Ranko Gučevac

Ranko Gučevac

Born: February 26, 1933
Died: October 18, 2001
in Kučevo, Serbia

Movies for Ranko Gučevac...

The State of the Dead
Title: The State of the Dead
Released: July 25, 2002
Type: Movie
When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
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Virtual Reality
Title: Virtual Reality
Character: Komšija
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl who, unwittingly, in his new world, the world of drug addiction and pulled his best friend.
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The Musician
Title: The Musician
Character: Selajk na vašaru 1
Released: December 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The action takes place in the village where the master Milun tries to use the servant Sreja and his knowledge “to play nicely on the harps” which is well paid and to make a contract with him to Sreja's detriment, all with the help of village fraudsters, his faithful tricksters.
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Evil Woman
Title: Evil Woman
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Sultana and the bootmaker's wife Pela looks very much like each other, with replacement clothing and residence, Sultana becomes Pela and Pela becomes Sultana. The consequence of disguise is that the Sultana are undergoing torture from Pela's husband which changes her nature, which makes positive impact on her environment. The script abounds with musical numbers that contribute to the atmosphere, establish era and the place of action, and in this play bring vaudeville jollity.
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Cabaret Balkan
Title: Cabaret Balkan
Character: Konobar
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
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Ivan
Title: Ivan
Character: Poslastičar
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
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Gunfight at Casino Cabaret
Title: Gunfight at Casino Cabaret
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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Holiday in Sarajevo
Title: Holiday in Sarajevo
Character: Čovek iz staračkog doma
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...
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Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1
Title: Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1
Character: Drug iz Kominterne
Released: July 16, 1990
Type: Movie
The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.
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Silent Gunpowder
Title: Silent Gunpowder
Character: Villager 2
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
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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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 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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Heretic
Title: Heretic
Character: Usraim beg
Released: October 30, 1986
Type: Movie
The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.
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Title: Stories from the Factory
Released: September 22, 1985
Type: TV
Works and private lives of 800 female employees in the textile factory named "Star".
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Rams and Mammoths
Title: Rams and Mammoths
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
One 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.
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The Red and the Black
Title: The Red and the Black
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
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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Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Released: July 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
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A Breath of Air
Title: A Breath of Air
Released: July 5, 1983
Type: Movie
The 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.
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Samek
Title: Samek
Character: Mušterija u fotografskoj radnji
Released: February 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His sense of justice even wins over friendship.
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Gazija
Title: Gazija
Character: Maniti Osman
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 Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Title: The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Character: Gost iz unutrašnjosti
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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The Carpet
Title: The Carpet
Released: March 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on short story by Nedžad Ibrišimović. At the very beginning of the 20 century, guy from Sarajevo slips on railway bridge and stays hanging in the air. In order to save him, gathered people begin to search for large, firm carpet on which he could jump.
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The Spring
Title: The Spring
Released: June 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Zagorka is young and beautiful peasant woman, abused by her ignorant husband because of her alleged infertility. One morning, a handsome neighbour offers her a lift into town.
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Buffet Titanic
Title: Buffet Titanic
Character: Ustaša I
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
Released: May 8, 1978
Type: Movie
A TV drama.
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The Tiger
Title: The Tiger
Character: Milicioner
Released: April 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.
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Love and Rage
Title: Love and Rage
Released: March 9, 1978
Type: Movie
The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.
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Looking Into the Night
Title: Looking Into the Night
Character: Bolesnik (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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Do You Know Pavle Pleso?
Title: Do You Know Pavle Pleso?
Character: Konobar Mile
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 Dervish and Death
Title: The Dervish and Death
Character: Muselimov sluga
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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Manifesto for Freedom
Title: Manifesto for Freedom
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
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Pollen Dust
Title: Pollen Dust
Character: Pekar
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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Ninth Miracle on the East
Title: Ninth Miracle on the East
Character: Navijač (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Title: Walter Defends Sarajevo
Character: Policijski agent
Released: April 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.
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A Nun and a Commissar
Title: A Nun and a Commissar
Character: Kontuzovani 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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Cat Under a Helmet
Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Repica
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Released: July 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.