
Directing
Đorđe Kadijević
Born
1933-01-06 (93)
Place of birth
Šibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Known for
Directing
Credits
42 titles
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.
Known for
NRSitcom about a family from Belgrade and their daily adventures. Gavrilo is a failing actor, his wife Danijela continues her college studies in her 40s, Jovana their daughter is a revolutionary youtuber and Velibor, their son, is focused on girls, cars and money - and lots of food. They live in a rented flat that is mostly usurped by their landlord Guliver at any time of day or night.
The Case of the Boskovic Family
2020
6.5A 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
5.4Strange 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
7.0A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.
Arandjel's Predicament
1976
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
7.4A 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
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
9.0Đorđe 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
NRFour legendary Yugoslav film directors talk about their careers, capitalism, sex, life, death and revolt.
The Film of Distant Future
2022
NRA 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
NRFollowing 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
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.5A 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
6.5A 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
5.4Strange 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
5.4Strange 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
7.0A story about young man who, after the conflict with his uncle, sets off to emigration.
Arandjel's Predicament
1976
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
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
7.4A 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
6.4A 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
6.4A 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
10.0Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.
Belgrade Kids
1976
5.7In 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
5.7In 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
5.7In 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
6.0In 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
6.0In 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
9.0On 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
Film illustrates the life of plastic arts in Belgrade today.
Hexaptych
1968
Film illustrates the life of plastic arts in Belgrade today.
Hexaptych
1968
8.5After 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
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
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
7.0Following the death of his female cousin Marija, Moma sets out to her house where only her aunt lives. The old woman remembers Marija's awkward temper that left her unmarried and even led to a suicide of one of her courters. Based on a novel written by Momčilo Nastasijević.
The Gifts of My Cousin Maria
1969
7.0Following the death of his female cousin Marija, Moma sets out to her house where only her aunt lives. The old woman remembers Marija's awkward temper that left her unmarried and even led to a suicide of one of her courters. Based on a novel written by Momčilo Nastasijević.
The Gifts of My Cousin Maria
1969
8.0A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.
A Miracle
1971
8.0A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.
A Miracle
1971
Vuko, a young servant of Kotor prince, makes entourage with his brother and friends in order to obtain for the daughter of Venetian Doge for the prince's son. They spend seven weeks of drinking, whoring and without thoughts of anything else. And then, one morning, running through narrow streets before the army, Vuko accidentally witnesses the fight between the knights and the guards. Vuko falls into the hands of guards, and finds himself imprisoned. Even without knowing beforehand who is Maltese, Vuko is being sworn in on the eve of execution, so that the knight would deceive his miserable destiny at least a bit.
The Oath
1974
Vuko, a young servant of Kotor prince, makes entourage with his brother and friends in order to obtain for the daughter of Venetian Doge for the prince's son. They spend seven weeks of drinking, whoring and without thoughts of anything else. And then, one morning, running through narrow streets before the army, Vuko accidentally witnesses the fight between the knights and the guards. Vuko falls into the hands of guards, and finds himself imprisoned. Even without knowing beforehand who is Maltese, Vuko is being sworn in on the eve of execution, so that the knight would deceive his miserable destiny at least a bit.
The Oath
1974
6.0Set 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
6.0Set 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
9.0A 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
9.0A 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
NRAfter the concert event held in the "Dom sindikata" in Belgrade, the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin talks about his Stradivarius violin, the value it has for him and about the world of music in which he lives. In a roadside tavern near Šabac, opera diva Milka Stojanović talks with a folk singer, they talk about their jobs, similarities and differences. Finally, a Roma violinist from the village of Grošnica proudly talks about his violin, which he inherited from his grandfather, on which he now plays, and keeps it for his descendants. All the heroes of this film talk about their love for their profession, about their seriousness and responsibility towards their profession, about their passion for music, about the joy that the life they have chosen gives them.
Big and Small
1970
NRAfter the concert event held in the "Dom sindikata" in Belgrade, the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin talks about his Stradivarius violin, the value it has for him and about the world of music in which he lives. In a roadside tavern near Šabac, opera diva Milka Stojanović talks with a folk singer, they talk about their jobs, similarities and differences. Finally, a Roma violinist from the village of Grošnica proudly talks about his violin, which he inherited from his grandfather, on which he now plays, and keeps it for his descendants. All the heroes of this film talk about their love for their profession, about their seriousness and responsibility towards their profession, about their passion for music, about the joy that the life they have chosen gives them.
Big and Small
1970
NRA portrait of Serbian folk singer Pavle Stefanović (1928-2009).
Music Portrait - Pavle Stefanovic
1970
NRA portrait of Serbian folk singer Pavle Stefanović (1928-2009).
Music Portrait - Pavle Stefanovic
1970
