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Foreward Hello dear AEGEEans,

The idea for a Movie Library came to the Culture Working Group a

few months ago as a way to promote our own cultural identity and to

help others better understand who we are and where we are coming

from.

We asked for your help in accomplishing this goal and thanks to you

we were able to put together 4 volumes, totalling 80 movies. Thank you

to all those who took the time to answer our survey and help us find

great movies to watch in the future.

Also a big thank you to the rest of the team:Danae Matakou from

AEGEE-Athina and Dionìs Koçi from AEGEE-Turin. Without your

help, this project would have been much more difficult.

Finally, if you feel that there are more movies that should be included

in this list, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are still looking for great

movies (comedy, romance, action, thriller, horror what ever you want),

that represent your countries, they way you and your people see them.

The only request is that these movies represent something notable in

your culture, history, social life. They don’t really need to be new or

blockbuster hits, but good movies from any year.

If you wish to contribute further to this project write us an e-mail at

cwgmovies@yahoo.com answering these questions:

What is the title of the movie (original and translated)?

What year was it released in?

What genre is it?

Did it win any awards?

Please write a short summary

Who is the director?

Who are the main actors?

Is there a trailer for the movie?

Why should we see it?

Your answers will be introduced in the second edition of the volumes,

to further complete the project.

Happy viewing,

Sabina Guja, AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca

Sabina Guja

Danae Matakou

Dionìs Koçi

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In this volume

Foreward ......................................................................................................................................... 3

In this volume ................................................................................................................................. 4

Serbia .............................................................................................................................................. 5

Slovakia......................................................................................................................................... 19

Slovenia......................................................................................................................................... 25

Spain ............................................................................................................................................. 33

Turkey ........................................................................................................................................... 47

Other volumes ............................................................................................................................... 54

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Original title:

Zona Zamfirova (Zona Zamfirova)

Year:

2002

Genre:

Comedy/ Romance

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and her affair with

Mane, an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a

craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying the son of other rich

people, Manulac. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to

keep Zona for himself.

Director:

Zdravko Sotra

Main actors:

Vojin Cetkovic

Katarina Radivojevic

Dragan Nikolic

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWVVAfGh6c (trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na0rLnLlTDY (movie)

Why you should see it:

Because they are witty

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Original title:

Tesna koža (A Tight Spot)

Year:

1982

Genre:

Comedy/ Romance

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

In this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no

way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking unsuccessfully for work; his son

is a would-be astronomer who wants to spend his life studying without working; and his other

son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.

Director:

Mica Milosevic

Main actors:

Nikola Simic

Milan Gutovic

Rahela Ferari

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jXk6bsIfSQ (movie)

Why you should see it:

Because they are witty

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Original title:

Lajanje na zvezde (Barking at the Stars)

Year:

1998

Genre:

Comedy/ Romance

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

The movie is a 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.

Director:

Zdravko Sotra

Main actors:

Dragan Micanovic

Natasa Tapuskovic

Nikola Simic

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_axSgwQdx4 (trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdqYW3gF21c (movie)

Why you should see it:

Because they are witty

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Original title:

Underground (Underground)

Year:

1995

Genre:

Comedy/ Drama

Awards:

Won the Palm d’Or at Cannes Film Festival (1995)

Summary of movie:

The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves

into fairly surreal situations. A black marketer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't

mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out

of their underground "shelter" - only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.

Director:

Emir Kusturica

Main actors:

Predrag Manojlovic

Lazar Ristovski

Mirjana Jokovic

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKuIYHbTSc4 (trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU1rWoc3mTY (movie)

Why you should see it:

Watch it for international rewards and art value.

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Original title:

Tri karte za Holivud (Three tickets to Holywood)

Year:

1993

Genre:

Comedy

Awards:

Won the Palm d’Or at Cannes Film Festival (1995)

Summary of movie:

This is the story of three boys who, fascinated with the magic of the seventh art, decide to escape

from their remote village straight to Hollywood. At 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

Hruscov and J.F.K. have failed.

Director:

Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic

Main actors:

Branislav Lecic

Bogdan Diklic

Ljubisa Samardzic

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlRC-_LiBQ (trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR19xWditsA (movie)

Why you should see it:

Watch it for international rewards and art value.

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Original title:

Urnebesna tragedija (Hilarous tragedy)

Year:

1995

Genre:

Comedy/ Drama

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

In a way of protesting against inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused

by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his

clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone

who is willing to accept them temporarily. Since one of the patients is planning to "get married"

the doctor takes all the patients out on the street and uses the wedding as an excuse. A person

"who can not fly" goes out to the streets with them, but he only exists as a person in the minds of

the patients. However, trouble starts arising on the first step they take outside the clinic. In

freedom the patients (not used to the games of the "normal society") start doing whatever they

want to or feel like, not paying attention to and ignoring the chaos they are causing.

Director:

Goran Markovic

Main actors:

Vojislav Brajovic

Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic

Dragan Nikolic

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD1K-5bCXAA (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Watch it for international rewards and art value.

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Slovakia

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Original title:

Perinbaba (The Feather Fairy)

Year:

1985

Genre:

Fairytale/ Fantasy

Awards:

Special Mention at Venice Film Festival (1985)

Summary of movie:

A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It

reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to

overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.

Director:

Juraj Jakubisko

Main actors:

Giulietta Masina

Petra Vancíková

Tobias Hoesl

Pavol Mikulík

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWZlDM-4-g (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Perinbaba belongs to my favourite fairy tales, usually they play it during the Christmas break in

TV by us. It has beautiful nature and mountains, it’s about people living in this area, it has

traditional music.

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Original title:

Pokoj v duši (Soul at Peace)

Year:

2009

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

This is a movie about a strong, proud man, returning from jail. As he tries to reconnect with his

life, he realizes that he has been changed to the point where he no longer can do "wrong" without

thinking about it. He realizes that he has been abused by his friends and tries to avoid that abuse -

which then resembles honorable life. But in the end, he honorably fails. With a bit of an open

end, the movie lets us finish the story to our liking.

Director:

Vladimír Balko

Main actors:

Attila Mokos

Roman Luknár

Helena Krajciová

Robert Wieckiewicz

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dagLulkdrj4 (trailer)

Why you should see it:

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Slovenia

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Original title:

Ne jo či Peter (Don’t cry Peter)

Year:

1964

Genre:

Adventure/ War

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

Two partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from a dangerous area to the

liberated land.

Director:

France Stiglic

Main actors:

Lojze Rozman

Bert Sotlar

Majda Potokar

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LheFwxlXI (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Slovenian classics, intelligent and funny.

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Original title:

To so gadi (These pests)

Year:

1977

Genre:

Comedy/ Drama

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

In Ljubljana lives the bus driver Stebe, who is a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid

Rozi. The boys are very naughty and keep everyone. One day Rozi in desperation declares that

she is leaving them, because she can’t stand it no more. And she does leave, although she is fond

of the boys. Soon afterwards Rozi's niece Meri comes by, asking if she might stay because she

wants to find herself a job in town. Meri is a good girl, but cannot cope with the kitchen work as

successfully as her aunt. The whole family seems to be charmed by her. Even one of Stebe's own

colleagues, Tone, begins to take interest in the girl. Meri likes him too. Stebe's boys feel quite

disappointed because of it. But all's well that ends well: in full conspiracy Meri qualifies as bus

driver while Rozi returns to the Stebe family.

Director:

Joze Bevc

Main actors:

Bert Sotlar

Dare Valic

Majda Potokar

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II4lmsbP11g (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Slovenian classics, intelligent and funny.

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Original title:

Vesna (Spring)

Year:

1953

Genre:

Comedy/ Romance

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

Three students try to pass their final exam wooing their professor's daughter. The unlucky winner,

decided by a coin toss, completely forgets about studying once he meets her.

Director:

Frantisek Cáp

Main actors:

Metka Gabrijelcic

Franek Trefalt

Jure Furlan

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEM6VaEhm8 (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Slovenian classics, intelligent and funny.

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Spain

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Original title:

Volver (The return)

Year:

2006

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (2007)

Won at the Cannes Film Festival the award for Best Actress (2006)

Many other awards at various film festivals

Summary of movie:

Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her husband Paco, who is always

drunk. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women.

The two sisters lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha, their birth village, years ago.

Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene,

mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation

changes and the past returns in a twist of mystery and suspense.

Director:

Pedro Almodóvar

Main actors:

Penélope Cruz

Carmen Maura

Lola Dueñas

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4y9KIQ4MRE (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Rare are the movies who celebrate everything that life offers: joy and despair, love and

hate, living and dying, strength and weakness, good and bad. While many movies reduce

life to either good or bad, painting a very simple picture of human relationships,

Almodóvar’s movies display a wide range of emotions, where people laugh and cry at the

same time, achieving a sense of truth that other movies seldom touch.

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Original title:

Manolito Gafotas ( Manolito Four Eyes)

Year:

1999

Genre:

Comedy/ Family

Awards:

Won an award at the Berlinale (2000)

Nominated for a Goya Award (2000)

Summary of movie:

This light, winning comedy, set in the working class district of Madrid's Carabanchel Alto,

traces the life of chubby, bespectacled primary school kid Manolo in the days before and

during the summer holidays. Much of the gentle pathos and humour comes from the fact

that events are viewed from the boy's quirky. Part celebration of working class culture,

part quirky comedy, part road movie, the able central performances and the film's evident

affection, gentle charm and self-confidence make up for the occasional stray into

sentimentality.

Director:

Miguel Albaladejo

Main actors:

David Sánchez del Rey

Adriana Ozores

Roberto Álvarez

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7NocxK324 (trailer)

Why you should see it:

A cute adaptation of the comic, known as Manolito Four Eyes here. The world of young

Manolito, from his absent father to his stern mother, from the bullying children to his

angry teacher, screams of pain and jade, but through his eyes we come to accept these

things as small obstacles we can overcome, or at least adapt to accept. On a trip with his

father, a trucker, we come to laugh at his repeated motion sickness, and his spying on a

late-night rendezvous. Did he really see what we in the audience think he saw? Don't try

to second-guess Manolito Four Eyes!

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Original title:

Princesas (Princesses)

Year:

2005

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

Won several Goya Awards (2006)

Won awards at several festivals

Summary of movie:

In Madrid, Cayetana is a call girl who lives with her dysfunctional mother, who does not

accept the death of her husband three years ago, and sens flowers with anonymous cards

to herself as if they were sent by an admirer. Cayetana spends the day with other

prostitutes at a beauty salon waiting for phone calls from clients. She is saving money for

a surgery to increase size and has a crush on the computer programmer Manuel who does

not believe she is a whore. When Cayetana meets the illegal whore from the Dominican

Republic Zulema who works in the local red light district, they become close friends,

spending their spare time together and making confidences to each other.

Director:

Fernando León de Aranoa

Main actors:

Candela Peña

Micaela Nevárez

Mariana Cordero

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei87aG8FhCc (trailer)

Why you should see it:

This is an entertaining movie about prostitution, friendship and love. Candela Peña and

Micaela Nevárez have great performances, but the story neither has the glamour and

redemption of "Pretty Woman" nor is too dramatic or harsh.

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Original title:

Tesis (Thesis) Year:

1996

Genre:

Horror

Awards:

Won several Goya Awards (1997)

Won awards at several festivals

Summary of movie:

The movie tells the experience of two students who discover a snuff-movie. Investigating

the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring.

Director:

Alejandro Amenábar

Main actors:

Ana Torrent

Fele Martínez

Eduardo Noriega

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrrXbhIuzI (trailer)

Why you should see it:

This movie from is one great example of Spanish, psychological horror movies. It was

filmed with new actors at the public university.

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Original title:

Días de fútbol (Football days)

Year:

2003

Genre:

Comedy

Awards:

Won a Goya award for Best New Actor (2004)

Won awards at several festivals

Summary of movie:

Some friends who live in a typical workers area know that they have failed in their

purpose in life and decide to change. Their first idea is to create a football team to win at

least a football competition.

Director:

David Serrano

Main actors:

Alberto San Juan

Ernesto Alterio

Natalia Verbeke

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWpNYhK67U (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Spanish humour is really different, full of ridiculous situations and absurdity. One of the

best recent examples is this movie, full of famous Spanish comedians and a hilarious

script.

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Original title:

Mar adentro (The sea inside)

Year:

2004

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

Won an Oscar for best Foreign Language Film (2005)

Won several Goya Awards (2005)

Won many awards at several festivals

Summary of movie:

This is the life story of Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the

right to end his own life with dignity. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he

encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move

himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.

Director:

Alejandro Amenábar

Main actors:

Javier Bardem

Belén Rueda

Lola Dueñas

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXb_YZ-CQI (trailer)

Why you should see it:

An incredible, but real story that shaked the Spanish society.

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Turkey

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Original title:

Babam ve oglum (My father and my son)

Year:

2005

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

Won several awards at Istanbul International Film Festival

Won several awards at film festivals

Summary of movie:

Sadik is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student

and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's, despite his father's expectations of him

becoming an agricultural engineer and taking control of their family farm in an Aegean

village. On the dawn of September 12th

1980, when a merciless military coup hits the

country, they cannot find access to any hospital or a doctor and his wife dies while giving

birth to their only child, Deniz. After a long-lasting period of torture, trials, and jail time,

Sadik returns to his village with 7-8 years old Deniz, knowing that it will be hard to

correct things with his father, Huseyin

Director:

Çagan Irmak

Main actors:

Tuba Büyüküstün

Fikret Kuskan

Çetin Tekindo

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmrUXNxwWI (trailer)

Why you should see it:

A simple story becomes a sad and poignant movie about ordinary people. Everyone

involved in the production of this magnificent piece of work.

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Original title:

G.O.R.A. (G.O.R.A.)

Year:

2004

Genre:

Adventure/ Comedy/ Science Fiction

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit »

by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.

Director:

Ömer Faruk Sorak

Main actors:

Cem Yilmaz

Rasim Oztekin

Özkan Ugur

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLG0RyjwTJ4 (trailer)

Why you should see it:

The movie is funny. Except some essential Turkish jokes, it's comic for any one. There are

so many details that can make a person laugh. Story is great, acting is great, details are

great, some special effects are not so good, but it's not a Hollywood movie, and also

CEM YILMAZ, he wrote and also played perfect. He is really funny and perfect as in his

other advertisement movies and old movies.

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Original title:

Nefes: Vatan sagolsun (The Breath)

Year:

2009

Genre:

Action/ Drama/ Thriller

Awards:

-

Summary of movie:

A small group of Turkish soldiers in a remote patrol station in eastern Turkey face their

near-certain death, during the time of conflict between Turkish Army and separatist

militant organization PKK reached its peak point.

Director:

Levent Semerci

Main actors:

Ilker Kizmaz

Baris Bagci

Ozgur Eren Koc

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUCVxpY4kk (trailer)

Why you should see it:

Nefes is first of its kind in Turkey. Through the eyes of a small brigade of soldiers

stationed at the border, the film examines the armed conflict that has been going on for

more than 30 years in south-eastern Turkey. Filmed on the high mountains of southern

Turkey, the landscape provides a stunning and poetic backdrop. The seclusion, hardship

and the tragedy these people had to endure is central to the story. The film has its minor

flaws but nevertheless it is effective in putting the audience in the shoes of these soldiers.

And it is specifically significant to the Turkish citizens; for they will have a chance to

truly empathize with those who rendered services in the region.

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Other volumes

Volume 1

Albania

Austria

Belgium

Czech Republic

France

Volume 2

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Volume 3

Latvia|

Macedonia

The Netherlands

Norway

Republic of Moldova

Romania

Volume 4

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Turkey

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