Acting

Franjo Kumer

Born 1920-07-02 · Maribor, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]

Acting credits

Back of the Medal poster
7.3

A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.

Back of the Medal

1965

A Bloody Tale poster
6.4

Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.

A Bloody Tale

1969

On Our Own Land poster
6.1

Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the town in the last years of occupation.

On Our Own Land

1948

Masquerade poster
5.2

Banned for over a decade because of its "explicit" sexual situations, when this film was released in Yugoslavia in 1983 the "explicit" scenes had become tame. Other than the notoriety it obtained through censorship, the film has an undistinguished story about the forbidden love affair between the older wife of a sports director and a young athlete.

Masquerade

1971

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

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 Party poster
8.0

Story of young man who has lost an arm in the war and tries to find his place in postwar Ljubljana.

The Party

1960

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