The best Janez Vrhovec’s movies

Janez Vrhovec

Janez Vrhovec

19/01/1921- 07/10/1997
Today we present the best Janez Vrhovec’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Janez Vrhovec’s movies.
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies

I Even Met Happy Gypsies
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/03/1967
  • Character: Sudija za prekršaje
The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.

Hell River

Hell River
5.4/10
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.

The Camp Followers

The Camp Followers
7.4/10
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

The Battle of Sutjeska

The Battle of Sutjeska
6.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 03/07/1973
  • Character: Radosav, komandant južne grupe
Tells the story of the Battle of Sutjeska which occurred in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1943.

The Master and Margaret

The Master and Margaret
6.2/10
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.

Gates to Paradise

Gates to Paradise
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 31/05/1968
  • Character: François
Directed by Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda, the obscure gem unfolds as a sort of 13th century Road Trip, with youthful hormones and selfish impatience trumping nearly all of the (supposedly) pious preoccupations of their handsome leader Jacques (blonde heartthrob John Fordyce, constantly and comically running his fingers through his Beatlesque moptop).

The Beach Guard in Winter

The Beach Guard in Winter
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/03/1976
  • Character: Šef orkestra
Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

Tempest

Tempest
6.3/10
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.

Requiem

Requiem
4.2/10
An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.

Fraulein Doktor

Fraulein Doktor
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 24/01/1969
  • Character: Belgian Colonel
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.

Man Is Not a Bird

Man Is Not a Bird
7.2/10
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

The Dervish and Death

The Dervish and Death
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1974
Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.

Little Things

Little Things
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1957
Wife of a doctor, who's busy with his work over the top, lets herself to adventure. Much effort is needed to overcome "little" argues and to find the way of understanding and respect.

The Falcon

The Falcon
7.6/10
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.

It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men

It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
7.4/10
A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.

The Wide Blue Road

The Wide Blue Road
6.9/10
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…

Smoke

Smoke
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/07/1967
  • Character: Komandant logora
The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and who returns from prison after serving the minimum sentence. Coincidentally, planned revenge takes a different turn.

Deserter

Deserter
6.2/10
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.

The Trek

The Trek
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1968
  • Character: Nemački oficir
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.

Suleiman the Conqueror

Suleiman the Conqueror
4.8/10
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.

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