Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

 has been the site of many domestic films.

Theatre

Notable theatres include the Montenegrin National Theatre

Montenegrin National Theatre

The Montenegrin National Theatre is located in Montenegrin capital of Podgorica. It was founded in 1953, in the beginning as a city theatre, under the name Titograd National Theatre...

 in Podgorica

Podgorica

Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...

, the Theatre of Nikšić in Nikšić

Nikšić

Nikšić is a city in Montenegro . In 2003 the city had a total population about 75,000.Nikšić is located in Nikšić plain, at the foot of Mount Trebjesa. It is the center of the municipality , which is the largest in Montenegro by area...

, and the City Theatre in Podgorica

Podgorica

Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...

. Montenegrin National Theatre is the only professional theatre and along with the Faculty of Drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

, located in Cetinje

Cetinje

Cetinje , Цетиње / Cetinje , Italian: Cettigne, Greek: Κετίγνη, Ketígni) is a town and Old Royal Capital of Montenegro. It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro , with the official residence of the President of Montenegro...

 is responsible for the lion share of the theatre production in the country. During Summer months, City Theatre in Budva

Budva

Budva is a coastal town in Montenegro. It has around 15,000 inhabitants, and it is the centre of municipality...

 takes precedence as a stage for performers coming from all corners of former Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 and the world.

Notable contemporary Montenegrin cinema personalities

Considering its population of about 600 000 people, Montenegrins have given to Yugoslavia and the world quite a number of outstanding film Directors and actors. The best known are:

Directors

• Dušan Vukotić
  Dušan Vukotic
  Dušan Vukotić was an award-winning cartoonist, author and director of animated films from Yugoslavia. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films....
  
  , the first Yugoslav Oscar winner, for the short animated film category in 1961.
• Živko Nikolić
  Živko Nikolic
  Živko Nikolić was a famous Montenegrin film director.-Biography:Živko Nikolić was born in Ozrinići, Nikšić municipality, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, in 1941. He graduated the Art School in Herceg Novi where he was trained as a painter of ceramics which contributed to his specific perception of the film...
  
  
• Veljko Bulajić
  Veljko Bulajic
  Veljko Bulajić , today is a Croatian film director and actor of Montenegrin descent, most of his life working in Croatia...
  
  
• Krsto Papić
  Krsto Papic
  Krsto Papić is a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spans several decades....
  
  
• Branko Baletić
  Branko Baletic
  Branko Baletić is a Serbian-Montenegrin film director and producer.His films include Granica , Stela , and his most celebrated, Balkan Express , a comic tale of Serbian bootleggers and thieves during the German occupation in WW2, which remains a milestone of Serbian cinema.-Filmography:*2007:...
  
  
• Velimir Stojanović
• Zdravko Velimirović
  Zdravko Velimirovic
  Zdravko Velimirović was a Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter. He directed 43 films between 1954 and 1992.-External links:...
  
  
• Bane Bastać
• Predrag Golubović
• Krsto Škanata
• Milo Đukanović
• Momir Matović

The young and perspective:

• Marija Perović
• Nikola Vukčević
  Nikola Vukcevic
  Nikola Vukčević is a Montenegrin film director, born on August 19, 1974, in Podgorica, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia. He is a stage and film director, independent producer since 1995, member of Film board of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts , and professor at national Faculty of Dramatic Arts...
  
  
• Željko Sošić
  Željko Sošic
  Željko Sošić is a young Montenegrin director, most famous for his first movie "I Have Something Important to Tell You", made in 2005.-Biography:Sošić was born in then Titograd , the capital of Montenegro, in October 1980...
  
  

Actors

• Milorad Janketić
• Žarko Laušević
  Žarko Lauševic
  Žarko Laušević is a Serbian actor. Considered to be one of the most talented actors of his generation, Zarko Lausevic became a leading actor early in his career...
  
  
• Miodrag Krivokapić
• Branislav Popović
• Milutin Karadžić
  Milutin Karadžic
  Milutin "Mima" Karadžić is a Montenegrin actor, producer, and occasionally, a singer of Montenegrin origin....
  
  
• Branko Babović
  Branko Babovic
  Branko Babović , born 8 June 1959, is a famous Montenegrin actor from Nikšić, Montenegro.-Filmography:*Lepota poroka *U ime naroda *Stršljen ... Komšija...
  
  

Films

• I Have Something Important to Tell You (Imam nešto važno da vam kažem; 2005)
• Packing the Monkeys, Again!
  Packing the Monkeys, Again!
  The 2004 film Packing the Monkeys, Again! is Montenegrin drama movie directed by Marija Perović.-Plot:...
  
  (Opet pakujemo majmune; 2004)
• A View from Eiffel Tower (Pogled sa Ajfelovog tornja; 2005)

External links

• History of Cinematography in Montenegro (in Montenegrin)