Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević

Like a Ballad

A story about a soldier and a girl who met and fell in love as bearers of Tito's baton.

Scherzo

Story about people who have neither luck in finding new instruments to play after war, nor new romance. Instruments experience war just like people do. Originally shot in 1971, the film was not released until 1994.

Cross Country

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

Two

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

The Morning

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

I Miss Sonia Henie

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.

Noon

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

The Girl

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

The Dream

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

Summer Is to Blame for Everything

Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Višnja has to travel to the seaside before her husband. After arrival many men start romanticizing her. In the same time, her husband is having troubles of his own trying to get to the seaside by any means necessary.

The Coach

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

Trumpets of Dragačevo

Documentary about the first Assembly of Trumpeters in Guča.

Mouth Full of Earth

On the way to his homeland with the intention of committing suicide, the mysterious protagonist encounters two hunters and a bizarre series of events takes place.

Dis

Short documentary by Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic about Serbian impressionist poet Vladislav Petkovic Dis.

I Wonder Myself... Who's Timothy John Byford?

Once employed at BBC, Timothy John Byford moved to Yugoslavia in 1971 to direct children’s TV programme. Cult family TV shows remained in pleasant memories of the many, and Timothy married and settled in Belgrade forever. We find out more about the hero of our childhood.

Censored without Censorship

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.

Rain

A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".

Have Anything to Declare?

Humans confine themselfes with borders, while birds fly freely.

Two Grapes

After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.

Comrade Oskar's Twelve Children

Mother, Son, Grandson, Granddaughter

Short documentary.

Inscription

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

The Diary of a School Grade

A documentary film recording the growth of a generation from the "Vasil Glavinov" Primary School in Skopje. The students Maja Kočevska, Vase Manev and Ljupčo Boškov, filmed in 1945, meet again in 1959, this time at the "Palace" hotel in Ohrid.

The Double Bass

A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.