
Acting
Milan Ajvaz
Acting credits
The action is set in the Paris Commune, established in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and the play follows the historical events surrounding this revolutionary uprising. The main character is the pacifist teacher Gabrielle Langevin, but historical figures such as Gustave Courbet also appear.
The Defeat
1972
7.0A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".
Rain
1972
5.8Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.
Black Pearls
1958
7.0Story about people who have neither luck in finding new instruments to play after war, nor new romance. Instruments experience war just like people do. Originally shot in 1971, the film was not released until 1994.
Scherzo
1994
7.5The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence.
The Apology of Socrates and Death
1971
The story of three brothers who visit their parents for their 40th wedding anniversary. According to the playwriter, their characters are based on aspects of himself: one was a very passive nature, the second was a kind of conformist nature, and the third was a kind of bolshie nature.
In Celebration
1973
6.4Evil Bash-Chelik is terrorizing people, but only the magic sword can harm him. A young hero goes on the dangerous quest to find that sword.
The Magic Sword
1950
6.3A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.
Ivo, the Monk
1951
Kids from the same block hold a court trial to local cat who ate their canary.
The Great Trial
1961
6.3While everybody show off by giving a child to community's custody, and make career in the process, the child remains alone and neglected.
A Child of Community
1953
9.0Unfinished and lost experimental film about the activities of Albanian rebels in Kosovo (known as Kachaks) in the 1920s.
Kachaks in Topcider
1923
6.8A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the oil despite the decision on the suspension of the drilling works.
Factory B
1958
7.0Through several entangled stories, province atmosphere is shown, in which new ideas are hard to penetrate. Parallel with the seventh anniversary of peasant's cooperative farm, activity of a priest, who wants to restore the iconostasis, is followed. Local photographer intrigues - in small town in which the villagers want to become football champions.
Comrade President Center-Forward
1961
Seaside in the summer: a meeting place of all sorts of people and professions. Elderly Mr Paja and two youths, Zorica and Mirko, experience many adventures in accordance with their own respective age and desires.
To Seaside, Everybody!
1952
7.0Life of the village elite, the two priest families, goes quietly in mutual understanding and friendship. The discord is inserted when a young teacher is able to marry the daughter of only one of the priests. Based on a popular novel by Stevan Sremac.
Priest Cira and Priest Spira
1957
6.8A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
Perfidy
1953
6.3Engineer Maric finds out about an affair between his wife Rina and his best friend, a lawyer Novakovic. Maric leaves the house with suicidal intentions. At the big funeral, Novakovic consoles unfortunate Rina, while in the funeral procession a whole bunch of suspicious people try to claim close relations with the deceased one in order to get hold of a piece of his inheritance.
Before the War
1966
4.6Based on a story by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić. When a young man's affair with a married woman ends disastrously he spurns the girl he'd once loved. She reacts to his contempt by becoming the town harlot.
Legends of Anika
1954