Želimir Žilnik

DirectorActorWriter Sep 8 (age 83) Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia 1967–2025 (58 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Warm Film

Himself

Film

Little Pioneers

Director

Film

The Unemployed

Director

Film

Taiwan Canasta

Građevinski inspektor 2

Film

Censored without Censorship

Himself

Film

Early Works

Director

Film

Marble Ass

Director

Film

Kenedi Is Getting Married

Director

Filmography

Acting (12)

Movies (12)

Alpe-Adria Underground!

as Himself

Warm Film

as Himself

As One

as Želimir Žilnik

ŽŽŽ: Journal About Želimir Žilnik

2021

as Himself

8.5

Ideal 68

2018

as Himself

The Other Line

2016

as Himself

Martinac

2015

as Himself

Pirika on Film

2013

Censored without Censorship

2007

as Himself

7.2

What Do Those Lunatics Want?

2007

as Himself

Taiwan Canasta

1985

as Građevinski inspektor 2

5.6

Black Film

1971

as Himself

5.1

Crew (60)

Movies (60)

Eighty Plus

2025

Director

Cinetracts '20

2020

Director

6.0

Among the People: Life & Acting

2018

Writer

The Most Beautiful Country in the World

2018

Writer

Logbook_Serbistan

2015

Writer

5.2

Our Man in Gabon

2014

Writer

Pirika on Film

2013

Writer

One Woman – One Century

2011

Writer

The Old School of Capitalism

2009

Director

5.1

Kenedi Is Getting Married

2007

Director

4.4

Danube Soap Opera

2006

Director

Kenedi, Lost and Found

2005

Director

5.5

Europe Next Door

2005

Director

Kenedi Goes Back Home

2003

Director

6.0

EXIT in the Morning

2002

Director

Fortress Europe

2000

Director

Cosmo Girls

2000

Director

Wanderlust

1998

Writer

5.0

For Ella

1997

Director

For Ella

1997

Writer

Throwing Off the Yolks of Bondage

1996

Writer

Marble Ass

1995

Director

4.9

Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time

1994

Writer

5.5

Silo Danube, Vukovar

1993

Director

Where Gods Are Dead

1993

Writer

Black and White

1990

Director

Oldtimer

1989

Director

Brooklyn - Gusinje

Director

Brooklyn - Gusinje

Writer

The Way Steel Was Tempered

1988

Director

7.5

Hot Paychecks

1987

Director

Pretty Women Walking Through the City

1986

Director

4.1

Good Morning, Belgrade

1986

Director

5.7

Stanimir Descends To Town

1984

Writer

The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

1983

Director

Second Generation

Director

Second Generation

Writer

Dragoljub and Bogdan

Writer

Vera and Erzika

1981

Director

The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus

1980

Director

Market People

1978

Director

The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic

1977

Director

Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy

1976

Director

5.2

I Do Not Know What That Should Mean

1975

Director

Inventory

1975

Director

5.3

House Orders

1975

Director

Public Execution

1975

Director

Farewell

1975

Director

Under the Protection of the State

1975

Director

Under the Protection of the State

1975

Writer

Request

1974

Director

Uprising in Jazak

Director

Early Works

Director

Black Film

Director

Black Film

Writer

June Turmoil

Director

The Unemployed

Director

The Unemployed

Writer

Little Pioneers

Director

Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village Youth

1967

Director

6.2