Movies by Ivan Bekjarev

Desire Named Streetcar

Desire Named Streetcar

In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.

Battle of Kosovo

Battle of Kosovo

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.

See You in Chicago

See You in Chicago

In this spoof of gangster and crime films, two veteran detectives get involved in mafia world. One of them is hired by a kingpin to follow his wife who seems suspicious.

Mammoth Bone

Mammoth Bone

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

The Saga About 3 Virgin Men

The Saga About 3 Virgin Men

This is a saga about three unusual friends madly in love with their girlfriends. But Zoran, Aleksandar and Damjan are still virgins. Their girls are just not redy yet. So they made up a challenge - get your girlfriend to bed by friday! They will try anything possible and impossible to make their dreams come true, even if terrible "niagra" needs to be consumed.

Flashback

Flashback

A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war.

Attack Against the Assembly

Attack Against the Assembly

Milka is a state employee in the office for approval of the applications for registration of political parties. Her problem is how to make his escaped husband back, while her clients are only worried how to seize power.

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.

And God Created a Tavern Singer

And God Created a Tavern Singer

An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.

Marko Kraljevic: The Fantasy Adventure

Marko Kraljevic: The Fantasy Adventure

Serbian legend Marko Kraljevic goes on a journey to stop evil Turkish pasha harrassing Serbian people, especially women. He fights his foes, such as Musa Kesedzija, in company of his talking horse Sarac, Ravijojla the Fairy and others.

A Present for Sanja

A Present for Sanja

Having been ditched by his girlfriend Sanja for a Turk called Murat, a Bosnian refugee who lives in Germany reaches a decision to commit suicide on the New Year's Eve. To cheer him up, his boss sends him a prostitute called Jovanka, not knowing that Jovanka is a Serb. In consequence, Jovanka and the suicidal Bosnian are forced to spend the New Year's Eve together.

Poor Little Hampsters

Poor Little Hampsters

Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that foll...

The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure

The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure

Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery but has nothing to do with the murder of the child.

A Suspicious Character

A Suspicious Character

The second TV adaptation of popular novel by Serbian comedian Branislav Nusic. A small town is disturbed by the arrival of a "suspicious person", an unknown man wanted by the local authorities. During the hunt, it turns out that the suspect is no one else than the mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.

Frivolous Branislav Nusic

Frivolous Branislav Nusic

The frivolous Branislav Nusic is a 1986 Yugoslav television drama. It was directed by Aleksandar Djordjevic, and the screenplay was written by Miodrag Djurdjevic based on the person of Branislav Nusic.

Files No.128

Files No.128

The plot of this television movie is located in Belgrade, the hometown of screenwriter Velimir Lukic, in the 1960s. It was the time of the party discipline, in which the free thinking and free behavior of individuals meant heresy. This is a drama about political showdown, about the metamorphosis of high-level intellectuals ready to do anything to defy the authorities and retain their privileges. At the same time - this is also a love story that, under the political circumstances that accompany it, is misused precisely because of those well-k...