
Birthday:
09-19-1904
Deathday:
07-25-1993 (88 years)
Birthplace:
Goricak near Ptuj, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]
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Red Wheat
event1970 star_border 6.2
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An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
Enclosure
Act like Weissenborn
event1961 star_border 6.4
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In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.
The Bridge
Act like General
event1969 star_border 7
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In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
The Alphabet of Fear
Act like Glavni kontraobavještajac
event1961 star_border 6.3
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In order to gather informations about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement sends a girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.
Secret Society of PGC
event1968
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A children’s classic story wrote by post-war authors, who, inspired by the real life of young people in that period of time, addressed their topical issues through depicting their unusual adventures. Thus many generations used to grow up along with the very popular Society of Pingoclavulus.
Maya and the Starboy
event1988 star_border 5.7
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The story about a class of star-boys who travel with their research spaceship to "Outdoor School" to see life on Earth. Since they wear "snurke" - a kind of shiny badges, they are invisible to Earthlings. But the star-boy Gubang's desire to meet the Earthlings in personal is so strong that he can not resist. He befriends a girl named Maya and gives her "snurko" so that she could see him. This causes severe complications both on Earth and in spaceship. Of course, everything finishes with a happy end.
Sword of Damascus
event1964
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Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.
Picnic on Sunday
event1968 star_border 5.6
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After film school, Godina’s first professional work as a director was “Picnic on Sunday,” a 1968 black-and-white short without any words that shows how seven different people spend a Sunday. A simple concept, but in Godina’s hands the short is suffused with both sexuality and revolution. - Paste
The Triumph of Robin Hood
event1962 star_border 6
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Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.
Don't Come Back by the Same Way
event1965 star_border 7.4
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The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".
The Enemy
event1965 star_border 6
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An ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.
The Only Way Out
Act like Nemački vojnik
event1958 star_border 5.7
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A group of partisans goes to destroy a German gas warehouse at Postojnska Jama. One of them grows distrustful towards the new commander, and it spreads among the rest of the squad. The situation culminates when the mentioned partisan remains cut off inside a cave.
The Good Sea
event1958 star_border 5
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A simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.
The Esophagus Battle
Act like Priest
event1982 star_border 6.5
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Based on a novel by Prežihov Voranc, it tells a story about a farmer's family who live in Northern Slovenia before WW2.
The Demolition Squad
Act like Oberleutnant
event1967 star_border 6.7
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The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
My Dear Iza
event1979 star_border 2
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The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.
Kala
event1958 star_border 5.4
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The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?
The Return
event1976
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Vrnitev is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Fiction TV Film. Featuring Miha Baloh, Maks Furijan, Ivanka Mežan. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Ljubljana. It has received 1 award.
The Descent Upon Drvar
Act like General Rendulić
event1963 star_border 5.8
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German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
Valley of Peace
event1956 star_border 6.1
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When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way a black American pilot, who jumped of a shoot-down plane, joins them. Although American planes have killed the boy's parents, he accepts the pilot with enthusiasm. The children communicate with him in German and the valley of peace seems like the last paradise place of refuge. The Slovene boy, the German girl, and the American pilot represent a symbolic triangle of peace in this adventure happening in the middle of the War of Liberation.
Kill Me Softly
event1979 star_border 5.2
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An old house by the sea is the scene of a number of puzzling crimes and deaths.
Life in Kajzar
Act like Ornik
event1952
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A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claimed possessions of lands, woods, and churches after communist party seized the power hold a party where a member of so-called reactionary forces (kulaks, clergy and Axis collaborators) tries to break in and stop it.
Amandus
Act like Bag-piper
event1966
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The film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious intolerance with Amandus, a Catholic priest, determined to persecute local Protestants.
The Jailers
Act like Član prezidija
event1990
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A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.
Wasteland
event1982
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Set in the Tolminsko province of Slovenia in 1713, shortly after the Peasants' Uprising. The Grogovc family are forced to live in exile in a wasteland area of the country, where they suffer from the plague which gradually kills off the colony.
Displaced Person
event1982
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Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.
The Sarajevo Assassination
Act like General Oskar Potiorek
event1968 star_border 6.3
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A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Love
event1984 star_border 6
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In 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang in Ljubljana, experiencing all the problems of his age. With Lenka he's experiencing his first "pure" love, while discovering sexuality... The Italian occupation brings many changes, gang breaks up, some join the liberation movement, the others join collaborationist forces. Marjan remain "unlisted". Italians surrender, and hand over the city to Germans. Frivolous Milena, who has good connections with them, seduces Marjan whom she lost her innocence with. The war is over and the partisans win. The new authorities mistakenly imprison Marjan.
The Idealist
event1976 star_border 6
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The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's strictures become somewhat milder, Martin is transferred to a more friendly environment, but all the injustices he has experienced have already bitten too deep. Unlike his wife, Martin finds it very difficult to accept changes. When his son dies, it seems as though he has lost all his elan and the will to live. Will he be able to go on bringing the light of knowledge to the ignorant masses, or will his ideals be buried forever like a man in a snowdrift?
Decameron
(1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 7
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Depicts many funny and satirical tales from Giovanni Boccaccio. Around 200 actors, among them almost all the greatest of the time, with Stane Sever at the helm. He played a mischievous writer who, in each episode, leads viewers into new intriguing stories of the human spirit. After the eighth part, he was replaced by Stevo Žigon due to his death.
In 2013, the series was digitized and restored. After many years, it was then broadcast again, but not in the original order.
The Crew of the Blue Seagull
(8 ep.)
event1969
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The story about a brave boy called Ivo and his friends, who get into fights with smugglers.
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