Zarko Lausevic Movies
- 1994
In this Yugoslavian drama, produced in 1991, a gifted actor destroys his life with alcohol. Stamena is an American-Serb. She has come to Belgrade for a vacation. There she encounters and falls for a handsome rising star, Aleska. Though in love, the two must deal with cultural differences. She wants a job; he insists she stay home and raise the baby. He drinks all the time; she wants him to stop. He does and his career takes off with a popular TV series, and the acclaim he receives for his brilliant work on the stage. Unfortunately, the government shuts down his play. The despondent Aleska runs for the bottle. While drunk he is involved in a fatal traffic accident. He is sent to prison. Stamena promptly bundles up the baby and returns to the U.S. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zarko Lausevic, Claire Backman, (more)
- 1993
This upbeat Yugoslavian romantic drama takes a joyful look at the country's youth oriented counter-culture. It is set in Belgrade during the near future, 1999. The saga centers around "Boom 92" an underground radio station. Through its single microphone comes many rebellious ideas. The film's protagonist is Black a DJ who resembles James Dean. To keep his station on the air, Black will do anything, even if it means selling drugs and tape recorders. Black meets his match in the beautiful Luna, a rock singer with more attitude than he has. Framed by opression, censorship, and violence the two fall passionately in love. Boom 92 is shut down because it is considered subversive. The enterprising Black then creates Black Bomber, a traveling radio station in the bed of a pick-up truck. He is pursued by as persistent policeman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anica Dobra
- 1989
- R
The English-language title of this Yugoslav film is Maternal Halfbrothers. The siblings in question are played by Zarko Lascevic and Radoslav Milenkov. The rivalry and enmity between the two is deeper than can be dealt with on a rational basis. The problem: their two fathers are from different ethnic backgrounds. Given the current civil unrest in what used to be Yugoslavia, Braca po Materi may well be more potent and meaningful now than when it was first released. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zarko Lausevic, Slavko Stimac, (more)
- 1989
High school teenagers gather in a Belgrade courtyard after class in this teen comedy. One is chased by a truant officer who wants him to write an essay. Another boy earns money by scalping soccer tickets. The teens go though the typical adventures of school dances, peer pressure and first loves. They gather to help the likeable milkman when he is pestered by local bullies. The plot focuses on teen life in 1963 Belgrade and avoids the usual political posturing and melodramatics usually associated with Yugoslav films. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olja Bekovic, Marica Vuletic, (more)
- 1989
- R
Maximo Brockman (Adrian Ghio) is an Argentine immigrant who marries Jana (Mira Jokovic), a young Jewish girl from Yugoslavia. After the wedding, they bid goodbye to her parents and board an ocean liner bound for South America. The naive Jana soon discovers her husband is a notorious white slave trader. Although he keeps her as his wife, Maximo forces Jana to work as a prostitute in a Buenos Aires brothel. When she falls in love with an honest local, Maximo resorts to blackmail to keep her. Later, Jara's brother comes over from Yugoslavia to save his sister and restore the family's good name. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrian Ghio, Mirjana Jokovic, (more)
- 1987
Luka has graduated from college, and he has traveled abroad and seen how people live there. Recently, he returned from his trip and was arrested at the border on a drug charge. They only took his passport, though. He has no job, so he hangs around with his buddies wherever he can, getting into scrapes with them as they battle punk gangs (generally losing) and cops (always losing). His big dream is to get his passport back and attend that German festival to inebriation known as Oktoberfest. However, the obstacles he faces are so daunting that by the time his mother actually obtains his passport for him, it's doubtful that he is capable of lightheartedly enjoying anything anymore. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Svetislav Goncic, Zoran Cvijanovic, (more)
- 1987
It is 1945 in Zagreb, and everyone is settling into the new regime following the disturbances of the war. Matilda is a wealthy widow of a war hero and has an apartment so spacious that she is required to take a boarder. Fortunately for her, the handsome young Lt. Horvat, the communist housing officer, has taken a fancy to her and has assigned his fiancee to be Matilda's new roommate. Where Matilda is soft and rounded, Lilijana is hard, skinny, and given to revolutionary pronouncements rather than tender endearments. The lieutenant loves them both, though he naturally finds Matilda more attractive. His situation is simplified when Lilijana, though pregnant, is transferred to another post. However, his commander is horrified that he has a lover in addition to his fiancee and demands that he choose whether to continue his career or continue his affair. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ksenija Pajic, Zarko Lausevic, (more)
- 1986
In this amusing anti-war comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops -- which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures, one of which leads to the inadvertent capture of an enemy submarine but most of which do not lead very far. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, (more)
- 1985
Director Srdjan Karanovic has taken clips from a TV series he created in 1974 (Pogledaj Me, Nevernice) and, focusing on the protagonists in that series, he brings their lives up-to-date in this conventional sequel. The friends gather on a floating restaurant, and as they drift down-river listening to the strains of a band, each tries to outdo the others with what he or she has managed to achieve in the last decade. Before long, it becomes painfully clear that the truth hardly measures up to their stories -- and worse yet, now the raft looks like it is in trouble. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Branko Cvejic
