Želimir Žilnik Movies
- 2015
Martinac
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Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.
- 2013
Pirika on Film
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Pirika travels to Berlin to visit her daughter Dobrila and her grandchildren, whom she's never seen. Dobrila, a lesbian, avoids her mother, however,...
- 1993
Silo Danube, Vukovar
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In Vukovar, during the Croatian War of Independence, after the devastation of the town, hundreds of tons of wheat have leaked out of a destroyed...
- 1984
Stanimir Descending
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An aging highlander from the village of Kremna, on Tara mountain, heads for Belgrade accompanied by a ninety-three year old war veteran. He wants to...
- 1977
The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic
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The film portraits a writer-amateur Bora Joksimović, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre. Unhappy with the shows he sees in...
- 1975
I Do Not Know What That Should Mean
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This film collage is based on Heinrich Heine’s poem "Lorelei". Traditional German postcards were used with images of the siren on the Rhine who...
- 1996
Throwing Off the Yolks of Bondage
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Milošević’s regime has rigged the results of parliamentarian elections in autumn 1996. This was a cause for mass rallies in...
- 1975
Public Execution
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This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects...
- 2007
What Do Those Lunatics Want?
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Zelimir Zilnik has always been discussing the communist's regime taboos , with his early documentaries , but especially with his film about the...
- 2006
Danube Soap Opera
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Villagers of Kovilj grow cattle on the Danube islands. Marko, an owner of ten horses, around twenty cows and other cattle is a good friend with a...
- 2018
Among the People: Life & Acting
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Memories and commentaries of non-professional actors combined with excerpts from films in which they participated as "protagonists," mixed with...
- 2000
Fortress Europe
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People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules.
- 2022
As One
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Two young men from Eastern Europe take a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain. Upon arrival at one of the most northwestern points of Europe, the...
- 1997
For Ella
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"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one...
- 1975
Farewell
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At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads...
- 2002
EXIT in the Morning
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In the first years of the EXIT music festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, for many, it was a trip to a "wonderland", after a decade of isolation,...
- 2018
Ideal 68
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On June 3, 1968, student protests began in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the first major conflict with the then communist...
- 1974
Request
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A construction site with foreign workforce – lunch break. A Greek man tries to write a request letter to the German authorities to allow his...
- 1990
Black and White
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Reuben, an African student at Novi Sad University, returns from his visit to his parents.
- 1987
Hot Paychecks
Hot Paychecks01987HD
Zilnik's 102 minutes long TV series is about a couple of guys, one good and naive, the other liar and manipulator, trying to make a living the best...