Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slobodan Šijan (born November 16, 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian film director. After graduating film direction and directing a handful of TV movies in the late 1970s, he caught a big break with his first full-length feature Ko to tamo peva in 1980. The enormous success of that film written by Dušan Kovačević led to the duo collaborating on another project - 1982's Maratonci trče počasni krug, which also achieved considerable critical and com...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Alpe-Adria Underground!
2024
as Self
Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adria...
The Great Tram Robbery
2024
Director, Writer
Boško Tokin, the hero, was the first filmmaker in the Balkans and the first in the world to go to prison for it.
Kreka: Dreamcatcher
2021
as Self
The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.
A Man from the Border
2017
as Himself
This feature-length documentary about Professor Jože Dolmark shows the protagonist as a man of many insights, interests and talents; as an art histori...
The Man from Bagombo
2010
Thanks
Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.
Save Our Souls
2007
Director
The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition...
Censored without Censorship
2007
as Himself
Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censor...
The Pocket-Watch
2005
Thanks
Anything can happen when a watch stops and a movie cuts.
Poor Little Hampsters
2003
Director
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 ...
Cognac
1988
Director
A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.
Strangler vs Strangler
1984
Writer, Director
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower ...
How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
1983
Director, Writer
The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers...
The Marathon Family
1982
Director
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fig...
Who's Singin' Over There?
1980
Director
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country...
Mammoth Bone
1979
Director
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.
Most Beautiful Room
1978
Director
A provincial family looks forward to their new, cosy flat in the city blocks.
What Happened with Filip Preradović
1977
Director
A pseudo-documentary which centers on the search for the hero from the title. Everyone has a different opinion about Filip, starting from his father t...
Everything That Was Nice
1976
Director
Old man Vidoje is a passionate bowler, has a dog and likes to hunt. However due to his declining health, his family starts depriving him of everything...
Manifesto for Freedom
1974
6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
Self-Portrait at the Graveyard
1970
Director
Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.