The best Jelena Žigon’s drama movies

Jelena Žigon

Jelena Žigon

03/11/1933- 10/04/2018
We present our ranking of the best Jelena Žigon’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jelena Žigon.

The Camp Followers

The Camp Followers
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/11/1965
  • Character: Sofia Kalamikari
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 Morning

The Morning
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/07/1967
  • Character: Ruža
Director Puriša Đorđević combines the past, present, and future in this symbolic character study of people affected by the aftershocks of war. The anti-war sentiment of the film is underscored as people march for peace to a tune by Pete Seeger.

Foolish Years

Foolish Years
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/12/1977
  • Character: Jelena Todorović
Two teenagers - boy from the rural and girl from the urban family - fall in love. Problems arise when the girl gets pregnant. This movie was the first in one of the most popular series in the former Yugoslavia.

Doctor Mladen

Doctor Mladen
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1975
  • Character: Anđa
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.

The Picture Show Man

The Picture Show Man
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1977
  • Character: Madame Cavalli (as Yelena Zignon)
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

A Trap for the General

A Trap for the General
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/11/1971
  • Character: Vera, učiteljica
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.

The First Citizen of a Small Town

The First Citizen of a Small Town
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1961
  • Character: Katarina Ilić
The citizens of a small town find it difficult to depart from its center, which is to be demolished to build a new, a more functional one. The chairman of the municipality, the first citizen of this small town, supports the plan of female architect-designer, a pretty girl he fell for. But to make locals sure that he didn't approve the old center's demolition under her influence, the president begins to avoid the girl, who then marries another man. By carrying out the ritual wedding, the first citizen of a small town is left with his city all alone.

Love and Fashion

Love and Fashion
7.4/10
In order to make money for the aerial review, a group of students organize the fashion program for the "Yugochic" company, doing some small frauds as well.

Doctor Homer's Brother

Doctor Homer's Brother
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1968
  • Character: Vera, bolničarka
This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.

Adventure at the Door

Adventure at the Door
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/07/1961
  • Character: Gospođa Rubricijus
Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.

My Part of the World

My Part of the World
A beautiful and poetic at the same time difficult and tragic story. In the distant mountain village in Herzegovina, shortly after the end of World War II, lonely women and children await the return of men from the front. The few men that remained in the village trying to go to America and find the salvation of the lumber and stone. Center of the story is loneliness and anticipation. This is a tragic story of two men whose fight for the heart of a woman cost the head of both.

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