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Vlatko Gilić (born 1 January 1935 in Podgorica, Montenegro, then Yugoslavia) is a Yugoslav director and writer whose work spans documentary and fiction and is closely associated with formally rigorous, philosophically inflected cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s. Between 1966 and 1980 he directed thirteen films—eleven shorts and two features—earning international recognition including a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Oberhausen.
Gilić’s films are marked by a slow, observational style that blends documentary material with allegory, ritual, and metaphysical inquiry. Often drawing on Christian symbolism and social critique, his work examines power, mortality, labor, and human futility through carefully structured imagery and restrained narration. Key films from this period include In continuo (1971), Backbone (1975), and Days of Dreams (1980), as well as a series of shorts that circulate internationally through archives and cinematheques.
After 1980, Gilić largely withdrew from filmmaking and transitioned into academia, teaching and continuing to write screenplays. Though interviews and public appearances have been rare, his films have remained in circulation and critical discussion, preserved in major archives such as the Harvard Film Archive, and are regarded as a distinctive body of work within Yugoslav and European art cinema.
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01 July 1981
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good.
01 January 1970
The third film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy. Where the machine could not go through ... Collision between stone and man on the section of the Belgrade-Bar railway.
01 January 1972
In the rocky wastes of Mount Velebit, men have lived for centuries in close proximity with snakes. They learned to anticipate and cope with the dangers of the evil region, but the true battle begins when man comes to grips with the evil in himself.
14 July 1966
A story of two people who fell in love and couldn't find their way in the big city: a man who came from the countryside to work in a steel factory and a woman who works in the factory restaurant.
03 March 1971
A farmer's spiteful death against fascists who chase him down through his cornfield.
30 September 1969
The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill an oversized barrel using a woefully small tub of water.
21 October 1969
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls.
12 December 1978
A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.
01 January 1966
A boy wanders the city alone on a hot summer's day. He tries to escape it, but ends up finding a new friend.
09 May 1965
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city .
26 January 1971
"In continuo" uses slaughterhouse imagery to present the warlike nature of man, first depicting the cleaning and mechanical preparations for the slaughterhouse and then the killing, however, the animal slaughter itself isn’t shown.
26 March 1980
Jelena spends her summer holiday tending a flock of sheep. A plane from a nearby aerodrome attracts her attention and she and the pilot engage in spontaneous games.
06 June 1975
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human.
01 November 1970
The second film in Vlatko Gilic’s Sisyphean trilogy.
26 September 1968
Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.
01 January 1972
On many working sites where workers spend years away from their families, every visit is an event. A husband climbs down from a potentially fatal construction site to meet his wife for lunch.
20 July 1986
In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting.
23 February 1972
"Dan više" is about a mudbath near the small Serbian town of Bujanovac that is famous for healing illnesses.
26 January 1968
"Povratak na rodno drvo" is a Yugoslav short film from 1968. It was directed by Vlatko Gilić and the screenplay was written by Matija Bećković.
15 February 1973
Screened in the official competition at the Cannes Festival, this controversial documentary depicts a hypnosis session in which participants, under its influence, inflict pain on themselves and others.
28 July 1973
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
01 January 1986
Vlatko Gilić, after not getting enough funds for his last film, Days of Dreams, and after getting his scripts he wrote in the 1980s rejected for being too "artsy", was unable to direct movies for the rest of his life.
