Movies by Milena Dravić

The Morning

The Morning

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

Sugar Water

Sugar Water

Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.

Eight Kilos of Happiness

Eight Kilos of Happiness

A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.

Shared Apartment

Shared Apartment

A group of people move to a half-finished building, but soon a Cold War occurs between some of them. Based on a play.

Poor Maria

Poor Maria

A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.

We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry

We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry

A story about prizewinning agriculturist, whose dream is to find his soul mate who would agree to marry him and live in the countryside. In one of his trips to symposium, he's about to share the compartment on a train with nice-looking but hardly approachable girl.

Klaxon

Klaxon

A group of people go on a picnic in the mountains. Longing for some love and understanding, they try to get close to one another, but the barriers are insurmountable. Failing to pull through their nutshells of solitude, they get back to the city, the eternal desert.

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.

The Istrian Way

The Istrian Way

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

Smoke

Smoke

The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and who returns from prison after serving the minimum sentence. Coincidentally, planned revenge takes a different turn.

The Lion Is Coming

The Lion Is Coming

Lion, a boy of lion's heart, can't make decision which one of the two girls to chose - tender Mihaela or fatal Marjeta. The girls decide to make choice themselves.

Horoscope

Horoscope

A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.

Duel for Three

Duel for Three

Divorced couple receives a farewell VHS cassette from their son who voluntarily joined military forces in Bosnia. Only then they realize whole futility of their lives.

Spy In High Heels

Spy In High Heels

A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets because of her good looks, the manager will finally spend a few years in prison.

Funeral Feast

Funeral Feast

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by Beno Zupancic.

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.

The Door Remains Open

The Door Remains Open

A juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in WWII. After being accepted with much love and care, he reconsiders his initial plan to rob the family.

Before and After the Victory

Before and After the Victory

A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of the regime.

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.

Horvat's Choice

Horvat's Choice

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.