The best Ivan Bekjarev’s movies

Ivan Bekjarev

Ivan Bekjarev

06/04/1946- 16/11/2020
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Hotshot

Hotshot
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/07/1986
  • Character: Oficir
A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...

Battle of Kosovo

Battle of Kosovo
7.6/10
In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.

Cabaret Balkan

Cabaret Balkan
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1998
  • Character: The Man on the Bus Who Thinks He's Tough
The film takes place in Belgrade in the mid nineties of the twentieth century, when the brutality and violence are becoming part of everyday reality. A series of separate stories each linked inheritance situations. The painful atmosphere of increasing brutality from which you can not see the output as the main motiv is repeated in the question of accountability: "Who is guilty?"

The Secret of Family Treasure

The Secret of Family Treasure
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/2000
  • Character: Velja Valjarević
Tihomir Stojkovic suspects that there's a hidden treasure in the property of his neighbors. Since this piece of land belongs to a man who has unmarried daughter, Tihomir persuades his friend Djosa to marry her so they could get in possession of that jar full of money. The characters are based on TV series "Family Treasure".

Desire Named Streetcar

Desire Named Streetcar
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1994
  • Character: Lažni kontrolor
In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.

The Optimists

The Optimists
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/09/2006
  • Character: Šef kazina
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."

Out of Step

Out of Step
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/02/1968
A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of the show is admonished for trying to incite the public against the system. The media, the man and the television manager gather to try to talk out the misunderstandings they all experience with the system of slow-moving social injustices. The message of the film also states that the days of media scrutiny and public-opinion feedback are here to stay.

Volunteers

Volunteers
5.5/10
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

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/06/1985
  • Character: Guitarist
After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.

The Red and the Black

The Red and the Black
7.5/10
This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.

A Night at My Mother's House

A Night at My Mother's House
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/04/1991
  • Character: Bata Dobrica
A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest for the meaning of life proves to be nothing but failure.

See You in Chicago

See You in Chicago
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/06/1996
  • Character: Stojče 'Mafiment'
In this spoof of gangster and crime films, two veteran detectives get involved in mafia world. One of them is hired by a kingpin to follow his wife who seems suspicious.

The Little One

The Little One
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1991
  • Character: Inspektor
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.

Poor Little Hampsters

Poor Little Hampsters
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 26/08/2003
  • Character: Stari ministar
Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that follow without stop.

Happy New '49

Happy New '49
7.9/10
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.

And God Created a Tavern Singer

And God Created a Tavern Singer
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1972
  • Character: Živko
An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.

The Years of the Sweet Sin

The Years of the Sweet Sin
8.3/10
The biggest Balkan star Lepa Brena in the documentary speaks about the fame but also reveals and yet unknown details from her biography. From childhood in Brcko, growing up in the working family to the achievement of the most successful career in the former Yugoslavia. How she built the brand, what was the role of her manager Raka Djokic, in the success of Lepa Brena and "Slatki greh" and how it looked like a tour that lasted for 9 years. The film is featured by prominent artists and public workers of a time brought by artists like Lepa Brena today.

Bishop vs. Rook

Bishop vs. Rook
6.5/10
State security inspector Ivan reveals an inserted terrorists in Yugoslavia, sent there by Croatian emigrants, enemies of the above socialist state. Their mission is to select the appropriate places on Adriatic coast which they would later blow up. The terrorists are expected to set a series of explosions that would cause a public disturbance and uncertainty in the Yugoslavia's position in Europe. Ivan follows Pavle and Elsa who are staying in Croatia as tourists, stepping into action in a crucial moment.

Boxers Go to Heaven

Boxers Go to Heaven
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/07/1967
  • Character: Toma Grković
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

The Battles of Simeon the Student

The Battles of Simeon the Student
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 17/11/1999
  • Character: Turčin na konju
Thematically diverse stories written by Petar Kocic are bond by the thread, creating the basis for a dramatic story of the events surrounding the student Simeun. In the foreground there's a summary of Simeun's features, some patriotic, but some arrogant as well. These Simeun's actions are manifesto of the complexity of his nature, acting like a tyrant and patriot who displays bravery for the sake of freedom of his people.

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