Movies by Dragomir Čumić

Ward Six

Ward Six

A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.

Noon

Noon

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Red Blow

Red Blow

At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.

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.

The Boy Who Followed the Sun

The Boy Who Followed the Sun

Story of a 12 year old orphaned boy who takes to wandering about the countryside after the death of his drunkard father.

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.

A Naive Person

A Naive Person

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.

Sunday

Sunday

A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.

The Dog Who Loved Trains

The Dog Who Loved Trains

A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.

Two

Two

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

Australia Is Far Away

Australia Is Far Away

A story about a housekeeper who dreams of getting married for a man in Australia whom she haven't met yet.

Scherzo

Scherzo

Story about people who have neither luck in finding new instruments to play after war, nor new romance. Instruments experience war just like people do. Originally shot in 1971, the film was not released until 1994.

Introduction to Another Life

Introduction to Another Life

A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and talks to him about his writing and her father. After she leaves, her father, an ex officer of the military and ex communist party member, rings the doorbell. After a tense introduction, the father starts to retell his life in order to try to explain why he did things that his daughter hates him for. It is not clear if writer's girlfriend and her father are part of writer's fiction, memories or reality.

Cattaro Mutiny

Cattaro Mutiny

In February of 1918, in Boka Kotorska, the greatest uprising of Austrian sailors broke out. Forty warships, with 6.000 sailors, rebelled against the Austrian Monarchy. The uprising was bloodily crushed after two days, and it's leaders shot.

Cross Country

Cross Country

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

At the Doctor's

At the Doctor's

When doctor suddenly left his workplace, a mechanic who came to fix the installations jumps into his chair. Now the “doctor” has to deal with a fake patient with the intention of retiring with disability, a paranoid who handles an axe very well; a mobster on forced leave.