Živojin 'Žika' Milenković

Živojin 'Žika' Milenković

Born: January 26, 1928
Died: March 18, 2008
in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Movies for Živojin 'Žika' Milenković...

Attack on the Station Express
Title: Attack on the Station Express
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The main actors in this low budget, independent film live in disharmony with their thoughts and speech. For same reason, its sound doesn't correspond to picture, which is the outcome of global worldwide disharmony of our time. Such disharmony exists both in this film, whose heroes aim for freedom, and in lives of people in audience who want that freedom, while not knowing what they should be freed of.
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1 on 1
Title: 1 on 1
Character: Penzioner
Released: August 23, 2002
Type: Movie
Mačak is the best basketball player around the blocks of New Belgrade. Meanwhile, his friend is bullied by a local gangster Koma, whom he owns money. To pay off his debt, Mačak will play 1 on 1 with the rival player, eventually winning it. However, Koma doesn't stand on his promise, so Mačak decides to solve this problem the other way.
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Sweet of Dreams
Title: Sweet of Dreams
Character: Gazda
Released: April 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Deni, a young woman working in McDonalds, has dreams of fame. When a producer discovers her singing talent he gets her into the game. However, she soon feels overburdened. Fortunately, the ghost of Elvis is there to help her.
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Gunfight at Casino Cabaret
Title: Gunfight at Casino Cabaret
Character: Gazda Buzda
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.
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Balkan Perestroika
Title: Balkan Perestroika
Character: Milicioner
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A modernized comedy of Branislav Nusic's novel, about the life and work of a "small manufacturer", his professional and familial relations.
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The Fall of Rock and Roll
Title: The Fall of Rock and Roll
Character: Inspektor SUP-a
Released: May 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them.
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The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Title: The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Character: Drug milicioner
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
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Tight Skin 3
Title: Tight Skin 3
Character: Majstor Raca
Released: August 8, 1988
Type: Movie
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
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Balkan Express 2
Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Rajčević
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
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The Bizarre Country
Title: The Bizarre Country
Character: Ministar poljoprivrede
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
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Hotshot
Title: Hotshot
Character: Krca
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...
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And This Will Pass, Too...
Title: And This Will Pass, Too...
Character: Gazda Stanko
Released: April 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
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The Damned Yard
Title: The Damned Yard
Character: Debeli činovnik
Released: December 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
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Strangler vs Strangler
Title: Strangler vs Strangler
Character: Inspector Gane
Released: June 18, 1984
Type: Movie
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 salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
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The Elusive Summer of '68
Title: The Elusive Summer of '68
Character: Barber
Released: January 30, 1984
Type: Movie
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
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How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
Title: How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
Character: Ministar
Released: July 5, 1983
Type: Movie
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' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Title: The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Character: Soća Šurdilović
Released: October 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").
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Title: Hot Wind
Character: Sotir Šurdilović 'Soća'
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: TV
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV series that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.
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More Than a Game
Title: More Than a Game
Character: Načelnik Vasić
Released: March 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.
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Do You Know Pavle Pleso?
Title: Do You Know Pavle Pleso?
Character: Poslovođa Jelenko
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Šef gradilišta
Released: July 12, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and the other one wants to earn money by smuggling, Beli. Between them two there's young woman, Mila, who has had experience with the second one. Running away from the man who is the incarnation of evil for her, she is trying to find happiness and peace with another one in vain.
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Title: More Than a Game
Character: Načelnik Vasić
Released: April 17, 1974
Type: TV
The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.
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Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Title: Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Character: Sudija
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The reconstruction of assassination of Milorad Draskovic, then-minister of internal affairs in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, that took place on July 21, 1921 in Delnice, Croatia. This TV drama uses authentic recordings from the trial that resulted in death by hanging of Alija Alijagic, the man who shot one of the government's chief ministers.
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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Title: And God Created a Tavern Singer
Character: Damnjan Ilić
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
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Title: The Graduates
Character: Sisoje 'Puška' Mitrović
Released: September 26, 1971
Type: TV
The series is about the life of a group of students on the outskirts of Belgrade. One of the main characters is Buda, who fails to pass the final exam, but with the help of his father Sima Bumba, manages to get a job.
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The Bet
Title: The Bet
Character: Šanker Kale
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the life in suburbia, and gets back to her husband disappointed, disgraced and humiliated.
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Milorad: The Place to Be
Title: Milorad: The Place to Be
Character: Cvetko
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
A new year's special dedicated to the popular comedy "Ljubav na seoski nacin".
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Title: Love, Village Style
Character: Cvetko
Released: August 9, 1970
Type: TV
Milorad is a young villager grown enough to marry, but his uncle Gvozden and grandpa Paun want to arrange him a marriage with Radmila, a girl from a wealthy family. He escapes to the big town, refusing to take part in it, but his adventure with a girl named Rozika ends up and he finds himself back in his village again.
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Brigandage
Title: Brigandage
Character: Ranko Tajsić, narodni poslanik
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
TV drama that depicts treatment and persecution of outlaws in the Kingdom of Serbia during 1860s.
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God Died in Vain
Title: God Died in Vain
Character: Mićko
Released: June 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A trademark comedy by well known Yugoslav writer Radivoje 'Lola' Djukic. Nenad and Predrag are twin brothers. Nenad is the poor carpenter who works in the factory with deep financial problems, and he is one of the union leaders. On the other hand, his twin brother Predrag is the successful executive of a large socialist company, and he enjoys all the benefits of his position. As Predrag's company refuses to give a loan to Nenad's factory, Nenad decides to kidnap his twin brother with his union mates and to take his place in order to get the credit. But in the process, their plan has been unexpectedly changed.
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Title: United Brothers
Character: Vojo Kecman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Taking place just after the end of Bosnian War, the series is mostly set in a kafana named Složna braća owned by Halimić brothers and located on a small patch of UN-controlled territory (covering 0.0657 km2) not claimed by any of the three warring sides. Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats, otherwise very hostile to each other following a ferocious civil war, regularly visit the said kafana in no man's land in order to arrange mutual black market activities (weapons and food trade, oil and cigarette smuggling, etc.). When the word gets around about an important weapons shipment passing through the territory that can supposedly completely change the division of power in the Balkans, the place becomes a lively hub of espionage, deal making, and skulduggery.
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Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Rajčević
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.