All articles by Vlastimir Petkovic
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Serbia names Branislav Lecic as culture minister
Branislav Lecic, one of Yugoslavia's most popular stage, film and TV actors, has been appointed minister of culture by Serbia's new democratic government.Former culture minister, Zeljko Simic, a tough dogmatic Marxist, had to resign last October along with the whole pro-Milosevic regime. Simic didn't pay much attention to the film ...
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Yugoslavia opens airwaves to outsiders
The new Yugoslav government's telecommunications minister Boris Tadic has announced that the country's airwaves will be opened up to foreign entities. A group of experts has been assembled to draw up new broadcasting legislation in line with EU countries.Tadic also announced that he will annul all licences in Yugoslavia (which ...
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Dancer In The Dark to kick off Belgrade FEST
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark will open the 29th International Belgrade Film Festival, FEST (February 1-10), optimistically dubbed "Life Again, Fest Again" after the October changes in Serbia.Altogether the festival will feature 99 films including Jafar Panahi's The Circle, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, the Coen Brothers' O ...
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Marceau lights up Belgrade's Festival of Auteurs
French star Sophie Marceau flew in from Paris to attend the screening of Fidelity on the closing night of the International Festival of Films D'Auteurs (Nov 23 - 30) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.Marceau, who was accompanied by the film's director, Ukrainian-born Andrzej Zulawski, plays a photographer hired by a sleaze merchant ...
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The Mechanism (Mehanizam)
Dir: Djordje Milosavljevic. Serbia. 95 mins.Prod co: Horizont 2000. Backer: The Ministry of Culture of Serbia. Serbian Dist: Metro Film. Int'l Sales: Horizont 2000, (+381 11 637 555). Prod: Ivana Mihic. Scr: Gordan Mihic. DoP: Zoran Petrovic. Prod des: Goran Joksimovic. Ed: Marko Glusac. Make-up: Marinela Spasenovic. Main Cast: Nikola ...
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Serbian distributors square up to TV pirates
Following the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's distributors plan to take legal action against local broadcasters for airing films such as The Matrix and American Beauty only weeks after their theatrical release.Companies such as Belgrade-based Tuck, which handles Warner and Columbia TriStar product in Serbia, and Vans, which handles films ...
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Gladiator passes 100,000 mark in Serbia
Gladiator has become the first foreign title to pass the 100,000 admissions mark in Serbia so far this year. The film, released by Vans which handles UIP product in Serbia, has sold 105,000 tickets on eight prints after 10 weeks on release.The only other non-domestic title to come close to ...
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Belgrade cinemas hold one-day celebration
The citizens of Belgrade were treated to free cinema admissions for one day on Friday (October 6) as distributors and exhibitors celebrated the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's ten-year dictatorship.Among the films screening for free were Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator and Hollow Man. The National Film Archives went one step ...
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Gladiator keeps Serbian box office rolling
Gladiator racked up 12,094 admissions from eight prints during its opening weekend (August 4-6) in Serbia. The result, while not astounding, marks an attempt by UIP and local distributor Vans to extend the territory's box office season into the summer. It makes Gladiator the seventh largest opener in Serbia so ...
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Pavlovic's last film to be completed for Venice
Serbian director Dinko Tucakovic has finished editing The State of the Dead, directed by his countryman Zivojin Pavlovic, who died before the film could be completed.The final cut of the film will be ready for the upcoming Venice International Film Festival, where it will be shown as a homage to ...
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Wheels rolls away with Sochi grand prize
Serbian comedy Wheels, written and directed by newcomer Djordje Milosavljevic, won the grand prize at this year's Sochi International Film Festival, which took place in Sochi, Russia from June 7-17.The international jury, chaired by veteran Indian director Mrinal Sen, also awarded its special prize to Can Togay's A Winter ...
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Marshal
Dir: Vinko Bresan. Croatia. 1999. 97 mins.Prod cos: Interfilm, HRT. Int'l sales: Interfilm (+385 1 4667 290). Prods: Ljubo Sikic, Ivan Maloca. Prod representative: Ernest Kalamar. Scr: Ivo and Vinko Bresan. DoP: Zivko Zalar. Main cast: Drazen Kuhn, Lidija Bregonja, Ivo Gregurevic, Ilija Ivezic.Vinko Bresan's witty insights into post-Civil War ...
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Serbian comedy sets local box office record
Serbian comedy The Secret Of The Family Treasure has set a record for the first quarter of 2000 at the Serbian box office by racking up admissions of 126,000 in just 12 days across ten cities. The film, based on a popular TV series of the same name, is distributed ...
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Sky Hook set for pan-Yugoslav opening
Ljubisa Samardzic's Sky Hook, which had its world premiere at the recent Berlin Film Festival where it featured in competition, is set to receive a pan-Yugoslav release in March. The release will mark the first time since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia that a feature from one of its ...
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Hollywood returns to Serbia
Serbian distributor Vans, which handles UIP's slate in the region, is opening The Mummy on February 24, marking the third studio distributor to return to Serbia since Hollywood ceased distribution activity in the region in March 1999.All but one studio - 20th Century Fox - is now active in the ...