Ivo Ban

Ivo Ban

Born: May 19, 1949
in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

Movies for Ivo Ban...

Title: Valley of Roses
Released: January 30, 2022
Type: TV
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Dream 1991
Title: Dream 1991
Released: December 28, 2021
Type: Movie
The feature-length documentary Dream 1991 takes us back to the beginning of the 1990s, when a series of strategic decisions and decisive actions paved the way for an independent Slovenia.
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Title: Behind the Nine Mountains
Character: Albin Kočar
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
The village Za hribom lies somewhere in the middle of the picturesque Dolenjska region, and it is home to a large number of nice people, led by the ambitious mayor Karel. But the election for a new mayor is just around the corner, and Karel wants to keep his mayoral seat at all costs.
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Title: Têlenovela
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: TV
Slovenian parody of soap opera TV shows.
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Title: Têlenovela
Character: Tone
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: TV
Slovenian parody of soap opera TV shows.
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Title: In the Name of the People
Character: Edo Glavan
Released: February 2, 2020
Type: TV
Nika Owen is a trainee lawyer. A beginner in the world of law. And an initiator in life. Through the mysterious death of Inspector Novak, the unraveling of secrets is triggered, leading her down the path of learning what is really going on in society. Her career is at stake, her friendship, her love. —tvprofil
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Deadlock
Title: Deadlock
Character: Miro
Released: January 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Two married couples from opposite social classes are brought together in a single night following a tragic event that will change the rest of their lives.
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Title: The Lake
Character: Brane Mihelič
Released: December 22, 2019
Type: TV
Driving home from a New Year's Eve party, Chief Inspector Taras Birsa notices a police car by the road. He stops, and inadvertently gets involved in an investigation of a brutal murder of a young woman.
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Together
Title: Together
Character: Jože
Released: November 13, 2018
Type: Movie
After the death of his partner, Luka and his daughter Mia struggle to cope and stay bonded as a family.
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Beef Trout
Title: Beef Trout
Released: February 8, 2016
Type: Movie
It puts in front the character of the actor Andrej Nahtigal and a section of his life, shot in real time and among real people who can play their roles by heart, since they live them in real environment.
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Mr. Happy
Title: Mr. Happy
Character: France Simčič
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
France Simčič is a gentleman who moves into the Veselje home for the elderly. He meets Majda, who lives in her own world.
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Partisan Priest
Title: Partisan Priest
Released: September 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary drama Partisan Priest is based on the dramatic life story of Slovenian priest and partisan Jože Lampret. All his life, this uncompromising fighter for justice and equality strived to reconcile the irreconcilable: Christian practice and international socialism. In the end, he was betrayed by both – not the ideas, but by those who saw him as the enemy or merely the means to get what they wanted. A story which indirectly reflects the present day.
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Sleeping with Tito
Title: Sleeping with Tito
Character: Egon
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Jelka and Egon are elderly people who spend the autumn of their lives together.
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Driving School
Title: Driving School
Character: Stane
Released: September 9, 2014
Type: Movie
The newest tycoon Robert wants to gets his hands on the land where the driving school stands and build a modern shopping center in it's place instead. It is during this acquisition that lands him in an altercation with Instructor Jože, whose wife left him and Roberts daughter Lija. Lija is determined to go to driving school in spite of his father's prohibition. Besides the tense that portray the ruthlessness of our world, the story offers a range of warm and interesting human relationships seen as part of our everyday lives.
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Good to Go
Title: Good to Go
Character: Vinko
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Ivan is a retired music teacher in his late 70s, and has grown weary of life. His estranged son never matched up to his expectations anyway, he is still eaten up with jealousy of his brother, who always enjoys life to the full, and - above all - he cannot keep up with the changes around him. He buys himself a plot in a graveyard with an beautiful view of the Alps and checks into a retirement home so he can wait for his death in peace. However, the exact opposite happens: for the first time in his life Ivan starts to actually live.
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Christmas Dinner
Title: Christmas Dinner
Character: Oče
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Jure and Julija live in a relationship that is largely maintained by clichés and formalities.
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Shanghai Gypsy
Title: Shanghai Gypsy
Character: Polde Šeruga
Released: August 29, 2012
Type: Movie
The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?
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Lemonade
Title: Lemonade
Released: July 5, 2012
Type: Movie
The pensioner Tone makes no secret of the fact that he monitors every step, movement and noise of the residents in the block in which he lives.
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The Candidate and the Chauffeur
Title: The Candidate and the Chauffeur
Character: Direktor Rancigaj
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
The comedy takes us to a small Slovenian town in which a pre-election fight is being established in Parliament. After the online coincidents become the main heroine of the event teacher Didka, which the client included on the candidate list only to the so-called ' female quota '.
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Hair Extensions
Title: Hair Extensions
Released: September 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Teenager Mina definitely wants long hair, as her crush Nejc would surely love her afterwards.
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One Day of Truth
Title: One Day of Truth
Character: Mayor
Released: December 31, 2006
Type: Movie
A scandal breaks out in a small town just big enough to have a local newspaper.
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Ljubljana the Beloved
Title: Ljubljana the Beloved
Character: Kralj
Released: November 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Oton, a young boy, is growing up while his hometown Ljubljana changes, from 1934, when King Alexander of Yugoslavia is killed in France, through first the Italian and then the German occupations of the city, until the arrival of Communism.
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Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Title: Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Character: Maksimilian Wurzbach
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as well as historical background of his time. How our tragic hero became a symbol of Slovenian culture.
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Triptych of Agata Schwarzkobler
Title: Triptych of Agata Schwarzkobler
Released: May 27, 1997
Type: Movie
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Felix
Title: Felix
Character: Poveljnik TO Franc
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
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The Queen of Hearts
Title: The Queen of Hearts
Character: Vinko
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
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The Jailers
Title: The Jailers
Character: Ahac
Released: October 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.
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To the Limit and Beyond
Title: To the Limit and Beyond
Character: Minister
Released: May 29, 1990
Type: Movie
A thief commits daring robberies (a la Raffles) in Slovenia during the 1920s. While he romances the ladies a persistent detective tries to hunt him down and bring him to justice.
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Café Astoria
Title: Café Astoria
Character: Baumann
Released: May 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation mark the period in which the film Cafe Astoria is set. The story relates with a gentle melancholy and a slight irony the lives of a middle-class family: the cafe owner, his wife and their son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a by-gone era; the social and national differences of pre-war Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, and nationally minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophils. The first year after the war introduced the absurd characteristic cruel measures of the so-called revolutionary social transformations in which calamity and coincidence intervene, resulting in events of comic nature, of course, as seen from a safe distance of fifty years.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Oto Kern
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The life of a man who dared to unfold the corruption and mismanagement in his factory takes a wrong turn as his marriage ends, his lover leaves him and he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital. After completing his stay in this mental institution, the gates of the factory are now closed for him. Will he be forced to apologize, or blood must be shed?
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P.S. - Post Scriptum
Title: P.S. - Post Scriptum
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A three-part omnibus drama that shows destinies of three grown men: first segment (Escape) is about a sculptor, the second segment (Shade) is about a loner, while the third segment (Ring) is about a movie star.
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My Dad, the Socialist Kulak
Title: My Dad, the Socialist Kulak
Character: Vanc
Released: October 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek.
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A Real Pirate
Title: A Real Pirate
Character: Prvi zidar / Prvi vojak
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A young boy is on vacation at the beach with his family. He becomes bored and wanders onto the set of a television production about pirates aboard a ship.
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Heretic
Title: Heretic
Character: Vojak
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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A Cormoran
Title: A Cormoran
Character: Grega
Released: May 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.
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Doctor
Title: Doctor
Character: Kalan
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Vladimir Kante, a high-ranking police official whom everyone refers to simply as "Doc" or "the Doctor" remains in office after the Italian occupation, but soon establishes ties with the Liberation Front. His hard work as a double agent pays off with many lives saved and a number of the enemy's plans revealed to the resistance. When the Germans march into Ljubljana (after the Italian capitulation), the Doctor continues with both his official and his secret work, but is caught by the Germans shortly before the end of the war. Will the Doctor remain loyal to his mission until the end, despite the death threats and brutal torture he is subjected to?
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Our Man
Title: Our Man
Character: Boris
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Milan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.
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A Breath of Air
Title: A Breath of Air
Character: Jurij
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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Body Scent
Title: Body Scent
Character: Inženjer
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
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Red Boogie
Title: Red Boogie
Character: Jan
Released: October 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Comedy about a group of musicians who are sent to play to villagers and workers to raise morale during a 5 year plan. The trouble is they prefer to play jazz and boogie music to the traditional folk songs, and each time they try their jazz they are reprimanded by the local party secretary.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Kurt
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
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Displaced Person
Title: Displaced Person
Character: Kladnik
Released: June 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.
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Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz
Title: Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz
Character: President of tenants' council
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Jani, called just Polz by his fellows, is a sincere elementary schoolboy. He likes his schoolmate Hojka, but especially drawn to inventiveness. He is suported by his mother, his schoolmate Hojka and Fitipaldi. The rest of them, on the other hand his father, a teacher of physics at the top of list, show no recognition of his efforts whatsoever. When seeminghly on the verge of his first success, his device explodes and thus concludes his life of home expirimentation. Polz remains a kind of rebel and fanatic in the eyes of adults, but his younger brother is already promising to follow in his footsteps.
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See You in the Next War
Title: See You in the Next War
Character: Tujcko
Released: February 4, 1980
Type: Movie
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
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Spasm
Title: Spasm
Character: Matevž
Released: September 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Working class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong. The film is a critical observation of the lack of prospect of young people who live in the province.
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Hang on, Doggy
Title: Hang on, Doggy
Character: Man from the night shift
Released: June 6, 1977
Type: Movie
This film takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Matic lives in a large neighborhood of concrete blocks of flats with his mother. As his father is temporarily working in Libya, they live alone. Matics' otherwise monotonous life changes dramatically when he is chosen to feature in a film. At the shooting he meets Milena, a girl his own age whom he begins to like. When the shooting is over, the film company gives him a present, a huge black Newfoundlander. Although his mother is not really pleased about it, Matic brings the dog home. And that is just the beginning of their adventures...
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Wonderful Dust
Title: Wonderful Dust
Character: Sin
Released: March 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.
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Fear
Title: Fear
Character: Simon
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.
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Spring Wind
Title: Spring Wind
Character: Grbavec
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A platonic romance between art student and nude model goes through many complications in which they both try to make one another jealous before revealing their true feelings.
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Title: Telenovela: Patriot TV
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: Balkan Inc.
Character: Lord
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.