Emir Hadžihafizbegović
Birthday: Born in 1961-08-20 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Deathday: Alive
Emir Hadžihafizbegović (born August 20, 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a prominent Bosnian film and theater actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emir Hadžihafizbegović, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Na rubu pameti
Character: Jovo Hajduković
The life of Maha Dilber, a professional journalist and long-time single man who has just retired early and planned his life when middle-aged, changes overnight when two daughters from two different, failed marriages appear at the door of his newly renovated apartment....
Znam kako dišeš
Character: Goran Halilovic
A single mother of a teenager in the midst of a divorce, Nevena Murtezic struggles to balance her life between her 17-year-old son, Dino, and a job constantly under pressure from politics and the public....
San snova
Character: Mirko Stošić
What happens when, at the height of your career, you lose everything you've worked for for years in one bizarre second?...
Viza za budućnost
Character: Nadir
One of the first post-Independence Bosnian sitcoms. Production started on June 22, 2001 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The final episode was filmed in Sarajevo on August 25, 2008 and aired in October. It eventually became one of the region's most popular sitcoms....
Lud, zbunjen, normalan
Character: Samir Fazlinović
The show's plot revolves around humorous situations involving three generations of the Fazlinovic family living in a Sarajevo apartment. The oldest of the family is Izet. Izet has a son Faruk, who in turn has a son Damir....
Konak kod Hilmije
Character: Hilmija Frlj
In the period of WW2, in the town of Sarajevo, an owner of a tavern Hilmija must deal with a Nazi and run his business. The problem is that he is a coworker with Serbians, Croatians and Jews. That puts his business as well as his safety in danger....
Dva smo svijeta različita
Character: Fadil Opančić
The two worlds are different...
Večernja škola
Character:
A Croatian comedy show hosted by Željko Pervan that originally aired on OTV between 1995 and 1998, and later on Nova TV and HRT. It is largely improvisational and spontaneous, featuring Pervan as a teacher to a group of students, debating various political and societal problems....
Gori Vatra
Character:
Two years after the Bosnian war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit....
Ne diraj mi mamu
Character: Ivan Galijatović
Budimir and Zlatko are two partners advocates. Apart from being business partners they also share a family connection. Budimir was married to Zlatko's late sister and is now living with his daughter Mia and his mother-in-law Dika, Zlatko's mother. Due to exceptional circumstances Zlatko loses his house and moves in with his mother, brother-in-law and niece....
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Character: Puška
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war....
When Father Was Away on Business
Character: Fahro Zulfikarpašić
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....
The Border Post
Character: Poručnik Safet Pašić
At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war....
Audition
Character: Bogoljub Šaulić
A cult stage play from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, which involves the professor and the gallery of grotesque candidates devoid of any talent who applied for entrance exams....
42 1/2
Character: Elvir
After the war, two friends are together again. Every year they buy one pair of new shoes....
Metastases
Character: Rauf
Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight....
The Tour
Character: Danilo
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next....
Frame for the Picture of My Homeland
Character:
Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment....
Armin
Character: Ibro
The film follows Ibro (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) and his son Armin (Armin Omerović), who travel from a small town in Bosnia to a film audition in Zagreb, hoping to land a part for Armin in a German film about the war in Bosnia. On their way to fulfilling the boy's dream, they encounter a series of disappointing setbacks — their bus to Zagreb breaks down and they are late for the audition. After Ibro convinces the director to give the boy a second chance, they soon realize that Armin is too old for...
It's Hard to Be Nice
Character: Sejo
Story about a forty-something Sarajevo taxi driver named Fudo (Saša Petrović) who decides to take control of his own destiny. Fudo doesn't earn much, so he supplements his income by offering tips to the local criminal syndicate and turning a blind eye to their nefarious dealings. One day, after offering a particularly bad bit of advice to a violent gangster, Fudo is badly beaten. When Fudo's wife Azra (Daria Lorenci) discovers what has happened, she decides to take the couple's infant son and mo...
The State of Shock
Character: Psihijater
Set in socialist Yugoslavia in 1986, a humble and diligent factory worker falls into a 10-year shock right at his working place. He wakes up from coma in hospital in 1996 capitalist Slovenia, only to find out that he's left without job as being redundant....
Snow
Character: Dedo
The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage....
Circles
Character: Esad
Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions....
See You in Sarajevo
Character: Taksista
Going from the emotion that lied down inside of me back from 2005. and all these magical things which was cast on me by the town of Sarajevo, little story about love and life was born…...
Scenes from the Life of BH Film
Character: Himself
The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence....
Donkey
Character: Petar
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he does...
The Blacks
Character: Lega
War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the 'Blacks', who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find th...
Ice
Character: Policajac na polaganju
An apotheosis of loyalty and love. A tale of lost happiness and dreams, fears and transience, supremacy of fate and laws of nature, gratitude and cruelty of nature, inability of man to change that and influence the course of his own life....
Falsifier
Character: Suljo
Our story takes place at the end of the 1960s. This is the time of the collapse of the ideals of a more just and honorable life brought into prominence by students worldwide in the great rebellion in 1968 and of the beginning of the end of an equally grand illusion called Yugoslavia. Andjelko is the principal of a middle school in a small Bosnian place Dubica. He believes in Yugoslavia and worships its leader Josip Broz Tito. Andjelko, however, has one serious fault: he is a forger, he makes for...
Savages
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Zolja, Jasmin and Mali set out to rob a gas station in order to get money for a trip to the World Cup finals. Fleeing the police, they cross the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina and wander into a terrorist camp in the woods....
Buick Riviera
Character: Otac (voice)
The story of Buick Riviera is told through fates of two men, both Bosnian (ex Yugoslavian) emigrants, belonging to the two different religious groups that fought for the city of Sarajevo during the War....
Days and Hours
Character: Ekrem
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there....
May Labor Day
Character: Zuna
After ten years in Germany, Armin returns to Bosnia. He just got married and wants to surprise his father, but he is not home. Neighbours say that he has been arrested, nobody knows why. The papers say that he is a suspect for the war crime back in the 90s. Armin wants to learn the truth and the neighbourhood to celebrate May Labor Day....
Children of the Sun
Character: Fura
A tale of family and loyalty, love and loss, betrayal and redemption. As the Mob destroys the life of a big family and leaves them on the brink of survival, a powerful, yet secret love, burns between Marko (a gangster) and Angela - two high school sweethearts. Good fortune smiles on the family (a bohemian collective of lovable eccentrics) as they find a long-lost treasure, but Angela betrays them in the name of love by stealing it in order to save Marko's life from the Mob. In the end, everyone ...
These Are the Rules
Character: Ivo
After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed....
The Boys from Marx and Engels Street
Character: Andrija Potpara
Stanko (30) has to kill a man, for the first time. The same day, his younger brother Vojo (16) has to have sex for the first time. Roads of the two brothers will cross the same day several times, in an unusual way...
Cannibal Vegetarian
Character: Jedinko
Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series of fatal mistakes that result in the death of a patient. A crooked coroner and a corrupt police officer cover up his misdeeds, while Babic grows increasingly dependant on drugs and alcohol. He begins performing illegal abortions on prostitutes ...
Some Other Stories
Character: Otac (segment "Bosanskohercegovačka priča")
The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is ...
Let's Make Love 2
Character: Konobar iz Bosanskog Grahova
Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island....
Let's Make Love 3
Character: Amer
Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true....
Fuse
Character: Stanko
Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit....
Well Tempered Corpses
Character: Veterinar Sead
A couple of morticians entertain themselves by betting on how many cold customers will come in that day. But one of the corpses refuses to cooperate......
Ada
Character: Ranko
A married woman unsuccessfully tries to find a job in order to provide a better life to her son....
Chefurs Raus!
Character: Radovan
Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV presenter doesn't notice him and because his father Radovan is going to beat him up for quitting basketball. Adi is irritated by the fact that his brother Sanel is a drug addict and because his father Mirsad prefers to shang waitresses somewhere in Austira rather than to deal whit this. Makarovicka chefur girl gives a hard time to Aco and he would lik...
Our Everyday Life
Character: Muhamed
Family Susic lives everyday Bosnian story. Father Muhamed (63) is employed in a reputable company; mother Marija (60) is retired. Son Sasa (35), who spent the war in Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives with his parents, while their daughter Senada (40) lives in Slovenia. Their life begins to fall apart because of father's dissatisfaction after his company is sold on the stock exchange, Sasa's negligent attitude towards work and family, Marija's breast cancer diagnose. When problems begin to li...
Remake
Character: Željko
This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo....
Summer in the Golden Valley
Character: Hamid
At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects...
Regular Trains Station
Character: Mujaga
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she fails in building a bridge between herself and the environment where she was brought against her will, and conflicts start. The conflict with others soon causes the conflict with herself, which causes the tragedy......
It All Ends Here
Character: Budilica
Maks is a brilliant lawyer who has been serving for years one of Croatia’s most powerful and ruthless businessmen, who made his fortune in the aftermath of the Balkan War. Maks’ latest service has been to have his client declared innocent of the murder of two of his workers for acting in self-defense. But the sudden appearance of a former girlfriend triggers a crisis of conscience in Maks, leading him to confront his employer and risk his life by uncovering a dense network of corruption at the h...
First Class Thieves
Character: Producent
A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves....
The Melon Route
Character: Gojko
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans....
Men Don't Cry
Character: Merim
The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. There are as many different interpretations of that bleak past as there are countries affected. It is therefore hard to expect absolute harmony when, less than two decades since the war ended, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel for a therapy session over several days. On the contrary, such a d...
Death of a Man in the Balkans
Character: Aca
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior....
Withering
Character: Geometar
After years spent in Belgrade, Janko returns to his half-deserted village, the home of his widowed mother Milica. The latter sincerely hopes that Janko has come back for good; her son, however, has other plans....
The Frog
Character: Zeko
Zeko, a barber and ex-soldier suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, invites his brother Braco and his friend Švabo to Eid festivities. He intends to take advantage of the festive mood and ask his brother, a gambler and alcoholic, to change his ways. Braco doesn’t want to listen and will not take the conversation seriously. Zeko puts a razor under his brother’s neck, forcing him to promise he will change; furious, Braco leaves, telling Zeko he will never see him again, while Švabo sugges...
Paycheck
Character: Šakal
A man earns his first paycheck by driving his motorcycle, for the pleasure of rich people, through a mine field in Bosnia....
Be Damned, America
Character: (segment "Ružina osveta")
A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female re...
Secrets from the Past
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Ali, a young photographer who lives with his family, finds himself in an unusual and sad story in Bosnia and Herzegovina after a genetic disorder. Having never visited Bosnia, he will look for the traces of his own past. Hana, who lives in Bosnia, will not leave him travel alone on this journey....
The Worker's Life
Character: Sead Sokolović
An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike....
The Witness
Character: Slavko
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice....
Cold November
Character: Nikola
In the early '90s, the Yugoslavian Government cancelled the autonomy of Kosovo, dissolved its Parliament and closed down the National Television. All institutional life was reorganized by the new authorities, while the majority of the citizens responded with peaceful demonstrations. During this terrible time, Fadili, who works as an archivist, has to choose between two options, knowing that both of them are wrong. He therefore involuntarily and unwillingly "swallows" the shame, endures the press...
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Character:
A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road....
Agape
Character: Duspara
Miran is an unconventional priest who prepares children for the ceremony of confirmation. One of them is Goran, an orphaned teenage boy who enjoys Miran's attention. One day, a new boy moves into the neighborhood, and immediately becomes Miran's new pet student. Goran gets jealous and admits being in a sexual relationship with the priest, which sets in motion a series of unfortunate events....
The Son
Character: Deda
Arman is about to turn 18. He was adopted as a baby by Jasna and Senad, who were unable to have children of their own. However, four years after the adoption, Jasna gives birth to Dado. Throughout his life, Arman has had a hard time coping with being an adopted child. Full of explosive energy, he constantly gets in trouble together with his schoolmates. Despite being very intelligent, he is labelled as a problem child. The only place he feels safe and loved is with Jasna’s parents. At the same t...
Focus, Grandma
Character: Muhamed
April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days. Relatives start bickering, playing tricks and arguing over the inheritance to be left by the old woman, especially over her large family house in Sarajevo. Despite her deteriorating health, Grandma happily joins the f...
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Character: Joka
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?...
Ciao, Ciao Bambina
Character: Mrki
A monotonous life of a timid clerk from Zagreb takes an unexpected turn when an easygoing slacker from Bosnia deliberately moves into his apartment....
Once Were Humans
Character: Senad
Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of his ex-wife Tanja and his son Luka, hoping that they can become a family again. When the bank refuses to grant a loan Leo and Vučko would need to renovate their restaurant, they have no choice but to accept an offer from Gianni, a swindler. They are tasked with stealing Gianni’s truck so that he can collect the insurance money. However, instead of s...
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
Character: Emir
Four close friends, Lovro (21), Nenad (20), Stevan (22), and Ivan (20), fought against the Ustashas and Nazis by joining the partisans in WWII. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers. In 1957, in Communist Yugoslavia, their sexual orientation raises suspicion, and a communist party loyalist named Emir (52) is assigned to sabotage their careers and lives. The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival for the artists, while Emir's beliefs are challenged....
Naša svakodnevna priča
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