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Demeter Bitenc
Demeter Bitenc (21 July 1922 – 22 April 2018) was a Slovenian film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films and television shows from 1953 to 2018. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Selected filmography * ''Sinji galeb'' (1953) * ''Pulverschnee nach Übersee'' (1956) - John Meredith (uncredited) * ''Dobri stari pianino'' (1959) - Nemski oficir * ''Akcija'' (1960) - Gestapovec * ''Flitterwochen in der Hölle'' (1960) - José Antonio García * ''Island of the Amazons'' (1960) - Leblanc * ''Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften'' (1961) - Stefan * '' Dancing in the Rain'' (1961) - Profesor * ''The Festival Girls'' (1961) - Member of Jury * ''Treibjagd auf ein Leben'' (1961) - Coco * ''Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules'' (1962) - Dorok - Father of Aydar * ''Minuta za umor'' (1962) * ''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' (1962) - Sigmund (uncredited) * ''Il bandito della luce rossa'' (1962) * ''Colossus and the Headhunters'' (1963) - Ariel * ''The Saracens'' (1963) - Rabanec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljana itself was first mentioned in the first half of the 12th century. Situated at the middle of a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, one of the Slovene-inhabited parts of the Habsburg monarchy. It was under Habsburg rule from the Middle Ages until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. After World War II, Ljubljana became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The city retained this status until Slovenia became independent in 1991 and Ljubljana became the capital of the newly formed state. Name The origin of the name ''Ljubljana'' is unclear. In the Middle Ages, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seventh Continent (1966 Film)
''The Seventh Continent'' ( hr, Sedmi kontinent) is a 1966 Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian co-production film directed by Dušan Vukotić. Plot A group of children discovers a new continent, not inhabited by adults. Soon, thousands of children of all races begin to abandon their parents and arrive at the new continent, forming a friendly and joyous society, where everyone is equal. Their parents realize children are going missing all over the world and begin to look for them, but are unaware of the existence of the seventh continent. Cast * Demeter Bitenc as White Boy's Father * Karla Chadimová as General's Wife * Vanja Drach as Diplomat * Oudy Rachmat Endang as Yellow Girl's Father * Mikloš Huba as General * Jindřich Láznička * Antun Nalis as Otac djece * Tomislav Pasarić as White Boy * Hermina Pipinić as White Boy's Mother * Abdoulaye Seck as Black Boy * Viktor Starčić as Expert at Conference * Iris Vrus as Yellow Girl * Dano Živojinović Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Sutjeska (film)
''Battle of Sutjeska'' (also known as ''The Fifth Offensive'') is a 1973 Yugoslav partisan film directed by Stipe Delić. It tells the story of the famous Battle of Sutjeska, the greatest engagement of the Yugoslav Partisan War. The film is one of the most expensive ever made in Yugoslavia. It was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences It was also entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. Plot German-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1943; under the faithful leadership of Marshal Tito, the Yugoslav Partisans have, for a number of years, put up a staunch fight against the occupying Axis powers. Despite being out-gunned, outmaneuvered and vastly outnumbered, they managed to recuperate in a harsh mountainous region called Durmitor in northern Montenegro. However, their respite is sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England Made Me (film)
''England Made Me'' is a 1973 British drama film directed by Peter Duffell, starring Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, and Michael Hordern, and based on the 1935 novel '' England Made Me'' by Graham Greene. Tony Wollard's art direction was nominated for a British BAFTA Award. The film changes the novel's setting from Sweden to Nazi Germany. Duffel explained that he changed the location due to his lack of knowledge of Sweden in the 1930s, the use of imagery the audience would recognise and the growing menace in Europe of the time. Plot Anthony Farrant (York) is a naive 1930s businessman who pays a visit to Germany on the way home from a business trip, and falls under the politically dubious spell of charismatic financier Erich Krogh (Finch). While Anthony was taught to value fairness and decency, in Erich's world opportunism, corruption, and decadence hold sway. Main cast * Peter Finch - Erich Krogh * Michael York - Anthony Farrant * Hildegarde Neil - Kate Farrant * Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Defends Sarajevo
''Walter Defends Sarajevo'' (; ) is a 1972 Yugoslav partisan film, directed by Hajrudin Krvavac and starring Bata Živojinović, Ljubiša Samardžić and Rade Marković. The film centres around a mysterious figure named 'Walter', who is actively disrupting the attempts of German commander Alexander Löhr to retreat from the Balkans. The film's eponymous character, Walter, is loosely based around Vladimir Perić, whose ''nom de guerre'' was 'Valter'. Plot In late 1944, as the end of World War II approaches, the Wehrmacht's high command determines to pull out General Alexander Löhr's Army Group E from the Balkans back to Germany. They plan to supply the tank columns with fuel from a depot in Sarajevo. The Yugoslav partisans' leader in the city, a mysterious man known as Walter, presents a grave danger to the operation's success, and the Germans dispatch Standartenführer von Dietrich of the SD to deal with him. As no one in the city seems to know what Walter even looks like, Dietr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fifth Day Of Peace
''The Fifth day of Peace'', Italian title: ''Gott mit uns'' (written in German), is an Italo-Yugoslavian movie from 1970 about the 13 May 1945 German deserter execution in a Canadian-run POW camp in Amsterdam. Synopsis Two German deserters, ''Kriegsmarine'' Ensign Bruno Grauber (Franco Nero) and Army Corporal Reiner Schultz (Larry Aubrey) are captured by the Canadian Army at the end of World War II. They are interned in a Canadian-run POW camp where the senior German officer, Colonel Von Bleicher, is a career officer. Their fellow German prisoners of war, led by Von Bleicher, discover that they are deserters. They are put through a formal military court martial organised by Von Bleicher and charged with cowardice. They are sentenced to death and are to be executed on the "fifth day of peace". Von Bleicher pressures the Canadian camp commandant to allow the execution to be carried out and requests rifles and ammunition to carry out the sentence. A Canadian general, Snow, persu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppea's Hot Nights
''Poppea's Hot Nights'' ( it, Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.Michele Giordano. ''Giganti buoni''. Gremese Editore, 1998. . Plot Cast * Olga Schoberová, Olinka Berova as Poppaea Sabina * Brad Harris as Claudius Valerius * Gia Sandri as Lucretia * Howard Ross (actor), Howard Ross as Marco * Femi Benussi as Livia * Sandro Dori as Nero * Daniele Vargas as Druso * Carla Calò as Calpurnia * Nello Pazzafini as Father Colonnius * Tullio Altamura as Seneca the Younger * Silvio Bagolini as Maestro Lepido * Elisa Mainardi as Dionisia * Ignazio Balsamo as Tarquinio * Demeter Bitenc as Tigellino * Franco Pasquetto as Leander * Fortunato Arena as the Legionary * Marco Tulli as the Priest * Alberto Sorrentino as the Roman waiting for Drusilla References External links * Italian historical comedy f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ravine
''The Ravine'' ( it, La cattura) is a 1969 Italian-Yugoslav-American war drama film written and directed by Paolo Cavara and starring David McCallum, Nicoletta Machiavelli and John Crawford. Plot The story takes place in winter, during World War II, at an isolated, snowed-in area. This area is occupied by Germany but contested by partisans who have Russian backing. One of the local partisans is Anja Kovach (Nicoletta Machiavelli). Her entire family was executed in retaliation for the death of a single German. She survived and, eventually, joined the partisans. She has become renowned as a sniper. She has killed almost half the local German garrison. The German troops live in fear of her. Sergeant Stephen Holmann (David McCallum) is an expert sniper in the German army. Before the war, he worked as a teacher. He attended the 1936 Olympics, an expert in marksmanship and a hunter. He gets reassigned from North Africa, and parachuted into the area, for a special assignment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Neretva (film)
''Battle of Neretva'' ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Bitka na Neretvi, Битка на Неретви) is a 1969 SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian Epic film, epic partisan film. Written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić, it is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva, Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ''Battle of Neretva'' is the most expensive motion picture made in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the year after Sergei Bondarchuk (playing the role of Martin in ''Neretva'') won the honour for ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace''. The score for the English-speaking versions was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Its soundtrack was rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bridge (1969 Film)
''The Bridge'' ( sh, / ) is a 1969 Yugoslav film that takes place during World War II. Partisans mine a heavily guarded bridge held by Nazi forces, to check a German offensive. The movie was directed by Hajrudin Krvavac, and stars Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović, Slobodan Perović, Boris Dvornik and Igor Galo. Plot In 1944, Standartenführer Hoffmann is assigned as extra security for a vital bridge near the Yugoslavian border with Greece as German forces are pulling out of the latter country. He wants to take a proactive approach towards Yugoslav Partisan threats but Oberst von Felsen, whom Hoffman is reinforcing, disagrees. Meanwhile, the Partisans want to destroy the bridge to prevent German troops from entering and foiling a planned operation with 5,000 men. A Partisan officer nicknamed “Tiger” is tasked with destroying the bridge in seven days. From the Partisans, he recruits an assassin nicknamed “Tihi”, a young fighter nicknamed “Bambino”, and Zavatoni, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Cross Eagles
Operation Cross Eagles or American Cross Eagles is an action thriller set during the Second World War. The mid-budget film was made in 1968 and was directed by Richard Conte (his only time as a Director) who stars in the film alongside Rory Calhoun. The film is largely filmed on location in Yugoslavia. Plot An American military courier, a Captain, is captured in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. He is rumoured to carry the plans for the Allied invasion and capture of the Balkans, known as Operation Cross Eagles. His courteous captor is Rear Admiral Von Vogels ( Relja Basic). A small group of American commandoes, led by Lt Bradford, are sent to capture a German colonel (Col. Streich) in order to exchange him for the courier. The Yugoslavian authorities become aware of the plan. Bradford and McAfee enter the Nazi-held fort dressed as monks, and pretend to sell fruit. As they are discovered their troop open fire. They successfully capture Col. Streich. The colonel is left in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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