List of 21 finest partisan movies (YU)
21 greatest partisan/wwii movies made in ex-Yugoslavia
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- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorZivorad 'Zika' MitrovicStarsBoris BuzancicBozidarka FrajtMarko TodorovicUzice Republic, also known as the "first offensive" is a story about Serbia in 1941 and monitors the emergence and decline of the Uzice Republic. A few months after the German Wehrmacht forced the Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate in April War, Boro, a Spanish soldier and hardened Communist, is tasked to organize an uprising in western Serbia. Organized resistance is turning into a massive uprising against the occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase the Germans from a huge territory, later known as the Uzice Republic. People gather around the partisans and were soon freed from Bajina Basta, Pozega, Uzice, and Cacak. Supreme headquarters of the partisan army comes to the liberated territory. However, forces loyal to the king have some other ideas. Uzice Republic lasted only 67 days, from 24 September to 29 November 1941, when a bloody and tragic battle on Kadinjaca occurred and the entire labor battalion, fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht and the Chetniks, so the partisans, supreme headquarters, and the people had to retreat to the Sandzak.
- DirectorAleksandar PetrovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicAli RanerSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicThree stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicRade MarkovicLjubisa SamardzicA man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicBoris DvornikIn order to check German offensive, Partizans send elite team of explosive experts to blow up strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsBekim FehmiuVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicLjubisa SamardzicThe first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
- DirectorZorz SkriginStarsHusein CokicBora TodorovicMilan SrdocAfter breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsTihomir ArsicZeljka CvjetanBranislav LecicIgman March is known as the 'second offensive'. After the fall of the Uzice Republic, for strengthening the grouping of enemies in December 1941, in the small town of Rudo in Bosnia, formed the First Proletarian Brigade, the first regular units of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. One of her first major trials is Igman march known as the 'Second offensive'. In late January 1942 immediately after the formation of the brigade to mountain Romanija found itself in an environment of strong German forces and that would put us in the best great number enemy forces, supreme headquarters in consultation with the staff of the brigade decided that the majority of the Yugoslav partisans must not exceed the Igman mountain near the city of Sarajevo. The task is anything but easy because of the extreme cold and strong wind. The plan was to pass near Sarajevo itself, over Mount Igman, according to the liberated city of Foca, where he broke the supreme headquarters with Tito. The march was conducted on the night of January 27, 1942 at a temperature of minus 40 degrees. The march was after 19 hours of continuous walking and after the horrible and tragic loss yet completed.
- DirectorBranimir Tori JankovicStarsZorica MiladinovicMira StupicaMija AleksicThe Kragujevac Massacre in Serbia is described to a group of shoeshine boys. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the occupying Germans, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution and the abolition of the regular rations of food.
- DirectorLordan ZafranovicStarsFrano LasicMilan StrljicTanja PoberznikThree young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best of friends in pre-World War II Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Germans and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsBert SotlarVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicMilena DravicThe struggle of the Yugoslav partisans against the Germans.
- DirectorDusan VukoticStarsIgor GaloFranjo MajeticZvonimir CrnkoThis movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Germans and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to a future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
- DirectorMidhat MutapdzicMilenko StrbacStarsLjuba TadicPavle VuisicLjubisa SamardzicAt the beginning of the Second World War, a well respected doctor must lead the partisan resistance to save his people from genocide.
- DirectorPredrag GolubovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicBoris DvornikAbdurrahman ShalaAt the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
- DirectorStipe DelicStarsRichard BurtonLjuba TadicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicIn 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
- DirectorPredrag GolubovicStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicLjubisa SamardzicRenata FreiskornTwo best friends, former partisans, face new challenges after the war.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsMarko NikolicZarko RadicLjubisa SamardzicThe movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.
- DirectorMiomir 'Miki' StamenkovicStarsZarko RadicDragan NikolicOlga Kacjan''Maiden Bridge'' is a place of exchange of German prisoners and partisans captured by the Germans. With the position of moving columns of fighters and nine captured Germans. Way to bridge the partisans double temptation: Veterans and because from all lurking dangers and ethical, because they have to be at risk because of an enemy who has been relentless.
- DirectorFadil HadzicStarsLjubisa SamardzicPavle VuisicMaks FurijanRaid on Drvar known as 'The Seventh Enemy Offensive' or as 'Operation Equestrian jump' was the last attempt of the Germans and Hitler to come to the supreme headquarters of the Partisan army and destroy it along with its supreme commander Titus, which would destroy the entire partisan army. It was an ambitious attempt of the German army to the end of May 1944, the partisan forces decapitated parachute landing. After many fruitless attempts to crush Yugoslav Partisans by conventional means, German general Lothar von Rendulitz comes with a new plan. Elite paratroop force would storm Partisan HQ in Drvar and try to capture or eliminate Partisan leader Tito. In the mean time, people of Drvar, miles from enemy lines, are preparing to celebrate Tito's birthday on May 25th 1944. Raid on Drvar is another movie called partisan action-epic genre after the film The Battle of Kozara.
- DirectorHajrudin KrvavacStarsRade MarkovicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicJovan Janicijevic-BurdusThe Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
- DirectorStole JankovicStarsRod TaylorAdam WestBrioni FarrellPartisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.