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Zdravko Šotra

Zdravko Šotra

Directing

Biography

Zdravko Šotra (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Шотра; born 13 February 1933 in Stolac, Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Herzegovinian Serb film and television director and screenwriter.

Known For

More Than a Game
7.8

The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.

More Than a Game

1974
Her Mother's Sin
N/A

A modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.

Her Mother's Sin

2009
Wounded Eagle
8.7

Ranjeni orao was a Serbian television show produced in 2008 and aired on RTS1 during late 2008 and early 2009. The 17 episode series is based on the 1936 novel "Ranjeni orao" by Serbian author Mir Jam. The show had unprecedented success with the last episode averaging over 3 million viewers, making it the most watched Serbian television series ever made.

Wounded Eagle

2008
The Invincible Heart
6.5

Set in the 1930s, the series is about the impossible love between a poor young man from the province, an unemployed law graduate and a talented singer, and the rich and sensitive heiress of a bank manager and owner.

The Invincible Heart

2011
The Igman March
5.9

The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.

The Igman March

1983
Alexandar of Yugoslavia
6.0

The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles.

Alexandar of Yugoslavia

2021
The Teacher
N/A

The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.

The Teacher

1983
Stories from the Workshop
9.0

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

Stories from the Workshop

1982
Battle of Kosovo
6.6

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.

Battle of Kosovo

1989
Zamfir's Zona
6.3

Zona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane, an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.

Zamfir's Zona

2002
Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat
3.0

The incredible story of good-hearted and eccentric Professor Kosta Vujic who, in the 19th century, taught some of the greatest minds of that era. Among his students were Mihailo Petrovic - Mika Alas, Jovan Cvijic, Pavle Popovic, Jasa Prodanovic, Milorad Mitrovic, Ljubomir Stojanovic and others who later became academics, teachers, politicians... The TV Show is based on the best seller novel by Milovan Vitezovic.

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

2013
Santa Maria della Salute
10.0

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.

Santa Maria della Salute

2016
A Diary of Insults
4.1

Middle-aged couple try to preserve at least some of their dignified life in times of war, poverty and sanctions.

A Diary of Insults

1994
Wounded Eagle
N/A

Serbian drama "Wounded Eagle" is about true love story of long forgotten romances and some new ones, happening in a very romantic time between two world wars. Young woman and her passion.

Wounded Eagle

2009
Romance with a Double Bass
8.0

Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.

Romance with a Double Bass

1972
Više od igre
N/A

Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.

Više od igre

1976
Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat
5.6

Professor Vujić's Hat (Serbian: Sesir profesora Koste Vujica) is a Serbian movie. The story was first presentet as a TV drama in 1972. The story of professor Kosta Vujić who in the mid-19th century taught an extraordinarily talented generation of gymnasium students, some of whom would go on to become prominent members of the Serbian society and eventually historically significant figures. They include Mihailo "Mika Alas" Petrović, Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Jovan Cvijić, and Jaša Prodanović.

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

2012
Maternal Half-Brothers
6.8

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.

Maternal Half-Brothers

1988
Ivko's Feast
5.6

The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.

Ivko's Feast

2005
The Robbery of the Third Reich
6.0

During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.

The Robbery of the Third Reich

2004