Milutin Butković

Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.

A comedy about a new class of business people who have everything a successful businessman needs, but almost never the appropriate pedigree, that is, the suitable origin that would accompany their occupied position in society.

Black ant Ameisen, the infantry ant, got mixed up in war and love turmoils. He's an experienced military slacker who does not respect strict military standards, but performs each task successfully. Red ants, headed by their clumsy general, are on the war path with black ants. Unfortunately for both sides, war happened because of a jar of moldy marmalade.

While expecting the imminent end of their lives, an old couple leaves their large and beautiful home to a young married couple – their doctors, who live in a single room apartment with their two children. As the olds are getting stronger by the day, one of the four decides to “take care” of that.

Middle-aged couple try to preserve at least some of their dignified life in times of war, poverty and sanctions.

A writer is astonished to see the characters from his story come to life. However, the situation complicates when he tries to deal with his creations.

In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.

Portrait of an elderly widower who meets love of his life again after half a century.

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.

A tale of depressed Novi Sad cab driver and his continuous obsession with the long lost love, the stewardess who left for America and his passion for the American pop-culture. As his depression reaches the peak a serial killer with a sexual deviation starts killing Novi Sad cab drivers.

In search of her own identity, a young champion in fencing is torn between two men, which leads her to personal conflict.

A war between two families, who live in the same building.

A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.

One regular Sunday meeting of a boy and his father who live separately.

An-ex anarchist gets back from Germany to visit his female friend he met in 1968 and stay in the apartment of hers and her husband's. The husband suspects that there's more than a friendship between them.

Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.

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

A young student hungry for cash engages in the world of shady deals.

The story is set on the outskirts of Belgrade, and the protagonists are a group of neighbors who are unsuccessfully trying to find happiness through romantic relationships.

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.

The adventures of a truck driver and his fellow associate, who both leave their company refusing to meet the newly introduced criteria of having elementary school degree. Being in their 40s and totally talentless for education, they decide to leave the company and go private. However, the world outside their company has been completely changed over the years, and after the series of bad lucks, they will summarize their position and go back to school.

A satirical look at the prewar Serbian elite and their petty bourgeoisie way of life.

A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.

Two arrogant amateur hunters invite a timid clerk (their colleague from the company in which they all work together) to release clay pigeons during their shooting exercise outdoors.

The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.

Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.

The last months in the life of a Serbian philosopher and socialist activist Svetozar Marković and his exile by the government of the Serbian Princedom.

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.

A man and a woman, each with a stable marriage of their own, meet in the wagon compartment. The short encounter of two strangers causes restlessness within their personal views about the world, implying possible romance. Once the train reaches its destination, they go apart without a single word spoken, and return to their world of security.

Two lower level employees in the Ministry of food try to pass the time. Failing to explain what lead to their fight will bring the whole system upside-down

Primitive, cowardly, greedy and fame seeking father Ubu, persuaded by his wife, mother Ubu, kills the honorable king Wenceslas and his family. This makes Ubu king of Poland. In the beginning he is popular and showers his subjects with gold coins. But, later on he brings on himself peoples rage when he decides to kill all the noblemen and officials and introduces unreasonable taxes. Russian czar Aleksey starts a military campaign against the bloody despot Ibi. After a defeat, Ubu and his wife escape to France.

Being an apprentice and a master of such craft is of vital importance. This is about speaking. The orator’s profession can be useful at work, but in the family it has all the negative consequences.

A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.

TV adaptation of the French comedy play "The Little Cafe", first performed in 1911. Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne.

A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.

Bruno, the village scribe, is married to a beautiful and devoted young woman named Stella. He makes a good living composing love letters for the uneducated villagers, many of which are addressed to his wife. Bruno’s eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration.

A story of two people who fell in love and couldn't find their way in the big city: a man who came from the countryside to work in a steel factory and a woman who works in the factory restaurant.