Ivo Ban

Acting

Ivo Ban

Born

1949-05-19 (77)

Place of birth

Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Known for

Behind the Nine Mountains poster
NR

The village Za hribom lies somewhere in the middle of the picturesque Dolenjska region, and it is home to a large number of nice people, led by the ambitious mayor Karel. But the election for a new mayor is just around the corner, and Karel wants to keep his mayoral seat at all costs.

Behind the Nine Mountains

2021

In the Name of the People poster
NR

Nika Owen is a trainee lawyer. A beginner in the world of law. And an initiator in life. Through the mysterious death of Inspector Novak, the unraveling of secrets is triggered, leading her down the path of learning what is really going on in society. Her career is at stake, her friendship, her love. —tvprofil

In the Name of the People

2020

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bronzová spirála

1989

Hotel Alcohol poster
NR

In the psychiatric hospital, the chief doctor organizes the "Olympic Games," in which protagonists Bako, Medea, and Drago form a group called "Hotel Alcohol." They lose the games, leave the hospital, and head toward the sea.

Hotel Alcohol

2026

Balkan Inc. poster
NR

Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.

Balkan Inc.

2006

The Lives of Tomaž Kajzer poster
NR

The main character of the title lives a completely new life every time. Tomaž Kajzer is a classic hero of the series, but with a mistake. It’s always someone else.

The Lives of Tomaž Kajzer

2014

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 10 titles

Mr. Happy poster
NR

France Simčič is a gentleman who moves into the Veselje home for the elderly. He meets Majda, who lives in her own world.

Mr. Happy

2016

Driving School poster
NR

The newest tycoon Robert wants to gets his hands on the land where the driving school stands and build a modern shopping center in it's place instead. It is during this acquisition that lands him in an altercation with Instructor Jože, whose wife left him and Roberts daughter Lija. Lija is determined to go to driving school in spite of his father's prohibition. Besides the tense that portray the ruthlessness of our world, the story offers a range of warm and interesting human relationships seen as part of our everyday lives.

Driving School

2014

Together poster
6.7

After the death of his partner, Luka and his daughter Mia struggle to cope and stay bonded as a family.

Together

2018

Beef Trout poster
NR

It puts in front the character of the actor Andrej Nahtigal and a section of his life, shot in real time and among real people who can play their roles by heart, since they live them in real environment.

Beef Trout

2016

No artwork available
NR

Documentary drama Partisan Priest is based on the dramatic life story of Slovenian priest and partisan Jože Lampret. All his life, this uncompromising fighter for justice and equality strived to reconcile the irreconcilable: Christian practice and international socialism. In the end, he was betrayed by both – not the ideas, but by those who saw him as the enemy or merely the means to get what they wanted. A story which indirectly reflects the present day.

Partisan Priest

2015

Shanghai Gypsy poster
7.3

The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?

Shanghai Gypsy

2012

Christmas Dinner poster
NR

Jure and Julija live in a relationship that is largely maintained by clichés and formalities.

Christmas Dinner

2012

Good to Go poster
6.6

Ivan is a retired music teacher in his late 70s, and has grown weary of life. His estranged son never matched up to his expectations anyway, he is still eaten up with jealousy of his brother, who always enjoys life to the full, and - above all - he cannot keep up with the changes around him. He buys himself a plot in a graveyard with an beautiful view of the Alps and checks into a retirement home so he can wait for his death in peace. However, the exact opposite happens: for the first time in his life Ivan starts to actually live.

Good to Go

2013

Lemonade poster
NR

The pensioner Tone makes no secret of the fact that he monitors every step, movement and noise of the residents in the block in which he lives.

Lemonade

2012

Sleeping with Tito poster
NR

Jelka and Egon are elderly people who spend the autumn of their lives together.

Sleeping with Tito

2015

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 5 titles

To the Limit and Beyond poster
5.5

A thief commits daring robberies (a la Raffles) in Slovenia during the 1920s. While he romances the ladies a persistent detective tries to hunt him down and bring him to justice.

To the Limit and Beyond

1990

The Queen of Hearts poster
8.0

It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...

The Queen of Hearts

1991

Felix poster
8.0

This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.

Felix

1996

Triptych of Agata Schwarzkobler poster
10.0

Šelig's heroine Agata lives torn between everyday, real life and the eternal woman within her: a woman who connects Agata with the mythical, the archetypal, the forces of nature and the primal elements. The primal forces and energies of life intrude into Agata's everyday life of voluntary servitude or passive devotion. Agata experiences them as a possibility for a different existence, while Agata Schwarzkobler's triptych, with its depiction of Agata's double image, presents the viewer with the eternal mystery of human existence.

Triptych of Agata Schwarzkobler

1997

No artwork available
10.0

A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.

The Jailers

1990

1980s · 16 titles

Doctor poster
10.0

Vladimir Kante, a high-ranking police official whom everyone refers to simply as "Doc" or "the Doctor" remains in office after the Italian occupation, but soon establishes ties with the Liberation Front. His hard work as a double agent pays off with many lives saved and a number of the enemy's plans revealed to the resistance. When the Germans march into Ljubljana (after the Italian capitulation), the Doctor continues with both his official and his secret work, but is caught by the Germans shortly before the end of the war. Will the Doctor remain loyal to his mission until the end, despite the death threats and brutal torture he is subjected to?

Doctor

1985

See You in the Next War poster
5.3

The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.

See You in the Next War

1980

Displaced Person poster
9.0

Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.

Displaced Person

1982

Red Boogie poster
5.7

Comedy about a group of musicians who are sent to play to villagers and workers to raise morale during a 5 year plan. The trouble is they prefer to play jazz and boogie music to the traditional folk songs, and each time they try their jazz they are reprimanded by the local party secretary.

Red Boogie

1982

No artwork available
5.5

The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.

A Breath of Air

1983

My Dad, the Socialist Kulak poster
7.3

Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek.

My Dad, the Socialist Kulak

1987

Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz poster
5.1

Jani, called just Polz by his fellows, is a sincere elementary schoolboy. He likes his schoolmate Hojka, but especially drawn to inventiveness. He is suported by his mother, his schoolmate Hojka and Fitipaldi. The rest of them, on the other hand his father, a teacher of physics at the top of list, show no recognition of his efforts whatsoever. When seeminghly on the verge of his first success, his device explodes and thus concludes his life of home expirimentation. Polz remains a kind of rebel and fanatic in the eyes of adults, but his younger brother is already promising to follow in his footsteps.

Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz

1982

Body Scent poster
5.2

Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.

Body Scent

1983

No artwork available
9.0

A three-part omnibus drama that shows destinies of three grown men: first segment (Escape) is about a sculptor, the second segment (Shade) is about a loner, while the third segment (Ring) is about a movie star.

P.S. - Post Scriptum

1988

Cyclops poster
5.9

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Cyclops

1982

Café Astoria poster
7.0

The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation mark the period in which the film Cafe Astoria is set. The story relates with a gentle melancholy and a slight irony the lives of a middle-class family: the cafe owner, his wife and their son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a by-gone era; the social and national differences of pre-war Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, and nationally minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophils. The first year after the war introduced the absurd characteristic cruel measures of the so-called revolutionary social transformations in which calamity and coincidence intervene, resulting in events of comic nature, of course, as seen from a safe distance of fifty years.

Café Astoria

1989

The Outlaw poster
7.0

The life of a man who dared to unfold the corruption and mismanagement in his factory takes a wrong turn as his marriage ends, his lover leaves him and he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital. After completing his stay in this mental institution, the gates of the factory are now closed for him. Will he be forced to apologize, or blood must be shed?

The Outlaw

1988

A Cormoran poster
9.0

A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.

A Cormoran

1986

A Real Pirate poster
8.0

A young boy is on vacation at the beach with his family. He becomes bored and wanders onto the set of a television production about pirates aboard a ship.

A Real Pirate

1987

Heretic poster
7.0

The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.

Heretic

1986

Our Man poster
7.0

Milan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.

Our Man

1985

1970s · 6 titles

Hang on, Doggy poster
6.8

This film takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Matic lives in a large neighborhood of concrete blocks of flats with his mother. As his father is temporarily working in Libya, they live alone. Matics' otherwise monotonous life changes dramatically when he is chosen to feature in a film. At the shooting he meets Milena, a girl his own age whom he begins to like. When the shooting is over, the film company gives him a present, a huge black Newfoundlander. Although his mother is not really pleased about it, Matic brings the dog home. And that is just the beginning of their adventures...

Hang on, Doggy

1977

No artwork available
5.8

The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.

Fear

1974

My Dear Iza poster
4.7

The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.

My Dear Iza

1979

Spasm poster
9.0

Working class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong. The film is a critical observation of the lack of prospect of young people who live in the province.

Spasm

1979

Spring Wind poster
7.0

A platonic romance between art student and nude model goes through many complications in which they both try to make one another jealous before revealing their true feelings.

Spring Wind

1974

No artwork available
10.0

Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.

Wonderful Dust

1975

Series credits

Behind the Nine Mountains poster
NR

The village Za hribom lies somewhere in the middle of the picturesque Dolenjska region, and it is home to a large number of nice people, led by the ambitious mayor Karel. But the election for a new mayor is just around the corner, and Karel wants to keep his mayoral seat at all costs.

Behind the Nine Mountains

2021

In the Name of the People poster
NR

Nika Owen is a trainee lawyer. A beginner in the world of law. And an initiator in life. Through the mysterious death of Inspector Novak, the unraveling of secrets is triggered, leading her down the path of learning what is really going on in society. Her career is at stake, her friendship, her love. —tvprofil

In the Name of the People

2020

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bronzová spirála

1989

Balkan Inc. poster
NR

Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.

Balkan Inc.

2006

The Lives of Tomaž Kajzer poster
NR

The main character of the title lives a completely new life every time. Tomaž Kajzer is a classic hero of the series, but with a mistake. It’s always someone else.

The Lives of Tomaž Kajzer

2014

The Lake poster
7.0

Driving home from a New Year's Eve party, Chief Inspector Taras Birsa notices a police car by the road. He stops, and inadvertently gets involved in an investigation of a brutal murder of a young woman.

The Lake

2019

Têlenovela poster
NR

Slovenian parody of soap opera TV shows.

Têlenovela

2021

Têlenovela poster
NR

Slovenian parody of soap opera TV shows.

Têlenovela

2021

Valley of Roses poster
8.5

After the bad outcome of the criminal operation in Lenin Park, Taras decides on a new career path, private detective. First, it is rented by Klara Zupet, a wealthy daughter from Ljubljana. She wants Taras to investigate the new wife of her rich father, the influential entrepreneur Zupet, as she is convinced that she is only with him for self-interest.

Valley of Roses

2022

Telenovela: Patriot TV poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Telenovela: Patriot TV

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