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Avala Film
Avala Film ( sr-cyr, Aвала филм) is a Serbian film studio, founded in 1946 as the first studio founded in post-war Yugoslavia. It is currently declared bankrupt. Overview In June 1946, the government of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia created the State Committee of Cinematography, in order to replace the provisional Film Enterprise of the SFRY. The Committee set out to establish film production companies in the various constituent states of Yugoslavia: the first and the largest of those was Avala Film, in the Socialist Republic of Serbia's capital Belgrade, which was founded on 15 July. The company was located in the future complex of Filmski Grad, which the Committee had only begun planning. In 1947, Avala Film produced the first feature film made in postwar Yugoslavia, Vjekoslav Afrić's ''Slavica''. Until 2000, the studio participated in the creation of 400 documentaries, 200 feature films and 120 co-productions with foreign companies; its pictures won more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siberian Lady Macbeth
''Siberian Lady Macbeth'' (Orig. ''Sibirska Ledi Magbet''), also translated as ''Fury Is a Woman'', is a 1962 film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on the novella '' Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'' by Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique w .... Cast * Olivera Marković - Katerina Izmajlowa / Lady Macbeth * Ljuba Tadić - Sergei * Kapitalina Erić - cook * Bojan Stupica - Izmajlow * Miodrag Lazarević - Zinovij Izmailow * Branka Petrić - aunt External links From Wajda's site * 1962 films 1960s Polish-language films Serbian-language films 1962 drama films Polish black-and-white films Films based on works by Nikolai Leskov Polish drama films 1960s multilingual films Polish multilingual films Yugoslav multilingual films Films directed by Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genghis Khan (1965 Film)
''Genghis Khan'' is a 1965 adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring Omar Sharif, depicting a fictionalized account of the life and conquests of the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan. Distributed in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1965 by Columbia Pictures, the film also features James Mason, Stephen Boyd, Eli Wallach, Françoise Dorléac and Telly Savalas. A 70 mm version was released by CCC Film in West Germany. It was filmed in Yugoslavia with Technicolor and Panavision. Plot The young Temujin (Omar Sharif) sees his father tortured and killed by a rival tribe led by Jamuga (Stephen Boyd). Held prisoner, he is yoked into a large wooden wheel around his neck and tormented by the tribal children. He meets the young Bortai after an act of kindness to her, but is punished by Jamuga. Temujin then escapes and hides in the hills, followed by Geen and Sengal, who pledge their allegiance to the man vowing to unite all the Mongol tribes. Raids along caravan route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco The Magnificent
''La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo'' or ''Marco the Magnificent'' is a 1965 in cinema, 1965 international co-production (Afghanistan, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Egypt, France, Italy) adventure film directed by Denys de La Patellière and Noël Howard. Raoul Levy committed suicide after losing most of his fortune financing this film. Cast *Horst Buchholz as Marco Polo *Anthony Quinn as Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor of China *Omar Sharif as Sheik Alla Hou, 'The Desert Wind' *Orson Welles as Akerman, Marco's tutor *Akim Tamiroff as the Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Old Man of the Mountain *Elsa Martinelli as the woman with the whip *Robert Hossein as Prince Nayam, a Mongol rebel leader *Grégoire Aslan as Achmed Abdullah *Massimo Girotti as Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, Niccolò, Marco's father *Folco Lulli as Spinello, a Venetian merchant *Guido Alberti as Pope Gregory X *Lynne Sue Moon as Princess Gogatine (credited as Lee Sue Moon) *Bruno Cremer as Guillaume de Tripo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Ships (film)
''The Long Ships'' is a 1964 Anglo– Yugoslav adventure film shot in Technirama directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn and Rosanna Schiaffino. Background The film was very loosely based on the Swedish novel ''The Long Ships'' by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941–1945), retaining little more than the title (of the English translation) and the Moorish settings of Orm's first voyage. Although the protagonist is named Rolfe, the film was released in Sweden with the title ''Röde Orm och de långa skeppen'' (Red Orm and the Long Ships), in a further attempt to exploit the popularity of the novel. It was also intended to capitalise on the success of recent Viking and Moorish dramas such as '' The Vikings'' (1958) and ''El Cid'' (1961) and was later followed by ''Alfred the Great'' (1969). Plot The story centres on an immense golden bell named the Mother of Voices, which may or may not exist. Moorish king Aly Mansuh (Sidney Poitier) is convinced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Bulba (1962 Film)
''Taras Bulba'' is a 1962 American Color by Deluxe in Eastmancolor adventure film loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's novel ''Taras Bulba'', starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The story line of the film is considerably different from that of Gogol's novel, although it is closer to his expanded 1842 (pro-Russian Imperial) edition than his original (pro-Ukrainian) version of 1835. Plot The film opens in the 16th century, when Ukraine, Russia, Poland and elsewhere in eastern Europe were divided into small sections and principalities that fought each other or against one enemy: in this case, the Ottoman Empire. It starts with a battle raging between the Turks and the Poles. The Poles are losing until the Cossacks arrive to save the day. However, it turns out that the Poles were merely holding back so that they could treacherously attack the Cossacks after they won the battle for them. As a result, the Poles become masters of Ukraine and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Bridge
''The Last Bridge'' (german: Die Letzte Brücke) is a 1954 Austrian-Yugoslavian war drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki and Barbara Rütting.Von Dassanowsky p.157 It tells the story of a German nurse who is captured by Yugoslav partisans, and with her devotion to medical duty finds herself with divided loyalty to both sides of the conflict. The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger and Wolf Witzemann. Location shooting took place in Mostar and the Neretva valley in Bosnia. Cast * Maria Schell as Dr. Helga Reinbeck * Bernhard Wicki as Boro * Barbara Rütting as Milica * Carl Möhner as Martin Berger * Pavle Mincic as Momcillo * Horst Hächler as Leutnant Scherer * Robert Meyn as Stabsartz Dr. Rottsieper * Zvonko Zungul as Partisan Sava * Tilla Durieux as Mara * Fritz Eckhardt Fritz Eckhardt (born Linz, 30 November 1907; died Klosterneuburg, 31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meeting Point
''The Meeting Point'' (''Sabirni centar'') is a 1989 Yugoslavian fantasy/comedy-drama film directed by Goran Marković and starring Rade Marković, Bogdan Diklić, Dragan Nikolić, Mirjana Karanović and Anica Dobra. It is based on Dušan Kovačević's play of the same title translated in the U.S. as ''The Gathering Place''. Plot An archaeological team, digging in a remote village and led by an old professor, unearths an old Roman artifact, a gravestone bearing some mysterious inscriptions. After realizing that they have stumbled upon something precious, the professor collapses with a heart attack. Seemingly dead for people around him, he finds himself in a sort of afterlife state and realizes that the stone marked a passage into the classical underworld so he starts mingling with the antique spirits of the dead. The spirits themselves appear just as silly and petty as the peasants from the village above them, and in their desire to see what happened to their descendants, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reflections (1987 Film)
''Reflections'' ( sh, Već viđeno, Already seen; also known as ''Deja Vu'') is a 1987 Yugoslav psychological horror/drama film directed by Goran Marković and starring Mustafa Nadarević, Anica Dobra, Milorad Mandić and Petar Božović. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot A mentally disturbed middle-aged musician falls in love with an attractive young girl. Mihailo, once a brilliant young pianist, is now a piano teacher at an educational center. His colleagues consider him an oddball, but they leave him alone to live his lonely life. Everything changes when a young girl appears at his school. Contact with her, a new, erotically intense life, causes a strange phenomenon in him - as he has seen it all once before. Namely, the situations he experiences seem repeated to him. His trauma, the piano, causes painful emotions and pathological fear, a fusion of past and present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberation (film Series)
''Liberation'' (russian: Освобождение, translit. Osvobozhdenie, german: Befreiung, pl, Wyzwolenie) is a film series released in 1970 and 1971, directed by Yuri Ozerov and shot in wide-format NIKFI process (70 mm). The script was written by Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. The series was a Soviet-Polish-East German-Italian-Yugoslav co-production. The films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union's territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front campaigns: the Battle of Kursk, the Lower Dnieper Offensive, Operation Bagration, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin. Plot Film I: ''The Fire Bulge'' After the Soviets are alerted to the imminent German offensive in Kursk, they launch a preemptive artillery strike, delaying the enemy. The battalion of Lieutenant Colonel Lukin – led by officers Tzvetaev, Orlov, and Maximov – participates in the battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Rains In My Village
''It Rains in My Village'' ( sh, Biće skoro propast sveta, ) is a 1968 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović, partly inspired by the novel Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Plot A mentally challenged girl is defended by a young man who takes care of pigs. He gets into a fight with the local saloon keeper, prompting the man to get the boy drunk and bribe a priest into marrying the boy to the unfortunate girl. A female teacher arrives in town to teach women how to paint. She uses the young boy as a model and then as a toy for her pleasure. The teacher subsequently takes another lover and abandons the young man, claiming that she was unaware of his marriage. The young boy eventually kills his wife, but his father takes the blame for the crime and confesses his sins before he dies in prison. As a conclusion to this sad movie, the townspeople punish the young boy for what he has done. Themes Typical "film noire" plot of the film is not the main message of the film. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
''I Even Met Happy Gypsies'' is a 1967 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian title is ''Skupljači perja'', which means ''The Feather Gatherers''. The film is centered on Romani people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Vučo, Bata Živojinović and Mija Aleksić, film features a cast of Romani actors speaking the Romani language. ''I Even Met Happy Gypsies'' is considered one of the best films of the Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema. Plot The protagonist, Beli Bora Perjar ( Bekim Fehmiu), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his former affair, the '' kafana'' singer Lenče ( Olivera Vučo), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa ( Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her step-father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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