Movies by Mira Banjac

The Beauty of Vice

The Beauty of Vice

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.

Sixth Gear

Sixth Gear

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, 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.

Seventy-Two Days

Seventy-Two Days

A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.

Heart and Her Children

Heart and Her Children

Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teachers.

Backbone

Backbone

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.

Peasants

Peasants

Comedy about the life of a modern village family and many neighbors of theirs, dealing with Serbian mentality at the turn of the XXI century. Based on TV series of the same title.

Ekran sneži

Ekran sneži

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind, thus finding out more about the ill children she cured and the secrets of this sleepy settlement.

Don't Lean Out the Window

Don't Lean Out the Window

Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.

Pipedreams

Pipedreams

A tragicomic story of a department store seller.

Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija

Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija

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.

Diamond of Boyana

Diamond of Boyana

Đorđe is being summoned to Ada Bojana to meet his father for the first time. Nikola, his dad, is a jailbird and ex-thief. Although everyone thinks Đorđe's gay, he meets Lola and sparks fly. In the meantime, everyone from cops to crime bosses want diamonds from Nikola's last heist.

My Country

My Country

Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict.

The Man with Four Legs

The Man with Four Legs

On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to face the power-cut in the middle of her shower..

Shady Business

Shady Business

Residents of a shanty town are faced with its destruction. With the help of the local trickster, Paja "the Bighead" moves with his family to an empty flat in New Belgrade blocks. Everything goes fine until the real owner knocks at the door.

Everything's for People

Everything's for People

A returnee from Australia causes uproar in his native village when he announces he's looking for bride.

Lazar

Lazar

A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.

Broad Are the Leaves

Broad Are the Leaves

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.

Strawberries in the Throat

Strawberries in the Throat

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

Russian Tzar

Russian Tzar

Portrait of an elderly widower who meets love of his life again after half a century.

The Cabinet Minister's Wife

The Cabinet Minister's Wife

Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.