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Yugoslavia’s most important contribution to the global history of cinema by far goes by the name of Živojin Pavlović. A proper Renaissance man, Pavlović was an accomplished painter, writer (of both fiction and theory), educator, and, above all, filmmaker whose body of work still needs to be properly discovered and evaluated beyond the borders of the former Yugoslavia. More interested in contemporary reality and best known for a series of seminal Black Wave works dealing with contemporary subjects, Pavlović nevertheless applied his razor-sharp critical apparatus, penchant for dirty naturalism, and stunning visual sense twice to the subject of World War II in Yugoslavia. His first partisan film Hajka is an account not of heroic struggles, but of a hopeless manhunt, portraying a broken division of partisans constantly fleeing from Italian occupying forces and local traitors in the hills of Montenegro. In place of glorifying war and revolution, Pavlović offers only self-doubt and disillusion. He shows a seemingly active collective as a swarm of mostly passive or opportunistic individuals. Most shockingly of all, he shows death – and does so repeatedly – not as a noble sacrifice for a better tomorrow, but as something nasty, brutal, meaningless and, above all, completely random. (Viennale)
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Rade Serbedzija
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Snatch (2000)
Batman Begins (2005)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Pavle Vuisic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
Life Is Beautiful (1985)
Petrijin venac (1980)
Lazar Ristovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Casino Royale (2006)
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Boro Begovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Unseen Wonder (1984)
The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Most (1969)
Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Underground (1995)
Solemn Promise (2009)
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Unseen Wonder (1984)
Life Is Beautiful (1985)
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Ljuba Tadic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Time of Miracles (1989)
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Bloody Fairytale (1969)
Peter Carsten
German Empire
Best movies:
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Battle Inferno (1959)
Scampolo (1958)
Dragomir Felba
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965)
Time of Miracles (1989)
Kapò (1959)
Barbara Nielsen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Slices of Life (1985)
Didi - Der Doppelgänger (1984)
The Year of the Jellyfish (1984)
Predrag Milenkovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Life Is Beautiful (1985)
The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Ljiljana Jovanovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Underground (1995)
Balkan Spy (1984)
Boško Buha (1978)
Petar Lupa
Greece
Best movies:
Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
Petrijin venac (1980)
When I Am Dead and Pale (1967)
Vladan Zivkovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Balkan Spy (1984)
The Black Bomber (1992)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Husein Čokić
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Apache Gold (1963)
The Demolition Squad (1967)
Kozara (1962)
Jovan Janićijević Burduš
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Siberian Lady Macbeth (1961)
The Demolition Squad (1967)
Praznik (1967)
Ruth Gassmann
German Empire
Zaim Muzaferija
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Best movies:
Warriors (1999) (TV movie)
The Perfect Circle (1997)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)