Pula Film Festival was a notable film festival. Film companies included Jadran film from Zagreb, SR Croatia; Avala film from Belgrade, SR Serbia; Sutjeska film and Studio film from Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina; Zeta film from Budva, SR Montenegro; Vardar film and Makedonija film from Skopje, SR Macedonia and others
These are (my) THE TOP 20 BALKAN (EX-YU) FILMS
There are many good films from the Ex Yugoslavia area, so it was hard to choose the best 20.
1. Black Cat, White Cat (1998) 8.0/10
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business… (127 mins.)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini
2. Time of the Gypsies (1988) 8.1/10
(136 mins.)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Moreno D’E Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 7.9/10
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980’s Romania. (113 mins.)
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potocean
8. Before the Rain (1994) 8.0/10
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia… (113 mins.)
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska
9. Underground (1995) 8.1/10
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations… (170 mins.)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
10. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) 7.8/10
At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. (155 mins.)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Natasa Tapuskovic, Vesna Trivalic, Vuk Kostic
12. Who Sings Over There (1980) 8.5/10
It’s April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. (175 mins.)
Director: Veljko Bulajic
Stars: Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Sylva Koscina
14. The Border Post (2006) 7.3/10
A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk… (94 mins.)
Director: Rajko Grlic
Stars: Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Verica Nedeska
15. Say Why Have You Left Me (1993) 7.5/10
The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front… (90 mins.)
Director: Oleg Novkovic
Stars: Zarko Lausevic, Milica Mihajlovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Dragan Jovanovic
16. Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) 7.6/10
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and… (110 mins.)
Stars: Rialda Kadric, Vladimir Petrovic, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Dragomir ‘Gidra’ Bojanic
19. Cuvar plaze u zimskom periodu (1976) 6.9/10
Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life… (90 mins.)
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Stars: Irfan Mensur, Gordana Kosanovic, Danilo ‘Bata’ Stojkovic, Mira Banjac
20. Braca po materi (1988) 7.4/10
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes… (105 mins.)
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