Zaim Muzaferija

Zaim Muzaferija

Born: March 9, 1923
Died: November 5, 2003

Movies for Zaim Muzaferija...

The Letter
Title: The Letter
Character: Grandpa
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: Movie
In a refugee camp in Bosnia, while a group of boys is playing ball, the one-legged Enes, accidentally breaks his crutch. His friend Ado decides to help him, as now the immobile Enes is completely dependable on others. They write a request to the United Nations asking to help them get a new crutch.
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The End of Unpleasant Times
Title: The End of Unpleasant Times
Character: Zaim
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Old man Zaim is alone in the world and wants to change that. He is in love with his neighbor Munevera. Munevera doesn't want him. But there are those who do.
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The Perfect Circle
Title: The Perfect Circle
Character: Asaf
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: Movie
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
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Be Damned, America
Title: Be Damned, America
Character: (segment "Ružina osveta")
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.
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Djuka Begovic
Title: Djuka Begovic
Character: Ilarija Begović
Released: July 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives. Djuka's personal life was marked by constant conflicts with his father.
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Tattoo
Title: Tattoo
Character: Jordan
Released: May 26, 1991
Type: Movie
After a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he'll find himself locked in a prison with several other, mostly innocent people. The true horror begins only then.
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SA 204-272
Title: SA 204-272
Character: Mićun
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A high representative goes by the narrow macadam road to the grand opening of the facility in a mountain village, another new victory of his own. In the car with him was not his wife but his mistress, a young and rather attractive girl. The car stucks in the quite large and deep puddle in the middle of the country road...
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Marital Travels
Title: Marital Travels
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Professor Gerasim and assistant Tugomir are in a ski-resort where opportunity for cheating and love is around every corner.
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Silent Gunpowder
Title: Silent Gunpowder
Character: Teacher Stojan Kekić
Released: March 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
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Regular Trains Station
Title: Regular Trains Station
Character: Omer
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy...
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Landscape with a Woman
Title: Landscape with a Woman
Released: July 25, 1989
Type: Movie
A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger is sleeping with their wives.
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Kuduz
Title: Kuduz
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
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The House by the Railway Tracks
Title: The House by the Railway Tracks
Character: Vuksan
Released: June 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.
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The Magpie Strategy
Title: The Magpie Strategy
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.
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A Little Bit of Soul
Title: A Little Bit of Soul
Character: Jusuf
Released: February 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II.
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
Character: Starac II
Released: April 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.
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When Father Was Away on Business
Title: When Father Was Away on Business
Character: Predsjednik
Released: January 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
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The Igman March
Title: The Igman March
Released: June 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
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The Death of Mr Goluza
Title: The Death of Mr Goluza
Character: Fotograf
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
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Scent of Quinces
Title: Scent of Quinces
Character: Pekar
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
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Gazija
Title: Gazija
Character: Fratar
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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Lost Homeland
Title: Lost Homeland
Character: Isoma
Released: June 12, 1980
Type: Movie
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
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Buffet Titanic
Title: Buffet Titanic
Character: Nail
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
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The Human Factor
Title: The Human Factor
Character: Safo
Released: May 8, 1978
Type: Movie
A TV drama.
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Looking Into the Night
Title: Looking Into the Night
Character: Refik Selman (segment "Koma")
Released: March 9, 1978
Type: Movie
The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.
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The Brides Are Coming
Title: The Brides Are Coming
Character: Nikola
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Jelena, a woman of character, rules an inn in an isolated place in the countryside. She lives with her two sons: Martin and Jakov. Martin has been married to Kata for 5 years, but never succeeded in having a child. Jakov sleeps with his mother in postures suggesting incest, but he is in love with Kata. Each night he hears her cries, the sexual acts with her husband inevitably finish with violence. One day, Jakov can't stand anymore, he leaves, and Kata is found dead the next morning. Two characters arrive then : an old man, who turns to be the father of Martin ; he settles and declares being returned to die here. And a girl, that Martin will keep as his new wife.
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Manhunt
Title: Manhunt
Character: Pasko
Released: June 28, 1977
Type: Movie
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
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Title: Tale
Character: Siromah
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: TV
Based on the novel "Tale" by Dervis Susic. Tale is a former partisan, an honest man and a rogue. His return to hometown immediately creates a bunch of new problems.
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Daredevil Times
Title: Daredevil Times
Character: Žandar Rašula
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
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Jagosh and Blackey
Title: Jagosh and Blackey
Character: Jagoš
Released: December 27, 1976
Type: Movie
At an ordinary construction site in Germany, Jagos forms a strong bond of friendship with an African immigrant and remains loyal even when things go into the wrong direction
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Three Poplars
Title: Three Poplars
Character: Milan
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
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Guests and Workers
Title: Guests and Workers
Released: November 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A comedy mocking the self-management system - the workers become owners of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast.
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Treasure in the Wall
Title: Treasure in the Wall
Released: September 29, 1975
Type: Movie
A greedy trader who becomes convinced that a house is hidden in the wall of a house, decides to buy the house at all costs.
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Doctor Mladen
Title: Doctor Mladen
Character: Petar
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
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Pollen Dust
Title: Pollen Dust
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A young journalist is sent to a small Bosnian town to interview people on happiness. He mixes up with local affair and has a romance with a student. He gets a shock when he finds out that he is going to be important due to childhood mumps.
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Freckled Girl
Title: Freckled Girl
Character: Milan
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Keti runs through her life, cheating on everybody who she encounters. She joins the company of two burglars, unawarely participating in a burglary. When police starts hunting on them, she realizes what it is all about. She suggest they should hide at the place of two older actors, where the story ends with unexpected twist.
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Salt
Title: Salt
Character: Odbornik
Released: July 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Due to fighting against the Germans and the Ustashas, the partisans in central Bosnia decide to strike the salt pans, and take the much needed salt for the people and army. After serious attacks and heavy losses, they complete their mission successfully.
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Life of a Shock Force Worker
Title: Life of a Shock Force Worker
Released: August 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Adem, a Bosnian coal miner who spends his days digging in the dark depths, and in very harsh conditions, is praised for his work and achievements and known as an exemplary socialist worker.
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A Trap for the General
Title: A Trap for the General
Character: Jovan
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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Shepherd
Title: Shepherd
Character: Čoban
Released: July 14, 1971
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
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A Day Longer Than a Year
Title: A Day Longer Than a Year
Character: Mitar Zmijanjac
Released: March 28, 1971
Type: Movie
The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.
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Handcuffs
Title: Handcuffs
Character: Todor
Released: November 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
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Ann and Eve
Title: Ann and Eve
Character: Farmer
Released: August 3, 1970
Type: Movie
The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
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A Nun and a Commissar
Title: A Nun and a Commissar
Character: Stanko, ranjenik
Released: July 15, 1968
Type: Movie
After the war, a partisan hospital is set up in a monastery, with the nuns working as nurses. A beautiful young nun, Maria, becomes very fond of the partisan leader, Commissar Nenad.
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Gravitation
Title: Gravitation
Character: Borisov otac
Released: July 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After completing his military service, Boris Horvat finds himself at the crossroads. He thinks about enrolling at the faculty, but the job of a clerk at a bank where his father worked is already waiting for him. Boris falls in love with a female artist, but soon gets involved in another love affair, this time with his female colleague at work.
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Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One
Title: Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One
Character: Zlatan
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Five boys befriend a young loner who becomes their teacher of the adult world.
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Come In, If You Please
Title: Come In, If You Please
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man, left to himself, thrown out of a village, comes to a large town whe re he looks for the meaning of existence.
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The Trek
Title: The Trek
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.
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Playing Soldiers
Title: Playing Soldiers
Released: December 27, 1967
Type: Movie
After the end of WW2 a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of Partizans or people being killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy's parents were Nazis but conceals that fact from others, fearing violence by vengeful children. He invents the boy's life story, but the other children get suspicious.
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Kaya
Title: Kaya
Character: Kajo Sicilijani
Released: July 11, 1967
Type: Movie
An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
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The Demolition Squad
Title: The Demolition Squad
Character: Nusret
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
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The Feast
Title: The Feast
Character: Starešina sela Nikola
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for the pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
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Children of Duke Schmidt
Title: Children of Duke Schmidt
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of WW2 orphans, now young people in their late teens, find out that one of them is a child of a war criminal. They are determined to discover his identity, even though this person could be any of them.
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Nikoletina Bursac
Title: Nikoletina Bursac
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The mother of a national hero Nikoletina Bursac leads an imaginary conversation with the statue of her deceased son. We follow events from Nikoletina's life and war: his joining of the partisans together with his neighbor Jovica Jez, meeting with the small Jewish girl Erna who survived the slaughter of her village, constant quarrels and friendship with commander Pirgo and commissar Zlatko, meeting with Curetak and their unsuccessful love relationship.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Jefto Karanfil
Released: July 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.