Slobodan Šijan

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Slobodan Šijan

Born November 16, 1946 · Belgrade, Serbia (age 79)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slobodan Šijan (born November 16, 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian film director. After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980. The enormous success of that film written by Dušan Kovačević led to the duo collaborating on ano…

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Construction SiteConstruction Site · 1979
Construction Site
1979
MovieDrama
A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in the air due to his jealousy, instigated by the ridicule of his co-workers.
The Man from BagomboThe Man from Bagombo · 2010
The Man from Bagombo
2010
MovieDrama
Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.
How I Was Systematically Destroyed by IdiotsHow I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots · 1983
How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
7.21983
MovieComedyDrama
The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.
The Marathon FamilyThe Marathon Family · 1982
The Marathon Family
7.61982
MovieComedyDrama
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Who's Singin' Over There?Who's Singin' Over There? · 1980
Who's Singin' Over There?
7.61980
MovieDramaComedy
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.
Strangler vs StranglerStrangler vs Strangler · 1984
Strangler vs Strangler
6.91984
MovieComedyThriller
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
The Great Tram RobberyThe Great Tram Robbery · 2025
The Great Tram Robbery
2025
MovieComedyDrama
Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.
CognacCognac · 1988
Cognac
5.31988
MovieComedy
A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.

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Save Our SoulsSave Our Souls · 2007
Save Our Souls
7.02007
MovieComedyDrama
The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).

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