Dragan Jovanović — Actor (14)

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The Best (1989)
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other title: Najbolji
A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and with no visible reason, leaves his home town, girl, parents, safety and eventual career and leaves to a remote provincial town to find and create his life and destiny. The story of a lonely man without illusions and bitterness, who collects simple pieces of sense, humanity and love through his actions.

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What Are You Doing Tonight? (1988)
Šta radiš večeras? WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Šta radiš večeras? / Sta radis veceras
A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An unemployed paleonthologist spends his nights sewing dresses for his beloved one. When she sets off to countryside for work and doesn't call back, he becomes suspicious and decides to solve this sudden departure on his own. The movie was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 1991.

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In the Middle of Nowhere (1994)
Ni na nebu ni na zemlji WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Ni na nebu ni na zemlji
The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.

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Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced (1997)
Tango je tužna misao koja se pleše WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Tango je tužna misao koja se pleše / Танго је тужна мисао која се плеше
A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.

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Comrade Black in World War II (2009)
Drug Crni u Narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Drug Crni u Narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi / Comrade Black in WWII
Set in April of the turmoil that is the year 1941. The Germans have occupied Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade. Adolf Hitler is again drawing the new borders of Europe. Remains of Belgrade are filled with chaos, despair, black markets, famine and poverty. The Serbian people are broken up into national traitors, servants of the German occupants, chetniks, communists etc. That is the setting where our well-known characters find themselves. Our hero is Zivota Grujic – Comrade Black, the descendant of the notorious Black Gruya. Just as cunning and witty as his predecessor, Comrade Black endeavors to make use of every situation he finds himself in. Ideal opportunities open up when against his own will, he is forced to cooperate with all the present influential heads of Europe.

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Two Hours of Quality TV Program (1995)
Два сата квалитетног ТВ програма WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Два сата квалитетног ТВ програма / Two Hours of Quality Program
Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and the introduction of new values to the urban culture.

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Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom (2007)
Црни Груја и камен мудрости WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Црни Груја и камен мудрости / Black Gruya and the Stone of Wisdom
Based on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it three times, more wise. So he employs his nephew Crni Gruja, with assistants Ceda Velja and Bole, to find him this miraculous Stone. Crni Gruja finds the Stone and, convinced that he is really becoming more wiser, decides to make some business.

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Say Why Have You Left Me (1993)
Kaži zašto me ostavi Douban
other title: 说说你为什么离开我 / Kaži zašto me ostavi …
This film, produced in Former Yugoslavia, chronicles the horrors of Yugoslavia's meaningless civil war and it's effects upon a group of friends. The three main characters are Pedja, Ljuba, who is involved with the brother of Pedja's girlfriend Ivana, and Rabe an older friend. The threesome are placed upon the horrific front line. After Ljuba is wounded, they discover a young rape victim who takes them into her family's home. They stay there until Ljuba finally dies. To comfort the dying man, the young woman gives him a recording of the song "Why Have You Left Me?" Later, Pedja finds himself haunted by the woman. While he is a refugee in Belgrade he begins searching and finds her stealing flowers in a cemetery. Shell- shocked, she wanders the streets singing songs such as the "Girl from Ipanema". Pedja finds himself strongly attracted to her despite the fact that Ivana has prepared a safer life for him in Paris. Rabe kills himself while playing pool with an armed grenade. Following the suicide, Pedja forsakes Ivana for the other woman.

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A Holy Place (1990)
Sveto mesto Douban
other title: 圣地 / Sveto mesto …
据称是南斯拉夫拍得最好的一部吸血鬼恐怖片。 改编自果戈理1835年的短篇小说《VIY》。 Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. All the while supernatural forces are trying to grab him from the Holy Circle drawn on the church floor. Kadijevic adapts and enriches 'Viy' by inventing a new backstory for the witch-girl and her father. The dead girl, Catherine (unwittingly killed in the prologue, while in the shape of a hag), is referred to as a 'saint' and her father is a harsh and unpleasant man. Kadijevic departs further from the original story, and introduces an excess of perversity and horror more reminiscent of the Anglo-American gothic than the milder Slavic attempts in a similar mode. Incest is the name of the game here. The story of strange love between a young theologian and a beautiful daughter of powerful land owner. After the girl's mysterious death, the theologian is invited to, according to her wish, say his prayers in village church by her catafalque for three nights. Terrifying stories about deceased one, about her sinful relationship with her father and orgies, can not extinguish love of the young theologian. Tortured with sinful relationship with her father, filled with hatred, she doesn't stop to revenge to mankind after her death. The innocent theologian in love will also become her victim.