The best Zoran Radmilović’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Zoran Radmilović’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Zoran Radmilović.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
6.7/10
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
When Father Was Away on Business
7.7/10
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
The Marathon Family
8.8/10
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150 yrs old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Hotshot
6.9/10
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...
The Grump
7.9/10
The man who was fighting fire is being forcibly sent to seaside hotel to recover, where he spends time with other guests who came there for group holiday. He rejects their company claiming that they live by established norms, but they reject him as well 'cause they think he's no different at all.
Radovan the Third
9.5/10
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Happy Family
7/10
Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
Handymen, Handymen
8.1/10
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
The Great Day
Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.
Sixth Gear
8/10
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.
Sugar Water
7/10
Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.
The Last Oasis
9.3/10
A documentary which takes artistic approach in presenting the untouched environment between the rivers of Danube and Drava in Yugoslavia. This strange world, in which the laws of nature incredibly resemble to those of humans, regenerates itself and lives on despite destruction.
Ward Six
7.5/10
A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.
Death Fury
7.1/10
A woman who killed her husband by accident comes out of prison after sixteen years to meet with her two children at municipality office. Before children's arrival, she recalls her supposedly happy marriage that turned into a nightmare when her husband's brother came back from Germany and begun to influence her husband in a bad way.
March on the River Drina
8.4/10
A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.
Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One
6.7/10
Five boys befriend a young loner who becomes their teacher of the adult world.
Broad Are the Leaves
7.1/10
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.
The Bitter Part of River
7.4/10
While trying to push away a little boy who keeps coming near his cottage at the river, a whimsical mayor meets boy's mother. These people find hard to make contacts because of their own troublemarks from the past, even though they know that the common effort is needed for the future and survival.
Holding the Air
7/10
The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his teachers, friends, and mostly his "only brother".
Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija
6/10
The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.
