Directing

Sava Mrmak

Born — Died

1929-03-04 — 2002-10-09

Place of birth

Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Sava Mrmak was born on 4 March 1929 in Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Zvizduk u osam (1962), Milicija (1956) and Letnji panoptikum (1961). He died on 9 October 2002 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Known for

The Surgery poster
7.0

This TV movie is in the top TV movies filmed by TV Belgrade. Renowned doctor (surgeon), tired from daily work and meetings, in addition to high availability and problems, learned from a patient who is dying name of the murderer of his father and grandfather and that after 30 years since the end of World War II who was a Chetnik, learned the name the man who destroyed his childhood. Dilemma advanced to meet our doctor, that you do revenge or forgive the man who carries so many horrors. At a time when we have to decide what to do, chetnik who is now an old man comes with serious diseases in the hospital and on the operating table. This raises the issue now and in the consciousness comes Hippocratic oath, what to do now, kill and become animals or help relieve itself a considerable burden.

The Surgery

1977

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

Mister Dimkovic poster
8.0

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.

Mister Dimkovic

1979

No artwork available
10.0

A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.

The Saint-Fiacre Affair

1963

Whistle at Eight poster
6.0

A film crew wants to make a serious drama, but the investors agree to fund the movie only if they make something funny. Hence the drama becomes a comedy with famous singer Đorđe Marjanović in star role.

Whistle at Eight

1962

Bullet in the Back poster
9.0

This TV movie in two parts is one of the greatest movies filmed by Television Belgrade modeled on the BBC. At the end of the Second World War, coroner Ozne examines the surrender of captured partisans to the Germans, which is intertwined with the death of a young lieutenant who is a chetnik, who disappeared missing in November 1941. In this vetting the surface exposes many events and crimes that have been long hidden.

Bullet in the Back

1976

Behind the camera

The Surgery poster
7.0

This TV movie is in the top TV movies filmed by TV Belgrade. Renowned doctor (surgeon), tired from daily work and meetings, in addition to high availability and problems, learned from a patient who is dying name of the murderer of his father and grandfather and that after 30 years since the end of World War II who was a Chetnik, learned the name the man who destroyed his childhood. Dilemma advanced to meet our doctor, that you do revenge or forgive the man who carries so many horrors. At a time when we have to decide what to do, chetnik who is now an old man comes with serious diseases in the hospital and on the operating table. This raises the issue now and in the consciousness comes Hippocratic oath, what to do now, kill and become animals or help relieve itself a considerable burden.

The Surgery

1977

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

Mister Dimkovic poster
8.0

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.

Mister Dimkovic

1979

No artwork available
10.0

A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.

The Saint-Fiacre Affair

1963

Whistle at Eight poster
6.0

A film crew wants to make a serious drama, but the investors agree to fund the movie only if they make something funny. Hence the drama becomes a comedy with famous singer Đorđe Marjanović in star role.

Whistle at Eight

1962

Bullet in the Back poster
9.0

This TV movie in two parts is one of the greatest movies filmed by Television Belgrade modeled on the BBC. At the end of the Second World War, coroner Ozne examines the surrender of captured partisans to the Germans, which is intertwined with the death of a young lieutenant who is a chetnik, who disappeared missing in November 1941. In this vetting the surface exposes many events and crimes that have been long hidden.

Bullet in the Back

1976

Born on the Seine poster
NR

TV special about French popular chanson and the river Seine.

Born on the Seine

1966

Born on the Seine poster
NR

TV special about French popular chanson and the river Seine.

Born on the Seine

1966

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade poster
9.0

A TV drama set shortly after WW2 about court trial of former German generals accused for bombing the Yugoslavia's capital Belgrade.

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade

1976

Blacklist poster
10.0

It catches the essence of the no man’s land in which an accused artist found himself. In the hysteria of the political witch hunt neither society nor the law offered a way out.

Blacklist

1974

A Tram Case poster
7.0

In occupied Belgrade, a writer considers ethical dilemma of a professor involuntarily involved in a difficult situation, which forces him to choose to be for or against the resistance movement.

A Tram Case

1978

The Death of Lady Minister poster
8.5

The story about Zhanka Stokic, the most famous Yugoslav actress before WW2. After the war, she experiences humiliation and the trial for acting at the cabaret and reading the texts on the radio while the people died on front. She's not sure if there was guilt in her act or not, but she's certain that the thing she did was not a crime that deserves a death penalty.

The Death of Lady Minister

1992

Concert to All Our Neighbors poster
NR

"Concert to all our neighbors" - music and comedy on new years eve 1972 from Belgrad, Yugoslavia.

Concert to All Our Neighbors

1972

No artwork available
7.0

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1975

No artwork available
7.0

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1975

Requiem for a Heavyweight poster
6.7

The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1974

Miloje's Death poster
8.0

An already convicted woman becomes a key witness for the unraveling of a very complex court process.

Miloje's Death

1973

Bishop vs. Rook poster
6.7

State security inspector Ivan reveals an inserted terrorists in Yugoslavia, sent there by Croatian emigrants, enemies of the above socialist state. Their mission is to select the appropriate places on Adriatic coast which they would later blow up. The terrorists are expected to set a series of explosions that would cause a public disturbance and uncertainty in the Yugoslavia's position in Europe. Ivan follows Pavle and Elsa who are staying in Croatia as tourists, stepping into action in a crucial moment.

Bishop vs. Rook

1986

Spring in Limassol poster
8.0

Follows the political murders and turbulent events that marked the end of the 1990s in Yugoslavia.

Spring in Limassol

1999

No artwork available
8.0

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

The Canterville Ghost

1962