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Branimir 'Tori' Janković

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Biography

Branimir 'Tori' Janković was a Serbian film director, screenwriter, and actor, known for his contributions to Yugoslav cinema. He directed the film Krvava bajka (A Bloody Tale, 1969), which depicts the tragic events of World War II in the town of Kragujevac, where thousands of civilians were executed by German forces. Janković's work is noted for its poignant storytelling and historical significance, reflecting the turbulent history of the region.

Known For

Pyramid of the Sun God
5.6

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.

Pyramid of the Sun God

1965
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
5.9

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

1965
Point 905
5.8

After the war, a Yugoslav army captain, Vladimir, is in charge of suppressing armed supporters of the former king's regime, led by major Momir. After Vladimir's best friend is killed, he joins the rebels pretending to be one of the king's supporters. However, one of Momir's supporters, a man who harbors rebels, has an attractive daughter who is engaged to marry Momir. She knows that Vladimir is an officer of the Yugoslav army, because she has seen him wearing a Yugoslav uniform. Vladimir fears that she might betray him.

Point 905

1960
Fourteenth Day
6.5

The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.

Fourteenth Day

1960
Seduction by the Sea
5.7

A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.

Seduction by the Sea

1963
The Trek
7.4

A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.

The Trek

1968
The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors
6.5

When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their signature ready to be shot and put yourself in front of the German pipe.

The Stars Are the Eyes of Warriors

1972
A Bloody Tale
6.4

Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.

A Bloody Tale

1969
Alone
6.0

A group of partisans fight to the last man to cover a retreat, leaving only five, who take the newborn child of a dead woman with them. Based on the novel by Mihajlo Ranovcevic.

Alone

1959
Massacre at Noon
5.6

In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.

Massacre at Noon

1975
No image
6.3

While carrying the red flag and dynamite all the way up to the church tower, Niksha negligently draws the agents' attention. This prevents him and his female companion Vjeka to leave the tower. Until the morning of May 1st, which brings the highlight of a red flag flying over the occupied Split, Vjeka and Niksha spend the night of their long-awaited rapprochement.

Stairs of Bravery

1961
Mirko and Slavko
5.8

Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.

Mirko and Slavko

1973
Quo vadis Zivorad!?
5.5

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...

Quo vadis Zivorad!?

1968
A Day Longer Than a Year
6.5

The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.

A Day Longer Than a Year

1971
Strange Girl
7.8

Minja, a 19-year-old girl leaves her provincial town after her affair with the professor of drawing in order to avoid the scandal. In the big city, she meets Nenad and changes under the influence of love.

Strange Girl

1962
Little Man
8.0

A boy named Mišo runs away from home and befriends new people who happen to be criminals.

Little Man

1957
Šeki's Rolling, Watch Out!
9.0

A group of young men suggest to the local tinsmith to make a movie, but he agrees only if its director would be his cousin Šeki, a Red Star FC soccer legend. Šeki, though, thinks that the movie-making is the same thing as a soccer match, which causes many argues amongst the members of the film crew.

Šeki's Rolling, Watch Out!

1962