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Browse 122 movies from Dunav Film
Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
Jul 1972
In the Bavarian village of Schladerbach, the kobold Hatschipuh and his comrades live, of whose existence only Grandpa Reiter is aware. When the building constructor Lederer builds himself a new mansion, the subterranean settlement of the kobolds gets destroyed, and Grandpa Reiter sees himself forced to move them into his barn. But this abode as well is soon threatened: Since the farm is no longer profitable, Father Reiter plans to sell it…
Feb 1987
In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.
Jul 1967
The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.
Jan 1968
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolić, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of the local police.
Jul 1971
"Dan više" is about a mudbath near the small Serbian town of Bujanovac that is famous for healing illnesses. People cover themselves from head to toe in mud and then float on the water: Vlatko Gilić created a ghostly, surreal scenario, whose everyday quality is concentrated into an allegory of human suffering and quest.
Feb 1972
The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero goes to America in order to find her.
Jun 1984
In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.
Mar 1977
A pretty girl arrives on a small island on a dark and stormy night. She becomes an excuse for the turbulence and evil that occurs when one man forgets his dignity and becomes a beast.
Jun 1977
A portrait of a restless young man in late-1960s Belgrade whose cool exterior masks deep dissatisfaction, violent imaginings, and a search for identity amid urban life.
Jan 1969
In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures
Jul 1986
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
Jul 1977
A boy wanders the city alone on a hot summer's day. He tries to escape it, but ends up finding a new friend. The film turns into a literal flight of fantasy.
Jan 1966
Vlatko Gilić, after not getting enough funds for his last film, Days of Dreams, and after getting his scripts he wrote in the 1980s rejected for being too "artsy", was unable to direct movies for the rest of his life. In the meantime, he had the chance to direct this short documentary movie about the natural beauties of Montenegro, for a ski hotel, after meeting its hotel manager.
Jan 1986
A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.
Mar 1963
Illustrations of human conscience in animated and real scenes.
Oct 1968
Another early Aleksandar Petrovic documentary, done for Dunav film in 1964. It is made as a kind of a road movie through socialist Yugoslavia, registering numerous bizarre sites and events, with strong irony both in the selection of scenes and in the background commentaries. Originally filmed in 16mm.
Jan 1964
Filmed in Belgrade in 1962, Parade documents the city’s engagement with the annual May Day celebration by largely ignoring the formal procession. Instead, Dušan Makavejev records the informal moments surrounding it: workers, officials, wanderers, and organizers negotiating space, hierarchy, and appearance. Shot with a detached, humorous eye, the film assembles a mosaic of everyday behavior that reveals the contrast between official ceremony and lived social reality.
Sep 1962
A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water.
Jun 1981
Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.