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Milena Dravić
Milena Dravić ( sr-Cyrl, Милена Дравић, ; 5 October 1940 – 14 October 2018) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film, television and theatre actress. She played the mother of Brad Pitt in the 1988 film '' The Dark Side of the Sun''. Biography Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Dravić became involved with performing arts at the age of four via her parents enrolling her in a dance program. She would later switch to classical ballet. In 1959, still a high school student, Dravić got spotted by director František Čáp who approached the eighteen-year-old about being in his film ''Vrata ostaju otvorena'' after seeing her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers' group photo. After appearing in a few more films, she decided to pursue acting full-time and to that end successfully enrolled at the Academy of Theatre Arts (APU) within the Arts Academy in Belgrade. Her big break came in 1962 in Branko Bauer's ''Prekobrojna'' for which she won the Golden Arena for Best Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cinematography
Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or Photographic film, light-sensitive material inside the movie camera. These Exposure (photography), exposures are created sequentially and preserved for later processing and viewing as a motion picture. Capturing images with an electronic image sensor produces an Charge-coupled device, electrical charge for each pixel in the image, which is Video processing, electronically processed and stored in a video file for subsequent processing or display. Images captured with photographic emulsion result in a series of invisible latent images on the film stock, which are chemically "Photographic developer, developed" into a Positive (photography), visible image. The images on the film stock are Movie projector, projected for viewing in the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bitka Na Neretvi (film)
''Battle of Neretva'' ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Bitka na Neretvi, Битка на Неретви) is a 1969 Yugoslavian epic partisan film. Written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić, it is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ''Battle of Neretva'' is the most expensive motion picture made in the SFR Yugoslavia. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the year after Sergei Bondarchuk (playing the role of Martin in ''Neretva'') won the honour for ''War and Peace''. The score for the English-speaking versions was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Its soundtrack was released by Entr'acte Recording Society in 1974. It was later re-released by Southern Cross Records on CD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hasanaginica (film)
''Hasanaginica'' ( English: ''Hassan-Aga's Wife'') is a 1967 Yugoslav feature film. It was written and directed by Mića Popović based on the motifs of a Serbian folk ballad of the same name. Plot Zeina is left at home with two children and an elderly servant after her husband, Hasanaga, leaves on military duty. Zeina's brother Murat comes to visit, complaining that the water has washed away his land and asking his sister for money to buy new land from the Kadia of Imot. Zeina is impatiently waiting for Hasanaga. She refuses to go to him when summoned, because of a warning dream. On his return, he throws her out of his house. Zeina is banished and forever separated from her children. Cast *Milena Dravić as Zeina (Hasanaginica) *Rade Marković as Džamonja * Đorđe Nenadović as Hasanaga *Relja Bašić as Kadia of Imot * Rastislav Jović as Murat * Kaja Grganović * Bogdan Dević * Aleksandar Dević * Prvoslav Nikolić * Živorad Šobić ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Morning (film)
''The Morning'' (Serbo-Croatian: ''Jutro'', Serbian Cyrillic: ''Јутро'') is a 1967 Yugoslav film written and directed by Serbian director Puriša Đorđević. It is the third entry in Đorđević's wartime tetralogy, the other three being '' The Girl'' (1965), '' The Dream'' (1966) and ''Noon'' (1968). The film belongs to the Yugoslav Black Wave movement. The film entered the competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival and Ljubiša Samardžić won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role. It was also the Yugoslav entry at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1967. Plot The Second World War is over, but it's consequences continue to plague people. In the initial days of peace, amidst conflicts like dealing with the former enemy's collaborators and executing traitors, a former soldier finds himself unable to stop killing. The war within him rages on, creating immense problems in his relationships with himself and others. Cast * Ljubiša Samardžić ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Looking Into The Eyes Of The Sun
''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' (''Pogled u zjenicu sunca'') is a 1966 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić and starring Bata Živojinović, Antun Nalis, Faruk Begolli, Mladen Ladika, and Milena Dravić. Plot In a snowstorm, four Partisans get separated from their unit. Three of them are suffering from typhoid fever, and the only healthy man among them is trying to return them to safety... Production ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' was shot in just 31 working days. Although Bulajić's name was usually associated with high-budget productions, he gave ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' and ''The Man to Destroy'' as counterexamples, describing them as "the two cheapest films in the history of Jadran Film". Reception ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' was shown in the out of competition section of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. The Croatian Film Association The Croatian Film Association (, HFS), also known as the Croatian Film Clubs' Association, is an association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rondo (1966 Film)
''Rondo'' is a 1966 Yugoslavian film by Croatian director Zvonimir Berković. It was filmed in Zagreb, Croatia (then a part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). Plot One Sunday, the lonely bachelor and sophisticated judge Mladen arrives to the apartment of his friend, the sculptor Fedja. The two men are chess fanatics and want to play through the entire afternoon. At the apartment, Mladen meets Fedja's wife Neda and becomes smitten by her. She is not interested in chess, but seems to love his husband very much. At night, the couple invites Mladen to dinner, and the three talk about chess, love and music. Mladen learns that Leda used to study classical music. She knows how to play the piano, but lost the love for doing that a long time ago. They decide to repeat that routine every Sunday, and with time their bond grows stronger. Both Mladen and Neda start showing signs of attraction towards each other. He buys her recordings of musicians performing pieces by Mozart, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Camp Followers
''The Camp Followers'' () is a 1965 Italian World War II film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Anna Karina. Based on a 1956 novel by Ugo Pirro, it tells the story of a young lieutenant in the Italian Army who in 1942 is ordered to take a lorryload of Greek prostitutes from starving Athens under Axis occupation to entertain the Italian troops fighting Partisans in Albania. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Plot In 1942, disheartened at the starvation and disease in Athens, Lieutenant Martino of the Italian Army requests a posting elsewhere. He finds himself, with a Sergeant Castagnoli, in charge of a lorry containing twelve prostitutes who he has to deliver up country to various military establishments. This is not what he joined the army for, nor does he see how it will contribute to victory. On the way, they are obliged to accept a Major Alessi as a passenger. An unpleasant character, he outranks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Destination Death
''Destination Death'' (, ) is a 1964 West German-Yugoslavian war film directed by Wolfgang Staudte. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Götz George as Herbert Hackländer * Hans Nielsen as Major a. D. Friedrich Hackländer * Rudolf Platte as Werner Drexel * Reinhold Bernt as Willi Wirth * Gerlach Fiedler as Otmar Wengel * Gerhard Hartig as Kurt Siebert * Friedrich Maurer as Studienrat Karl Samuth * Herbert Tiede as Inspektor Ernst Sobotka * Mira Stupica as Miroslava * Olivera Marković as Lia * Milena Dravić as Seja * Ljubica Janicijević as Nada * Nevenka Benković * Pavle Vujisić Pavle ( Macedonian and sr-Cyrl, Павле; ka, პავლე) is a Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian and Georgian male given name corresponding to the English Paul; the name is of biblical origin, coming from Saint Paul. People Mononyms * Pa ... as Nikola Kelner References External links * 1964 films 1964 drama films German drama films Yugosl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kozara (film)
''Kozara'' is a 1962 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is a well known film of the partisan film subgenre popular in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s and depicts events surrounding the Battle of Kozara. It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 1962 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards, was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize, and was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Bert Sotlar as Vukša * Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović as Sorga (as Bata Živojinović) * Milena Dravić as Milja * Olivera Marković as Anđa * Dragomir Felba as Obrad * Ljubiša Samardžić as Mitar * as Ahmet (as Mihajlo Kostić) * as Ivica * as Jakov (as Abdurahman Šalja) * as Joja * as Marinko's mother (as Tana Maskareli) * as Zlata * as Marinko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The First Fires
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
