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Dimitar Anakiev

Dimitar Anakiev

Directing

Known For

You Are the Only Boss in This House
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Jasmina and Zijo live on the outskirts of Ljubljana. Zijo works as a butcher and sings Bosnian sevdalinke (love songs) and drinks out of despair. Jasmina is pregnant and wants to live a normal life.

You Are the Only Boss in This House

2006
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American TV producer Dale Hurd comes to Slovenia 20 years after its independence from Yugoslavia. He wants to investigate the case of Erased and meets two Bosnian Muslims - Irfan and Nisveta. They changed their cultural identity after the independence of Slovenia and tried to assimilate their new culture. Nisveta converts from Islam to Christianity and becomes an important member of the Baptist Church in Ljubljana (she sings in the church choir). On the other hand Irfan continues to live in past times of Yugoslav communism. He becomes a member of Youth Work Brigades Club in Ljubljana. "Slovenia My Homeland" is a film about rootlessness and a people's need to belong to its society.

Slovenia, My Homeland

2012
Normal Life
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Returning from prison, Peter falls into debt pursuing a relationship with the prostitute Ana and her pimp Gringo. To pay back the money owed, Peter proposes that Ana and Gringo visit his father with him. They accept his proposal, thinking they might trick some money out of the old mountaineer with a story about Ana's upcoming marriage to Peter (with Gringo as the best man). During the long and colorful journey the three become friends and complicit in the deception. Peter's father, though, instantly recognizes the scam and steals the bride from his incompetent son. Gringo is happy with this turn of events but Peter is irritated by it. However, the father's sudden death before the registrar prevents Ana and Gringo from inheriting. When the dreams of material wealth vanish, what is left is the love between Ana and Peter, and the friendship that struck up between the three, so much so that at the end Gringo sacrifices himself for the couple's happiness.

Normal Life

2012
Tolmin People
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The title comes after the novel written in 1927 by Slovenian writer Ivan Pregelj. It describes peasant bloody uprising in Tolmin in 1713. The filmmakers were interested in uprising in Tolmin in 1713. The filmmakers were interested in uprising as a contemporary phenomena.

Tolmin People

2008
Amigo
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A story about a former spy, a honest criminal, a kung-fu fighter, a poet and a locar hero in Tolmin (Western Slovenia, close to Italian border).

Amigo

2003
Rubbed Out
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A "Kafkaesque" yet true story of ethnic cleansing in Slovenia in the 1990's; achieved not by the sword but by the bureaucrat's pen.

Rubbed Out

2004