Želimir Žilnik
Born: 1942-09-08 in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Known For: Directing
Biography
Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era. Subsequently, following the abolition of communist one-party system, he was an outspoken critic of Slobodan Milošević-led regime in Serbia.
Filmography
2025
- Alpe-Adria Underground! as Himself
- Eighty Plus ... (Director)
2024
- Warm Film as Himself
2022
- As One as Želimir Žilnik
2021
- ŽŽŽ: Journal About Želimir Žilnik as Himself
2020
- Cinetracts '20 ... (Director)
2018
- Among the People: Life & Acting ... (Writer)
- Ideal 68 as Himself
- The Most Beautiful Country in the World ... (Writer)
2016
- The Other Line as Himself
2015
- Martinac as Himself
- Logbook_Serbistan ... (Writer)
2014
- Our Man in Gabon ... (Writer)
2013
2011
- One Woman – One Century ... (Writer)
2009
- The Old School of Capitalism ... (Director)
2007
- Censored without Censorship as Himself
- What Do Those Lunatics Want? as Himself
- Kenedi Is Getting Married ... (Writer)
2006
- Danube Soap Opera ... (Director)
2005
- Europe Next Door ... (Director)
- Kenedi, Lost and Found ... (Director)
2003
- Kenedi Goes Back Home ... (Director)
2002
- EXIT in the Morning ... (Director)
2000
- Fortress Europe ... (Director)
- Cosmo Girls ... (Director)
1998
- Wanderlust ... (Writer)
1997
- For Ella ... (Director)
1996
- Throwing Off the Yolks of Bondage ... (Director)
1995
- Marble Ass ... (Director)
1994
- Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time ... (Writer)
1993
- Where Gods Are Dead ... (Writer)
- Silo Danube, Vukovar ... (Director)
1990
- Black and White ... (Director)
1989
- Oldtimer ... (Director)
1988
- The Way Steel Was Tempered ... (Writer)
- Brooklyn - Gusinje ... (Director)
1987
- Hot Paychecks ... (Director)
1986
- Pretty Women Walking Through the City ... (Director)
- Good Morning, Belgrade ... (Writer)
1985
- Taiwan Canasta as Građevinski inspektor 2
1984
- Stanimir Descends To Town ... (Director)
1983
- Second Generation ... (Director)
- The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis ... (Director)
1982
- Dragoljub and Bogdan ... (Writer)
1981
- Vera and Erzika ... (Director)
1980
- The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus ... (Director)
1978
- Market People ... (Director)
- Seven Hungarian Ballads ... (Director)
1977
- The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic ... (Director)
1976
- Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy ... (Director)
1975
- House Orders ... (Director)
- I Do Not Know What That Should Mean ... (Director)
- Farewell ... (Director)
- Public Execution ... (Director)
- Under the Protection of the State ... (Director)
- Inventory ... (Director)
1974
- Request ... (Director)
1973
- Uprising in Jazak ... (Director)
1971
- Early Works ... (Director)
- Black Film as Himself
1969
- June Turmoil ... (Director)
1968
- The Unemployed ... (Writer)
- Little Pioneers ... (Director)
1967
- Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village Youth ... (Director)