Slobodan Aligrudić

Born: 1934-10-15

Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".


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When Father Was Away on Business

as Ostoja Cekić
Released: 1985-01-15

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very...

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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

as Otac
Released: 1981-04-10

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father,...

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Who's Singin' Over There?

as Poručnik
Released: 1980-10-23

On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group...

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Great Transport

as Novoverac Rade
Released: 1983-07-04

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the...

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The Ambush

as drug Jotić
Released: 1969-06-30

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets...

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Variola Vera

as Drug Vlada
Released: 1982-07-09

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the...

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The Promising Boy

as Psihijatar
Released: 1981-01-01

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.

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Indian Mirror

as Ćale
Released: 1985-01-01

A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its...

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More Than a Game

as Agent antikomunističkog odeljenja (uncredited)
Released: 1976-03-20

Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not...

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The Colonel's Wife

as Kaplar II
Released: 1972-06-02

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of...

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Let's Move On

as Školski nadzornik
Released: 1982-02-16

The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of...

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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

as Direktor OOUR-a
Released: 1977-01-01

Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges...

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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

as Ahmed, sanitarni inspektor
Released: 1967-09-22

After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a...

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Special Education

as Komandir milicije
Released: 1977-04-28

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take...

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Escapes

as Albert
Released: 1968-07-28

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel...

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Quo vadis Zivorad!?

as General
Released: 1968-12-12

Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions,...

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The Written Off

as Skale
Released: 1974-04-28

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon...

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Yellow

as Milicioner 2
Released: 1973-06-07

A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without...

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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović

as Upravnik zatvora
Released: 1980-01-01

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native...

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Early Works

as uncredited
Released: 1969-03-08

Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up...

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Erogenous Zone

as Milicioner
Released: 1981-02-04

Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems...

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Open Space

as Čiča Rogulja
Released: 1985-04-28

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by...

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The Train for Kraljevo

as Policajac Rapajić
Released: 1981-01-01

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to...

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National Class Category Up to 785ccm

as Funkcioner Vidoje
Released: 1979-01-09

One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up...

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When I Am Dead and White

as upravnik Milutin
Released: 1967-12-27

The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked...

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Happy Family

as uncredited
Released: 1980-02-27

Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.

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And God Created a Tavern Singer

as Direktor hotela II
Released: 1972-05-11

An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol,...

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The Warrior's Talent

as Perišić, direktor pivare
Released: 1974-02-11

A contemporary story of the film crew who visits the site in order to prepare for the shooting,...

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A Naive Person

as Pura
Released: 1975-01-01

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting...

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This Crazy World of Ours

as Silovatelj
Released: 1970-07-14

A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through...

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Blacklist

as Džo Larč
Released: 1974-06-05

It catches the essence of the no man’s land in which an accused artist found himself. In the...

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Tailors for Jeans

as Gazda Rista
Released: 1982-06-10

Illegal business abroad. Conditions: the boss takes the shoes along with a passport, and the...

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Homo sapiens

as Čovek / The Man
Released: 1969-09-30

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he...

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The Written Off

as Skale
First aired: 1974-12-22

"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV series, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia,...

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More Than a Game

as Agent VI antikomunističkog
First aired: 1974-04-17

The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its...

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Grey Home

as Kosketov otac
First aired: 1986-01-01

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and...

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The Teacher

as Školski nadzornik
First aired: 1983-02-03

The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to...

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The Great Transport

as Novoverac Rade
First aired: 1983-06-15

The 1983 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a three part mini-series.

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