Abdurrahman Shala

Abdurrahman Shala

Born: October 25, 1922
Died: March 9, 1994

Movies for Abdurrahman Shala...

Before the Rain
Title: Before the Rain
Character: Zekir
Released: June 9, 1994
Type: Movie
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
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From the Beginning
Title: From the Beginning
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: Movie
A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Slobodan Šćepanović, starring Suzana Petričević, Vojislav Krivokapić and Milan Strljic.
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A Film with No Name
Title: A Film with No Name
Released: May 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
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A Dangerous Track
Title: A Dangerous Track
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.
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The Man of Earth
Title: The Man of Earth
Character: Sokol
Released: May 21, 1984
Type: Movie
Sokol is a middle-aged Kosovar Albanian who, together with his family, emigrates from Kosovo to Turkey, and faces the foreign and unknown world. After some time he becomes homesick, eventually leaving his last will he gave to his son that when he dies, his bones will be returned to his native country. He dies near of a cliff at the Black Sea coast. In his native village, the news that Sokol has been returned from emigration are being spread.
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Proka
Title: Proka
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Story about local fruitcake who keeps being assured in human callousness.
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Gazija
Title: Gazija
Character: Paša
Released: July 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
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The Swelling River
Title: The Swelling River
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
In a mining plant in Kosovo, as occurs in many work organizations across the country, workers continue to win new positions in the self-management. The former miner and fighter - now general manager of the factory - is on the side of the workers, but has troubles in personal life.
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When Spring Comes Late
Title: When Spring Comes Late
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on war-themed diary of Fadil Hoxha, the film tells the story of one particular phase of partisan revolution in Kosovo during WWII.
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The Oak and the Tree
Title: The Oak and the Tree
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The story follows the Kosovar partisan hero known as Lisi (Oak), from WWII days, subsequent liberation, until mid-1960s. Lisi was a brave warrior, yet he and his generation remains largely uneducated. However his nephew starts as a courier, and becomes doctor afterwards.
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Stand Up Straight, Delfina
Title: Stand Up Straight, Delfina
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.
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Red Blow
Title: Red Blow
Character: Todor
Released: July 16, 1974
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
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The Dervish and Death
Title: The Dervish and Death
Character: Tatarin
Released: July 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.
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The Bombers
Title: The Bombers
Released: July 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
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How to Die
Title: How to Die
Released: March 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
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A Trap for the General
Title: A Trap for the General
Character: Perun
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
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The Ballad of the Ferocious One
Title: The Ballad of the Ferocious One
Character: Božina
Released: April 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Deeply hurt by his wife's adultery, a man leaves her and his son to live high up alone in the mountains of Montenegro. Many years later, the war breaks out and the two enemy factions must cross the very mountain. One of them seeks the man's help to find a path through the snow. Later that day, he finds out that one of the other side's members is no other than his son.
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Requiem
Title: Requiem
Character: Janko
Released: July 14, 1970
Type: Movie
An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.
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Times without War
Title: Times without War
Character: Jakov
Released: June 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.
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Wolf of Prokletije
Title: Wolf of Prokletije
Character: Fuad - beg
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
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Doctor Homer's Brother
Title: Doctor Homer's Brother
Character: Bandit
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.
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Operation Cross Eagles
Title: Operation Cross Eagles
Character: Kalich
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
War - In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress. "Operation Cross Eagles" is a story of suspense and intrigue that will have you on the edge of your seat one moment and blast you back the next. - Richard Conte, Rory Calhoun, Aili King
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Winnetou and the Crossbreed
Title: Winnetou and the Crossbreed
Character: Hank
Released: August 17, 1966
Type: Movie
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection.
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Under the Same Sky
Title: Under the Same Sky
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Three partisans come to a fascist held town at the end of the war to create diversions. Their protector is tortured to reveal their whereabouts, but the partisans arrive in time.
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Kozara
Title: Kozara
Character: Jakov
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
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Gunfight
Title: Gunfight
Character: Šaban Murtezi
Released: March 12, 1962
Type: Movie
In this sequel to "Captain Leshi", a group of Albanian nationalist movement (ballists) continues obstruction of the new Yugoslavian authorities even after the war. Captain Leshi manages to fight them successfully, as well as to fulfill his romance with beautiful Azira.
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Captain Lechi
Title: Captain Lechi
Character: Major Demir
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: Movie
Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain. As Ramiz is trying to get Ahmet out of the gang and hunt down the rest of the Balists, 2 new girls arrive in town. One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.
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Shots in the Sky
Title: Shots in the Sky
Character: Srđan
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Upon returning home at war's end, a young lieutenant discovers that his family has been murdered by the Nazis. It's all the handiwork of a treasonous "Chetnik," who during the war worked against the partisans on behalf of the Germans. In bitter retaliation, the lieutenant sets about to decimate the Chetnik's family. He stops short, however, when he realizes that the sins of the fathers are not always passed down to the innocent children.
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Echelon of Doctor M
Title: Echelon of Doctor M
Character: Murat
Released: February 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Continuing their exploits against the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, the Ballists attack an echelon of wounded warriors led by Dr. M. He takes the wounded to a nearby town. Aware that the justice is on the side of Doctor M., Ramadan, son of one of the Ballist leaders, joins him and contributes to defeat of the Ballists.