Yugoslav Black Wave
Yugoslav Black Wave is a blanket term for a Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Notable directors include Dušan Makavejev, Žika Pavlović, Saša Petrović, Želimir Žilnik, Mika Antić, Lordan Zafranović, Mića Popović and Marko Babac. Their films are known for their non-traditional approach to film making, their dark humor and their critical examination of the Yugoslav society at the time.
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- DirectorJovan JovanovicStarsStevan TadicNada PavlovicMind sick man wondering on streets of Belgrade,thinking about killing us all.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicTensions arise in a Gypsy community when a local feather seller falls in love with a much younger girl.
- DirectorJovan JovanovicStarsDragan NikolicAleksandar GavricMaría BaxaFollows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", petty criminal born in Belgrade, always problematic, enemy of country's regime, influenced by society and movies(for example Godard's, even the movie looks like "Breathless" a little bit and Godard is mentioned once in the movie) and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsDragan NikolicRuzica SokicNeda SpasojevicThe story about Jimmy the Dingy, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicJanez VrhovecSeverin BijelicA story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
- DirectorJovan JovanovicMiodrag MilosevicStarsStanoje CebicFunny story of a unemployed metalworker, self-proclaimed Marxist fanatic, his views and whereabouts.
- DirectorLazar StojanovicStarsVukica DjilasSvetlana GligorijevicTomislav GotovacTom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He doesn't believe in anybody, respects no one and is in constant conflict with the ruling system and order. After being left by a silly American girl, Tom binds with a woman whose husband is abroad. When she kicks him out, he moves in with her husband's sister, who later kills him in the attack of jealousy. All this is shown in the context of major historical events prior to 1968. with lots of archive footages of world leaders.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicNeda ArnericMilena DravicThe war has ended leaving a deep trace in people. Going through a different conflicts in the first days of peace - dealing with a former enemy's collaborators and executing traitors - a former soldier continues with killing even in peace. So, the war goes on, a struggle within himself and with the people around him.
- DirectorMiroslav AnticStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicMira StupicaDragomir Bojanic-GidraThe story of the collapse of Vojvodinian village during the great flood in 1947. The people, their fate and suffering, love and deaths.
- DirectorMiodrag PopovicStarsLjerka DrazenovicJovan Janicijevic-BurdusDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicThe winds of war has passed and left a permanent deformation of the human psyche. Two brothers returned after the liberation of their village who that is the whole burnt and deserted. They confessed to each other that the war, as trophies, bring tasers ammunition. In all this madness begins the game with a shooting that much love. They are joined by a German who is hiding behind the rocks after the destruction of the village. And in this insane game killed all three.
- DirectorVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsSpela RozinMarko TodorovicDusica ZegaracOne night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman behind the steering wheel. It was actually the four teenagers who have stolen Peugeot 404 to drive around for fun, but the girl who was with them left the car in the middle of highway. The boys have been chased by the police and they've crashed fatally. The police continues their intense search to find the fourth person.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsJovan Janicijevic-BurdusAnka ZupancDusan JanicijevicIn a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change attitude towards them, disarming and shutting them off, but the pilots were able to escape. Palming off the corpses of two other killed prisoners to the Germans, who have since captured the real pilots, the Chetniks make local people enraged, despite their captain's attempts to cover up this wrongdoing, done on a public holiday.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAli RanerSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThree stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsMilja VujanovicBogdan TirnanicCedomir RadovicA group of young persons are going to make a revolution, but in real life everything is not the same as in smart books.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicSeverin BijelicIdealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicDusica ZegaracSeverin BijelicA lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister's treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicJagoda KaloperAn homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.
- DirectorMarko BabacZivojin PavlovicVojislav 'Kokan' RakonjacStarsBranka JovanovicMihajlo Kostic-PljakaLjiljana SljapicThree stories (Love, Heart, The Hoop), set in urban, alienated world of a big city. This is the only officially banned movie in history of Yugoslavia.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicSnezana LukicMaks FurijanAn ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicJanez VrhovecEva RasA love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsAnnie GirardotIvan PalúchMija AleksicA bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- DirectorVojislav NanovicStarsMilivoje ZivanovicRade MarkovicRenata UlmanskiLife of Simo Solaja (1905-1942), a Yugoslav partisan national hero from Bosnia.
- DirectorDusan Makavejev
- DirectorMiroslav AnticStarsCedomir MihajlovicZelimira ZujovicTihomir PleskonjicA man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in honor of his dead comrades, unwanted and abandoned. They were roll-calling the dead and alive, but his name was not mentioned. And he stood before his comrades, face to face. He stood, and it looked as if he had never existed.
- DirectorBahrudin 'Bato' CengicStarsDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBranka PetricAfter 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.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsDragoljub AleksicBratoljub GligorijevicVera JovanovicDocumentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.
- DirectorJovan ZivanovicStarsSpela RozinVojislav MiricZoran RadmilovicNineteen year old Minja, disappointed after the affair with a professor of drawing, left the provincial town and lives in a big city disparaging love. Encountering on Nenad, she changes under the influence of its own and love.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsBeba LoncarMiha BalohMilos ZuticA young man falls in love with the girl who he met by accident.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsOlga VujadinovicLjubisa SamardzicVjekoslav AfricA married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for one day.
- DirectorMiodrag PopovicStarsMija AleksicTamara MileticVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAn ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains a constant connection between the town and mountain and organizes a resistance movement. The Shepard falls in love with her, but suspects that she possibly wants gold instead.
- DirectorMiodrag PopovicStarsMira StupicaRade MarkovicSvetolik NikacevicDuring 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.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikSFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public bathrooms and sleep in homeless centers.
- DirectorJovan ZivanovicStarsBekim FehmiuOlivera KatarinaVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicIn an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, but the naive dyer believes in "straight" intentions of his godfather - black marketeer, and he gives away free canvas to the people. But in all their pain, people are unable to distinguish good intentions from the evil ones.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsLjubisa SamardzicNeda ArnericFaruk BegolliThe lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.
- DirectorLjubisa KozomaraGordan MihicStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicMilan JelicJelisaveta 'Seka' SablicA flat-broke aging boxer living on the verge of existence, associates with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for money.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaMajda PotokarMajda GrbacAn ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
- DirectorZelimir ZilnikStarsLuka BauerFranja HandrevaAleksandar LopatinDirector invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help them, this being SFRJ, a state officially without those left on their own.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsUgo TognazziMimsy FarmerAlain CunyA writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
- DirectorJovan ZivanovicStarsVera CukicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicLepa LukicAn electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
- DirectorPredrag GolubovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicBoris DvornikAbdurrahman ShalaAt the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaBarbara NielsenPavle VuisicAfter issued Chetniks and destruction to make an agreement between the Partisans and the Chetniks, a partisan unit angry about betrayal, deception is being broken. A one broken group of partisans unwittingly sabotage draws to the attention of the Chetniks, and the Italians who, instead-prepared attack on the headquarters of the Supreme People's Liberation Struggle, entering into a bloody campaign against the wounded, hungry and poorly armed partisans hidden by the dugout. In that hell, everyone becomes a hunted beast, and the beast that persecuted. In the chaos of destruction, in the wilderness, in the midst of the rampage of death, gives birth to son wounded Partisans, a symbol of triumph of life.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsSvetozar CvetkovicMirjana KaranovicRados BajicObsessed by dreams of a comfortable life, the son of a copper miner returns to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of old and new love, and the events in and around the mine, all test his obsession with Catanga.