Slobodan Aligrudić

Slobodan Aligrudić

Born: October 15, 1934
Died: August 13, 1985
in Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.

He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?.

Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".

Movies for Slobodan Aligrudić...

Title: Grey Home
Character: Kosketov otac
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
Character: Čiča Rogulja
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: Ostoja Cekić
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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Indian Mirror
Title: Indian Mirror
Character: Ćale
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.
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Great Transport
Title: Great Transport
Character: Novoverac Rade
Released: July 4, 1983
Type: Movie
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
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Title: The Great Transport
Character: Novoverac Rade
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
The 1983 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a three part mini-series.
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Title: The Teacher
Character: Školski nadzornik
Released: February 3, 1983
Type: TV
The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.
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Variola Vera
Title: Variola Vera
Character: Drug Vlada
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
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Tailors for Jeans
Title: Tailors for Jeans
Character: Gazda Rista
Released: June 10, 1982
Type: Movie
Illegal business abroad. Conditions: the boss takes the shoes along with a passport, and the salary is 25 francs, payment when the job is done. A reversal takes place. The boss returns the shoes and the passport, but there is no money. There is blackmail and the arrival of labor reinforcements.
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Let's Move On
Title: Let's Move On
Character: Školski nadzornik
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of Liberation and emancipation. A young teacher – Partisan arrives in a small Serbian town. His wartime, partisan “pedagogy” conflicts with the old methods of work in schools. The children, of course, stand by their teacher, their true friend. The film is a child’s memory and remembrance of an evil, cruel period that left deep imprints in the children’s sensitive and delicate soul of entire generations whose childhood was wounded in the war. The story unfolds over a period of several months, between the fall of 1944 and the summer of 1945, when somewhere far away, in Japan, the atomic bomb is fried to announce a new-atomic era.
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Title: Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Character: Otac
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.
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Erogenous Zone
Title: Erogenous Zone
Character: Milicioner
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.
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The Train for Kraljevo
Title: The Train for Kraljevo
Character: Policajac Rapajić
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.
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The Promising Boy
Title: The Promising Boy
Character: Psihijatar
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.
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Who's Singin' Over There?
Title: Who's Singin' Over There?
Character: Poručnik
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group of passengers is headed for Belgrade...
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Happy Family
Title: Happy Family
Released: February 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Title: Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Character: Upravnik zatvora
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
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National Class Category Up to 785ccm
Title: National Class Category Up to 785ccm
Character: Funkcioner Vidoje
Released: January 9, 1979
Type: Movie
One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
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Special Education
Title: Special Education
Character: Komandir milicije
Released: April 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Title: The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Character: Direktor OOUR-a
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.
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More Than a Game
Title: More Than a Game
Character: Agent antikomunističkog odeljenja (uncredited)
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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A Naive Person
Title: A Naive Person
Character: Pura
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.
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Title: The Written Off
Character: Skale
Released: December 22, 1974
Type: TV
"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV series, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
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Blacklist
Title: Blacklist
Character: Džo Larč
Released: June 5, 1974
Type: Movie
It catches the essence of the no man’s land in which an accused artist found himself. In the hysteria of the political witch hunt neither society nor the law offered a way out.
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The Written Off
Title: The Written Off
Character: Skale
Released: April 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.
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Title: More Than a Game
Character: Agent VI antikomunističkog
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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The Warrior's Talent
Title: The Warrior's Talent
Character: Perišić, direktor pivare
Released: February 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A contemporary story of the film crew who visits the site in order to prepare for the shooting, where they fall into many situations that reflect local mentality.
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Yellow
Title: Yellow
Character: Milicioner 2
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: Movie
A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a wanderer, although she has a burning desire for home and quiet life. The big city life laws get her in troubles, sad and, at least for her, unintelligible...
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The Colonel's Wife
Title: The Colonel's Wife
Character: Kaplar II
Released: June 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.
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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Title: And God Created a Tavern Singer
Character: Direktor hotela II
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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Plug Impermeable to Water
Title: Plug Impermeable to Water
Character: Ica
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
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This Crazy World of Ours
Title: This Crazy World of Ours
Character: Silovatelj
Released: July 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
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Homo sapiens
Title: Homo sapiens
Character: Čovek / The Man
Released: September 30, 1969
Type: Movie
The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill an oversized barrel using a woefully small tub of water. Shot in stark black and white and edited to achieve a dreamlike quality, the man’s devotion to this task is tested and taunted by a young couple that frolics around the barrel.
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The Ambush
Title: The Ambush
Character: drug Jotić
Released: June 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
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Early Works
Title: Early Works
Released: March 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.
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Quo vadis Zivorad!?
Title: Quo vadis Zivorad!?
Character: General
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions, becoming a police inspector who is looking for hashish, a scientist, a man who rises agriculture land and whatnot...
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Escapes
Title: Escapes
Character: Albert
Released: July 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
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When I Am Dead and White
Title: When I Am Dead and White
Character: upravnik Milutin
Released: December 27, 1967
Type: Movie
The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.
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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Title: Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Character: Ahmed, sanitarni inspektor
Released: September 22, 1967
Type: Movie
After many adventures, young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.
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Title: Svetozar Markovic
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.