Nikola Stojanović

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Biography

Nikola Stojanović was born on May 4, 1942, in Dušanovo near Leskovac, Serbia. He graduated Architecture in Sarajevo, where he started making films at the age of 22. He directed several short films as a member of amateur film club "Sarajevo" in the nineteen sixties, winning awards at film contests. He started working professionally in 1968 when he directed the 35 mm short "In The Kitchen" - a movie made in one static shot. He wrote and directed feature lenght dramatic film "Dear Irena" in 1970. He continued working as a filmmaker and has directed five features, around thirty short films, two TV movies and many TV documentaries. He also wrote about film in many magazines and publications and was founder and editor-in-chief of movie magazine "Sineast" from 1967 until 1992. He was a professor at Belgrade's Faculty of dramatic arts, Novi Sad's Academy of Arts and Sarajevo's Academy. His Doctoral thesis was published as a book "Directed by Akira Kurosava". He is the recipient of Life Achievement Award of Martovski festival in 2002. He died in Belgrade on January 4, 2021. His son Srđan Stojanović is also a film director who made a feature lenght documentary about his father titled "Rebel With A Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942 - 2021)"

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Scenes from the Life of BH Film

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The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence.

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Scenes from the Life of BH Film

Himself

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Rebel with a Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942-2021)

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An emotional journey through the life and film works of Nikola Stojanović, a graduate architect who directed five feature films, significant amount of short films and also founded and edited the legendary film magazine Sineast. He collaborated with some of the most prominent actors of Tito's Yugoslavia (Petar Božović, Mira Furlan, Predrag Ejdus, Radmila Živković) and was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award of the Martovski festival. His son Srđan Stojanović directed this documentary with tender loving care, saluting the man he so admired.

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Rebel with a Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942-2021)

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Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie

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In the summer of 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot his new feature film Belle Epoque in Sarajevo. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina breaks out, making it imposible to finish the editing of the film. The year is now 1996, and Nikola Stojanović remembers working on expensive project. He lives in Belgrade, the film's negative is in Zagreb and sound materials are in Sarajevo. Will he ever finish editing his film?

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Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie

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A Waltz for Belle Epoque - The Happyend of a Destiny

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In 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot a very expensive feature film "Belle epoque or the Last Waltz in Sarajevo". The war broke in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so the post-production stopped. He finaly finished the editing in 2007, when the movie premiered after 17 years of waiting to be completed. This is the triumphant sequel to the 1996 documentary "Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie".

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A Waltz for Belle Epoque - The Happyend of a Destiny

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Brown Eye, Evil Eye

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The story of the strange friendship between 70-year-old wheelchair bound man Tadeus and six-year-old Hildi. Tadeus's medical records reveal that he is suicidal. One day, while she is searching for her dog, Hildi prevents one of Tadeus's suicide attempts.

Golden Apple

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In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.

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Pollen Dust

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A young journalist is sent to a small Bosnian town to interview people on happiness. He mixes up with local affair and has a romance with a student. He gets a shock when he finds out that he is going to be important due to childhood mumps.

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The Last Waltz in Sarajevo

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The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in the Balkans and an assassination attempt of Franz Ferdinand, which caused the beginning of the First World War.

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The Last Waltz in Sarajevo

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Dear Irena!

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Students Marko, Dragan, Misko and Cutko make a foursome living in the spirit of their high-school "gang". One day they meet Irena, a student of medicine, who subsequently has an affair with Marko. Relationships within the foursome begin to deteriorate.

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Looking Into the Night

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The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.

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Looking Into the Night

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