Branko Pleša

Branko Pleša

Born: March 6, 1926
Died: June 9, 2001
in Kiseljak, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia

Movies for Branko Pleša...

Meeting Place
Title: Meeting Place
Character: Doktor Katić
Released: February 26, 1989
Type: Movie
During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.
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The Bizarre Country
Title: The Bizarre Country
Character: Ministar inostranih poslova
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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The Battle of the Eagles
Title: The Battle of the Eagles
Character: Von Norden
Released: July 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
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The Damned Thing
Title: The Damned Thing
Character: Lovac
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Doctor who lived at the edge of a swamp was found murdered with his neck slaughtered. Investigator, together with a jury made ​​up of local farmers, comes into the doctor's cabin and tries to discover the cause of his death. The two sources may be of any help: a diary of the doctor, and the testimony of a journalist, the doctor's friend, who was with him at the moment of death. Based on the Ambrose Bierce novel with the same name.
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Hell River
Title: Hell River
Character: Gen. Steiger
Released: July 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
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The Dervish and Death
Title: The Dervish and Death
Character: Kadija
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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Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Title: Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Character: Dr. Ivo Politeo, advokat
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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Of Compatibility of the Red Blood Cells
Title: Of Compatibility of the Red Blood Cells
Character: Gospodin Malkoč
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
30 years after WW2, a man comes from Germany to Yugoslavia in order to revenge his father and kill his murderer, a Bosnian partisan.
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Ward
Title: Ward
Character: Lekar u azilu
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A terrified young man is being pursued by a mysterious man in black. He hides out in a nearby mental hospital, but can he escape his fate?
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Romance of a Horsethief
Title: Romance of a Horsethief
Character: Lt. Vishinsky
Released: August 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things. Written by Guy Bellinger (IMDB)
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Lilika
Title: Lilika
Character: Savetnik
Released: February 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A story about young orphan girl who was rejected by her mother.
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The Oppenheimer Case
Title: The Oppenheimer Case
Character: Robert Oppenheimer
Released: February 2, 1970
Type: Movie
During World War II, the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer was at the head of the research work for the production of the atomic bomb. He was removed from that position in 1953 due to disagreements with the US Atomic Commission regarding the development of the hydrogen bomb. The investigation that was conducted against him during the infamous time of anti-communist hysteria and the "witch hunt" during the time of Senator McCarthy is testimony to the great moral and psychological dilemma in which the scientists of that era found themselves.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Michel
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two married couples cruise from town to town along the Adriatic coast. While men are occupied with booze and sea, their wives are more interested in the young "skipper", who seems to be a virgin. Frivolous flirting evolves into drama when one of the wives and the skipper start feeling something that appears to be love.
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Wolf of Prokletije
Title: Wolf of Prokletije
Character: Italijanski doktor
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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Before the Truth
Title: Before the Truth
Character: Mladen Stojanović
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shot, but missed on purpose.
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Bomb at 10:10
Title: Bomb at 10:10
Character: Col. Hassler / Pukovnik Hasler
Released: July 12, 1967
Type: Movie
An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.
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Witness Out of Hell
Title: Witness Out of Hell
Character: Bora Petrović (voice)
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?
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Certified: No Mines
Title: Certified: No Mines
Character: Rade
Released: May 9, 1965
Type: Movie
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
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March on the River Drina
Title: March on the River Drina
Character: Pukovnik Zdravko Lukić
Released: July 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.
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Vortex
Title: Vortex
Character: Njemački oficir
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Yugoslavian anthology movie with three stories. "Father": Germans are taking hostages, peasants from local fields. One old man is begging for German officer to release his sons. Officer offers him releasing of one of his sons, but other will be shot. "Swamp": Two Partisans are in swamp, surrounded by enemies. One of them is wounded, and other one wants to save him by any cost. "Ada": Story about twist of fate, when father and son find them self on different side of the gunpoint.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
State Security Administration agent tries to sabotage a critical report filed to the national assembly on the state energy system.
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Square of Violence
Title: Square of Violence
Character: Major Kohler
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more taste in life. He continues his work as a German officers' physician. One day, he throws a bomb just in the middle of German troops. Many soldiers and officers are killed. Some time later, the lead officer of the Nazis troops suspects the doctor to be the responsible of the explosion. He lets him know that he himself knows...
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Partisan Stories
Title: Partisan Stories
Character: (segment "Povratak")
Released: July 26, 1960
Type: Movie
The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.
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Operation
Title: Operation
Character: Student
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.
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The Wind Dropped Before Dawn
Title: The Wind Dropped Before Dawn
Character: Pavle Ugrinović, islednik policije
Released: July 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Members of Jasna's group are suspicious because of her firing from occupation Special police squad and they start avoiding her. She finds out the members of the group have been betrayed but they become even more suspicious. At the moment when they were ready to liquidate her the true traitor is revealed. Thanks to Jasna's courage an action becomes success and she regains their trust.
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Aleksa Dundic
Title: Aleksa Dundic
Character: Aleksa Dundić
Released: May 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.
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SS Strike at Dawn
Title: SS Strike at Dawn
Character: Ranjenik na nosilima I
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
During the Battle of Sutjeska, headquarters one of the a partisan detachment, decides to enter deeper into the forest to save a few soldiers and wounded from inevitable death. Commander of the detachment, sent a group of fighters in the reconnaissance. As time goes on, the Germans are getting closer to discovering the detachment and wounded, hunger, exhaustion, forcing people to surrender, but at the time of surrender, and when the Germans discovered detachment, there is a sudden rescue from the group that was in the field reconnaissance.
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Little Man
Title: Little Man
Character: Stole
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A boy named Miso runs away from home and befriends new people who happen to be criminals.
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The Song from Kumbara
Title: The Song from Kumbara
Character: Beogradski paša
Released: November 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Story of the revolt of the people of Serbia against the Turks, who ruled the country for four centuries. The battle and the fall of the fortress of Belgrade in 1806.
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The False Tsar
Title: The False Tsar
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A historical film based on the struggle of the Montenegrins for their independence.
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The Sun Is Far Away
Title: The Sun Is Far Away
Character: Pavle
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Down under the constant attacks of the German and Bulgarian forces, headquarters one of the partisan detachment in the midst of a severe winter and snow and difficult terrain, with many wounded, he decided to leave the mountain Jastrebac. Gvozden, a peasant from that area, brave warrior, opposes such a decision, was gets ready to leave the unit before detachment. In the interests of discipline, however, Gvozden was convicted and executed on the spot, although it regrets the whole squad.
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Title: Svetozar Markovic
Character: Jovan Ristić
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.