Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević

Directing

Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević

Born — Died

1924-05-06 — 2022-11-23

Place of birth

Čačak, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

Mladomir Puriša Đorđević was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He directed 71 films since 1947. His 1966 film The Dream was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Some of his movies were censored and banned by the Yugoslav communist government.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

No artwork available
5.8

Sonja, once a popular Serbian actress settled in Slovenia is on a short visit to Belgrade. She panics claiming that her daughter Sofia has been kidnapped, then disappears. Inspector Despotovic is assigned to the case and when he finds Sonja, she admits that she made everything up, that she never had a child, and therefore there was no kidnapping. But a Secret Service veteran approaches Despotovic and tells him that the story about kidnapping is true. It is highly classified information. The father of the child is Foreign Affairs Minister. On the other hand, Minister claims that the Secret Service has made everything up trying to compromise him. Despotovic is puzzled... Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? Who is insane? Who is about to die?

South by Southeast

2005

Censored without Censorship poster
7.2

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.

Censored without Censorship

2007

Behind the camera

I Miss Sonia Henie poster
5.4

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.

I Miss Sonia Henie

1971

The Morning poster
7.5

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

The Morning

1967

The Morning poster
7.5

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

The Morning

1967

Prvi gradjanin male varosi 1961 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prvi gradjanin male varosi 1961

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Two poster
5.0

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

Two

2007

Two poster
5.0

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

Two

2007

Noon poster
6.2

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Noon

1968

Noon poster
6.2

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Noon

1968

The Girl poster
6.8

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

The Girl

1965

The Girl poster
6.8

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

The Girl

1965

Cross Country poster
6.0

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

Cross Country

1969

Cross Country poster
6.0

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

Cross Country

1969

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

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

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

Like a Ballad poster
9.0

A story about a soldier and a girl who met and fell in love as bearers of Tito's baton.

Like a Ballad

1964

Like a Ballad poster
9.0

A story about a soldier and a girl who met and fell in love as bearers of Tito's baton.

Like a Ballad

1964

Dreamers poster
7.0

Short movie.

Dreamers

1965

Dreamers poster
7.0

Short movie.

Dreamers

1965

Trumpets of Dragačevo poster
10.0

Documentary about the first Assembly of Trumpeters in Guča.

Trumpets of Dragačevo

1961

Trumpets of Dragačevo poster
10.0

Documentary about the first Assembly of Trumpeters in Guča.

Trumpets of Dragačevo

1961

The Coach poster
7.0

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

The Coach

1978

The Coach poster
7.0

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

The Coach

1978

Inscription poster
8.0

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

Inscription

1978

Inscription poster
8.0

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

Inscription

1978

The Double Bass poster
9.0

A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.

The Double Bass

1963

The Double Bass poster
9.0

A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.

The Double Bass

1963

Mouth Full of Earth poster
NR

On the way to his homeland with the intention of committing suicide, the mysterious protagonist encounters two hunters and a bizarre series of events takes place.

Mouth Full of Earth

2023

Mouth Full of Earth poster
NR

On the way to his homeland with the intention of committing suicide, the mysterious protagonist encounters two hunters and a bizarre series of events takes place.

Mouth Full of Earth

2023

The Dream poster
5.8

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

The Dream

1966

The Dream poster
5.8

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

The Dream

1966

From Every Man I Loved poster
NR

A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.

From Every Man I Loved

1999

From Every Man I Loved poster
NR

A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.

From Every Man I Loved

1999

No artwork available
9.0

Short documentary.

Question

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Short documentary.

Question

1964

The South Railway Battle poster
6.0

Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.

The South Railway Battle

1978

Have Anything to Declare? poster
10.0

Humans confine themselfes with borders, while birds fly freely.

Have Anything to Declare?

1963

Have Anything to Declare? poster
10.0

Humans confine themselfes with borders, while birds fly freely.

Have Anything to Declare?

1963

Two Grapes poster
5.4

After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again.

Two Grapes

1955

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced poster
4.2

A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced

1997