Vladica Milosavljevic Movies
- 1995
This anthology offers five vignettes from different directors and different countries. Serbia is the source of the third entry, "Pigs and Pearls," an emotional look at casual violence that centers on a night guard who is conned into robbing a grave by another couple. In the end, he runs off with the woman, who ends up double-crossing him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 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, Rovi
- Starring:
- Svetislav Goncic, Zoran Cvijanovic, (more)
- 1987
Branko is a self-involved fellow who has somehow managed to win the attention of two women: his wife, and a fairly plain (but blonde) woman. His wife and he are somewhat at odds, if only for his tendency to prefer chess games to bedroom antics. One day they are on a train to visit their son, who is in hospital, and they are so angry with each other that they split up. He goes one direction to watch a chess game, she stays in their compartment. Unfortunately, she is in a compartment sufficiently remote that when she is raped by three men, her shrieks and cries go unheard. Branko is just heading back to their seats when he comes across his wife wailing and pulling open the outside door to the train. Before he can get to her, the distraught woman jumps to her death. Afflicted with partial amnesia, it is difficult for him to assist the police with their inquiries. However, on a similar train trip, he is able to put it all together and, curiously, the same villains are aboard, and he cold-bloodedly does each one of them in. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Irfan Mensur, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1986
Believable, sometimes humorous but often downbeat, this drama about two Yugoslav brothers just after World War II cuts a wide swath across that former nation's cultural divisions. Dragoslav (Svetozar Dvetkovic) is on a train bringing soldiers home from the USSR in 1945 when a young man he had been trying to help kills himself. After the police haul Dragoslav in for questioning, they suspect he is actually a Russian spy. Although they release him for the time being, his freedom does not last long; he is soon arrested and put in jail. In the meantime, the woman he loves (Vladica Milosavljevic) has moved in with Kosta (Meto Jovanovski), his brother. The devil-may-care Kosta lives on black market deals and favors American-style clothes and music. His attitude is diametrically opposed to that of Dragoslav, who stubbornly maintains his faith in the Communist Party, even behind bars. By the time 1949 rolls around, the fate of the brothers and the woman they both love looks anything but bright. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Svetozar Cvetkovic, Meto Jovanovski, (more)
- 1984
Divided into three different films by three graduates of the Ljubljana Academy (for training in the media), Trije Prispevki K Slovenski Blaznosti addresses the issue of madness from different perspectives. In the first story, a young boy watches his mother decline after she is abused by his father. The boy later suffers indignities at school and later yet kills a gang leader who attacked him. That act gets him some time in reform school, which then leads to his final alienation from society once he is released. His only solace in a hostile world is a young woman with whom he begins an intimate relationship. In the second story, reality and fantasy are mixed together in a version of the tale of Orpheus, whose music convinced Satan to release Orpheus' wife from Hades, but on a condition that becomes impossible to fulfill. In the last story, a young man is overcome by suicidal urges until he meets an innocent and stable woman and begins to regain his hope. All three stories are good beginnings for the newly-minted filmmakers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- 1983
In this melodrama about companionship and life, two friends are released from jail for different reasons -- one has a weekend pass, and the other is terminally ill -- and they go out looking for the past they left behind when they were imprisoned. As the healthy prisoner searches for his wife and son, his view on the meaning of existence is very much affected by his dying friend. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Aleksandar Bercek, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, (more)
- 1983
In this competent yet conventional film, a young man gets out of the army, goes to Sarajevo to work at a construction site, and then new and unscrupulous companions convince him to sell his late father's farm and invest in a dubious nightclub venture. On his way to growing up and getting to learn the ways of the world, he also experiences his first love. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mladen Nelevic, Mira Furlan, (more)
- 1981
A Yugoslavian tourist in Africa buys a flute from a very sick man at a bazaar, unwittingly picking up the dread disease of smallpox in the process. When the tourist passes through the controls at Belgrade airport, he is already feeling the effects of the sickness and ends up in a ward at a hospital while the doctors try to diagnose his condition. The chief doctor misdiagnoses the man's illness and as a consequence, the smallpox spreads like wildfire -- to the little boy in a bed near him, to an unfortunate plumber, to the nursing staff -- and he dies before these others also succumb, within a matter of hours. The doctor who guessed wrong about the man's condition locks himself up in his office for protection and injects himself with serum as a safety measure. Meanwhile, after much bumbling along, the place is quarantined and the World Health Organization has someone arrive in a space suit to decontaminate the hospital and end the epidemic. Though what has happened to the flute that started the deaths? Some remaining scenes clue the viewers in to this unsettling question. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rade Serbedzija, Rade Markovic, (more)
- 1980
Dani Od Snova is a routine, slightly superficial look at a young woman's romantic coming-of-age. The attractive teen is tending a flock of sheep in the middle of nowhere, nowhere except for an adjacent military base. One of the pilots at the base has a penchant for flying low over the sun-bathing maiden as he snaps a photo or two of her on the ground. This is a whole new way of making a pass, but it works. He later arranges to contact her and brings his photos with him, along with his dishonorable intentions. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vladica Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, (more)
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