
Milorad Milinković
Directing
Biography
Milorad Milinković (Serbian: Милорад Милинковић) was a Serbian movie director and screenwriter. He graduated at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, department of directing. He is most well known for his movies Frozen Stiff, Chasing Luck(y), Obituary for Escobar and Fifth Butterfly, the first Serbian 3D movie. He has directed more than 100 music videos for the most eminent musicians of the region as well as more than 20 TV ads. He was also the rhythm guitarist and singer in the gothic rock band Morbidi i Mnoći.
Known For

Story about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.
The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom

The outbreak of the Serbian uprising against the Turks leaves a corrupt local chieftain struggling to find a way to a better life.
Black Gruya

The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.
Frozen Stiff

The story revolves around two friends who try to open an illegal restaurant in Dorcol, in order not to pay taxes, which puts them into various comic situations. One is a Belgrade scammer who resells everything and lives that way, and the other is a village hipster attempting to become a Belgradian.
Love Cookies

The mini-series tells about the period of Prince Mihailo Obrenović’s life shortly before and during the assassination.
The Duke and the Poet

In 1882, Jelena Ilka Marković orchestrates a failed assassination plot against King Milan Obrenović. Shortly after her conviction, she is found dead in her cell - an official suicide. Seven years later, the discovery of two bodies on the same day - a young girl and the great-grandson of Prince Miloš - reignites the shadows of the past. As a struggling lawyer and the Belgrade Chief of Police reopen the case, they are drawn into a web of political intrigue and secrets powerful enough to shatter the very foundations of Serbia.
Sumpor

Jovan, a young biologist, gets a well-paying job in a forest, but when he checks the cameras he discovers a man and as time goes by the night calls, strange sounds and isolation plunge him into paranoia.
Isolation

In 1882, when Jelena Ilka Marković – the widow of Jevrem Marković, accused of participating in the Topolska Rebellion and summarily executed – attempted to assassinate King Milan Obrenović and thus avenge her husband. She was arrested, and a few months later she was found dead in her prison cell.
Pearlescent Fog

Urban comedy, happening during a night in Belgrade. Mare, Pop and Gojko are three friends who grew up together. Mare and Pop have always been musicians, while Gojko (who was harassed by them in school and nicknamed 'Sissy') became a 'guy in suit', boss of his own club and recording studio.
Dudes!

Nikola is about 40 years old and is the leading star of the reality program called "Three Minutes of Fame". In practice, it looks like he rudely insults people who sign up for that show, and that's why he's highly valued and well paid. His vicious and poisonous words magnetically attract the audience and the ratings skyrocket. (5 episodes)
Front Page Midgets

Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.
Obituary for Escobar
In 1999, during the NATO bombing in Serbia, a young television editor (Boris Milivojevic) in an underground shelter - turned mental institution is having a psychiatric exploration through which he reflects his story...
Land of Truth, Love & Freedom

While a deadly conspiracy was plotted against him to thwart the liberation of Serbia from the Ottoman rule, the Serbian Duke, in love with his much younger cousin, is torn between his sense of duty and his feelings. This historical thriller – romance is based on real events.
The Duke and the Poet

While we follow the turbulent life and adventures of Aleksa, 13 year orphan, and his best boarding school friends Gordan, Maya and Vlada Grak, we learn that old and greedy villain Jovica Vuk find out that Aleksa is capable of seeing and finding the group of medieval knights called Zlodolci. They are the keepers of silver secret that enables them to protect, heal and revive those who deserve and therefore, they are capable of changing the course of the history. Jovica Vuk who misused the power to heal passed on him by his father, wants to take over their secret and secure himself the immortality. He tricks Aleksa to led him to them, but fortunately, Aleksa see through his plan. But, is it too late? Will Aleksa and his friends, although still kids, prevail in the final clash and defeat the powerful forces of evil?
Fifth Butterfly

Three well-meaning but inept officers, Papi, Marjan, and Luka, botch a bank robbery and are reassigned to a station led by Papi’s father-in-law, Mikota. Tasked with upholding the law, they repeatedly stumble into comic mishaps yet manage to crack cases through persistence and unconventional teamwork, all while juggling personal entanglements and family dynamics.
Papi's Crew

For 40 year old Nikola, everyday life is just about producing the worst, the most vulgar reality shows and hidden cameras for TV. His life begins to change when he starts to mentor young girl pushed to be star by her ambitious mother. In turn of the events, Nikola starts to wonder if it is he who is the target of some hidden camera show.
Front Page Midgets

A once-famous and talented actor, after a life collapse caused by alcohol and drugs, finds himself at rock bottom and begins his new acting life as Kosta the Clown, an entertainer at children’s birthday parties. An old colleague offers him a deal he can’t refuse: for a large sum of money, he agrees to host a children’s reality show called Magic Land.
Magic Land

Belgrade rock musicians and critics talk about the glorious days of Yugoslav new wave that had its peak in 1981.
Rock Deserters

In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local seller of lottery tickets, Višnja, is In him the love him. One evening, Srecko gets premium worth of several million euros. Helpless Srećko looses his ticket and his memory. However, the winning lottery paper, by unfortunate circumstances, reaches the hands of Žile and Sale, the owner of the local cafes. Unprepared to manage this money, they go to the Greek island Corfu in the hopes that will inspired them for a business. Two suspicious Belgrade "businessman" fallow them to Corfu to steal them the ticket.
Chasing Luck(y)

Documentary and feature film essay on the legendary cult Belgrade cinema 20th October, which was closed due to the unsuccessful privatization of 14 cinema theaters. The cinema was famous for its B-movie repertoire, as the site of the only terrorist bombing of a cinema in former Yugoslavia, and as a spot for romantic first dates.