The best Nikola Popović’s drama movies

Nikola Popović

Nikola Popović

05/03/1907- 10/03/1967
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/04/1965
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.

Fourteen Days

Fourteen Days
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Timotije Marković
The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.

Mother Katina

Mother Katina
4.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1949
  • Character: Mihailidis
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government. During the shooting, there was a discord between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union because of the famous IB resolution, which caused Yugoslav authorities to stop supporting Stalinists. Tito's government acknowledged Greek monarchists as a legitimate government, and not wanting to remind the public of their ideological discrepancy, bunkered "Majka Katina" for a few decades.

Man and Beast

Man and Beast
7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/06/1963
  • Character: Albert
End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plans to kill them all, before the Allies come. One of the prisoners escapes, and tries to find the Allies. A manhunt begins.

Zenica

Zenica
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/01/1957
  • Character: Avdaga
An engineer and his wife move to Zenica where the construction of the first plants is taking place, during highly progressive industrialization of the country. Her dreams are not in accordance with the reality, which makes their marriage impossible to function.

Caroline of Rijeka

Caroline of Rijeka
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/01/1961
  • Character: Gradonačelnik
The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.

As the Sea Rages

As the Sea Rages
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/11/1959
  • Character: Barbanji
After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...

Partisan Stories

Partisan Stories
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/07/1960
  • Character: (segment "Povratak")
The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.

Countrymen

Countrymen
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
A girl from passive area comes to work in Vojvodina's fertile lowlands, along with a group of peasants for a seasonal work. After visiting a city nearby, she finds more about modern life and starts romance with a local fella. Her furious fiancée she had left behind comes to find her.

I Was Stronger

I Was Stronger
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1953
  • Character: Načelnik, Zorin muž
Instead of running away from enemy raid, a female partisan-doctor decides to stay and help one of their wounded children.

Factory B

Factory B
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/12/1958
  • Character: Generalni direktor
A group of oil drillers of the Factory B, focused on success rather than praise, strive to find the oil despite the decision on the suspension of the drilling works.

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