Mira Banjac
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-11-04
Locus Natus: Erdevik, Šid, Srbija
Et ut:
The Beauty of Vice
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a...
release : 1986.01.06popularis : 4.439
Balkan Spy
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and...
release : 1984.02.23popularis : 4.243
Radovan the Third
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
release : 1983.03.25popularis : 0.816
Seventy-Two Days
A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow...
release : 2010.07.20popularis : 2.099
Cabaret Balkan
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
release : 1998.08.01popularis : 2.939
The Knife
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers...
release : 1999.03.19popularis : 4.473
White, White World
In the Serbian drama "White, White World", the characters sing, but never dance. Formulated as a modern day Greek tragedy set in the decrepit eastern...
release : 2010.11.25popularis : 2.128
Chasing Luck(y)
In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local...
release : 2005.10.06popularis : 1.334
One Hell of an Actor
Friends and colleagues talk about the life and work of Zoran Radmilovic (1933-1985), one of the best Serbian actors of all time.
release : 2021.11.01popularis : 0.806
Honeymoons
'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one...
release : 2009.09.05popularis : 1.298
A Diary of Insults
Middle-aged couple try to preserve at least some of their dignified life in times of war, poverty and sanctions.
release : 1994.07.01popularis : 1.679
The Beach Guard in Winter
Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the...
release : 1976.03.24popularis : 5.066
All Wonders of the World
A now-adult man remembers of one winter of his childhood - 1949.
release : 1978.10.07popularis : 1.316
She Likes Red Star
Srba is graduating pupil and football fanatic, or more precise king of a street soccer, who plays even without others, in a winter, summer, rain or...
release : 2001.10.23popularis : 1.288
Rage
Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the...
release : 1997.03.06popularis : 2.547
White Lions
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker...
release : 2011.04.28popularis : 2.799
An Early Frost
An Early Frost (Serbian: Kao Rani Mraz) is a Serbian movie. Movie is dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous...
release : 2010.04.20popularis : 2.326
When Day Breaks
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a...
release : 2012.08.17popularis : 6.467
Change Me
A story about an ordinary man searching for the fulfillment of dreams and emotions. Well-known Belgrade dentist lives in long and happy marriage. As...
release : 2007.06.15popularis : 1.264
The Optimists
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is...
release : 2006.09.29popularis : 5.199
The Elusive Summer of '68
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
release : 1984.01.30popularis : 2.954
Handymen, Handymen
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the...
release : 1980.10.27popularis : 3.422
Winter
This is a story about loneliness and intolerance. A story about a small, local hell, where two people are living together bound by their own choice,...
release : 2012.10.19popularis : 0.899
Sixth Gear
Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal...
release : 1981.07.03popularis : 1.341
Mama's Boy
Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs...
release : 2013.06.22popularis : 5.225
Shady Business
Residents of a shanty town are faced with its destruction. With the help of the local trickster, Paja "the Bighead" moves with his family to an empty...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.065
Hitler from Our Street
Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local...
release : 1975.07.06popularis : 0.764
Yellow
A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a...
release : 1973.06.07popularis : 0.768
Don't Lean Out the Window
Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the...
release : 1977.06.28popularis : 2.024
Bear 007
A satirical story about small town forester who finds himself in trouble when the local authorities announce the visit of a high state official, who...
release : 1986.04.10popularis : 1.164
Ivan
The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that...
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 1.795
Backbone
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he...
release : 1975.06.06popularis : 9.018
Yellow Ribbons
A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic...
release : 1973.05.12popularis : 0.445
Stardust
A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize...
release : 1976.06.11popularis : 0.645
Milan - The Gift
The drama is about several prominent people of Serbian culture and art. Milan Savic, a well-known doctor from Novi Sad and writer from the turn of...
release : 1987.06.11popularis : 2.356
From Zero to Hero
Mladen (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Montenegrin Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, Sonja (40), who is...
release : 2014.04.09popularis : 1.138
Russian Tzar
Portrait of an elderly widower who meets love of his life again after half a century.
release : 1993.05.04popularis : 0.89
Strawberries in the Throat
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
release : 1985.01.02popularis : 0.994
These Are the Rules
After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and...
release : 2014.03.30popularis : 1.96
Father by Force
The story is inspired by the comedy of the most famous Yugoslav playwriter Branislav Nušić. Žarko, a young poet is being chased by...
release : 1969.12.23popularis : 1.364
One More Day
"One more day" is a poetic film story about Grandma Smilja, the raven and the freezer.
release : 2024.02.23popularis : 3.09
The High Sun
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic...
release : 2015.05.12popularis : 5.408
Small Doorway
A family drama about a group of Sarajevo boys from the same block, who do childish pranks and spend their time in one of the basements.
release : 1987.11.16popularis : 1.715
My Country
Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict.
release : 1997.06.16popularis : 1.28
Vukovar Poste Restante
The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.559
Great Transport
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from...
release : 1983.07.04popularis : 4.173
Broad Are the Leaves
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film...
release : 1981.04.02popularis : 1.416
A Holy Place
Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's...
release : 1990.09.29popularis : 3.289
Everything's for People
A returnee from Australia causes uproar in his native village when he announces he's looking for bride.
release : 2001.11.12popularis : 0.979
A Film with No Name
The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical...
release : 1988.05.30popularis : 2.534
So Hot Was the Cannon
A grenade fired from a nearby hill kills the parents of a ten year old boy during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. The Boy looses his ability to speak....
release : 2014.02.28popularis : 1.541
Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija
The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for...
release : 1979.01.01popularis : 1.272
Once Upon a Time in Serbia
This is a warm human story set between the two world wars in Leskovac, where a real miracle happens with an unusual set of circumstances and builds...
release : 2022.03.10popularis : 1.458
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time...
release : 1981.04.10popularis : 5.661
Ekran sneži
A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.147
Pipedreams
A tragicomic story of a department store seller.
release : 1968.02.19popularis : 1.133
The Kitchen
The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.
release : 1976.03.23popularis : 0.845
Herd
Two of the most popular Serbian actors discover a script that they immediately want to work on, forgetting that creating in Serbia isn't as easy as...
release : 2016.11.23popularis : 1.677
Diamond of Boyana
Đorđe is being summoned to Ada Bojana to meet his father for the first time. Nikola, his dad, is a jailbird and ex-thief. Although everyone...
release : 2017.02.15popularis : 2.773
Requiem for Mrs. J
After she lost her husband and her job, Mrs. J is sitting in her living room with a gun in her hand.
release : 2017.03.16popularis : 2.926
The Man with Four Legs
On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to...
release : 1983.11.10popularis : 2.001
Grandma
Milica lives with her aging grandmother in the Serbian countryside. When Milica’s uncle arrives, he delivers the surprising news that they are...
release : 2016.09.01popularis : 1.732
Peasants
Comedy about the life of a modern village family and many neighbors of theirs, dealing with Serbian mentality at the turn of the XXI century. Based...
release : 2001.02.22popularis : 0.713
Kick-Off
A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society....
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.21
Happy Family
Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
release : 1980.02.27popularis : 1.22
Heart and Her Children
Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best...
release : 1988.01.01popularis : 1.542
The Cabinet Minister's Wife
Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration,...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.053
Lazar
A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in...
release : 1984.04.09popularis : 1.261
The Honorary Duty
A professor of geography and a farmer befriend during their military service. On a day of taking the solemn oath, a farmer's father who rejected him...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.183
The Worker's Life
An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.
release : 1987.06.17popularis : 0.519
Pavilions
Three generations - three different microcosms - are entangled in circle. They were all looking for love but ended up experiencing aggression and...
release : 2018.08.20popularis : 0.636
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
release : 1996.05.11popularis : 8.132
The Man Who Could Tell North from the South
The plot takes place in pre-war Yugoslavia, and the protagonist, interpreted by Zvonko Lepetic, is Jefto, a prison guard who lives with his family as...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.817
Breasts
Three friends, Jelena, Ana and Zorka meat three days before 20-year's high school reunion. Ana lives in a neighboring country, she's a biochemist and...
release : 2020.01.22popularis : 1.767
Focus, Grandma
April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well,...
release : 2020.08.14popularis : 2.06
It's Not So Bad to Be Human
Milan is ex-piano teacher. One day, he walks through the park, and he makes a sepcial kind of friendship with one dog. This friendship will decide...
release : 2021.10.06popularis : 1.039
Kako upokojiti vampira
A parable about a man who lost his memory. The drama criticizes the milieu that's become totally false and hypocritical.
release : 1977.06.21popularis : 0.407