Janez Škof

Janez Škof

Born: May 27, 1924
Died: March 23, 2009
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Movies for Janez Škof...

The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Mlinar
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
WWII - Slovenia under Italian fascist occupation. Two friends separated by a woman they both loved, and then by war as well: one of them joins partisans, the other Italian occupying forces.
bee
Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Rosario Aidala
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.
bee
Title: Decameron
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: TV
Dekameron is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) fictional TV Series.
bee
Beyond
Title: Beyond
Character: Miha
Released: July 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Two stories - two truths are confronting. Former Partisan Miha is trying to tell a shocking story from the war times in the modern day disco club, where young people are having fun in a crazy rhythm of music with alcohol and drugs... Amongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?
bee
Secret Society of PGC
Title: Secret Society of PGC
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A children’s classic story wrote by post-war authors, who, inspired by the real life of young people in that period of time, addressed their topical issues through depicting their unusual adventures. Thus many generations used to grow up along with the very popular Society of Pingoclavulus.
bee
The Invisible Battallon
Title: The Invisible Battallon
Character: Pavlič
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.
bee
Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Title: Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Character: Šef v gradbenem podjetju
Released: November 22, 1965
Type: Movie
The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".
bee
A Minute for Murder
Title: A Minute for Murder
Released: October 14, 1962
Type: Movie
An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.
bee
The Family Diary
Title: The Family Diary
Character: Poslovođa
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Story of the many jobs undertaken by a sanitary technician.
bee
Enclosure
Title: Enclosure
Character: Kapo #1
Released: July 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Gatti focuses on two men in a German concentration camp who have been cruelly penned inside an enclosure. One of the men, Karl (Herbert Wochinz), is a strong, bitter anti-Nazi German -- a target of the Gestapo. The SS wants information on a rumored organization of resistance fighters inside the prison and they know he has it. The other man, David (Jean Negroni) is a Jew. If one of the men dies within a certain time then the other will be released. He will not be killed. Otherwise, both will be executed. The resistance fighters in the prison try to help the two as best they can, while the pair inside the enclosure slowly come to know each other as though they were brothers.
bee
Night Trip
Title: Night Trip
Character: Oblak, Verin oče
Released: June 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A couple attends a decadent party where they become victims of salacious jokes. Furious boyfriend leaves, but she gets impression that he simply left her. She decides to join the fun, exposing her body to everyone. This bad move makes her regretful in the morning.
bee
Island of the Amazons
Title: Island of the Amazons
Released: November 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Seven women take off on a cargo boat for a cruise, after graduating from an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. They party with the ship's crew, but in port they meet up with Manuel, who runs a meteorological station with his father on a remote Amazon island. While out there, Manuel's father has found a crashed airplane carrying gold ingots. Manuel goes to the mainland to tell of his father's finding and is overheard by a gangster. The gangsters head over to the island and shoot Manuel's father, but Manuel escapes. Murdok captures some of the girls, who must fight off some of the gang members' evil intentions. Eventually the rest of the girls and Manuel arrive to the rescue, but Murdok gets away only in time to be shot by the police.
bee
The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Lovro
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of young man who has lost an arm in the war and tries to find his place in postwar Ljubljana.
bee
The Good Old Piano
Title: The Good Old Piano
Character: Blisk
Released: June 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Composer and pianist Blaz Gaber lives only for his music and does not want to know anything about the outside world, where the war is raging. Upon his arrival from his poorly attended concert, he finds himself in prison for having stars drawn in his notebook by a little boy. A young illegal activist seeks refugee in the school, where the pupils hide his pistol inside the Gaber's piano. A German officer comes with his soldiers to find the hidden illegal, orders the school to be evacuated and takes the piano together with him on a train.