Milan Ajvaz

Acting

Milan Ajvaz

Acting credits

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8.0

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

Rain poster
7.0

A 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

Black Pearls poster
5.8

Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.

Black Pearls

1958

Scherzo poster
7.0

Story 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

The Apology of Socrates and Death poster
7.5

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence.

The Apology of Socrates and Death

1971

No artwork available
10.0

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

The Magic Sword poster
6.4

Evil 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

Ivo, the Monk poster
6.3

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.

Ivo, the Monk

1951

No artwork available
7.0

Kids from the same block hold a court trial to local cat who ate their canary.

The Great Trial

1961

A Child of Community poster
6.3

While 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

Kachaks in Topcider poster
9.0

Unfinished and lost experimental film about the activities of Albanian rebels in Kosovo (known as Kachaks) in the 1920s.

Kachaks in Topcider

1923

Factory B poster
6.8

A 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

Comrade President Center-Forward poster
7.0

Through 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

No artwork available
10.0

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

Priest Cira and Priest Spira poster
7.0

Life 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

Perfidy poster
6.8

A 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

Before the War poster
6.3

Engineer 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

Legends of Anika poster
4.6

Based 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