Ranko Gučevac

Acting

Ranko Gučevac

Born — Died

1933-02-26 — 2001-10-18

Place of birth

Kučevo, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Truckers poster
8.6

The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.

Truckers

1973

Hot Wind poster
8.9

Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.

Hot Wind

1980

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1 poster
6.6

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1

1990

Paradise poster
7.0

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.

Paradise

1993

Buffet Titanic poster
5.9

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Buffet Titanic

1979

Film credits

1990s · 13 titles

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1 poster
6.6

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1

1990

Paradise poster
7.0

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.

Paradise

1993

Mrs. Kollontay poster
7.0

It deals with the personal destiny of the revolution, the first wife of an ambassador in the history of world diplomacy – the destiny of the Alexandra Kollontay, a Russian woman who lived and worked in the most difficult days of the revolution, at a time of suffering, sacrifice, purge, change…

Mrs. Kollontay

1996

Cabaret Balkan poster
7.4

20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Cabaret Balkan

1998

Evil Woman poster
7.2

Sultana and the bootmaker's wife Pela looks very much like each other, with replacement clothing and residence, Sultana becomes Pela and Pela becomes Sultana. The consequence of disguise is that the Sultana are undergoing torture from Pela's husband which changes her nature, which makes positive impact on her environment. The script abounds with musical numbers that contribute to the atmosphere, establish era and the place of action, and in this play bring vaudeville jollity.

Evil Woman

1998

The Hornet poster
6.8

A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.

The Hornet

1998

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret poster
4.2

Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret

1993

Silent Gunpowder poster
4.9

Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.

Silent Gunpowder

1990

A Lighter Case of Death poster
7.0

This poetic story of growing up and maturing sudden two boys and concerns of adults who fail to understand the changes that occur in their lives, is set in the sixties.

A Lighter Case of Death

1993

Holiday in Sarajevo poster
6.5

A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...

Holiday in Sarajevo

1991

Regular Trains Station poster
5.8

In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...

Regular Trains Station

1990

Ivan poster
10.0

The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.

Ivan

1996

The Musician poster
8.0

The action takes place in the village where the master Milun tries to use the servant Sreja and his knowledge “to play nicely on the harps” which is well paid and to make a contract with him to Sreja's detriment, all with the help of village fraudsters, his faithful tricksters.

The Musician

1998

1980s · 15 titles

Husino Rebellion poster
10.0

This is the true story of the miners who were seeking their rights by doing the hardest job in the world. Husinska rebellion is an armed resistance miners mine Krek against the violence of the state government during the general strike of miners Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 21 to 28 December 1920, named after the mining village Husin near Tuzla.

Husino Rebellion

1980

The Magpie Strategy poster
8.0

Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.

The Magpie Strategy

1987

The Guilt poster
9.0

Social drama that explores issues of social justice in Yugoslav pre-war society. Marko, an honest, ordinary working man comes into conflict with the executive director in his company.

The Guilt

1989

Heads or Tails poster
4.0

A village fella tries to make it big in the city.

Heads or Tails

1983

The Great Talent poster
NR

A group of factory workers is trying to make a theatrical play as amateur production, but political bigwigs want to supress them.

The Great Talent

1984

An Ordinary Story poster
NR

The gym teacher is in love with his colleague, a music teacher. She has a fair and cordial relationship with him, but nothing more than that. A young student moves into the building where the music teacher lives.

An Ordinary Story

1989

Open Space poster
NR

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.

Open Space

1985

No artwork available
5.5

The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.

A Breath of Air

1983

The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic poster
7.2

Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").

The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic

1980

Kuduz poster
6.8

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.

Kuduz

1989

Gazija poster
5.4

Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.

Gazija

1981

Samek poster
9.0

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.

Samek

1983

Heretic poster
7.0

The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.

Heretic

1986

The Red and the Black poster
6.0

This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.

The Red and the Black

1985

No artwork available
9.0

One weird but at the same time very difficult and sad story about the Bosnians, the temporary workers in Slovenia. Their survival and the constant demand for a better place under the sun. It also movie speaks of the great longtime animosity between Bosnians and Slovenians.

Rams and Mammoths

1985

1970s · 17 titles

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

Buffet Titanic poster
5.9

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Buffet Titanic

1979

A Sketch for the Painting of Times poster
7.0

Coachman Bego, continuing the tradition of his ancestors, transports occasional passengers in his carriage. He hopes that his son will continue to drive a carriage, but times are changing, and a new bus route is introduced.

A Sketch for the Painting of Times

1979

Simha poster
8.0

This drama subtly tells the story about the dreams of the shoemaker named Rafael, but also about the life of the Sarajevo Jews, whom Samokovlija painted with a lot of love for their suffering and a lot of literary and psychological persuasiveness.

Simha

1975

No artwork available
NR

The main hero is a broke, unkempt pickpocket with certain moral values. He meets an old acquaintance in a bar, now successful man, who brings him over to his table in order to amuse his friends by doing humiliating acts for money. Once full of cash, he asks them to do the same and throws it back.

Deserved Morning

1973

The Spring poster
5.7

Zagorka is young and beautiful peasant woman, abused by her ignorant husband because of her alleged infertility. One morning, a handsome neighbour offers her a lift into town.

The Spring

1979

The Dervish and Death poster
6.3

Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.

The Dervish and Death

1974

Ninth Miracle on the East poster
5.8

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.

Ninth Miracle on the East

1972

Todora poster
NR

Tragic story of the brave woman Todora. Germans penetrated into the village. Villagers flee into the forest and a brave Todora rushes to the German tank and crosses the ball screen. Soldiers captured, and raped her. Her father Radul dispels the Germans, kills some of them and gets killed himself. Freedom arrives, Todora gives birth to son. Farmers despise the evaded, and her father intends to creates a memorial statue.

Todora

1979

Do You Know Pavle Pleso? poster
6.5

Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.

Do You Know Pavle Pleso?

1975

The Autograph poster
NR

Živka, a kitchen helper at a restaurant where visiting sports teams eat, is in love with basketball star Mensur. Late at night, on a deserted street, the two meet by chance and he spends the night with her in a dormitory.

The Autograph

1977

The Human Factor poster
7.0

A TV drama.

The Human Factor

1978

The Tiger poster
7.2

Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.

The Tiger

1978

Pollen Dust poster
5.8

A young journalist is sent to a small Bosnian town to interview people on happiness. He mixes up with local affair and has a romance with a student. He gets a shock when he finds out that he is going to be important due to childhood mumps.

Pollen Dust

1974

Looking Into the Night poster
8.0

The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.

Looking Into the Night

1978

Manifesto for Freedom poster
7.0

6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.

Manifesto for Freedom

1974

Love and Rage poster
6.8

The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.

Love and Rage

1978

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