The best Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic’s movies

Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic

Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic

05/06/1933- 22/05/2016
Today we present the best Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic’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 Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic’s movies.
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The Battle of Neretva

The Battle of Neretva
7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/10/1969
  • Character: Stole
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

The Wounds

The Wounds
8/10
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

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 Battle of Sutjeska

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

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
8.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 11/05/1996
  • Character: Gvozden
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Frozen Stiff

Frozen Stiff
8.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/2002
  • Character: Stanislav
The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.

Sixth Gear

Sixth Gear
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/07/1981
  • Character: Svetolik Trpković zvani Pufta kasapin
Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and others human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, trying to become like his rival across the street, which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

Balkan Spy

Balkan Spy
8.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/02/1984
  • Character: Prodavac palačinki
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

The Dervish and Death

The Dervish and Death
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1974
  • Character: Muselim
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.

The Bridge

The Bridge
7.5/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 01/01/1969
  • Character: Tigar
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

Walter Defends Sarajevo
8.1/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 12/04/1972
  • Character: Valter
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

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.

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1977
  • Character: Vozač GSP-a
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.

Second Žika's Dynasty

Second Žika's Dynasty
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1986
  • Character: Dr. Nedeljković
Unlike in the previous sequel of "Foolish Years"/"Zika's Dynasty" film series, Zika's and Milan's grandson became crazy for girls, having sex with them simultaneously in his apartment. Granddads are now worried for different reason, so they visit the doctor who gives them an advice to send their grandson to the country in order to use his strength appropriately.

Great Transport

Great Transport
5.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 04/07/1983
  • Character: Kosta
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Balkan Rules

Balkan Rules
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/04/1997
  • Character: Šef
Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.

A Great Guy at Heart

A Great Guy at Heart
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: Doktor
After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing and finds a job as a housemaid at Sava Mitrovic house. The family happiness soon turns into a chaos, falling apart like a Robert Hall suit.

The Battle of the Eagles

The Battle of the Eagles
6.6/10
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Holiday in Sarajevo

Holiday in Sarajevo
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Inspektor Felini
A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...

July 13th

July 13th
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Stevanov otac
This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.

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