Goran Bregović

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Goran Bregović

Born 1950-03-02 · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia

Goran Bregović (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Горан Бреговић; born 22 March 1950) is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who have performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and l'Olympia. A Sarajevo native, Bregović started out with the bands Kodeksi and Jutro, but rose to prominence as the main creative mind and lead guitarist of Bijelo Dugme, widely considered one of the most popular and influential recording acts ever to exist in the SFR Yugoslavia. After Bijelo Dugme split up, he embarked on several critically and commercially successful solo projects, and started composing film scores. Among his better known film scores are three of Emir Kusturica's films (Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream and Underground). For Silent Gunpowder, Bregović won the Golden Arena for Best Film Music at the 1990 Pula Film Festival, among other awards. He has also composed for the Academy Award-nominated film La Reine Margot and the Cannes-entered film The Serpent's Kiss. During his five-decade career, Bregović has composed for critically acclaimed singers, including Sezen Aksu, Kayah, Iggy Pop, Šaban Bajramović, George Dalaras, Cesária Évora and Severina.

Acting credits

Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair poster
7.1

Set in Sarajevo in May 2021, the city's famous Old Town tries to recover after a difficult pandemic year. When a visitor from Zagreb comes looking for the best kebabs in town, a harmless gesture causes the disintegration of the business and private lives of several people.

Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair

2021

Orkestar aka Orchestra poster
5.8

Story about Plavi orkestar (Blue Orchestra), a pop band from Sarajevo who were one of the biggest pop sensations in the 1980s Yugoslavia.

Orkestar aka Orchestra

2011

Lost Button poster
10.0

A documentary about Goran Ivandic 'Ipe', the drummer of most popular Yugoslav rock band of all time, Sarajevo-based "Bijelo dugme" (White Button). Ivandic's fatal jump from the balcony of hotel Metropol in Belgrade in 1994 sparked much controversy around his fate.

Lost Button

2015

White Button poster
NR

'Bijelo Dugme' was a legendary rock and roll band of the former Yugoslavia that is still enormously popular. The leader of the band was Goran Bregović - today a globally acclaimed composer of film scores and world music. This documentary, full of exciting archival footage, great music and juicy confessions deals with the specific time, culture, friendship and politics of the band, as well as the effect that Western popular culture had on the youth in this vibrant socialist country before it disintegrated.

White Button

2010

Trieste, Yugoslavia poster
9.0

A documentary about favorite shopping destination for Yugoslavs: Trieste in Italy.

Trieste, Yugoslavia

2017

Tifa poster
NR

"I'm speaking my mind and having nothing to hide". It is with these words that Mladen Vojičić 'Tifa' describes himself in this 50-minute documentary, which tells about one of the most popular and most controversial public figures in the region and tries to explain his popularity. Through all his ups and downs, Mladen Vojičić remained simply Tifa and nothing has changed him. The film speaks about Tifa's meteoric success as the singer of "Bijelo dugme", and his cooperation with "Divlje Jagode" and "Vatreni Poljubac", as well as about his solo career.

Tifa

2018

Trapped Time poster
7.0

Petar Peca Popović is one of the greatest, most famous, most authoritative and for sure, the best, connoisseur of Rock and Roll in the former Yugoslavia. He promoted Rock and Roll in those heroic times. We are going on a peculiar kind of trip with him, along an "emotional homeland", of ex-Yu, "searching for the lost times" and dear friends, the most significant representatives of this culture - rock'n'roll legends.

Trapped Time

2017

The Days of Abandonment poster
5.8

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

The Days of Abandonment

2005

Indexi poster
NR

Documentary about Indexi, a Bosnian and former Yugoslav rock band popular in Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died.

Indexi

2020

Balkan Spirit poster
6.6

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

Balkan Spirit

2013

Who Is This Kusturica? poster
6.0

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...

Who Is This Kusturica?

2013

Rock Deserters poster
NR

Belgrade rock musicians and critics talk about the glorious days of Yugoslav new wave that had its peak in 1981.

Rock Deserters

1990

Electrically Powered Music poster
NR

In chronological order, the film follows the career of Momčilo Bajagić – Bajaga, one of the most prominent rock musicians from former Yugoslavia, together with his band ‘Instructors,’ who have been accompanying him for 25 years now.

Electrically Powered Music

2009

Life Is a Costume Party poster
NR

Documentary about the Yugoslav writer, poet and television author Duško Trifunović.

Life Is a Costume Party

2024

Saban Bajramovic - My Journey poster
7.0

Untold human story about The King of Romani music and world blues legend.

Saban Bajramovic - My Journey

2024

Persistent Invocation of Angels poster
NR

Stories About Bora Đorđević and Riblja Čorba, commercially most successful Serbian rock band.

Persistent Invocation of Angels

2013

Adriatic - United Sea of Europe poster
NR

Adriatic - United sea of Europe is a fascinating journey between Italy and the Balkans to discover the Slavic and Albanian communities that settled in central Italy, in the Molise region, as early as the 15th century, following the Ottoman invasion of the Balkan Peninsula. The documentary is divided into two chapters: the first dedicated to the Italian-Albanians, the second to the Italian-Croats.

Adriatic - United Sea of Europe

2022

Music for Weddings and Funerals poster
4.5

Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.

Music for Weddings and Funerals

2002

Marshal Is Dead or How Rock 'n' Roll Killed Yugoslavia poster
NR

The birth of a new culture and generation that will change a one country forever and break the cult of personality such as Marshal Tito. Popular culture, rock music and other western frenzies during the Tito era in former Yugoslavia. And and the story of a rock concert that shows how serious and radical changes are taking place in Yugoslavia.

Marshal Is Dead or How Rock 'n' Roll Killed Yugoslavia

Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot » poster
NR

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Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot »

2013

A Small Documentary Film About 3 Letters poster
NR

The main role in this documentary film belongs to Sarajevo, not just as a city but as a metaphor for our times, when we are learning to live together, side by side, respectful of all our differences.

A Small Documentary Film About 3 Letters

2019

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