Bert Sotlar

Bert Sotlar

Born: February 4, 1921
Died: June 10, 1992
in Kočevje, Slovenia

Movies for Bert Sotlar...

P.S. - Post Scriptum
Title: P.S. - Post Scriptum
Character: Igralec
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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Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Title: Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Character: Brentač
Released: October 27, 1987
Type: Movie
At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, were killing time with storytelling. The first story is about Jernac that had a fight with Tomas because of Rezika. Another story tells about Tincek, limp foundling, who spent his youth with the Komar family, where he fell in love with their Lencka. The third is the story of a rich Miholac whose attention was grabbed by poor Polonca, a romance that was opposed by his father. The central theme of all stories is love that eventually everybody die of.
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The Merry Wedding
Title: The Merry Wedding
Character: Tompa
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1920s Ljubljana, a student of theology decides to leave his studies and dedicate to music.
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Dog's Path
Title: Dog's Path
Released: February 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A TV adaptation of the story “Twins” by Prezihov Voranc.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Nepoznati
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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The Esophagus Battle
Title: The Esophagus Battle
Character: Dihur
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Prežihov Voranc, it tells a story about a farmer's family who live in Northern Slovenia before WW2.
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The Tenth Brother
Title: The Tenth Brother
Character: Krjavelj
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a family returns to the family home to take revenge on his father who had abandoned him as a child.
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Temptations
Title: Temptations
Released: July 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.
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My Dear Iza
Title: My Dear Iza
Character: oče Novak
Released: April 12, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.
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Destinies
Title: Destinies
Released: December 12, 1978
Type: Movie
A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Title: Occupation in 26 Pictures
Character: Stijepo
Released: June 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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Real Pests!
Title: Real Pests!
Character: Stari Štebe
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In Ljubljana lives a bus driver Stebe. He's a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid Rozi. The boys are very naughty and keep annoying Rozi and, in fact all neighbourhood. One day Rozi in desperation declares that she is leaving them, because she cant stand it no more. And she does leave, although she is fond of the boys. Soon afterwards Rozi's niece Meri comes by, asking if she might stay because she wants to find herself a job in town. Meri is good girl but cannot cope with the kitchen work as successfully as her aunt. But the whole Steb family seems to be charmed by her. Even one of Stebe's own colleagues, Tone, begins to take interest in the girl. Meri likes him too. Stebe's boys feel quite disappointed because of it. But all's well that ends well: in full conspiracy Meri qualifies as bus driver while Rozi returns to the Stebe family.
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The Idealist
Title: The Idealist
Character: Mayor from Blatni Dol
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's strictures become somewhat milder, Martin is transferred to a more friendly environment, but all the injustices he has experienced have already bitten too deep. Unlike his wife, Martin finds it very difficult to accept changes. When his son dies, it seems as though he has lost all his elan and the will to live. Will he be able to go on bringing the light of knowledge to the ignorant masses, or will his ideals be buried forever like a man in a snowdrift?
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Four Days to Death
Title: Four Days to Death
Character: Đura Đaković
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia was ruled by a monarchy. This movie explores the difficulties faced by a Communist Party organizer under that regime when an order goes out to kill anyone threatening the current regime. At first he is willing to leave the country, but his experience of the situation of workers moves him to stay. Despite efforts of captors to help him escape, he refuses, and dies a martyr's death.
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Red Blow
Title: Red Blow
Character: Kraus
Released: July 16, 1974
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
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Salt
Title: Salt
Character: Ing. Krajanec
Released: July 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Due to fighting against the Germans and the Ustashas, the partisans in central Bosnia decide to strike the salt pans, and take the much needed salt for the people and army. After serious attacks and heavy losses, they complete their mission successfully.
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Title: The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: Barba
Released: July 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
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Blossoms in Autumn
Title: Blossoms in Autumn
Character: Boštjan Presečnik
Released: June 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week's visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik's daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work. But he cannot forget Meta and he makes his mind to buy a property not far from the Presecnik home and and to become a farmer. He does indeed buy a farm and sets out again to the Presecnik home to ask Meta to be his wife.
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Silences
Title: Silences
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1941, Nazi forces pass through the village of Dolovi. No dialogue.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Arcangelo Attinà
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.
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Title: Decameron
Character: opat
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: TV
Dekameron is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) fictional TV Series.
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Polikarp
Title: Polikarp
Released: June 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Yugoslavian television horror movie from 1969.
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Title: The Crew of the Blue Seagull
Released: May 15, 1969
Type: TV
The story about a brave boy called Ivo and his friends, who get into fights with smugglers.
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The Cyan-Blue Seagull Brotherhood
Title: The Cyan-Blue Seagull Brotherhood
Released: March 19, 1969
Type: Movie
It talks about a orphan who lives without a father and he loves boats.
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The Sarajevo Assassination
Title: The Sarajevo Assassination
Character: Ferdinand
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
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Lucia
Title: Lucia
Character: Gašper
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
A melodramatic story of Lucia, who serves as a charwoman on the Podlogar family's rich farm, and makes a fuss among householder's sons, as she becomes pregnant with one of them. A decision on whether one should be forced into marriage with the pregnant charwoman and her child, ends tragically. Will Lucia be able to sustain psychological pressure, contempt and pity of the Podlogar brothers?
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Don't Cry, Peter
Title: Don't Cry, Peter
Character: Lovro
Released: October 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Two partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.
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Good Luck Hunting
Title: Good Luck Hunting
Character: Alen Higins
Released: July 15, 1964
Type: Movie
An Australian of German descent has come to Yugoslavia on a hunting trip. He has an arrangement to hunt deers on the hunting ground high in Bosnian mountain. He shoots running deers straight in the head with his sniper carbine. This master shooting arouse suspicion with the gamekeeper that the stranger might be the notorious Nazi sniper who murdered many innocent civilians the same way during WWII.
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Good Luck, Kekec
Title: Good Luck, Kekec
Character: Father
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing.
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Double Circle
Title: Double Circle
Character: Krešimir Lisac
Released: April 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
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One Fine Day
Title: One Fine Day
Character: Štefuc
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
A story set in a Slovenian village during Italian occupation. Stefuc, a man who has been widowed twice and has four daughters, wants to get married for the third time with Zana, who's already engaged and pregnant with Ludvik. Stefuc tries to separate them away, but realizes that he'll have to marry Hedvika, a nice looking girl who has just returned from Milan. In the meantime, Italian fascist authorities decide to eradicate five Slovenian songs with the help of local traitors.
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Kozara
Title: Kozara
Character: Vukša
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
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Square of Violence
Title: Square of Violence
Character: Partisan Leader
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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Three Quarters of the Sun
Title: Three Quarters of the Sun
Character: Slavo
Released: July 18, 1959
Type: Movie
A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.
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The Good Old Piano
Title: The Good Old Piano
Character: Partizanski komandant
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.
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The Year Long Road
Title: The Year Long Road
Character: Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
Released: July 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road; accordingly, the plot concerns a joint, voluntary effort between Italy and Yugoslavia to construct a highway along the countries' Naturally, this animosity wreaks havoc on the various Romeo-Juliet romances in the region. All is resolved when oil is discovered on one of the islands. An American oil company is finally able to establish détente between the warring factions, smoothing the path for the long-delayed marriages of three young couples.
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Shots in the Sky
Title: Shots in the Sky
Character: Veljko
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Upon returning home at war's end, a young lieutenant discovers that his family has been murdered by the Nazis. It's all the handiwork of a treasonous "Chetnik," who during the war worked against the partisans on behalf of the Germans. In bitter retaliation, the lieutenant sets about to decimate the Chetnik's family. He stops short, however, when he realizes that the sins of the fathers are not always passed down to the innocent children.
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Don't Look Back, My Son
Title: Don't Look Back, My Son
Character: Neven Novak
Released: July 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Engineer and leftist illegal Neven Novak runs away from a train in which Ustashas transport their prisoners to the prison camp Jasenovac. He returns to Zagreb and tries to save his son Zoran from an orphanage. During his stay in the orphanage, Zoran was indoctrinated with fascist ideology. When he realizes that his father is an enemy of the regime, he refuses to escape with Zoran to the Partisans' territory. Novak faces his son's antagonism and the police that chase after them.
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In the Net
Title: In the Net
Character: Niko
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A small coastal town, where almost everybody are into fishing. Niko and Mato are friends, both in loved with the same girl Visnja, in charge of the fishermen's strike against the owners of the fishing boats. After being caught, Mato betrays his friends. Thus he becomes the subject of scorn both by the entire village and Visnja, who then marries Niko.
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Moment of Decision
Title: Moment of Decision
Released: April 5, 1955
Type: Movie
A story set in a Slovenian town during WW2. The White Guardists bring a wounded partisan to doctor Koren, but he kills their lieutenant, thus helping them both to escape.
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Three Stories
Title: Three Stories
Character: Naci
Released: February 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Three stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.
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The House on the Coast
Title: The House on the Coast
Character: Dr. Branko Ilić
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor, but her plan proves to be challenging as they're both seduced by a handsome smuggler.
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People of Kajzarje
Title: People of Kajzarje
Character: Tjoš
Released: December 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claimed possessions of lands, woods, and churches after communist party seized the power hold a party where a member of so-called reactionary forces (kulaks, clergy and Axis collaborators) tries to break in and stop it.
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The Lake
Title: The Lake
Character: Inženjer Černić
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Bad weather, farmers who do not allow the dumping of their estate, and people who are willing to sabotage for ideological reasons, disrupt the building of hydro-power on the Neretva river. Upon completion of construction, the benefits of electricity assures people of the necessity of progress.
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Mother Katina
Title: Mother Katina
Character: Jorgos
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
The plot takes place during the Civil War in Greece, and it shows the fight of communist partisans, against the pro-Western, monarchist government. During the shooting, there was a discord between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union because of the famous IB resolution, which caused Yugoslav authorities to stop supporting Stalinists. Tito's government acknowledged Greek monarchists as a legitimate government, and not wanting to remind the public of their ideological discrepancy, bunkered "Majka Katina" for a few decades.