
Acting
Toma Kuruzović
Born 1930-10-18 · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Acting credits
After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.
Sons
1975
5.9A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
Taiwan Canasta
1985
4.5A 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
2.6A story about two unhappy couples in love, one from Dorćol, the other from Manhattan.
Dorcol-Manhattan
2000
7.0A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.
Arandjel's Predicament
1976
6.5It 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.
The Train for Kraljevo
1981
6.4A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
Leptirica
1973
7.0A 1972 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Jovan Acin, starring Slobodan Perović, Renata Ulmanski and Marko Todorović.
Bathing
1972
7.3An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
Variola Vera
1982
9.0A drunkard is obsessed with a young attractive lady who refuses his advances.
Eclipse
1991
4.4Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.
Fade to Black
2006
6.2A man heading through the countryside is drawn to a strange castle, which is reputed by the locals to be haunted. There he meets a beguiling young woman who ensnares him in her world of secrets.
The Maiden's Tune
1973
10.0The story about Zhanka Stokic, the most famous Yugoslav actress before WW2. After the war, she experiences humiliation and the trial for acting at the cabaret and reading the texts on the radio while the people died on front. She's not sure if there was guilt in her act or not, but she's certain that the thing she did was not a crime that deserves a death penalty.
The Death of Lady Minister
1992
5.3A juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in WWII. After being accepted with much love and care, he reconsiders his initial plan to rob the family.
The Door Remains Open
1959
5.0A Montenegrin teenager is sent to Serbia in order to evade blood-feud caused by his father's reckless behavior. Little does he know that even greater dangers await for him. In Belgrade he will face both the avengers who went after him and this metropolis' very own nightlife and foxy ladies. And in cities like Belgrade - women and nightlife can be deadlier than a bullet. People of Montenegro are known for their specific mentality and system of values, not unlike Sicilians, Corsicans or Cretans.
Little Buddho
2014
5.6An one-legged engineer of hydro construction, a war veteran meets a blind girl in a mountain sanatorium of Ophthalmology during winter. She's waiting for a surgery that will restore her eyesight. Soon the two fall in love with each other, but he feels unpleasant because of his handicap she's yet aware of.
Only People
1957
6.3A story about several people who share the same yard within their block, and a piece of blue sky above 'em.
A Piece of Blue Sky
1961
6.8Belgrade, the summer of 1991. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Gavran can't get a driving licence because he is color blind. He is a rural Bosnian introvert obsessed with trucks. So, as soon as he is released from prison, he steals a truck to go on a joyride. Suzana, a city girl, discovers she is pregnant, but until she's due for an abortion, she decides to go to Dubrovnik. She hitchikes and Gavran almost runs her over. She is unhurt, but she blackmails him to take her to Dubrovnik. Two people from different worlds, equally removed from the real one. For him she is the first woman he can talk to; for her he is just another idiot to add to the long list of them that she has so far compiled. But the pressure of danger and the intimations of war force them together. The world about them has become so absurd that they seem to each other the only sober people left.
The Red Colored Grey Truck
2004
9.0The story about the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.
The Death of Black George
1984
Kids from the same block hold a court trial to local cat who ate their canary.
The Great Trial
1961
6.8The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
My Part-Time Dad
1982
7.0A story about Italian soldiers, enemies who have their own problems and hopes. Based on short stories of Mesa Selimovic, Bosnian writer.
On Foreign Soil
1957
8.0The story takes place during WW II in Vojvodina. Two boys, Milan and Rasa, are sent from a partisan squad to a village for the winter. Soon Rasa becomes very ill and Milan goes to a nearby village populated by Germans. Here he finds a job as servant in Jakob Jerih's house. At night, Milan secretly nurses his friend Rasa in a hut in a swamp near the village. Soon, he finds another hiding place in master Jerih's stable. Jerih likes the diligent Milan and he even considers adopting the boy, but Jerih's cousin and assistant is against this idea. Namely because he counts on inheriting master Jerih's estate.
Wintering in Jakobsfeld
1975
NRThrough evoking memories from the Great War, battles and wounds they went through, Serbian combatants Milunka, Blagoje and Tanasko tell the story of times which share the same forgetfulness and injustice to those who honorably laid their lives on the altar of the fatherland.
The Little Honor
2016