Personal Info
Birth date
1934-10-15 (90 Years)
Day of death
1985-08-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Also known as
Слободан Алигрудић
Слободан Алигрудич
Slobodan Aligrudić
Biography
Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".
Filmography
Grey Home
8.8
Overview:
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...The Written Off
9
Overview:
"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.The Teacher
NYR
Overview:
The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.More Than a Game
7.8
Overview:
The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.Open Space
6
Overview:
Summer of ‘72 – a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito’s regime. Loosely based on true events, it depicts the manhunt that followed.The Great Transport
NYR
Overview:
The 1983 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a three part mini-series.Svetozar Markovic
NYR
Overview:
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
7.473
Overview:
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.When Father Was Away on Business
7.3
Overview:
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.Who's Singin' Over There?
7.623
Overview:
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.Great Transport
7.1
Overview:
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.The Ambush
5.6
Overview:
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.Special Education
6.9
Overview:
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.National Class Category Up to 785ccm
6.682
Overview:
One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.When I Am Dead and White
7.3
Overview:
The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
5.3
Overview:
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.Variola Vera
7.2
Overview:
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
6.8
Overview:
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.Erogenous Zone
4.8
Overview:
Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.The Promising Boy
6.1
Overview:
A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.Open Space
NYR
Overview:
Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.The Train for Kraljevo
5.3
Overview:
It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
5.7
Overview:
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.Yellow
6
Overview:
A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a wanderer, although she has a burning desire for home and quiet life. The big city life laws get her in troubles, sad and, at least for her, unintelligible...The Warrior's Talent
NYR
Overview:
A contemporary story of the film crew who visits the site in order to prepare for the shooting, where they fall into many situations that reflect local mentality.A Naive Person
5
Overview:
Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.And God Created a Tavern Singer
5.8
Overview:
An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.Early Works
5.3
Overview:
Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl is the one to be sacrificed as a witness of their unsuccessful attempt.Let's Move On
6.3
Overview:
The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of Liberation and emancipation. A young teacher – Partisan arrives in a small Serbian town. His wartime, partisan “pedagogy” conflicts with the old methods of work in schools. The children, of course, stand by their teacher, their true friend. The film is a child’s memory and remembrance of an evil, cruel period that left deep imprints in the children’s sensitive and delicate soul of entire generations whose childhood was wounded in the war. The story unfolds over a period of several months, between the fall of 1944 and the summer of 1945, when somewhere far away, in Japan, the atomic bomb is fried to announce a new-atomic era.Acting
TBASvetozar Markovic (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Grey Home (12 Episodes) as Kosketov otac
1985Open Space as Čiča Rogulja
1985When Father Was Away on Business as Ostoja Cekić
1985Indian Mirror as Ćale
1983Great Transport as Novoverac Rade
1983The Great Transport (1 Episode) as Novoverac Rade
1983The Teacher (7 Episodes) as Školski nadzornik
1982Variola Vera as Drug Vlada
1982Tailors for Jeans as Gazda Rista
1982Let's Move On as Školski nadzornik
1981Do You Remember Dolly Bell? as Otac
1981Erogenous Zone as Milicioner
1981The Promising Boy as Psihijatar
1981The Train for Kraljevo as Policajac Rapajić
1980Who's Singin' Over There? as Poručnik
1980Happy Family as Unknown
1980Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović as Upravnik zatvora
1979National Class Category Up to 785ccm as Funkcioner Vidoje
1977The Love Life of Budimir Trajković as Direktor OOUR-a
1977Special Education as Komandir milicije
1976More Than a Game as Agent antikomunističkog odeljenja (uncredited)
1975A Naive Person as Pura
1974The Written Off (13 Episodes) as Skale
1974Blacklist as Džo Larč
1974More Than a Game (9 Episodes) as Agent VI antikomunističkog
1974The Warrior's Talent as Perišić, direktor pivare
1973Yellow as Milicioner 2
1972The Colonel's Wife as Kaplar II
1972And God Created a Tavern Singer as Direktor hotela II
1971Early Works as Unknown
1971Plug Impermeable to Water as Ica
1970This Crazy World of Ours as Silovatelj
1969Homo sapiens as Čovek / The Man
1969The Ambush as drug Jotić
1968Quo vadis Zivorad!? as General
1968Escapes as Albert
1967When I Am Dead and White as upravnik Milutin
1967Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator as Ahmed, sanitarni inspektor
Creator
TBAOpen Space ... Creator