Vladimir Pogačić

Directing

Vladimir Pogačić

Born — Died

1919-09-23 — 1999-09-13

Place of birth

Karlovac, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Vladimir Pogačić (23 September 1919 – 13 September 1999) was a Yugoslav film director. Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the late 1940s he enrolled at the Belgrade Film School. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a screenwriter and director at Radio Zagreb (present-day Croatian Radio) and as a director at the Zagreb student theatre, where he directed a local production of Señora Carrar's Rifles in 1947, the first-ever work by Bertolt Brecht staged in Yugoslavia). Pogačić's filmmaking career began in 1949 with The Factory Story (Serbo-Croat: Priča o fabrici), after which he went on to become one of the …

Known for

Saturday Night poster
6.7

Three stories set in Belgrade by night: A loving couple who alarms public uproar for kissing in the street, a lonely boxing handler whose help isn't really appreciated, and two young people who never manage to get to know each other due to dress code issues.

Saturday Night

1957

The Last Day poster
7.3

A group of former members of the Gestapo participates in espionage activities, helped by a group of locals, dissatisfied with the new authorities. However, members of the Yugoslav secret police, the infamous UDBA, are on their track. This is the first Yugoslavian spy film.

The Last Day

1951

The Man in the Photograph poster
5.8

Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.

The Man in the Photograph

1963

Caroline of Rijeka poster
5.8

The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.

Caroline of Rijeka

1961

No artwork available
7.0

With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.

Heaven without Love

1959

Perfidy poster
6.8

A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.

Perfidy

1953

Film credits

Behind the camera

Saturday Night poster
6.7

Three stories set in Belgrade by night: A loving couple who alarms public uproar for kissing in the street, a lonely boxing handler whose help isn't really appreciated, and two young people who never manage to get to know each other due to dress code issues.

Saturday Night

1957

The Last Day poster
7.3

A group of former members of the Gestapo participates in espionage activities, helped by a group of locals, dissatisfied with the new authorities. However, members of the Yugoslav secret police, the infamous UDBA, are on their track. This is the first Yugoslavian spy film.

The Last Day

1951

The Man in the Photograph poster
5.8

Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.

The Man in the Photograph

1963

Caroline of Rijeka poster
5.8

The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.

Caroline of Rijeka

1961

No artwork available
7.0

With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.

Heaven without Love

1959

No artwork available
7.0

With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.

Heaven without Love

1959

Perfidy poster
6.8

A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.

Perfidy

1953

Alone poster
6.0

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the novel by Mihajlo Ranovcevic.

Alone

1959

Alone poster
6.0

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the novel by Mihajlo Ranovcevic.

Alone

1959

Big and Small poster
5.0

Under a police pursuit, Pavle tries to transfer a group of illegals on a free liberated territory. Pavle hopes to find a hideaway at an old friend Stevan, but these expectations fail. However, help unexpectedly comes from Stevan's little son Aca.

Big and Small

1956

Legends of Anika poster
4.6

Based on a story by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić. When a young man's affair with a married woman ends disastrously he spurns the girl he'd once loved. She reacts to his contempt by becoming the town harlot.

Legends of Anika

1954

Legends of Anika poster
4.6

Based on a story by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić. When a young man's affair with a married woman ends disastrously he spurns the girl he'd once loved. She reacts to his contempt by becoming the town harlot.

Legends of Anika

1954

Story of a Factory poster
7.0

Shortly after country's liberation, one of few factories tries to enhance its production. A group of reactionary individuals fails to stop its work and building of new production units.

Story of a Factory

1949

Story of a Factory poster
7.0

Shortly after country's liberation, one of few factories tries to enhance its production. A group of reactionary individuals fails to stop its work and building of new production units.

Story of a Factory

1949