4 Movies Directed by Aleksandar Petrovic

Three

Three

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-05-12

Languages:

Serbian, German

Countries:

Yugoslavia

Runtime:

80 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (336 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Antonije Isakovic (story)

Aleksandar Petrovic

Fullplot:

Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.

I Even Met Happy Gypsies

I Even Met Happy Gypsies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-03-20

Languages:

Serbian, Romany

Countries:

Yugoslavia

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1008 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Bora the Gypsy is married to an older woman, and he falls in love with the younger Tissa, who is being offered in marriage by her father, to a young gypsy man. This marriage arrangement is according to custom. Tissa rejects her husband, claiming he is not able to consumate the marriage, and Bora joins her. They get a monk in the mountains to marry them. Unable to return to the Gypsy camp, Tissa tries to reach Belgrad on her own, but a couple of truck drivers rape her, and she does return in misery to her tribe. Meanwhile, Bora defends his honour the traditional way, in a knife duwl, and kills his opponent. Therefore he, too, must leave the tribe. And yet, we'll find happy gypsies...

The Master and Margaret

The Master and Margaret

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-11-01

Languages:

Serbo-Croatian, Italian

Countries:

Italy, Yugoslavia

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (321 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Barbara Alberti

Mikhail A. Bulgakov (novel)

Amedeo Pagani (screenplay)

Aleksandar Petrovic

Romain Weingarten (adaptation)

Fullplot:

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov (Tognazzi), a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret (Farmer), are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate (Tadic). The Satan - Woland (Cuny), 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.

It Rains in My Village

It Rains in My Village

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-10-30

Languages:

Serbo-Croatian

Countries:

France, Yugoslavia

Runtime:

84 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (332 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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