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Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić

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Biography

Bahrudin "Bato" Čengić (7 January 1931 – 16 October 2007) was a Bosnian screenwriter and film director who was active in Yugoslavia. Čengić was born in 1931, although some sources give 7 January 1933 as the date of birth. During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čengić filmed over 1,000 minutes of the Siege of Sarajevo, which he converted in a documentary "essay" called Sarajevo. He appeared in the 2007 documentary Zabranjeni bez zabrane. Čengić died in Sarajevo on 16 October 2007, aged 76.

Known For

Silent Gunpowder
5.1

Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.

Silent Gunpowder

1990
Heads or Tails
4.0

A village fella tries to make it big in the city.

Heads or Tails

1983
The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
6.2

An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily follows a group of young partisans who are placed in the home of a pre-war bourgeois family. The family then tries to adapt to the new ideology and values, often leading to various absurd situations.

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

1971
Censored without Censorship
7.2

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.

Censored without Censorship

2007
Days
7.2

A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for a couple of days.

Days

1963
Playing Soldiers
6.6

After the end of WW2 a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of Partizans or people being killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy's parents were Nazis but conceals that fact from others, fearing violence by vengeful children. He invents the boy's life story, but the other children get suspicious.

Playing Soldiers

1967
The Return
6.6

An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.

The Return

1966
Scenes from the Life of BH Film
N/A

The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence.

Scenes from the Life of BH Film

2022
Life of a Shock Force Worker
8.0

Adem, a Bosnian coal miner who spends his days digging in the dark depths, and in very harsh conditions, is praised for his work and achievements and known as an exemplary socialist worker.

Life of a Shock Force Worker

2023
Pula Confidential
N/A

A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.

Pula Confidential

2003
Jagosh and Blacky
9.0

Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and France and his friendship with an African immigrant.

Jagosh and Blacky

1976
The Bite
7.0

Jovana lives alone with two young sons, while her husband is temporarily working in Germany. In addition to all the work in the fields and the kitchen, she is also building a new house. Handymen Relja and Milos show undisguised sympathy for her. Suddenly, the husband returns and brings new problems.

The Bite

1979
Sighting of the Holy Mother in the Village of Grabovica
9.0

Between myth and reality, between peace and disaster, between politics and religion. In a small place called Grabovica, everything runs quietly and slowly, everything is functioning properly until one day in the city appears a man who poses as a journalist and who brings the news that we should close the only school in the whole region due to lack of students. The news disrupts the inhabitants of the whole town and the whole situation will lead to a boiling point when you expose the that the man or the husband of a local teacher and the father of her newborn child.

Sighting of the Holy Mother in the Village of Grabovica

1985
The Man Without a Face
10.0

The camera enters one of the Yugoslav prisons and records the life of prisoners. The dominating idea, above all, is that a man without freedom is a man without a face.

The Man Without a Face

1961
Man with a Watch
10.0

Short film about a Bosnian miner.

Man with a Watch

1981
Together We Are Stronger
N/A

Documentary about the Zenica coal mine.

Together We Are Stronger

1984