Slobodan Ćustić

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

It deals with the personal destiny of the revolution, the first wife of an ambassador in the history of world diplomacy – the destiny of the Alexandra Kollontay, a Russian woman who lived and worked in the most difficult days of the revolution, at a time of suffering, sacrifice, purge, change…

The hardships of a young female refugee and her personal melodrama of being forced to choose between two men, out of whom she prefers the poorer one.

A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl who, unwittingly, in his new world, the world of drug addiction and pulled his best friend.

"Love Stars" is a film about loneliness, growing up and search for love. Laza is a romantic 20 year-old, who after being isolated a long time, comes to the city. There he gets to know a group of young voyeurs, led by a 50 year-old, with classy attitude and manners (the Count). Laza joins them and during the course of film that simple group of voyeurs becomes a witness of the whole state of spirit dominating in our everyday life. By the irony of fate, on the end Laza's dreams still come through.

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.

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.

Thematically diverse stories written by Petar Kocic are bond by the thread, creating the basis for a dramatic story of the events surrounding the student Simeun. In the foreground there's a summary of Simeun's features, some patriotic, but some arrogant as well. These Simeun's actions are manifesto of the complexity of his nature, acting like a tyrant and patriot who displays bravery for the sake of freedom of his people.

While wandering in a post-apocalyptic world, Jovan encounters an old man Enoh who is searching for a mythical city of Vasota. After realizing that his home is gone, Jovan is forced to join Enoh in his pursuit for Vasota.

A biography of Ivo Andrić on the eve of the Second World War catastrophe. Andrić is accompanied by the landlady Marija, her talkative brother Baron, a friend-associate Vera and his lover, pianist Vanda. A complex mix of human destinies including politicians, writers, friends and lovers.

A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.

In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.

In a city owned by local television owner Dragan Zlokovic-Zli, books and culture are banned. The mysterious narrator - Senka, hires three private detectives to overthrow Zlokovic from the media.

Couple of guys from a small town in Montenegro come to the big city, they plan to leave their mark in the new environment by winning in street fights but keep the chivalry they brought from back home. One of them (Dragomir Stojanovic), deals with injustice with his fists, hiding behind "tough guy" facade his deep sensitivity. Along the way he finds love with a pretty young girl.

Serbia in WW2. Two brothers on Christmas Eve visits their parents after two years fighting in different armies.

In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.

A Montenegrin teenager is sent to Serbia in order to evade blood-feud caused by his father's reckless behavior. Little does he know that even greater dangers await for him. In Belgrade he will face both the avengers who went after him and this metropolis' very own nightlife and foxy ladies. And in cities like Belgrade - women and nightlife can be deadlier than a bullet. People of Montenegro are known for their specific mentality and system of values, not unlike Sicilians, Corsicans or Cretans.

Seventeen year old Natasha, a daughter of a murdered police inspector, tries to discover her father's killers.

A young man has returned to his mother's native country. His aunt sends him off to find the worst man in the whole land and plead to him, so he could save his ailing grandfather's life. On his journey he finds peculiar things, song, death, courage and love.

Post-war Croatia, the late 1990s. After the conclusion of the war, the Croatian goverment offers the Serbian civilian refugees, a chance to return to their former homes, which have been serving as temporary residence for Bosnian Croats, who had to flee their homecountry due to the escalating Croat-Bosniak conflict. In the midst of ethnic tensions and unersolved conflicts, a police sergeant named Filip is assigned to investigate the disappearence of an elderly Serb from one of these villages.

Set in the 1930s, it follows the imaginary journey of Vuk Karadzic and Joakim Vujic across Serbia in the form of a road movie. Once in Kragujevac, where they ask support from Prince Milos Obrenovic, they realize that they are competition to one another in terms of the future of Serbian language.

Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.

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.

Detlic is a creative, sharp and upstanding citizen, percussionist in the Opera. Pressed by financial difficulties, which affect his marriage, he is devising an absurd plan how to survive the economic crisis in contemporary Serbia.

A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...

Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the establishment. The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge, deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony.

The story about two boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend. TV series (11 episodes) with the same name and same story was released 1988.

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.

The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.

The burglars Sergej and Polde steal a valuable painting, Landscape No.2. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ordered to recover the stolen painting and the document, which triggers a diabolic mechanism of the past.

A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An unemployed paleonthologist spends his nights sewing dresses for his beloved one. When she sets off to countryside for work and doesn't call back, he becomes suspicious and decides to solve this sudden departure on his own. The movie was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 1991.

60 year old woman leaves urban life and goes to live in a village to take care of her grandchildren whose parents now live in America. There she faces lots of financial hardships as the family doesn't send any money, and tries her best to provide all for their happier childhood.

Plot is about a man who’s been in his apartment ever since his wife left him. Evening after evening he’s getting drunk and calls a hot line girl called Kiki... Srdjan Dragojevic's student film.

When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.

A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.

A story of a struggling filmmaker delving deep into Belgrade underworld in order to make a documentary about a young architect struggling in the corrupt and decaying world of contemporary Serbia.

A butcher and his associate befriend a group of workers from construction site. Escape from family problems only makes new ones for the duo.

A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...

Main heroes of this drama are inheriting bad luck from the owner of the local tavern.

After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Đuka Begović returns to his ancestral home in Slavonia. He makes a promise to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives.

A honest and proud Montenegrin is worried about his manager's position. He is married to equally proud Serbian woman who helps him in this difficult times for him. The matter is solved when he meets the government's vice-president, which happens to be his former schoolmate.

The main character returns from the prison with a desire to build a normal relationship with his, now, adult daughter who didn't have a father for a long period of her life. When he comes home sees that the daughter ran away from home and that his wife is cheating on him with a friend who also moved into the apartment. Armed with a sarcastic sense of humor he accepts all that and starts searching for his daughter, whom, by the way, does not want to be found.

A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.

Action-comedy that follows the Secret Service, runaway generals, admirals, and patriotic organizations, ICTY inductees, accidental and deliberate actors where price is, basically, all simulations of reality, virtual world where people can move without a face, with imaginary professions, actions and intentions, perverse game devoid of logic and sense relocated.