Živojin Pavlović

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-04-15 (65 years old)

Deathday

1998-11-29

Place of Birth

Šabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Živojin Pavlović

Biography

Živojin "Žika" Pavlović (15 April 1933 – 29 November 1998) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, painter and professor. In his films and novels, Pavlović depicted the cruel reality of small, poor and abandoned people living in the corners of society. He was one of the major figures of the Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s, a movement which portrayed the darker side of life rather than the shiny facades of communist Yugoslavia. Pavlović was born in Šabac in 1933. When he was 19, he started writing about film and art for Belgrade newspapers. He graduated in painting at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, a...

Acting

1965

1979

National Class Category Up to 785ccm

as Čovek kome treba onaj gumeni deo što ide odozdo ispod motora

2007

Censored without Censorship

as Himself (voice)

1981

1992

Deserter

as Zatvorenik (uncredited)

Production

1965

The Enemy

as Director

1969

The Ambush

as Director

1964

The Traitor

as Dialogue

1963

The City

as Director

1963

The City

as Writer

1967

The Rats Woke Up

as Director

1977

Manhunt

as Writer

1977

Manhunt

as Director

1966

The Return

as Director

1971

The Bet

as Writer

1987

1991

Tattoo

as Writer

1970

Red Wheat

as Director

1970

Red Wheat

as Writer

1985

Wild Wind

as Writer

1966

The Return

as Writer

1969

The Ambush

as Writer

1965

The Enemy

as Writer

1983

Body Scent

as Director

1983

Body Scent

as Writer

1992

Deserter

as Director

1992

Deserter

as Writer

1990

The Border

as Writer

2002

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