Cinematography: Zivko Zalar

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Zivko Zalar. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Deja vu

1987 · Movie · 102 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Goran Markovic

Cast Mustafa Nadarevic · Anica Dobra · Milorad Mandic · Bogdan Diklic

Plot Déjà vu concerns a troubled piano teacher, Mihailo (Mustafa Nadarevic), and his efforts to come to terms with reality through a love affair with a poor but industrious girl, Olgica...

6.8

94 votes

6.8

94 votes

Witnesses

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · Croatia

6.7

31 votes

6.7

31 votes

Balkan Express

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Branko Baletic

Cast Dragan Nikolic · Bora Todorovic · Tanja Boskovic · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic

Plot Group of petty criminals is trying to make some money under the disguise of musical band in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

6.7

35 votes

6.7

35 votes

Marshal Tito's Spirit

1999 · Movie · 97 min. · Croatia

Direction Vinko Bresan

Cast Boris Buzanicic · Drazen Kuhn · Ilija Ivezic · Ivo Gregurević

Plot There is a rumor that the ghost of the deceased marshal Tito appeared in a small island town. Old partisans believe that their time may have come again, so they...

6.7

69 votes

6.7

69 votes

National Class Category Up to 785 ccm

1979 · Movie · 105 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Goran Markovic

Cast Dragan Nikolic · Bogdan Diklic · Gorica Popovic · Rade Markovic

Plot It stars Dragan Nikolic as Brana Mitrovic a.k.a. Floyd, a part-time race car driver and full-time freeloader. He's 27, still living with his parents and gives an impression of someone...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Bravo maestro

1978 · Movie · 99 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Rajko Grlic

Cast Rade Serbedzija · Aleksandar Bercek · Bozidar Boban · Mladen Budiscak

Plot Bravo Maestro tells the story of the composer Vitomir Bezjak, a very prominent personality in the cultural and social milieux in Zagreb. His masterpiece, which has been announced for years...

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Moj ata, socialisticni kulak

1987 · Movie · 100 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Matjaz Klopcic

Cast Polde Bibic · Milena Zupancic · Ivo Ban · Urska Hlebec

Plot Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. His wife Mimika...

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Three for Happiness

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Rajko Grlic

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Mira Furlan · Bogdan Diklic · Vanja Drach

Plot A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.

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Nesto izmedju

1982 · Movie · 105 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Caris Corfman · Miki Manojlovic · Dragan Nikolic · Zorka Manojlovic

Plot An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.

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Special Education

1977 · Movie · 110 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Goran Markovic

Cast Slavko Stimac · Bekim Fehmiu · Ljubisa Samardzic · Aleksandar Bercek

Plot The story follows Pera 'Trta', a smalltown youth from somewhere around Belgrade, a lovable petty thief and a pick-pocket who, after his soliciting mother gets dispatched to a mental institution,...

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Fragrance of Wild Flowers

1977 · Movie · 106 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Ljuba Tadic · Aleksandar Bercek · Olga Spiridonovic · Sonja Divac

Plot A television actor and his friend, a barge captain, abandon their everyday lives without a thought in this dark comedy. They do not mind that a television news crew is...

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It Isn't Easy to Get Along With Men

1985 · Movie · 92 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Mihailo Vukobratovic

Cast Milena Dravic · Ljubisa Samardzic · Ana Simic · Branka Katic

Plot A divorcee and her teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.

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Local Vampire

2011 · Movie · 90 min. · Montenegro

Direction Branko Baletic

Cast Stela Cetkovic · Gordana Gadzic · Zana Gardasevic · Ivana Mrvaljevic

Plot A romantic comedy full of humorous twists and turns, Local Vampire is about a young man who goes to creative lengths to avoid his gambling debts - and the spiraling...

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Secret Ingredient

1988 · Movie · 89 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Slobodan Sijan

Cast Rick Rossovich · Catherine Hicks · Gary Kroeger · Dara Calenic

Plot A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.

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How the War Started on My Island

1996 · Movie · 97 min. · Croatia

Direction Vinko Bresan

Cast Vlatko Dulic · Ljubomir Kerekes · Ivan Brkic · Predrag 'Predjo' Vusovic

Plot Comedy-drama about events at a Yugoslav army outpost on an Adriatic island at the time Croatia declares independence.

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Look at Me Unfaithful (TV)

1974 · Movie · 39 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Slavica Backovic · Borivoje Bajcetic · Milun Gacanovic · Ana Keta

Plot In documentary style we run trough tragic story about love, hate, passion, and crime in small village in Serbia. Through the beautiful music and interesting characters we discover beauty and...

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Ums Paradies betrogen (TV)

2005 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany

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Beloved Love

1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Dejan Karaklajic

Cast Milena Dravic · Ljubisa Samardzic · Milivoje Tomic · Predrag Bolpacic

Plot Family Trajkovic are bridge-builders. Because of the nature of their job, they are forced to move very often. But bridges are nightmare for 17-year old Budimir, since moving obstruct his...

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Strawberry in the Throat

1985 · Movie · 84 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Srdjan Karanovic

Cast Aleksandar Bercek · Branko Cvejic · Miki Manojlovic · Bogdan Diklic

Plot A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth. And about men turning into what they should be ashamed of, during one drunken night.

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Whichever Way the Ball Bounces

1974 · Movie · 89 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Rajko Grlic

Cast Mladen Budiscak · Jagoda Kaloper · Srecko Pticek · Slobodan Sembera

Plot If It Kills Me is a story about Budilica, a twenty-five year old worker. One morning he gives up his work in order to end a way of life that...

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