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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
$21.95 | 109 minutes
Director Emir Kusturica is known outside of his native Bosnia for films such as ARIZONA DREAM, UNDERGROUND and BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT. This early example of his work was shot in his home country in the early 1980s (when it was still known as Yugoslavia), is set in the 1960s, and follows the fortunes of a young man named Dino (Slavko Stimac)&hellip…
Fuse
$17.95 | 105 minutes
Set in the immediate aftermath of the Bosnian civil war, this engaging, sharp, critically acclaimed dramedy takes place in a small town thrown into a frenzy by the news that American President Bill Clinton may be planning a visit&hellip…
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
$10.95 | 125 minutes
A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing in the same hospital as he, the soldier renews his&hellip…
The Siberian Lady Macbeth
$23.95 | 93 minutes
Set in rural 19th-century Russia, Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Nikolai Leskov's LADY MACBETH OF THE MTENSK DISTRICT stars Olivera Markovic as Katerina Izmaylov, the restless wife of a wealthy merchant. Katerina, bored with life and despondent over her inability to bear a child, begins an affair with a rakish swineherd, Sergei (Ljuba&hellip…
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The Wounds
$21.95 | 103 minutes
Pinki and Kraut are a pair of Serb teenagers who begin as simple petty thieves and work their way up into the heart of the Yugoslav underworld. As war surrounds them in Bosnia, the boys become increasingly callous and violent, ultimately overthrowing their mentor, a powerful black marketer, before turning on each other. A savage and powerful&hellip…
Tito and Me
$10.95 | 104 minutes
Goran Markovic's political comedy was among the last films to emerge from Yugoslavia and is a bitterly funny movie set in Belgrade, circa 1954. The film's lead character is an overweight ten year-old boy named Zoran who has a crush on his classmate Jasna and a bizarre obsession with the Communist ruler of Yugoslavia, Marshall Tito. This&hellip…
Underground
$23.95 | 167 minutes
A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of friends in the Serb resistance hide in an intricate cellar. Years later, the war is over but the lies and deceptions continue. Winner of the&hellip…
When Father Was Away on Business
$21.95 | 135 minutes
It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes, this film magnifies the emotions of his new experiences&hellip…


