Srđan Karanović

Srđan Karanović

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Srđan Karanović (born 17 November 1945) is a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1968. His film Nešto između was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. A Film with No Name (Za Sada Bez Dobrog Naslova) won the Golden Tulip Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival in 1989. He is currently a professor of film directing at FDU (Faculty of Dramatic Arts) in Belgrade. His 2009 film Besa was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Srđan Karanović, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Srđan Karanović
  • Popularity: 1.4136
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1945-11-17
  • Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
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  • Also Known As: Srdjan Karanovic, Srdjan Karanović
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Srđan Karanović Movies

  • 1977
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    Special Education

    Special Education

    6.625 1977 HD

    Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

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  • 1971
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    Us from Prague

    Us from Prague

    1 1971 HD

    Students from the Prague Academy of Film (FAMU) talk about their life in Prague. Filmed in Prague in 1968, a few months before the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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  • 2022
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    Winter of One Spring

    Winter of One Spring

    1 2022 HD

    Predrag Popovic, Goran Markovic, Srdjan Karanovic, Rajko Grlic and Lordan Zafranovic talk about the Russian intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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  • 1985
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    Taiwan Canasta

    Taiwan Canasta

    5.556 1985 HD

    A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.

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  • 2010
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    White Button

    White Button

    1 2010 HD

    'Bijelo Dugme' was a legendary rock and roll band of the former Yugoslavia that is still enormously popular. The leader of the band was Goran Bregović - today a globally acclaimed composer of film scores and world music. This documentary, full of exciting archival footage, great music and juicy confessions deals with the specific time, culture, friendship and politics of the band, as well as the effect that Western popular culture had on the youth in this vibrant socialist country before it disintegrated.

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  • 2021
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    Kreka: Dreamcatcher

    Kreka: Dreamcatcher

    10 2021 HD

    The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.

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  • 2009
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    Solemn Promise

    Solemn Promise

    4.9 2009 HD

    At the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.

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  • 1981
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    You Love Only Once

    You Love Only Once

    5.8 1981 HD

    Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.

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  • 1991
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    Virgina

    Virgina

    6.6 1991 HD

    "Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.

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  • 1991
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    Virgina

    Virgina

    6.6 1991 HD

    "Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.

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  • 1988
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    A Film with No Name

    A Film with No Name

    5.8 1988 HD

    The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.

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  • 2003
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    Loving Glances

    Loving Glances

    5.3 2003 HD

    Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.

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  • 2003
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    Loving Glances

    Loving Glances

    5.3 2003 HD

    Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.

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  • 1977
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    The Fragrance of Wild Flowers

    The Fragrance of Wild Flowers

    5.6 1977 HD

    A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with his conditions at home and at the theater suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes on the Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a poor settlement to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses everyone in the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reason for the actor’s odd behavior and to find out when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that he only knows what he does not want! The young director, who had started working on filming a portrait of the actor prior, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

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  • 1977
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    The Fragrance of Wild Flowers

    The Fragrance of Wild Flowers

    5.6 1977 HD

    A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with his conditions at home and at the theater suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes on the Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a poor settlement to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses everyone in the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reason for the actor’s odd behavior and to find out when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that he only knows what he does not want! The young director, who had started working on filming a portrait of the actor prior, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

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  • 1983
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    Something in Between

    Something in Between

    4.833 1983 HD

    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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  • 1983
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    Something in Between

    Something in Between

    4.833 1983 HD

    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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  • 1980
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    Petria's Wreath

    Petria's Wreath

    7.1 1980 HD

    This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.

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  • 1980
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    Petria's Wreath

    Petria's Wreath

    7.1 1980 HD

    This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.

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  • 1985
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    Strawberries in the Throat

    Strawberries in the Throat

    4.688 1985 HD

    A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.

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  • 1974
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    Look at Me, Unfaithful

    Look at Me, Unfaithful

    7 1974 HD

    Student from Belgrade is shooting amateur melodramatic movie about unfortunate love in Serbian village.

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  • 1985
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    Strawberries in the Throat

    Strawberries in the Throat

    4.688 1985 HD

    A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.

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  • 1988
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    A Film with No Name

    A Film with No Name

    5.8 1988 HD

    The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.

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  • 1978
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    Bravo Maestro

    Bravo Maestro

    5.7 1978 HD

    A young man who long ago gave over the hard work of being a composer for the easy life of a rich man's son is bamboozled into slapping together a musical production. Having borrowed right and left, and plagiarized the works of a friend, he feels cheap, very cheap. He feels even worse when the awful thing is a success.

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  • 1972
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    Social Game

    Social Game

    6.8 1972 HD

    Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or profession to reply. From 7000 arrived letters, about 30 heroes were picked up for the movie and its story was made based on what they wished to play.

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  • 1972
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    Social Game

    Social Game

    6.8 1972 HD

    Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or profession to reply. From 7000 arrived letters, about 30 heroes were picked up for the movie and its story was made based on what they wished to play.

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  • 1974
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    If It Kills Me

    If It Kills Me

    4 1974 HD

    For being unable to find any decent job, an unconventional young man of working-class background gives up of all sorts of employment, and accompanied by his girlfriend, he tells his story in front of film cameras.

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  • 1969
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    Don't Be Silly

    Don't Be Silly

    1 1969 HD

    Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva’s grandmother recalled her sojourns in Dalmatia and her romantic affair with the local Mario for her whole life. Eva soon begins to behave coldly to her Czech friend.

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  • 1969
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    Don't Be Silly

    Don't Be Silly

    1 1969 HD

    Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva’s grandmother recalled her sojourns in Dalmatia and her romantic affair with the local Mario for her whole life. Eva soon begins to behave coldly to her Czech friend.

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  • 2009
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    Solemn Promise

    Solemn Promise

    4.9 2009 HD

    At the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.

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  • 2004
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    Jelena

    Jelena

    1 2004 HD

    The story of Jelena is set to Serbia's capital Belgrad and it follows the life of an ordinary woman, who's not happy in love. She's married to Ratko and has two children Sasa and Lidija. Inspite of years that went by, Jelena never managed to forget Vuk, a love of her life she has been involved with in her youth. She was separated from Vuk under tragic and mysterious circumstances. After 3 decades in his wish to pursue justice, Vuk returns to his city bringing his daughter Helen with him. His attempt to clarify what happened and to prove the truth is sabotaged by Jelena's husband who keeps failing in business more and more. Even though he loves Jelena, he has a relationship with Sofija, the owner of a modeling agency. Nobody expects that the accidental encounter between Sasa and Helen will become fatal once they decided to start the life together.

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  • 1970
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    Jelena

    Jelena

    5.8 1970 HD

    Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.

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  • 1970
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    Jelena

    Jelena

    5.8 1970 HD

    Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.

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