Faruk Begolli

Acting

Faruk Begolli

Born — Died

1944-02-14 — 2007-08-23

Place of birth

Peć, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 11 titles

July 13th poster
5.5

This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.

July 13th

1982

Azra poster
5.5

Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.

Azra

1988

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway poster
8.0

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

No artwork available
5.5

The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.

A Breath of Air

1983

Do Your Best poster
8.0

TV drama about choosing the right man in later years. Olga is still looking for the man of her dreams. When she meets Sima, a beautiful, promising relationship begins. When the time comes for her mother to meet her future son-in-law, they invite him to lunch at their apartment. However…

Do Your Best

1985

The House by the Railway Tracks poster
5.8

A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.

The House by the Railway Tracks

1988

Come to Me and Go from Me poster
6.3

Marija and Boba are moving into an apartment and the financial problems came to a crisis in their marriage. Affected consumer fever make them neglect each other and the child. In addition, Zika and Milan persistently interfere in their lives.

Come to Me and Go from Me

1983

A Dangerous Track poster
6.2

A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.

A Dangerous Track

1984

The Timok Rebellion poster
6.2

In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he disbanded militia. However, people of Timok Valley decide not to surrender their arms to the regular troops. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of the event.

The Timok Rebellion

1983

No artwork available
10.0

Story about local fruitcake who keeps being assured in human callousness.

Proka

1984

Moss-Covered Asphalt poster
9.0

A boy-poet from the village enrolls at the elementary school in the nearest city, but the other kids reject him for not being one of theirs. However, the real values emerge at the surface.

Moss-Covered Asphalt

1983

1970s · 24 titles

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

No artwork available
9.0

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

Sons

1975

The Battle of the Eagles poster
6.4

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

The Battle of the Eagles

1979

No artwork available
9.0

An accidental encounter on the Makarska Riviera, during the summer holidays, brings Miranda and Mica together. She experiences her first love whereas he has had success with many woman: this causes some misunderstandings.

First Love

1970

Down with Weapons poster
8.0

In this TV film, the action takes place in the Bay of Kotor in 1918, where the famous revolt of sailors of the Austro-Hungarian fleet happened, here reconstructed in the form of a docudrama.

Down with Weapons

1975

Requiem poster
4.6

An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.

Requiem

1970

The Beach Guard in Winter poster
5.5

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

The Beach Guard in Winter

1976

The Peaks of Zelengore poster
6.5

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on German units Ljubino grave, to the main Partisan units, with the wounded and the Supreme Headquarters, pulled out the ring that is tightened around them.

The Peaks of Zelengore

1976

The Dervish and Death poster
6.3

Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.

The Dervish and Death

1974

When Spring Comes Late poster
NR

Based on war-themed diary of Fadil Hoxha, the film tells the story of one particular phase of partisan revolution in Kosovo during WWII.

When Spring Comes Late

1979

Dear Irena! poster
7.0

Students Marko, Dragan, Misko and Cutko make a foursome living in the spirit of their high-school "gang". One day they meet Irena, a student of medicine, who subsequently has an affair with Marko. Relationships within the foursome begin to deteriorate.

Dear Irena!

1970

Love and Fury poster
9.2

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in Russia. Like many of his countrymen, Alexander defected to the revolution. After becoming a chekist, Dragovich was sent to Turkestan. The film tells about the heroic struggle of a special purpose unit with gangs of Basmachi, spies of various stripes and saboteurs, about the adventures of the anarchist Kolya and the tragic love of Mushtari and Dragovich.

Love and Fury

1978

No artwork available
NR

The story follows the Kosovar partisan hero known as Lisi (Oak), from WWII days, subsequent liberation, until mid-1960s. Lisi was a brave warrior, yet he and his generation remains largely uneducated. However his nephew starts as a courier, and becomes doctor afterwards.

The Oak and the Tree

1979

Red Blow poster
6.2

At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.

Red Blow

1974

Joseph Schultz poster
7.0

A German soldier in Yugoslavia refuses to participate in a firing squad.

Joseph Schultz

1973

Arrive Before Daybreak poster
6.2

The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.

Arrive Before Daybreak

1978

Pavle Pavlovic poster
5.8

Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board, takes his statement back, but looses the trust of his colleagues. He starts all over again: in another company he gains new friends, however while facing the criminals who illegally transport workers abroad, he loses his life.

Pavle Pavlovic

1975

No artwork available
8.0

Short film.

A Visit in the Night

1978

The Security Service Closes the Circle poster
9.0

A foreign spy service sends Mitar Petrović, an engineer, to Belgrade. His mission is to contact an enemy group that for some time has been planning to sabotage a project of great significance to the Yugoslav economy. The enemy action also has a political dimension as it is planned to take place during an international symposium of scientist in Belgrade. Stopping at nothing, Mitar's group prepares the final coup. Gradually the security service uncovers this clever and well-planned plot…

The Security Service Closes the Circle

1974

No artwork available
7.0

Pseudo-kaleidoscopic grids, a declared homage to Georges Méliès but closer in spirit to the ethereal poetics of James Broughton and the intergalactic Jordan Belson.

Medusa from Sajan

1976

No artwork available
6.2

A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.

Destinies

1978

The Trapped Ones poster
9.0

A TV drama made in Yugoslavia.

The Trapped Ones

1971

Bread poster
8.0

A small story of a small but happy man and his fight against poverty and drought. The story takes place in Kosovo in mid-seventies, and describes one family and her fight for survival.

Bread

1973

No artwork available
10.0

Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.

How to Die

1972

1960s · 9 titles

The Morning poster
7.5

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.

The Morning

1967

Noon poster
6.2

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

Noon

1968

The Sarajevo Assassination poster
7.2

A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

The Sarajevo Assassination

1968

Children of Duke Schmidt poster
5.4

A group of WW2 orphans, now young people in their late teens, find out that one of them is a child of a war criminal. They are determined to discover his identity, even though this person could be any of them.

Children of Duke Schmidt

1967

Operation Belgrade poster
5.2

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.

Operation Belgrade

1968

Wolf of Prokletije poster
5.4

Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.

Wolf of Prokletije

1968

The Dream poster
5.8

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.

The Dream

1966

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun poster
7.2

Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

1966

My Part of the World poster
6.5

Set in a remote mountain village in Herzegovina shortly after World War II, the community is defined by isolation as women and children await the return of men from the front. With limited local prospects, some villagers attempt to emigrate to America for work, while a bitter rivalry unfolds between two men competing for the affection of a local woman.

My Part of the World

1969

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