Slobodan Šijan

Slobodan Šijan

1946-11-16 Belgrade, Serbia 20 Credits

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...

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Alpe-Adria Underground!

Alpe-Adria Underground!

2024

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

The Great Tram Robbery

2024

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

Kreka: Dreamcatcher

2021

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

A Man from the Border

2017

as Himself

Acting

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

The Man from Bagombo

2010

Thanks

Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.

Save Our Souls

2007

Director

Directing

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

Censored without Censorship

2007

as Himself

7.2
Acting

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

The Pocket-Watch

2005

Thanks

Anything can happen when a watch stops and a movie cuts.

Poor Little Hampsters

Poor Little Hampsters

2003

Director

Directing

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

Cognac

1988

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Strangler vs Strangler

1984

Writer, Director

6.8
Writing Directing

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

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots

1983

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

The Marathon Family

1982

Director

7.6
Directing

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?

Who's Singin' Over There?

1980

Director

7.6
Directing

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

Mammoth Bone

1979

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Directing

A provincial family looks forward to their new, cosy flat in the city blocks.

What Happened with Filip Preradović

What Happened with Filip Preradović

1977

Director

Directing

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

Everything That Was Nice

1976

Director

Directing

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

Manifesto for Freedom

1974

6.0
Acting

6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.

Self-Portrait at the Graveyard

Self-Portrait at the Graveyard

1970

Director

Directing

Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.