5 Films & TV Shows Set In Serbia During The 1960s

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  Doctor Ray and the Devils

  🇷🇸 Serbia The 1960s

  The story behind and around famous American director Nicholas Ray's 1960s stay in SFR Yugoslavia. The celebrated director who was the toast of Hollywood only a decade earlier having made Rebel Without a Cause has fallen on hard times and is now desperately trying to re-establish his spiraling film career. On the other hand, his powerful host, Avala Film director and former Yugoslav secret service operative Ratko Dražević, is dreaming big dreams - he is trying to establish a 'Hollywood behind the Iron Curtain' of sorts.

  Released in 2012 • 96 minutes
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  Barking at the Stars

  🇷🇸 Serbia The 1960s

  Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.

  Released in 1998 • 95 minutes
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  Three Tickets to Hollywood

  🇷🇸 Serbia The 1960s

  The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962. start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khruschev and J.F.K. have failed.

  Released in 1993 • 118 minutes
• The Original of the Forgery

  🇷🇸 Serbia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1940s

  The plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immediately after the war. Pavle, a former war commissar, is now a school teacher. Thanks to him, Stojan, who was a bakery assistant before the war, does the job of a district committee's secretary, while Dragisa works in the state's secret police. The reason of conflict between Pavle and Stojan in 1947 was Stojan's fiancée Lena, who loves Pavle, marries him and gets pregnant, right when Pavle is taken to the state prison. Stojan accepts his wife and kid again, but the avalanche of political events will make all them unable to stop the inevitable catastrophe.

  Released in 1991 • 117 minutes
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  The Elusive Summer of '68

  🇷🇸 Serbia The 1960s

  For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

  Released in 1984 • 91 minutes