
Birthday:
03-09-1935
Deathday:
07-12-2014 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Biography
Marko Babac was a Serbian film critic, editor and director. Babac was born on March 9, 1935 in Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an editor and director, known for Kapi, vode, ratnici (1962), Grad (1963) and Čežnja (1958). He died on July 12, 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Martinac
Act like Himself
event2015
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Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.
Cage
event1957
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Short movie by Marko Babac.
Raindrops, Waters, Warriors
Director
event1962 star_border 6.2
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A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs' work: Zivojin Pavlovic's dialogue-free "Live Waters" set in 1943, Marko Babac's "Warriors" about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac's "Raindrops" about alcoholic's decaying relationship with his girlfriend.
The City
Writer
event1963 star_border 5.8
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Three stories (Love, Heart, The Hoop) set in the urban, alienated world of a big city. It tells how thin is the line between melancholy and depression.
The Rogue
Editor
event1971 star_border 4
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Scourged by the need to be different from his contemporaries and driven by an insatiable hunger for adventurous living, Marko, a young man of 25, returns from America where he has spent a few years. He wants to impress people in his native town, but eventually everything turns against him.
Shoot and It Shall Open
Director
event1965 star_border 5.4
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Three young delinquents, two boys and a girl - go through their personal drama alongside wrongdoings they do. The local chief inspector gives his best to help them, besides the fact that he's beholden to arrest them.
Educational Fairy Tale
Editor
event1961
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Short comedy film.
One Potato, Two Potato
Editor
event1961
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Short comedy film.
Time of the Leopards
Editor
event1985 star_border 6.2
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As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides.
Brothers
Director
event1964 star_border 5
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1964 Yugoslavian short film by Marko Babac.
Part-Time Work
Editor
event1980 star_border 6
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A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.
Don't Believe in Monuments
Editor
event1958 star_border 7.5
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A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don’t Believe in Monuments is an early short, where Makavejev subtly ridicules Yugoslav state-sponsored monument and history worship.
Metamorphosis
Writer
event1957
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Short movie by Marko Babac.
The Wooden Horse
Editor
event1957
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Short movie by Marko Babac.
Jajinci
Director
event1958
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Short movie by Marko Babac and Dragoljub Ivkov.
Longing
Director
event1958
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Short by Marko Babac.
The Woman And The Wind
Director
event1958
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Short by Marko Babac.
The Seal
Editor
event1955 star_border 6
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Inspired by the 1928 experimental film by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra, this amateur short is the story of a man who spends his entire life under the thumb of anonymous bureaucrats. The titular seal adorns everything in life, from birth to death, in a criticism of bureaucracy and power over the individual, in a film that makes stylistic references to silent cinema.
Anthony's Broken Mirror
Editor
event1957 star_border 4.8
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First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window shop.
Parade
Editor
event1962 star_border 6.2
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Parade, one of Makavejev’s best-known films, is view into the preparations International Worker’s Day where the director all but ignores the titular parade. The film focuses on the people – those who work and those who wander the streets, sometimes lost among the throngs, shown in a by-the-way fashion and not without humor. Makavejev claims he sought to show, man as he is...
Smile 61
Editor
event1961
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Socialist work ethic meets youthful exuberance and lightheartedness where backbreaking labor does not ruin anyone's summer vacation.
New Domestic Animal
Editor
event1964 star_border 6
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This short doc is about changes occurring in Yugoslav rural life as it begins to reap the benefits of motorization, e.g. delivering fruits and veggies to market by automobile, but with a bitter theme: progress is set against horses sent to the slaughter as the car becomes the new domestic animal replacing the animals that had hitherto worked for man.
Sunday Lunch
Editor
event1982 star_border 4.2
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A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
My Part-Time Dad
Editor
event1982 star_border 6
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The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
What Can You Do
Director
event1965
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Short movie by Marko Babac.
Hepatitis epidemica
Director
event1967
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Short movie by Marko Babac.
It's Not Easy Being Little
Director
event1965
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Short movie directed by Marko Babac and written by Dušan Makavejev.
Mazamet
Editor
event1979
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Short film by Svetozar Pavlović
Miss Beauty 62
Assistant Director
event1962
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Sarcastic look at a 1962 Yugoslav beauty contest.
New Toy
Editor
event1964
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Short by Makavejev.
Film o knjizi A.B.C.
Editor
event1962
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Short by Makavejev
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