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Veljko Despotović
Veljko Despotović (1 October 1931 – 6 April 2013) was a Serbian film and television production designer. Biography In 1958 he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, after which he continued with designing theatre, film and television sets. Between 1950 and 1962 he was working as an assistant in the art department and as an architect in theatre, film and television. Since 1962 he works as independent Serbian and foreign film set designer. He has done over 150 domestic and foreign movies and co-productions. Despotović won two Golden Arena for Best Production Design awards at the 1979 and 1984 editions of the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards. for his work on the films ''The Man to Kill'' (''Čovjek koga treba ubiti'', 1979; directed by Veljko Bulajić), ''Burning'' (''Usijanje'', 1979; directed by Boro Drašković), and ''Strangler vs. Strangler'' (''Davitelj protiv davitelja'', 1984; directed by Slobodan Šijan). Selected fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ... [...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. The film is centered on Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina, but it also deals with other themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Vučo, Bata Živojinović and Mija Aleksić, film features a cast of Roma 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 summary The protagonist, Beli Bora Perjar, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his former girlfriend, the '' kafana'' singer Lenče, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, 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 she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Production Designers
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Film People From Zagreb
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, Sound film, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual Recording medium, medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Deaths
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1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tears For Sale
''Tears for Sale'', also known internationally as ''Charleston & Vendetta'' or also as ''Funeral Brides'' (original title in , literal translation ''Charleston for Ognjenka'', ), is a 2008 Serbian drama film. Directed by Uroš Stojanović, it stars Sonja Kolačarić, Katarina Radivojević, Nenad Jezdić, Stefan Kapičić, and Olivera Katarina. It was released in Serbia following a January 30, 2008 premiere at Belgrade's Sava Centar. Made on a budget that exceeds €4 million, the movie was shot during summer 2005 as the most expensive Serbian movie ever (until '' St. George Shoots the Dragon'' surpassed it a year later). It then went into a long post-production due to specific CGI requirements. ''Tears for Sale'' featured 40 minutes' worth of special effects and over of film, around five times more than the average used in Serbia. The musical score was done by Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi. Luc Besson's production and distribution companies Blue Pen and EuropaCorp hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito And Me
''Tito and Me'' (Serbo-Croatian: ''Tito i ja'', Serbian Cyrillic: ''Тито и ја'') is a 1992 comedy film by Serbian director Goran Marković. Plot The movie is set in socialist Yugoslavia during the 1950s. Zoran is an overweight 10-year-old living in an overcrowded home that his parents share with his aunt, uncle and grandmother. In the early communist era of Yugoslavia, many homes were taken away from their owners in the Land Reform programs. Zoran's parents are both artists, a pianist and a ballerina, and they do not get along well with his aunt and uncle. Zoran's parents are sceptical about Josip Broz Tito's rule, while little Zoran sees Tito as his personal hero. He's learned in school that Tito is the greatest man to have ever lived, and he daydreams about meeting him. Zoran's father expresses worry that Zoran loves Tito more than his own parents. One day, Zoran writes a poem titled "Why I Like the President", which is judged as the best of those submitted by Belgrade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Gunpowder
''Silent Gunpowder'' () is a 1990 Yugoslav war film directed by Bato Čengić, starring Mustafa Nadarević, Branislav Lečić, Fabijan Šovagović, Mira Furlan, Boro Stjepanović and Josip Pejaković. Plot Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Bosnian Serb village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines in the face of the Axis invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, represented by the royalist Chetniks and the communist Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander nicknamed Španac (lit. "Spaniard", played by Mustafa Nadarević) and a former Royal Army officer Miloš Radekić (played by Branislav Lečić). Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new communist ideology, and so the main plot revolves around the conflict between them. Cast Awards *At the 1990 Pula Film Fes ... [...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] |
Davitelj Protiv Davitelja
''Strangler vs. Strangler'' () is a 1984 Yugoslav film featuring elements of horror comedy, thriller and horror. The film is set in Belgrade during the 1980s. A middle-aged flower seller becomes a serial killer, targeting girls who refuse to buy his products. His motivation is the sadistic punishment inflicted on him by his domineering mother for the failed sales. An inept police inspector is increasingly obsessed with capturing the killer. A rock singer turns into a copycat killer, killing his wife during their honeymoon and putting the blame on the original killer, leading to a confrontation between the two killers. Plot In the mid-1980s Belgrade finally gets its first serial killer: an awkward carnations seller named Pera Mitić ( Taško Načić). Mitić is an overweight 48-year-old man still living with his aging mother—an unusual relationship with numerous Oedipean overtones. His mother often punishes him when he does not sell any of the carnation flowers. His punishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of Nikola Tesla
''The Secret of Nikola Tesla'' (), is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which dramatizes events in the life of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. This somewhat fictionalized portrayal of Tesla's life has him contending with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan in his attempts to develop alternating current and then "free" wireless power. Plot Tesla in a hotel room in 1943 talks to a reporter. He then reminisces about how things would be different if J. P Morgan had listened to him. Tesla arrives in the US in the 1880s. He tries to convince his new employer, Thomas Edison, to adopt his newly invented electric induction motor running on an alternating current (AC) system but Edison claims direct current (DC) is better and turns him down. Robert Underwood Johnson and his wife Katharine, who were at the meeting, later find Tesla digging a ditch, having quit his job at Edison. Tesla strikes a business deal with two investors to finance development of his motor. He show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
