Đorđe Kadijević

Directing

Đorđe Kadijević

Born 1933-01-06 · Šibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Đorđe Kadijević is a Serbian and Yugoslav film director, screenwriter and art critic. Kadijević is well known for his horror films and for TV series Vuk Karadžić, which won the Grand prix in Rome and was protected as European Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, on the proposition of Umberto Eco.

Acting credits

Holy Place Đorđe Kadijević poster
9.0

Đorđe Kadijević is an art historian, art critic, professor and one of the most important Yugoslav and Serbian film directors. He is a member of the "Black Wave", the most important film direction in Yugoslav cinematography. The film "Butterfly" is considered the first and most important horror film in Eastern Europe. And the TV series "Vuk Karadžić" received the highest award of European film directors, which was awarded to Kadijević by Umberto Eco

Holy Place Đorđe Kadijević

2025

The Film of Distant Future poster
NR

Four legendary Yugoslav film directors talk about their careers, capitalism, sex, life, death and revolt.

The Film of Distant Future

2022

Djordje Kadijevic on A Holy Place poster
NR

A Holy Place director Djordje Kadijevic looks back at how his early counter-revolutionary war films led to him inadvertently becoming part of the ‘Yugoslav Black Wave’, and how a polite but firm block on the making of any more such films led him into television and eventually towards the fantasy genre.

Djordje Kadijevic on A Holy Place

2021

The Trek poster
7.4

A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.

The Trek

1968

OFLAG XIII-B poster
NR

Following the traces of his father, who was taken to captivity in Germany during WWII and never returned, film director Đorđe Kadijević finds what made him what he is now.

OFLAG XIII-B

2023

Behind the camera

Arandjel's Predicament poster
7.0

A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.

Arandjel's Predicament

1976

Maria poster
9.0

On her deathbed, the sister tries to help her brother who, burdened with his poor background, can't figure out his life's directions after completing studies.

Maria

1976

Zarki poster
5.7

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.

Zarki

1970

Zarki poster
5.7

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.

Zarki

1970

Zarki poster
5.7

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.

Zarki

1970

Leptirica poster
6.5

A 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

Leptirica poster
6.5

A 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

Belgrade Kids poster
10.0

Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.

Belgrade Kids

1976

The Maiden's Tune poster
6.2

A 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

The Maiden's Tune poster
6.2

A 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

The Feast poster
6.0

In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for the pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.

The Feast

1967

The Feast poster
6.0

In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for the pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.

The Feast

1967

A Man Who Ate a Wolf poster
8.5

After being ridiculed by his surrounding, a man who makes the wooden sculptures leaves the village with his best man to live high up in the mountain and devote to his hobby.

A Man Who Ate a Wolf

1981

A Holy Place poster
5.2

Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row.

A Holy Place

1990

A Holy Place poster
5.2

Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row.

A Holy Place

1990

The Colonel's Wife poster
6.0

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.

The Colonel's Wife

1972

The Colonel's Wife poster
6.0

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.

The Colonel's Wife

1972

Ward poster
6.2

A terrified young man is being pursued by a mysterious man in black. He hides out in a nearby mental hospital, but can he escape his fate?

Ward

1973

Ward poster
6.2

A terrified young man is being pursued by a mysterious man in black. He hides out in a nearby mental hospital, but can he escape his fate?

Ward

1973

No artwork available
NR

Film illustrates the life of plastic arts in Belgrade today.

Hexaptych

1968

No artwork available
NR

Film illustrates the life of plastic arts in Belgrade today.

Hexaptych

1968

Attacker poster
9.0

A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...

Attacker

1993

Attacker poster
9.0

A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...

Attacker

1993

The Death of Black George poster
9.0

The 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