in 2013 in Belgrade at the age of 79.
Movies24
Movie8.0TV MovieDramaA TV drama set in a brick factory.
Movie7.0TV MovieDramaMilos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.
Movie6.4ComedyAt 56 years of age Mita Pantic is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Movie5.7WarIn 1941, a few months after German tanks forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.
Movie7.0TV MovieComedyIn his comedy play, Branislav Nusic satirically depicted the snobbish desire of some wealthy people to “decorate” their children with academic titles.
Dr
1984 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTV MovieBased on the work of the same name by Branislav Nušić. The film satirizes societal obsession with money through eccentric characters vying for wealth in a lighthearted setting.
Movie8.0TV MovieComedyA TV adaptation of Branislav Nusic's legendary comedy "The Lady Minister", which follows the wife of a minister who changes her lifestyle and becomes sophisticated all of a sudden. However, her husband resigns after being involved in a scandal, but she finds hard to get back to previous life.
- Movie7.0TV MovieDrama
Professor of mathematics (played by Petar Kralj) confesses to the famous writer Ivo Andric (played by Tihomir Stanic). The professor’s psychological drama starts off when he picks up a package addressed to a certain lady. In her gratitude, the professor sees a discreet romantic sign.
Movie6.2ActionWarAfter Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.
- Movie10.0TV MovieDrama
The subject of the story is care and love of Vlajko, a lonely clerk, for an abandoned sick child. Through sacrifice, the main character finds the meaning of his monotonous life.
Movie6.0DramaA priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.
Movie6.7DramaRomanceAfter many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.
Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T.
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
1967 · 45 votes
Movie3.2ComedyDrama"Love Stars" is a film about loneliness, growing up and search for love. Laza is a romantic 20 year-old, who after being isolated a long time, comes to the city. There he gets to know a group of young voyeurs, led by a 50 year-old, with classy attitude and manners (the Count). Laza joins them and during the course of film that simple group of voyeurs becomes a witness of the whole state of spirit dominating in our everyday life. By the irony of fate, on the end Laza's dreams still come through.
Movie8.0TV MovieComedyIn the family of Colonel Mitrovic, all three daughters are ready for marriage, but they have problems finding husbands. The icebreaker occurs when the youngest daughter marries a young assistant at the university. Her wedding, however, starts a chain of events which helps the other two daughters.
- Movie9.0Drama
A three-part anthology film.
Movie10.0TV MovieComedyA man helps a woman get married. There are more candidates, but in the end it turns out that he is the ‘right address’ for her.
Movie4.6DramaA boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Tango argentino
1992 · 10 votes
Movie8.0TV MovieDramaA married daughter who longs for her mother’s love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
Movie6.9FamilyDramaSfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
Movie6.3DramaZona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane, an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.
Movie5.8ComedyAfter car crash with some Turk, Pantic gets the idea to build a motel for all Turks who traveling through Yugoslavia. Sojic wants to thwart the plan, and tells the Turk in confidence that Pantic is gay. However, the Turk is also gay.
Movie9.0ComedyTV MovieThe staff of a company organize the meeting regarding 500 bathtubs which someone mysteriously left in the timber yard. Although it's obviously someone's machination behind this, the meeting turns into a feast with music, rather than a night of boring polemics.
Movie6.5DramaEverything 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.
Movie6.8DramaBelgrade in 1992. - breaking up of Yugoslavia, blockade, shortages, food queues, student rebellion. Life of two Belgrade families and personal drama of their members, caused by social breakdown and civil war.
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TV8.9ComedyVruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.
TV6.5DramaSet in the 1930s, the series is about the impossible love between a poor young man from the province, an unemployed law graduate and a talented singer, and the rich and sensitive heiress of a bank manager and owner.
TVDramaA modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.
TV10.0ComedyDramaSamci is a Yugoslav black-and-white television anthology produced by RTV Belgrade and broadcast in 1968. It consists of seven episodes, which are short romantic comedies. It was directed by Aleksandar Đorđević and written by Gordan Mihić.
TV9.0The story of Jelena is set to Serbia's capital Belgrad and it follows the life of an ordinary woman, who's not happy in love. She's married to Ratko and has two children Sasa and Lidija. Inspite of years that went by, Jelena never managed to forget Vuk, a love of her life she has been involved with in her youth. She was separated from Vuk under tragic and mysterious circumstances. After 3 decades in his wish to pursue justice, Vuk returns to his city bringing his daughter Helen with him. His attempt to clarify what happened and to prove the truth is sabotaged by Jelena's husband who keeps failing in business more and more. Even though he loves Jelena, he has a relationship with Sofija, the owner of a modeling agency. Nobody expects that the accidental encounter between Sasa and Helen will become fatal once they decided to start the life together.
Jelena
2004 · 1 votes
TV3.3War & PoliticsTV series which serves as an extended version of the film of the same title.
TV10.0ComedyMore or less happy adventures of a Yugoslav People's Army unit, a friendly batch that couldn't be more ethnically diverse.
TV9.0DramaFamilyFunny peasant granny moves from her village to Belgrade with her grandson so he can finish elementary school in the city. The clash between the human, rural, and honest and the depraved, false, and petty-bourgeois is inevitable.