Slovenian Feature Films
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ALL Slovenian feature films ever made according to the source listed below and my own research (a neverending process/project though).
In rough chronological order.
With my humble rates for the ones I've seen.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Opre Roma (Filip Robar-Dorin, 1983, doc) - 8/10 (R)
Brezno (The Rift, Igor Šmid, 1998) - N/S
Videvanje Van Gogha (Seeing Van Gogh, Mladen Jernejec, 2008) - N/S
Notes:
N/S = not seen
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Source:
(book) Filmografija slovenskih celovečernih filmov 1931-2010 (Filmography of Slovenian Feature Films 1931-2010).
Published in Ljubljana by UMco and Slovenska kinoteka, 2011.
ALL Slovenian feature films ever made according to the source listed below and my own research (a neverending process/project though).
In rough chronological order.
With my humble rates for the ones I've seen.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Opre Roma (Filip Robar-Dorin, 1983, doc) - 8/10 (R)
Brezno (The Rift, Igor Šmid, 1998) - N/S
Videvanje Van Gogha (Seeing Van Gogh, Mladen Jernejec, 2008) - N/S
Notes:
N/S = not seen
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Source:
(book) Filmografija slovenskih celovečernih filmov 1931-2010 (Filmography of Slovenian Feature Films 1931-2010).
Published in Ljubljana by UMco and Slovenska kinoteka, 2011.
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- DirectorJanko RavnikStarsHerbert DrofenikJoza CopMiha PotocnikA student, a railway worker and a peasant go on a trip to the Julian Alps and meet people on their way.N/S.
- DirectorFerdo DelakStarsMilka BadjuraJoza CopAnton Danilo CerarMiha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.OL. 5/10 (FF).
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Silent film, 49 min (no info about that at IMDb, sadly). - DirectorFrance StiglicStarsLojze PotokarFranc PresetnikMileva ZakrajsekSet in a small Slovenian village , it tells the story of its residents who lived under German occupation after the Italian defeat in 1943. While helping the partisans, the residents look forward to the upcoming liberation.TV. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsMira BedenkAngelo BenetelliSandro BianchiDespite all actions taken in attempt to conquer Trieste, Gestapo forces fail to do so. The surrender of Italian fascist state gives partisans an open way in seizing the power with the help of domicile population.N/S.
- DirectorJoze GaleStarsMatija BarlFrane MilcinskiFranc PresetnikIn an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others across live two men: a "good grandpa" and an "evil man". The first is herbe picker Kosobirin, the other Bedanec is a poacher. The latter has a girl servant Mojca who, one day, meeting Kosobrin, tells him of her difficult life. Although in great fear of Bedanc's revenge, the old man takes her with him. Unfortunatley, he does get caught by Bedanc, who ties him on tree. Kosobrin is freed by Kekec, young cheerful and brave boy. Bedanc catches him too but promises to let him go if he helps him find the "wretched girl" Mojca. Kekec refuses the deal. Kekec's father and a herdsman, looking for Kekec in mountains, find his bag and presume that he has been bushed down by an eagle. Bedanc grabs Kosobrin anew. Costumed by fear, Kosobrin loses consciounsess, while Bedanc runs away because he belives he has killed the man. Kekec appears and hauls the unconscious man across the rock wall. Bedanc is sneaking around, waiting to find the secret shaft leading to Kosobrin's cottage. Eventually he finds the shaft and begins to pull himself through... But there in the dark Kekec sets an owl on him, wich scares Bedanec terribly. He rushes out of the shaft, slips down and hangs in the air, over the abyss. When he gives a promise that he will never come back again, Kekec saves him. Indeed Bedanec sets his cottage on fire and leaves the country. Kekec returns to his village, where he is greeted cherfully by all the people.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorAnte BlajFrance StiglicStarsJanez AlbrehtMiha BalohRusa BojcA post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claimed possessions of lands, woods, and churches after communist party seized the power hold a party where a member of so-called reactionary forces (kulaks, clergy and Axis collaborators) tries to break in and stop it.Orig. title: Svet na Kajžarju.
N/S. - DirectorBojan StupicaStarsVladimir SkrbinsekElvira KraljLjudevit PristavecFilm about moral decay of Trieste elite during 1890s based on novel by Slovenian writer Janko Kersnik.OL. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsMetka GabrijelcicFranek TrefaltJure FurlanThree students try to pass their final exam by reluctant task of wooing their professor's daughter, but the unlucky winner, decided by a coin toss, will completely forget about studying once he meet her.TV. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJane KavcicFrance KosmacIgor PretnarStarsSlavko BelakJanez BertonceljAnte GnidovecThree stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsStane SeverJulka StaricStane PotokarA story set in a Slovenian town during WW2. The White Guardists bring a wounded partisan to doctor Koren, but he kills their lieutenant, thus helping them both to escape.Orig. title: Trenutki odločitve.
OL. 8/10 (R). - DirectorFrance StiglicStarsJohn KitzmillerEvelyne WohlfeilerTugo StiglicDuring WWII in Slovenia, two orphaned children seeking the imaginary Valley of Peace run into a downed black American pilot who tries to protect them from the Germans until the Yugoslav Partisans can arrive.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsMetka GabrijelcicStane SeverElvira KraljA young girl Vesna goes on a skiing vacation to Slovenian Alps, where she is being looked after by her aunt. Her family gets worried when they meet Vesna's boyfriend, and try to marry the couple thinking that she may be pregnant with him.Orig. title: Ne čakaj na maj.
TV. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorMirko GroblerStarsPolde BibicJanez CukHinko NucicA simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.OL. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKresimir GolikAndrej HiengStarsLojze PotokarStevo ZigonJure DolezalThere are two stories in this movie. One treats the human side, the things happening to a man in a war, the pain and pressure on his nerves and courage and how he copes with everything in order for him to survive and not lose his sanity. The other story deals with the animal side, the things happening to a dog who gradually loses everything he knew and loved and is even faced with a threat to its existence itself. To survive the dog has to forget everything it was taught and hold dear, fear the man and its tricks and become wild and free again.TV. 7.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrance KosmacStarsVida KuharVekoslav JankoBert SotlarComposer and pianist Blaz Gaber lives only for his music and does not want to know anything about the outside world, where the war is raging. Upon his arrival from his poorly attended concert, he finds himself in prison for having stars drawn in his notebook by a little boy. A young illegal activist seeks refugee in the school, where the pupils hide his pistol inside the Gaber's piano. A German officer comes with his soldiers to find the hidden illegal, orders the school to be evacuated and takes the piano together with him on a train.TV. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoze BabicStarsArnold TovornikBert SotlarLojze PotokarStory of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.Orig. title: Tri četrtine sonca.
TV. 8/10 (R). - DirectorJane KavcicStarsLojze RozmanAleksander ValicStane PotokarPsychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.OL. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsDusan JanicijevicTamara MileticAngelca HlebceResistance member is sent to infiltrate Nazi intelligence during WW2.Orig. title: X 25 javlja.
TV. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorJoze BabicStarsLojze RozmanAndrej KurentMira SardocStory of young man who has lost an arm in the war and tries to find his place in postwar Ljubljana.TV. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrance KosmacStarsJure RemskarNatasa RemskarJapec JakopinChildren help to find dangerous criminal.Orig. title: Ti loviš.
N/S. - DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsDusa PockajMiha BalohRado NakrstPeter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , who is considerably older, a fact that Peter is quick to point out. As an ageing actress, struggling for parts in her local theatre, she oozes insecurity and breathes uncertainty. Together, they spend their time in the local restaurant, smoking, drinking and trading verbal blows. "I bet you'll just end up a drunk," she tells Peter each time. Peter just grins and tells her how old she looks. Compounded by a thankless director who soon shows her the door, Marusa finds her identity being squeezed harder and harder against the wall. To escape, Peter and Marusa dream...Orig. title: Ples v dežju.
PC. 10/10 (R). - DirectorMirko GroblerStarsSpela RozinPrimoz RodeTone SlodnjakAfter a quarrel with his father Marko finds himself at a decadent party, where he and his girlfriend Vera become victims of salacious jokes. In a rush of anger Marko runs into the night and steals the car, while Vera, convinced that Marko left her, offers her body to everyone. The innocent games at the wild night parties cause tragic events early in the morning.Orig. title: Nočni izlet.
OL. 8/10 (R). - DirectorFrance StiglicStarsLojze PotokarAngelca HlebceMarija LojkTemnikar's family prepares for the Christmas, but to him, it's the time of dark premonitions and anxiety. In the mountain cave, hidden by snow, the wounded partisans are hiding, and Temnikar suspects the treason. Once the White Guard patrol shows up at Temnikar's doorstep, he finds out about their plan to go and finish off the wounded partisans.OL. 8.5/10 (R).
- DirectorJoze GaleStarsStane SeverVladosa SimcicAnka CigojStory of the many jobs undertaken by a sanitary technician.Orig. title: Družinski dnevnik.
TV. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorJane KavcicStarsDusa PockajVanja DrachLojze RozmanAn emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsBert SotlarDusa PockajArnold TovornikA story set in a Slovenian village during Italian occupation. Stefuc, a man who has been widowed twice and has four daughters, wants to get married for the third time with Zana, who's already engaged and pregnant with Ludvik. Stefuc tries to separate them away, but realizes that he'll have to marry Hedvika, a nice looking girl who has just returned from Milan. In the meantime, Italian fascist authorities decide to eradicate five Slovenian songs with the help of local traitors.TV. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorFrantisek CápStarsRusa BojcMetka BucarJanez CukA photographer decides to buy a car with the money he'll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.Orig. title: Naš avto.
OL. 8/10 (R). - DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsJanez AlbrehtMilena DravicAli RanerTwo boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental hospital in bikini and coat. Some of the staff were searching for her. But when she sees them she commits suicide.Orig. title: Peščeni grad.
OL. 8/10 (R). - DirectorIgor PretnarStarsMajda PotokarRudi KosmacVladimir SkrbinsekA story set in a medieval time where two lovers suffer from their environment's intolerance.TV. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorJoze GaleStarsRusa BojcBlanka FlorjancVelimir GjurinTwo boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing. Pehta is a woman herbalist and she finds a rare flower in the mountain, from which she makes a remedy for Mojca's eyes. Kekec and Rozle start looking for Mojca and they find Pehta's cottage. Rozle is so frightened that he runs away, but brave Kekec climbs trough the thatched roof of Pehta's cottage and runs away with Mojca. Pehta sends her dog - Volk (Wolf) to hunt them down, but they manage to escape it. The timid Rozle tells at home that Pehta's dog probably ate Kekec and Mojca. Mojca's father and villagers start looking for them. Pehta's sees them coming, burns her cottage down and hides. Meanwhile, Kekec brings Mojca home and as she is telling her mother that Pehta has a cure for her blindness, Kekec runs out of the house and lets himself be caught by Pehta. She takes him into her cave and tells him that she would have cured Mojca if he didn't took her away. She keeps Kekec as a servant and tells Volk to watch him as she leaves to collect flowers. Kekec makes friends with Volk and starts searching the cave for the remedy. Pehta catches him in the act, beats her dog for not obeying her and shows to Kekec that she's carrying the bottle with the remedy around her neck. The villagers are looking for Kekec, Pehta hears them and Kekec tries to get the bottle, but she throws it in the abyss in anger. Kekec escapes from the cave and finds the bottle undamaged. Pehta sets her dog on him but Volk starts barking on her. Kekec returns to the cave, shows the bottle to Pehta and she tells him, how to use the remedy - just three drops in each eye. Kekec returns home with Volk, find Mojca sleeping and pours the remedy in her eyes. She wakes up and finds out that she can see. Kekec leaves the farm with his dog.Orig. title: Srečno, Kekec.
Cinema. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorFranci KrizajStarsStefka DrolcAndrej KurentBranko PlesaState Security Administration agent tries to sabotage a critical report filed to the national assembly on the state energy system.N/S.
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsLojze RozmanBert SotlarMajda PotokarTwo partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.Orig. title: Ne joči, Peter.
Cinema. 9/10 (R). - DirectorFrance KosmacStarsMetka BucarMara CerneStane CresnikA melodramatic story of Lucia, who serves as a charwoman on the Podlogar family's rich farm, and makes a fuss among householder's sons, as she becomes pregnant with one of them. A decision on whether one should be forced into marriage with the pregnant charwoman and her child, ends tragically. Will Lucia be able to sustain psychological pressure, contempt and pity of the Podlogar brothers?TV. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorIgor PretnarStarsDusan AntonijevicDanilo BenedicicRusa BojcA thirty years old girl in nearly taken in by a confidence trickster, who likes her enough to return her money, but not enough to marry her.Orig. title: Lažnivka.
N/S. - DirectorJoze BabicStarsDavor AntolicLjubisa SamardzicJoze ZupanAnother story about the great animosity between the Bosnians and Slovenians; this is about Bosnians whose misery and poverty forced them to adopt their fortune in Slovenia in the search for happiness. The film follows a group of Bosnians who have come to work in construction as seasonal workers, their torment and bullying by Slovenes, and their struggle for survival.Orig. title: Po isti poti se ne vračaj.
TV. 8/10 (R). - DirectorFrance StiglicStarsMiha BalohDemeter BitencFranjo BlazThe film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious intolerance with Amandus, a Catholic priest, determined to persecute local Protestants.Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsLojze RozmanMilena DravicSnezana NiksicThe feeling of being incapable of controlling your own life and general uselessness make people want to escape the world around them. In spite of the feeling that they possess some creative force, they still feel they waste their time and lives.Orig. title: Zgodba, ki je ni.
OL. 6.5/10 (FF). - DirectorJoze PogacnikStarsNikola-Kole AngelovskiHana BrejchováJanez RohacekWar orphans rebel against teachers and authority figures in their reform school in this somber social drama. Danny is a teen punk who organizes a breakout, only to become a victim of the code of toughness by which he lives.TV. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsSnezana NiksicPolde BibicStefka DrolcA love story of a couple who both reconsider the meaning of their former lives, only to come up with the decision that they should marry.TV. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJane KavcicStarsMiha BalohMilan SrdocDemeter BitencA group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.TV. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsBojan MarkVinko HrasteljZvone SedlbauerGangsters hide the stolen money in the refrigerator, which is committed to the school for the arrangers on the seashore. In the same school, a young man responses the advertising for the photographer, so he could provide a free holiday for himself and his friends. Gangsters come there as well, accompanied by detectives. On top of all that, the school is full of girls who try to win the confused young man's heart. This generates a series of comic complications in which the young man finally discloses the gangsters from prosecution, while at the same time being rescued from girls by his friends who have now arrived on holiday.Orig. title: Sončni krik.
OL. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorFrance KosmacStarsTone GogalaBoris CavazzaMarijana BreceljA partisan battalion falls into the enemy's trap more than once, which makes them suspect it's about treason. Their commissar and commander move the unit in a remote settlement in order to discover the enemy agent. This draws a lot of suspicion and distrust within the unit, and finally it was the head of the battalion who was charged as guilty, and executed. However, was he the real intruder? The commissar and the commander take the battalion to a new battle without definitive knowledge of the whole present situation.OL. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoze GaleStarsPolde BibicBoris IvanovskiZlatko KrasnicChildren's film about the witty boy Kekec and his friends, and their adventures in the mountains of Slovenia, during the summer.Orig. title: Kekčeve ukane.
Cinema. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsRade SerbedzijaSnezana NiksicMilena DravicThe 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.Orig. title: Sedmina.
Cinema. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsStevo ZigonMalgorzata BraunekDusica ZegaracIn this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.N/S.
- DirectorJoze GaleStarsIvica VidovicJasna AndronjaJoze ZupanAmongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?N/S.
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsRade SerbedzijaMajda PotokarMajda GrbacAn ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.Orig. title: Rdeče klasje.
Cinema. 9/10 (R). - DirectorVojko DuleticStarsStefka DrolcJanez BermezTone KuntnerTrials and tribulations of a woman in prewar Yugoslavia who after being seduced by a rich man, marries a poor one and struggles on. Based on a novel by Ivan Cankar.Cinema. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsVida JermanIgor GaloMiha BalohA married woman becomes romantically involved with a basketball player, and decides to get him just for herself.Orig. title: Maškarada.
Cinema. 2/10 (P). - DirectorJoze BabicStarsPolde BibicMajda PotokarDragan NikolicA former partisan Tone, who once believed in the idea of a new, just society, now barely living as a municipal employee. Has an ex-wife and daughter, who live in his apartment, and he lodger. Even his relationship with a waitress, Magda is not without problems.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorRajko RanflStarsFranc UrsicPolde BibicRadko PolicThe holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. In this vision, the beloved accompanies her lover on an arduous and wearisome voyage by sea and when the situation seems most desperate, a mysterious ship suddenly appears on the horizon. Will Daniel and Marjana succeed in finding the key to the mystery, or will the mystery succeed in drawing them into its grip and in blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality?N/S.
- DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsMarko SimcicMilena DravicMarina UrbancLion, 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.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorVojko DuleticStarsMetka FrankoJani GolobAndrej GradisekA woman trapped in a marriage with aging husband she doesn't love, fatally falls in love with another man and gets pregnant.TV. NR (seen as a little kid, needs a rewatch for a proper rate).
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsMilena ZupancicPolde BibicBert SotlarDoctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week's visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik's daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work. But he cannot forget Meta and he makes his mind to buy a property not far from the Presecnik home and and to become a farmer. He does indeed buy a farm and sets out again to the Presecnik home to ask Meta to be his wife.Cinema. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorJane KavcicStarsBoris CavazzaLjudmila LisinaRade SerbedzijaTwo friends separated by a woman they both loved, and then by war as well: one of them joins partisans, the other Italian occupying forces.N/S.
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsAndrej CevkaMiha LevstekBogo RopotarDepicts the lives of children of the coastal hills and pastures who work as shepherds from an early age to earn a living.Cinema. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsArnold TovornikMajda GrbacPolde BibicA film about three brothers who try to survive in a difficult, hostile and melancholic Slovenian countryside.OL. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorRajko RanflStarsIvo BanPolde BibicDemeter BitencA platonic romance between art student and nude model goes through many complications in which they both try to make one another jealous before revealing their true feelings.Orig. title: Pomladni veter.
Cinema. 3/10 (P). - DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsRadmila AndricJozica AvbeljIvo BanIn 1895 Austro-Hungary, Franc has just returned to Ljubljana (Slovenia) with a group of women, where he buys a luxury furnished house and opens a brothel. City gentlemen and foreigners immediately settle into the brothel, the place of debauchery and decadence, Franc, however, falls for an experienced young housemaid, Ana. The outbreak of passion and murder coincides with a large earthquake in Ljubljana.Cinema. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorMilan LjubicStarsMaks BajcIvo BanDemeter BitencTwo partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.Orig. title: Čudoviti prah.
TV. NR (seen as a little kid, needs a rewatch for a proper rate). - DirectorFrance StiglicStarsElvira KraljKarel PogorelecVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicThe return of a refugee from the police to his grandparents' village disrupts the villagers' lives.Cinema. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorVojko DuleticStarsDemeter BitencPeter BostjancicMirko CegnarA married couple living in a remote farm find themselves in the midst of war, where many different sides walk through the area. They attempt to save their lives and stay neutral despite accusations of being traitors that every army brings upon them.Orig. title: Med strahom in dolžnostjo.
N/S. - DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsIvan BarisicPolde BibicBoris CavazzaWhen Dane returns from the Army, Vera awaits him at the station, ready to start their lives together, but beneath the veil of enthusiasm lies anxiety for their future. They set off for the mountain village where Vera's parents live, but find live in the harsh Alpine conditions too difficult. They decide to move down into the alley, where they meet a discontented couple whose marriage has been marred by an affair. Vera and Dane also encounter difficulties in their relationship, but the tragic example of the other couple helps them realize that their home lies in the place of their birth--beneath the free skies in the mountains.N/S.
- DirectorIgor PretnarStarsRadko PolicMilena ZupancicDare UlagaScreen Adaptation of a classic socio-critical novel.Cinema. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsMilena ZupancicMiranda CaharijaMarjeta GregoracThe erotic relationship between Zhashler's wife Karolina and unknown young man is not welcomed by the residents of a small village, which makes the situation unbearable. When Zhashler kills himself, desperate Karolina starts changing men in order to find a compatriot who would give her warmth and lustful love.Orig. title: Vdovstvo Karoline Žašler.
Cinema. 8/10 (R). - DirectorJane KavcicStarsMatjaz GrudenMatija TavcarNino de GleriaThis film takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Matic lives in a large neighbourhood of concrete blocks of flats with his mother. As his father is temporarily working in Libya, they live alone. Matics' otherwise monotonous life changes dramatically when he is chosen to feature in a film. At the shooting he meets Milena, a girl his own age whom he begins to like. When the shooting is over, the film company gives him a present, a huge black Newfoundlander. Although his mother is not really pleased about it, Matic brings the dog home. And that is just the beginning of their adventures...Orig. title: Sreča na vrvici.
Cinema. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorJoze BevcStarsBert SotlarDare ValicMajda PotokarIn Ljubljana lives a bus driver Stebe. He's a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid Rozi. The boys are very naughty and keep annoying Rozi and, in fact all neighbourhood. One day Rozi in desperation declares that she is leaving them, because she cant stand it no more. And she does leave, although she is fond of the boys. Soon afterwards Rozi's niece Meri comes by, asking if she might stay because she wants to find herself a job in town. Meri is good girl but cannot cope with the kitchen work as successfully as her aunt. But the whole Steb family seems to be charmed by her. Even one of Stebe's own colleagues, Tone, begins to take interest in the girl. Meri likes him too. Stebe's boys feel quite disappointed because of it. But all's well that ends well: in full conspiracy Meri qualifies as bus driver while Rozi returns to the Stebe family.Cinema. 4/10 (P).
- DirectorRajko RanflStarsIrena KranjcRoman GorsicMetod PevecJagoda Kopriva is a typical teenage girl who hangs out with her friends from school, flirting with boys, quarreling with her parents, and discovering her own sexuality.Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsZvezdana MlakarDare UlagaRadko PolicThe film deals with the ancient Slovene folk custom of Shrovetide carnival when village youngsters wearing scary masks exorcise the evil spirit of Winter in a ritual dance, thus preparing the ground for the rebirth of Spring. The plot is set in the 18.century when Slovenia was ruled by the Habsburg dynasty. The authority is represented by a troop of soldiers, who come to the village with the task to prevent the carnival by force, but that it's not in their power, because the people prevail over any authority which does not stem for the people. In the fight between the authority and the people two youngster have been killed: Simon, who returns to his native village as a soldier and finds out that his former girlfriend is married to Stefan, and Jurij, who has been accidentally killed by his own brother Stefan.N/S.
- DirectorVojko DuleticStarsBert SotlarStefka DrolcZvone HribarThe film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.N/S.
- DirectorBozo SprajcStarsTeja GlazarMilena ZupancicBoris CavazzaWorking class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong. The film is a critical observation of the lack of prospect of young people who live in the province.Orig. title: Krč.
N/S. - DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsBoris CavazzaBoris JuhMilena ZupancicSome years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsDusa PockajMarina UrbancIgor SamoborAn old house by the sea is the scene of a number of puzzling crimes and deaths. The whole complex web is, in fact, the invention of Auntie who lives in the house and translates crime stories.Orig. title: Ubij me nežno.
Cinema. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorMatija MilcinskiStarsJozica AvbeljDanilo BenedicicDemeter BitencA TV journalist making a documentary in a factory finds out that the workers have been on strike and tries to analyze the strike in his film, but is thwarted by the TV company. His failure at his job is interwoven with his failed marriage.Cinema. 2/10 (P).
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-GodinaStarsOlga KacjanVladislava MilosavljevicBoris KomnenicStory about the group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.Orig. title: Splav Meduze.
Cinema. 8/10 (R). - DirectorZivojin PavlovicStarsMetod PevecBoris JuhHans Christian BlechThe two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.Cinema. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorFranci SlakStarsAna AvbarRoberto BatelliPeter BozicThe film scores particularly as a psychological study of a student dropout. It focuses on Pavle Komel, a young man who shuns even the most elementary relationship with previously close friends and acquaintances. A final attempt to find himself via a return to his childhood roots in a rural area, followed by a brief contact with his estranged father, prove fruitless: in the end Pavle decides to quit his studies altogether at the university.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJane KavcicStarsMiha PetrovcicBogdan ZupanJozica AvbeljJani, called just Polz by his fellows, is a sincere elementary schoolboy. He likes his schoolmate Hojka, but especially drawn to inventiveness. He is suported by his mother, his schoolmate Hojka and Fitipaldi. The rest of them, on the other hand his father, a teacher of physics at the top of list, show no recognition of his efforts whatsoever. When seeminghly on the verge of his first success, his device explodes and thus concludes his life of home expirimentation. Polz remains a kind of rebel and fanatic in the eyes of adults, but his younger brother is already promising to follow in his footsteps.Orig. title: Učna leta izumitelja Polža.
Cinema. 5/10 (FF). - DirectorVojko DuleticStarsRadko PolicBert SotlarStevo ZigonBased on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a family returns to the family home to take revenge on his father who had abandoned him as a child.Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorJanez DrozgStarsBert SotlarJerca MrzelPolde BibicBased on a novel by Prezihov Voranc, it tells a story about a farmer's family who live in Northern Slovenia before WW2.Orig. title: Boj na požiralniku.
Cinema. 6/10 (FF). - DirectorJoze GaleStarsJanez AlbrehtDemeter BitencSilvo BozicSet in the Tolminsko province of Slovenia in 1713, shortly after the Peasants' Uprising. The Grogovc family are forced to live in exile in a wasteland area of the country, where they suffer from the plague which gradually kills off the colony.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorMarjan CiglicStarsJozica AvbeljIvo BanIvo BarisicPeter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father's homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts. Peter also falls in love with a Slovenian girl, but his mind keeps on wandering back to Argentina until his homesickness becomes almost unbearable. Will Peter go back to the land he grew up in, or remain in Slovenia where fate has touched his life so deeply? And if he does remain in Slovenia, will his mind be on Argentina all the time?Cinema. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-GodinaStarsIvo BanBoris CavazzaJozef RoposaComedy about a group of musicians who are sent to play to villagers and workers to raise morale during a 5 year plan. The trouble is they prefer to play jazz and boogie music to the traditional folk songs, and each time they try their jazz they are reprimanded by the local party secretary.Orig. title: Rdeči boogie ali Kaj ti je deklica.
Cinema. 8/10 (R). - DirectorFranci SlakStarsMiranda CaharijaJanez BoncinaErland JosephsonEva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned the job of redesigning the cells of a new prison, but even when her enthusiasm returns a little with the assignment, she is discouraged by the pseudo-intellectual stance of the prison warden and a non-communicative visit to her father. In an act of desperation, she steals some money and a gun - and fully intends to use them both.TV. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorBozo SprajcStarsDraga PotocnjakIvo BanMilena ZupancicThe infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.Cinema. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorBoris JurjasevicZare LuznikMitja MilavecStarsJozica AvbeljMilos BattelinoPolde BibicOmnibus consisting of three segments. The first story is about a fight between the boy's parents, after which he ends up in a correctional hall, and then in jail. The second story is about a mental patient who leaves the hospital to find his wife, a fashion model. The third story is about two factory employees who go for a few drinks after work, only to end up later at one of his mother's house where they all get drunk.Cinema. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorBostjan VrhovecStarsAngel ArconJozica AvbeljPolde BibicWhen Peter comes back from the war, he finds his father changed and alone. Their former maid, Leni, has also left and soon Peter's grandfather also dies. His father begins writing his memoirs of his Partisan years. Peter blames his father for his mother's death, but the final blow comes when he catches his father together with his (Peter's) former girlfriend. He moves in with his brother and accuses Leni of having had an affair with his father. Peter decides to kill his father but cannot carry out the plan. His father tells him in a fit of rage that he isn't his son at all. Feeling desperate and down, he goes to Leni's place for comfort, and finds her dead on the floor. The police arrest Peter for the murder of Leni. Will Peter have to serve a jail sentence on his road to maturity and will political connections have a bearing on the final verdict of the trial? Peter doesn't even know whom he can trust anymore.Orig. title: Leta odločitve.
N/S. - DirectorJane KavcicStarsMatjaz ArsenjukRudolf CamernikEvgen CarVeronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare time together with a retired actress whom she has befriended. Her parents find it difficult to understand her acting ambitions - or rather, they would probably find it difficult, if they would bother to take the time off their busy schedules to try. Nor does anyone else understand Veronica. When all her plans go awry, she ends up in a home for juvenile delinquents. When she is released into the custody of her parents again, she eludes their vigilant guard and runs away to the country, to Klemen. Only Klemen's father makes it abundantly clear to her when she gets there that Klemen will not stand by her side either. Veronica finds herself out on the street again, where everything is possible and the future is open to her...Cinema. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorFrance StiglicStarsBert SotlarDanilo BenedicicPolde BibicIn 1920s Ljubljana, a student of theology decides to leave his studies and dedicate to music.TV. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsPolde BibicMilena ZupancicBernarda OmanA cinematically complex rendering of the period from 1914 to 1944 and the tragedy which overtakes three generations of the Vrhunc family.Orig. title: Dediščina.
N/S. - DirectorRajko RanflStarsRok BogatajLenca FerencakJoze MrazIn 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang in Ljubljana, experiencing all the problems of his age. With Lenka he's experiencing his first "pure" love, while discovering sexuality... The Italian occupation brings many changes, gang breaks up, some join the liberation movement, the others join collaborationist forces. Marjan remain "unlisted". Italians surrender, and hand over the city to Germans. Frivolous Milena, who has good connections with them, seduces Marjan whom she lost her innocence with. The war is over and the partisans win. The new authorities mistakenly imprison Marjan.Cinema. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoze PogacnikStarsJozica AvbeljMiha BalohIvo BanMilan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.Orig. title: Naš človek.
N/S. - DirectorFranci SlakStarsEmil FilipcicMarko DergancJanez HocevarStory of a small group of people who think there is going to be an attack by a group of rabid animals. They perceive this danger through a trance they invoke by hitting their heads against a stone. They decide to oppose their enemy, and a fierce clash takes place.Cinema. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorFilip Robar DorinStarsSlavko StimacBozidar BunjevacMarko DergancOne weird but at the same time very difficult and sad story about the Bosnians, the temporary workers in Slovenia. Their survival and the constant demand for a better place under the sun. It also movie speaks of the great longtime animosity between Bosnians and Slovenians.Cinema. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorAndrej MlakarStarsMilena ZupancicRadko PolicBoris JuhTwo men who have been fighting on enemy sides in WWII, find themselves as neighbors many years later in peace. A woman whose husband was killed under shady circumstances back then, tries to calm the passions of these old people, last residents in their village.Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorVojko DuleticStarsSlavko CerjakTeja GlazarZvone HribarVladimir Kante, a high-ranking police official whom everyone refers to simply as "Doc" or "the Doctor" remains in office after the Italian occupation, but soon establishes ties with the Liberation Front. His hard work as a double agent pays off with many lives saved and a number of the enemy's plans revealed to the resistance. When the Germans march into Ljubljana (after the Italian capitulation), the Doctor continues with both his official and his secret work, but is caught by the Germans shortly before the end of the war. Will the Doctor remain loyal to his mission until the end, despite the death threats and brutal torture he is subjected to?Cinema. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorTugo StiglicStarsDavid SlugaKaja StiglicBoris KraljYoung Tomaz has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father's new job. In these difficult times, during the middle of summer, his only help is his computer Vedi. Even the rivalry between local children gangs from Piran and Portoroz can not solve any problems, at least not until both gangs get a common enemy - motorcyclists who steal shells.Orig. title: Poletje v školjki.
TV. 5/10 (FF). - DirectorBostjan HladnikStarsDamjan KorenBernarda GasparcicAna PretnarA coming-of-age story set in Slovenian town during WW2.Orig. title: Čas brez pravljic.
N/S. - DirectorAnton TomasicStarsBoris CavazzaMilena ZupancicIgor SamoborA story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.OL. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorAndrej StojanStarsJanez AlbrehtBorut AlujevicIvo BanA biopic set in the 16th century that shows the life of Primoz Trubar, author of the first-ever book written in Slovene language.TV. 5/10 (FF).