Movies: Živko Nikolić

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously....

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nu...

A young married couple live alone in the Montenegrian mountains and work hard to make ends meet. Their ordinary life is interrupted by various different characters who pass by their home, and serve as a temptation, both carnal and spiritual, which th...

The last unfinished film by Živko Nikolić. This is "a movie about a movie" which Živko could not finish because of the lack of funds....

In an industrial town one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to the agile director Todor, his successful policy of "World breakthrough" the whole town look forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director's...

A pretty girl arrives on a small island on a dark and stormy night. She becomes an excuse for the turbulence and evil that occurs when one man forgets his dignity and becomes a beast....

In search for the better life, three peasants Radovan, Jeremija and Gaša leave for a big city. Despite their expectations, there are many trials and temptations. Radovan manages to fit in by going to the evening school. The oldest of them, Jeremija, ...

Psychological documentary portrait of a village woman who's about to have an abortion. The story is conveyed in an expressionistic manner with ritualistic undertones....

Zivko Nikolic portrays a Montenegrin village in the post-epic period, while at the same time presenting the sad reality in the form of poor, unfortunate and mentally handicapped people, whom the epics circumvents....

Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Živko Nikolić continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temp...

The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father's house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, t...

Claustrophobic portrait of a docile rural wife's daily routine....

Short film about a family directed by Živko Nikolić....

A man with a missing eye witnesses, or imagines, others entering and/or leaving the rocky rubble he inhibits....

About a woman waiting for her sailor husband, and when he returns, "she continues to wait". It's a story of transience, and the deeper meaning of happiness. It's about all that's beautiful in this transient world....

A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water....

A simple metaphor for life - a donkey toiling away at a mill....

A short documentary by Zivko Nikolic....

A rural community in the mountains. A story about death....