Maks Furijan

Acting

Maks Furijan

Born 1904-09-19 · Goricak near Ptuj, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]

Acting credits

Red Wheat poster
6.4

An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.

Red Wheat

1970

The Bridge poster
7.0

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

The Bridge

1969

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 Esophagus Battle poster
7.3

Based on a novel by Prežihov Voranc, it tells a story about a farmer's family who live in Northern Slovenia before WW2.

The Esophagus Battle

1982

Displaced Person poster
9.0

Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.

Displaced Person

1982

Kala poster
6.2

The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?

Kala

1958

The Sarajevo Assassination poster
7.3

A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

The Sarajevo Assassination

1968

The Triumph of Robin Hood poster
6.2

Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.

The Triumph of Robin Hood

1962

The Sea Is Kind poster
6.0

A simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.

The Sea Is Kind

1958

The Demolition Squad poster
6.9

The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.

The Demolition Squad

1967

Sword of Damascus poster
8.0

Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.

Sword of Damascus

1964

Enclosure poster
6.7

In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.

Enclosure

1961

Amandus poster
9.0

The film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious intolerance with Amandus, a Catholic priest, determined to persecute local Protestants.

Amandus

1966

The Enemy poster
6.4

An ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man identical to him starts following him around, claiming to be a friend but behaving suspiciously. Before long his dealings with this doppelganger begin to cost him and his professional and romantic life grow more and more confused.

The Enemy

1965

My Dear Iza poster
4.7

The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.

My Dear Iza

1979

The Descent Upon Drvar poster
6.0

German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.

The Descent Upon Drvar

1963

Kill Me Softly poster
5.3

An old house by the sea is the scene of a number of puzzling crimes and deaths.

Kill Me Softly

1979

Valley of Peace poster
6.6

When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way a black American pilot, who jumped of a shoot-down plane, joins them. Although American planes have killed the boy's parents, he accepts the pilot with enthusiasm. The children communicate with him in German and the valley of peace seems like the last paradise place of refuge. The Slovene boy, the German girl, and the American pilot represent a symbolic triangle of peace in this adventure happening in the middle of the War of Liberation.

Valley of Peace

1956

Maya and the Starboy poster
7.2

The story about a class of star-boys who travel with their research spaceship to "Outdoor School" to see life on Earth. Since they wear "snurke" - a kind of shiny badges, they are invisible to Earthlings. But the star-boy Gubang's desire to meet the Earthlings in personal is so strong that he can not resist. He befriends a girl named Maya and gives her "snurko" so that she could see him. This causes severe complications both on Earth and in spaceship. Of course, everything finishes with a happy end.

Maya and the Starboy

1988

The Alphabet of Fear poster
7.3

In order to gather informations about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement sends a girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.

The Alphabet of Fear

1961

Don't Come Back by the Same Way poster
7.7

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".

Don't Come Back by the Same Way

1965

The Only Way Out poster
6.8

A group of partisans goes to destroy a German gas warehouse at Postojnska Jama. One of them grows distrustful towards the new commander, and it spreads among the rest of the squad. The situation culminates when the mentioned partisan remains cut off inside a cave.

The Only Way Out

1958

The Return poster
NR

Vrnitev is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Fiction TV Film. Featuring Miha Baloh, Maks Furijan, Ivanka Mežan. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Ljubljana. It has received 1 award.

The Return

1976

No artwork available
10.0

A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.

The Jailers

1990