Acting

Đorđe Pura

Acting credits

Boxers Go to Heaven poster
6.8

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

Boxers Go to Heaven

1967

Six Days in June poster
4.5

A young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.

Six Days in June

1985

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

I Even Met Happy Gypsies poster
7.1

The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.

I Even Met Happy Gypsies

1967

Dying Out of Bears poster
8.0

A satire of the corrupt society and political system of Yugoslavia, where the rulers hide their shortcomings with invisible bears, mice and other animals.

Dying Out of Bears

1983

The Girl in the Park poster
5.3

The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, the closing of that love because of conflicts with exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.

The Girl in the Park

1968

Smoke poster
6.5

Driven by the trauma of the Holocaust, a young Jewish man arrives in a small town to hunt down the former commandant of the concentration camp where his family was exterminated. Upon discovering that the man has been released after serving only a minimal sentence, he prepares to exact his own brand of justice.

Smoke

1967

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution poster
6.2

An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily follows a group of young partisans who are placed in the home of a pre-war bourgeois family. The family then tries to adapt to the new ideology and values, often leading to various absurd situations.

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

1971

The Farce of Master Pathelin poster
10.0

Farsa o Patlenu is a Yugoslav TV movie from 1970, produced by RTV Belgrade. It is an adaptation of the famous 15th-century French medieval farce, 'La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'. The story follows a crafty, bankrupt lawyer who resorts to trickery to obtain fine cloth from a greedy draper. The film was directed by Jovan Konjović and the screenplay was written by Miroslav Karaulac.

The Farce of Master Pathelin

1970

Children Grow at Night poster
NR

Father, the ex-WWII fighter and head of the family, is reluctant to use connections to help his son to get a job. His idea of morale and conscience are to be juxtaposed to the actions he must take.

Children Grow at Night

1976

The Return poster
6.6

An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.

The Return

1966

The Wind poster
6.5

The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and the other one wants to earn money by smuggling, Beli. Between them two there's young woman, Mila, who has had experience with the second one. Running away from the man who is the incarnation of evil for her, she is trying to find happiness and peace with another one in vain.

The Wind

1974

Cans or Bags poster
8.0

A satire set during a house council meeting, where the tenants argue over the problem of taking out the garbage.

Cans or Bags

1982

Children, Beware! poster
10.0

Careless walkers, especially children, are often to blame for traffic accidents. Through an interesting story, with mister Pura and Vučko, the rules of street walkers’ behavior are shown to young viewers so they can understand the message of the film.

Children, Beware!

1961

Corkan and the German Tigthrope Walker poster
8.0

The story published in 1921 follows Corkan, general scapegoat in Visegrad, a figure of fun who himself joins in the mockery. The object of his obsession is physically inaccessible: a tightrope walker in an Austrian circus company visiting Visegrad.

Corkan and the German Tigthrope Walker

1980

The Sun of Another Sky poster
6.3

In a small railway station a group of building workers are organized by a man called Jakov to travel to Germany for work. In the meantime, local bar owner Kurjak is getting a visit from his son first time after three years.

The Sun of Another Sky

1968