Marko Nikolić

The Republic of Užice

In 1941, a few months after German tanks forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.

Equals

An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and has its own hero.

Funeral Feast

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by Beno Zupancic.

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 beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

The Train for Kraljevo

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.

A Good Wife

When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she has been living in.

Sorrow

Sorrows of an old man who drives horse-drawn carriage which was once owned by his dead son.

A Shot

In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.

The Republic of Užice

In 1941, a few months after German tanks forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.

Equals

An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and has its own hero.

Funeral Feast

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by Beno Zupancic.

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 beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

The Train for Kraljevo

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.

A Good Wife

When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she has been living in.

Sorrow

Sorrows of an old man who drives horse-drawn carriage which was once owned by his dead son.

A Shot

In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.

A New Year's Tale

What happens when you find documents and compromising feminine items belonging to an unknown young woman in a taxi on New Year's Day, and you forget to inform your wife about it?

Early Works

Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.

Dark Is the Night

Belgrade in 1992. - breaking up of Yugoslavia, blockade, shortages, food queues, student rebellion. Life of two Belgrade families and personal drama of their members, caused by social breakdown and civil war.

Belgrade Then and Now

A musical TV comedy/drama which deals with life and fashion in Belgrade in the distant and near past.

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.

Boiling

The action takes place in the period from 1930 to 1934. The main protagonist is a so-called “collective hero”, that is, the revolutionary movement of Yugoslavia during the 1930s, although, conditionally speaking, the main hero is Rodoljub Colakovic.

The Prize of Peril

In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.

Love and Marriage

A TV adaptation of comedy novel by Jovan Sterija Popovic. In the manner of an experienced analyst, Sterija portrays the topic of finding a life companion as an essential need to build a life with seductive illusions, in which banality and kitsch are important building blocks.

The Parade

The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade.

Old Belgrade

A New Year's Eve musical program.

The Poet of Revolution

A film made by Danilo Kis's poem "The Revolutionary Poet on the Presidential Ship" on the wreck of Tito's yacht “Seagull” in Rijeka's shipyard with two acting film legends, Radko Polic and Marko Nikolic. The film was edited by the late Marko Glusac.

St. Nicholas Day of 1901

That first St. Nicholas day at the beginning of the new, twentieth century, gathers the heroes of this story and reveals their faces and characters. Who are they? Predators, conspirators, lovers and voluptuous, incompetent officials, careerists and servants of the regime.

A New Year's Tale

While riding in a cab, Zivota finds an ID that belongs to singer Vesna Zmijanac. After he returns it to her, she invites him to the New Year Eve’s party where she is performing, but his wife Zivadinka is suspicious about the whole situation.

Scenes from a Life

Rade is in love with Milica, but her father Marko, a village butcher, does not approve. He wants his son to finish school and leave the village. Marko buys a sick cow from Milica's father, puts a false stamp on it, and sells the meat as if it were healthy. Rade finds out that his father has been doing this for a long time, and so he comes into conflict with him.

Father

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Once Upon a Love

This TV work uses the form of a musical based on real events that took place in Belgrade at the beginning of the 20th century. The story is based on a tragic love affair between count Oršić and Maria Rab, starting in 1910s Vienna, while ending on the eve of the Second World War in Belgrade.

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...

Better Life

Trials and tribulations of the Popadic family, a typical family of five with everyday problems... BOLJI ŽIVOT is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade it is considered to be the most successful TV show ever produced in Yugoslavia. Written by Siniša Pavić, most prolific Serbian screenwriter, the series helped jump start cinematic careers for many of its protagonists, most notably Dragan Bjelogrlić who went on to become successful actor, director, and producer.

Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Budva, on the Foam of the Sea

A TV series which depicts the clash of different value systems and mentalities of two Montenegrin families, one from the old city of Budva, and the other from transitional Nikšić.

Quo Vadis?

Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.

The Last Act

The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.

Svetozar Markovic

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.

Stories from the Workshop

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

Traps

The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.

Bosko Buha

TV mini-series about Bosko Buha and the group of teenagers who joined Yugoslav partisans in WW2.

Doctor in the Village

A village hospital employs pretty female doctor. Now even those who do not need any medical help start coming, just to see their beautiful and young doctor.

67 Days: The Republic of Uzhitze

TV series which serves as an extended version of the film of the same title.