Gordan Mihić

Writing

Gordan Mihić

Born — Died

1938-09-19 — 2019-08-11

Place of birth

Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

Known for

Writing

Credits

42 titles

Gordan Mihić was a Serbian playwright best known for his work on movie scripts for Black Cat, White Cat, Time of the Gypsies, Balkan Express and for the TV series Otvorena vrata and Kamiondžije. He was married to actress Vera Čukić with whom he had a daughter, Ivana Mihić, also an actress.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Black Cat, White Cat poster
7.6

A small-time hustler makes a deal with a notorious gangster to whom he owes money: marry his teenage son to the latter's daughter. However, the young lovers are not as agreeable.

Black Cat, White Cat

1998

Time of the Gypsies poster
7.6

Perhan is a gypsy teenager with telekinetic powers. A wealthy gypsy, Ahmed, visits the village and promises to get Perhan's sister the medical treatment she needs if they join him to Italy. Perhan soon discovers that Ahmed's business activities are in fact quite shady and he is soon lured into the elder's corrupt surroundings.

Time of the Gypsies

1988

Zhivka Shtrba poster
NR

The 13th story from the "Singles" anthology. A sick and forgotten actress gets attention from two actors, but what is their goal?

Zhivka Shtrba

1969

The Elusive Summer of '68 poster
7.4

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

The Elusive Summer of '68

1984

The Tail-Guy poster
NR

The eighth story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. An eternally undervalued and ridiculed clerk tries to change his attitude and life.

The Tail-Guy

1969

An Evolutionary Mistake poster
NR

The first story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. A confirmed bachelor considers women to be an "evolutionary mistake" and mocks all his married friends, until he is tempted by his best friend's sister-in-law.

An Evolutionary Mistake

1968

Truckers Ride Again poster
6.4

New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.

Truckers Ride Again

1984

My General poster
NR

The 12th part of the "Singles" comedy anthology. Two spinster sisters make friends with a neighbor general. He thinks it's matchmaking, but they actually want to sell him a burial place.

My General

1969

The Beach Guard in Winter poster
5.5

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

The Beach Guard in Winter

1976

Mechanism poster
5.3

The conflict between innocence and evil is the shortest definition of the leitmotifs of the film. The story is taking place on a winter day in a remote province, far from all major events that shook the world today. A young woman teacher goes to a remote village where he got the first job after six years of waiting. Happy and hopeful that her life finally begins ... The other main feature is similar to it. Male character returns from the war in which, in fact, he was not. The first day of the war he was wounded and spent eight months in the hospital. His first job as a taxi driver on an empty train station where there is not many passengers, but it offers the peace that he needs to overcome his trauma and that gives hope that he is finally something good to happen. But harsh times threaten to destroy the dreams of the teacher and taxi drivers. Fortunately the man who is young like them, but he has completely different goals in life.

Mechanism

2000

500 Bathtubs poster
9.0

The staff of a company organize the meeting regarding 500 bathtubs which someone mysteriously left in the timber yard. Although it's obviously someone's machination behind this, the meeting turns into a feast with music, rather than a night of boring polemics.

500 Bathtubs

1981

Everything That Was Nice poster
7.0

Old man Vidoje is a passionate bowler, has a dog and likes to hunt. However due to his declining health, his family starts depriving him of everything. In the end, Vidoje is left only with the TV, empty room and window to the street.

Everything That Was Nice

1976

The Dog Who Loved Trains poster
6.9

A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.

The Dog Who Loved Trains

1977

Balkan Express poster
5.8

In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".

Balkan Express

1983

Absurdistan poster
6.1

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Absurdistan

2008

Someone Else's America poster
6.8

This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".

Someone Else's America

1995

When I Am Dead and White poster
7.4

The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.

When I Am Dead and White

1967

The Written Off Return poster
8.0

Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is assassinating resistance sympathizers, and Prle and Tihi must return to Belgrade deal with it. In order to cross through enemy lines, they use cars, clothes and documents of captured pro-Nazi minister. During their journey the minister escapes and warns the Gestapo.

The Written Off Return

1976

She Likes Red Star poster
4.8

Srba is graduating pupil and football fanatic, or more precise king of a street soccer, who plays even without others, in a winter, summer, rain or snow, while his grandma lights narrow backyard (so called small Maracana) with a flashlight. He wouldn't accept to become professional by no means and to play for money, rejecting offers of various scouts promising him a career in Spain, Greece, Germany, Turkey... main characters of Srba's school days are his best friends, Daca who is secretly in love with him ever since first grade, professors Hannibal and Darwin and Beki, new schoolmate to whom Srba fells in love - and she loves Red Star...

She Likes Red Star

2001

Yellow poster
6.2

A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a wanderer, although she has a burning desire for home and quiet life. The big city life laws get her in troubles, sad and, at least for her, unintelligible...

Yellow

1973

Truckers poster
6.8

The adventures of a truck driver and his fellow associate, who both leave their company refusing to meet the newly introduced criteria of having elementary school degree. Being in their 40s and totally talentless for education, they decide to leave the company and go private. However, the world outside their company has been completely changed over the years, and after the series of bad lucks, they will summarize their position and go back to school.

Truckers

1973

The Right Address poster
10.0

A man helps a woman get married. There are more candidates, but in the end it turns out that he is the ‘right address’ for her.

The Right Address

1968

Buy Me an Eliot poster
6.2

A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs...

Buy Me an Eliot

1998

And God Created a Tavern Singer poster
6.2

An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.

And God Created a Tavern Singer

1972

Gate to Heaven poster
8.0

With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in an underground labyrinth of pipes and vents. The young Indian woman Nisha is an aircraft cleaner who dreams of being a flight attendant.

Gate to Heaven

2003

The Granny Had a Kitty Cat poster
NR

The ninth story from the "Singles" comedy anthology. A mousy and bashful single man has a cat, for which he needs to find a mating female. When he finally finds a candidate at his female neighbor's, the plot thickens.

The Granny Had a Kitty Cat

1969

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

Tango Argentino poster
4.5

A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.

Tango Argentino

1992

The End of War poster
6.6

As WW2 comes to an end in the former Yugoslavia, a man without an arm and his young son are on a mission. Their goal is to find and kill five members of the fascist militia who had tortured and killed their wife and mother

The End of War

1984

We Will Be the World Champions poster
3.6

The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.

We Will Be the World Champions

2015

The Time Has Come for Love to Try poster
6.2

Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.

The Time Has Come for Love to Try

1980

Wounded Country poster
4.5

Stories and destinies of people hidden in underground shelter during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Wounded Country

1999

Kick-Off poster
5.1

A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.

Kick-Off

1990

White Lions poster
2.8

The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.

White Lions

2011

Maria poster
8.4

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Maria

2003

Balkan Express 2 poster
5.2

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

Balkan Express 2

1988

Happy New '49 poster
6.3

The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.

Happy New '49

1986

Poor Little Hampsters poster
6.0

Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that follow without stop.

Poor Little Hampsters

2003

Children of the Sun poster
5.1

A tale of family and loyalty, love and loss, betrayal and redemption. As the Mob destroys the life of a big family and leaves them on the brink of survival, a powerful, yet secret love, burns between Marko (a gangster) and Angela - two high school sweethearts. Good fortune smiles on the family (a bohemian collective of lovable eccentrics) as they find a long-lost treasure, but Angela betrays them in the name of love by stealing it in order to save Marko's life from the Mob. In the end, everyone reaps what they sow, and their love ends inauspiciously.

Children of the Sun

2014

Three Summer Days poster
5.0

Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.

Three Summer Days

1997