Acting

Slobodan Aligrudić

Born 1934-10-15 · Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".

Acting credits

National Class Category Up to 785ccm poster
6.6

One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.

National Class Category Up to 785ccm

1979

Special Education poster
6.8

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

Special Education

1977

When Father Was Away on Business poster
7.3

In a post-WWII Yugoslavia still under Stalinist rule in the 1950s, six-year-old Malik is oblivious as to why his father, Mehmed, has suddenly disappeared. In truth, Mehmed has been sent to a labor camp as punishment for acts of sexual indiscretion involving young girls. Malik's mother, Senija, however, has no answers, and the family must cope in the father's absence.

When Father Was Away on Business

1985

Early Works poster
5.9

Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.

Early Works

1971

The Written Off poster
9.0

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

The Written Off

1974

Who's Singin' Over There? poster
7.6

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.

Who's Singin' Over There?

1980

Thirst poster
NR

In 1878, during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the commander of the gendarmerie station in Sokolac was given the task of suppressing the Hajduk movement in that area. The commander asks the arrested and wounded hajduk leader to hand over his comrades.

Thirst

1969

The Train for Kraljevo poster
6.5

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.

The Train for Kraljevo

1981

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

Indian Mirror poster
9.0

A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.

Indian Mirror

1985

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? poster
7.4

Growing up in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man comes of age under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, but is attracted by the world of small-time criminals. He's hired to hide a young prostitute, whom he falls in love with.

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

1981

Merits poster
NR

A pre-war communist, who did not participate in the war, is included in the post-war society as a printing company manager. Haunted by the feeling of guilt, and needing to prove himself, he makes one mistake after another...

Merits

1973

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator poster
6.7

After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

1967

Open Space poster
NR

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.

Open Space

1985

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

Tailors for Jeans poster
NR

Illegal business abroad. Conditions: the boss takes the shoes along with a passport, and the salary is 25 francs, payment when the job is done. A reversal takes place. The boss returns the shoes and the passport, but there is no money. There is blackmail and the arrival of labor reinforcements.

Tailors for Jeans

1982

Homo sapiens poster
6.8

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill an oversized barrel using a woefully small tub of water. Shot in stark black and white and edited to achieve a dreamlike quality, the man’s devotion to this task is tested and taunted by a young couple that frolics around the barrel.

Homo sapiens

1969

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

Great Transport poster
7.5

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Great Transport

1983

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković poster
5.6

Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

1977

The Promising Boy poster
6.1

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.

The Promising Boy

1981

Erogenous Zone poster
5.4

Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.

Erogenous Zone

1981

When I Am Dead and White poster
7.3

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 Colonel's Wife poster
6.0

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.

The Colonel's Wife

1972