
Želimir Žilnik
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Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era. Subsequently, following the abolition of communist one-party system, he was an outspoken critic of Slobodan Milošević-led regime in Serbia.
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Request (1974)
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Early Works (1971)
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Pretty Women Walking Through the City (1986)
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Hot Paychecks (1987)
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The Way Steel Was Tempered (1988)
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Black Film (1971)
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Kenedi, Lost and Found (2005)
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The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus (1980)
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Good Morning, Belgrade (1986)
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Stanimir Descends To Town (1984)
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Cinetracts '20 (2020)
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Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003)
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Our Man in Gabon (2014)
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Eighty Plus (2025)
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Throwing Off the Yolks of Bondage (1996)
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Danube Soap Opera (2006)
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The Unemployed (1968)
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Market People (1978)
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Europe Next Door (2005)
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One Woman – One Century (2011)
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Under the Protection of the State (1975)
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Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time (1994)
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Logbook_Serbistan (2015)
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The Old School of Capitalism (2009)
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Wanderlust (1998)
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Marble Ass (1995)
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June Turmoil (1969)
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Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village Youth (1967)
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Among the People: Life & Acting (2018)
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I Do Not Know What That Should Mean (1975)
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Oldtimer (1989)
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Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy (1976)
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Cosmo Girls (2000)
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The Most Beautiful Country in the World (2018)
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The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic (1977)
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House Orders (1975)
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Little Pioneers (1968)
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Brooklyn - Gusinje (1988)
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EXIT in the Morning (2002)
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Uprising in Jazak (1973)
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The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis (1983)
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Second Generation (1983)
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Black and White (1990)
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Farewell (1975)
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Kenedi Is Getting Married (2007)
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Fortress Europe (2000)
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Pirika on Film (2013)
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Vera and Erzika (1981)
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Dragoljub and Bogdan (1982)
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Silo Danube, Vukovar (1993)
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Public Execution (1975)
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For Ella (1997)
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Inventory (1975)
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