Many Yugoslav films featured eminent foreign actors such as Orson Welles and Yul Brynner in the Academy Award nominated The Battle of Neretva, and Richard Burton in Sutjeska. Also, many foreign films were shot on locations in Yugoslavia including domestic crews, such as Force 10 from Navarone starring Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw and Franco Nero, Armour of God starring Jackie Chan, as well as Escape from Sobibor starring Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula and Rutger Hauer. 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 BALKAN (EX-YU) FILMS
There are many good films from the Ex Yugoslavia area, so it was hard to choose the best.
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
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic
Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap. (98 mins.)
Director: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis
4. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) 7.2/10
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war. (90 mins.)
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic
5. I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) 7.7/10
Bora the Gypsy is married to an older woman, and he falls in love with the younger Tissa, who is being offered in marriage by her father… (94 mins.)
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Stars: Bekim Fehmiu, Olivera Katarina, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Mija Aleksic
6. When Father Was Away on Business (1985) 7.7/10
Tito’s break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists… (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
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