Zdravko Šotra

Director

February 13, 1933 (93 years)

Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Biography

Zdravko Šotra (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Шотра; born 13 February 1933 in Stolac, Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Herzegovinian Serb film and television director and screenwriter.

Filmography

8.7

Wounded Eagle

Ranjeni orao was a Serbian television show produced in 2008 and aired on RTS1 during late 2008 and early 2009. The 17 episode series is based on the 1936 novel "Ranjeni orao" by Serbian author Mir Jam. The show had unprecedented success with the last episode averaging over 3 million viewers, making it the most watched Serbian television series ever made.

7.8

More Than a Game

The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.

6.5

The Invincible Heart

Set in the 1930s, the series is about the impossible love between a poor young man from the province, an unemployed law graduate and a talented singer, and the rich and sensitive heiress of a bank manager and owner.

N/A

Her Mother's Sin

A modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.

N/A

The Teacher

The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.

6.0

Alexandar of Yugoslavia

The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles.

3.0

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

The incredible story of good-hearted and eccentric Professor Kosta Vujic who, in the 19th century, taught some of the greatest minds of that era. Among his students were Mihailo Petrovic - Mika Alas, Jovan Cvijic, Pavle Popovic, Jasa Prodanovic, Milorad Mitrovic, Ljubomir Stojanovic and others who later became academics, teachers, politicians... The TV Show is based on the best seller novel by Milovan Vitezovic.

6.8

Maternal Half-Brothers

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.

6.6

Battle of Kosovo

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.

10.0

A Swanky Pumpkin

The first TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popovic's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble, aiming to climb up the social ladder. However, it isn't easy for her to stick up with the manners.

6.6

Sixth Gear

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

5.6

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

Professor Vujić's Hat (Serbian: Sesir profesora Koste Vujica) is a Serbian movie. The story was first presentet as a TV drama in 1972. The story of professor Kosta Vujić who in the mid-19th century taught an extraordinarily talented generation of gymnasium students, some of whom would go on to become prominent members of the Serbian society and eventually historically significant figures. They include Mihailo "Mika Alas" Petrović, Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Jovan Cvijić, and Jaša Prodanović.

5.9

The Igman March

The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.

6.3

Zamfir's Zona

Zona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of 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 Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.

10.0

Santa Maria della Salute

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.

6.6

The Grump

The man who was fighting fire is being forcibly sent to seaside hotel to recover, where he spends time with other guests who came there for group holiday. He rejects their company claiming that they live by established norms, but they reject him as well 'cause they think he's no different at all.

10.0

The Flight

The TV movie "Escape" shows the agony of "white" officers, soldiers and citizens who fled before the October Revolution, pursued by the power of the Red Army, but also by the blood of their own crimes. Composed in several "pictures", it is a kind of ballad about madness and despair, the battle for bare life, but also an elegy about exile, crime and punishment.

N/A

The Principality of Serbia

The main plot of the film "The Principality of Serbia" was put in the first seven decades of the nineteenth century when the state was being formed and strengthened together with its historical fate. This film shows the Serbs as people who fought during the two Risings while trying to liberate by themselves hardly and for a long time. It also shows how they hardly got the recognition to their liberty and the international recognition to the right to have their own state.

5.6

Ivko's Feast

The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.

6.0

The Robbery of the Third Reich

During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.