Đurđija Cvetić

Paradise

Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.

The World

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

The Bite

Jovana lives alone with two young sons, while her husband is temporarily working in Germany. In addition to all the work in the fields and the kitchen, she is also building a new house. Handymen Relja and Milos show undisguised sympathy for her. Suddenly, the husband returns and brings new problems.

Pearl Barley

A TV drama about orphaned children.

Ancika Dumas

A married woman falls head-over-heels in love with her husband’s friend, and she throws herself instantly into an affair, with plans of eloping. But not everything is as it seems.

Salting Tubs

Koka is a woman who does not find understanding for herself either in her daughter, or in her brother, or in her immediate surroundings. She left behind a bitter experience of a failed relationship with her ex-husband Jezdimir, but also the current disappointments.

Five o'clock Tea

TV movie by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Rahela Ferari.

Oktoberfest

Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.

Paradise

Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.

The World

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

The Bite

Jovana lives alone with two young sons, while her husband is temporarily working in Germany. In addition to all the work in the fields and the kitchen, she is also building a new house. Handymen Relja and Milos show undisguised sympathy for her. Suddenly, the husband returns and brings new problems.

Pearl Barley

A TV drama about orphaned children.

Ancika Dumas

A married woman falls head-over-heels in love with her husband’s friend, and she throws herself instantly into an affair, with plans of eloping. But not everything is as it seems.

Salting Tubs

Koka is a woman who does not find understanding for herself either in her daughter, or in her brother, or in her immediate surroundings. She left behind a bitter experience of a failed relationship with her ex-husband Jezdimir, but also the current disappointments.

Five o'clock Tea

TV movie by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Rahela Ferari.

Oktoberfest

Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.

Serbia on the East

The last months in the life of a Serbian philosopher and socialist activist Svetozar Marković and his exile by the government of the Serbian Princedom.

Better Than Escape

A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.

When the Pigeons Arrive

A group of children build a loft in an abandoned yard, but instead of pigeons, a man and his two sons move into it. At first, boys try to get rid of the unwanted intruders, but eventually they befriend with them. However, the municipality sends their men to tear down the illegal housing, but the children decide to stop them at all costs.

Hourglass

A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.

Kick-Off

A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.

The Kitchen

The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.

Shadows of Memories

Actor who used to be a celebrity once upon a time, when he played in number of films and theatre shows, lives his elderly days monotonously... Up until he meets a girl wanting to become an actress. In their encounters actor revives his love affairs from his young age...

The Magnificent Cuckold

Bruno, the village scribe, is married to a beautiful and devoted young woman named Stella. He makes a good living composing love letters for the uneducated villagers, many of which are addressed to his wife. Bruno’s eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration.

Mrs. Stremnicka

Oppressed by the great sadness of the life, in her mid-30s Isidora agrees to marry the Polish doctor Emil Stremnicki without love. She lives with him for a short time in Norway. The writer reveals the complexity of the relationships that existed in her marriage, as well as inability to escape grief.

Grey Home

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Street of the Linden Trees

A TV show that follows life in a typical Belgrade neighborhood.

The Forgotten Ones

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Unpicked Strawberries

Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.