Slobodan Šijan

Directing

Slobodan Šijan

Born

1946-11-16 (79)

Place of birth

Belgrade, Serbia

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slobodan Šijan (born November 16, 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian film director. After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980. The enormous success of that film written by Dušan Kovačević led to the duo collaborating on another project - 1982's Maratonci trče počasni krug, which also achieved considerable critical and commercial success. Over the coming years Šijan directed two more notable films - Kako sam sistematski uništen od idiota and Davitelj protiv davitelja. As of 2001, he is teaching at Loyola Marymount Un…

Known for

Who's Singin' Over There? poster
7.5

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

The Marathon Family poster
7.6

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

The Marathon Family

1982

Strangler vs Strangler poster
6.9

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.

Strangler vs Strangler

1984

What Happened with Filip Preradović poster
10.0

A pseudo-documentary which centers on the search for the hero from the title. Everyone has a different opinion about Filip, starting from his father to the woman he loved. The search shows that everyone has as many characters as there are people who know him.

What Happened with Filip Preradović

1977

Construction Site poster
NR

A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in the air due to his jealousy, instigated by the ridicule of his co-workers.

Construction Site

1979

Kreka: Dreamcatcher poster
10.0

The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.

Kreka: Dreamcatcher

2021

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

Who's Singin' Over There? poster
7.5

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

The Marathon Family poster
7.6

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

The Marathon Family

1982

Strangler vs Strangler poster
6.9

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.

Strangler vs Strangler

1984

Strangler vs Strangler poster
6.9

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.

Strangler vs Strangler

1984

What Happened with Filip Preradović poster
10.0

A pseudo-documentary which centers on the search for the hero from the title. Everyone has a different opinion about Filip, starting from his father to the woman he loved. The search shows that everyone has as many characters as there are people who know him.

What Happened with Filip Preradović

1977

Construction Site poster
NR

A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in the air due to his jealousy, instigated by the ridicule of his co-workers.

Construction Site

1979

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

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot poster
7.0

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot

1983

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot poster
7.0

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot

1983

Save Our Souls poster
7.0

The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).

Save Our Souls

2007

Self-Portrait at the Graveyard poster
NR

Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.

Self-Portrait at the Graveyard

1970

Cognac poster
5.3

A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.

Cognac

1988

The Great Tram Robbery poster
4.0

Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.

The Great Tram Robbery

2025

The Great Tram Robbery poster
4.0

Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.

The Great Tram Robbery

2025

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

Mammoth Bone poster
7.0

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

Mammoth Bone

1979

No artwork available
8.0

A provincial family looks forward to their new, cosy flat in the city blocks.

Most Beautiful Room

1978