Zijah Sokolović
Know for: Acting
Born: 1950-12-22
Place of birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Also know as:
Obituary for Escobar (2008)
Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with...
Buffet Titanic (1979)
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew...
Silent Gunpowder (1990)
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the...
Motel Nana (2011)
Ivan teaches history in a Belgrade high school. In his class, Ivan is provoked by a student and ends up slapping him on the face. In Serbia, in the...
An Early Frost (2010)
An Early Frost (Serbian: Kao Rani Mraz) is a Serbian movie. Movie is dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous...
Outsider (1997)
A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he'll fall in love, make friends...
A Day, Days... of Nedzad K. (1982)
It depicts a night out of a young man from Sarajevo.
Two Halves of a Heart (1982)
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
The Damned Yard (1984)
Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
Scent of Quinces (1982)
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl...
Heads or Tails (1983)
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway (1986)
The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
The Abandoned (2010)
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it...
Remake (2003)
This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
You Love Only Once (1981)
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with...
The Melon Route (2006)
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival...
Jasmina (2010)
Asthmatic grandmother named Safa and her six-month baby granddaughter Jasmina, are transferred in a humanitarian convoy from the besieged Sarajevo to...
The Forgotten (1988)
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...
Body Scent (1983)
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife....
Bare Ground (2003)
The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In...
Carnival, Angel and Dust (1990)
Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
Generation of 71 (2011)
In the start of the breakup of Yugoslavia, in spring 1991, there is a group of young conscripted soldiers in a remote military outpost. Their army...
Endeavor (1982)
A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War,...
The Horseman (2003)
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic...
The Igman March (1983)
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
Forces in the Air (1989)
Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old...
The Man Who Could Tell North from the South (1989)
The plot takes place in pre-war Yugoslavia, and the protagonist, interpreted by Zvonko Lepetic, is Jefto, a prison guard who lives with his family as...
Spite (1988)
Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a bond of unbreakable friendship. To realize the...