Želimir Žilnik

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.

Directed

1. June Turmoil (1969) — Director
2. Little Pioneers (1968) — Director
3. The Unemployed (1968) — Director
4. Kenedi Is Getting Married (2007) — Director
5. Early Works (1971) — Director
6. Marble Ass (1995) — Director
7. Pretty Women Walking Through the City (1986) — Director
8. Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village Youth (1967) — Director
9. Black Film (1971) — Director
10. Uprising in Jazak (1973) — Director
11. Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy (1976) — Director
12. Logbook_Serbistan (2015) — Director
13. The Old School of Capitalism (2009) — Director
14. Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003) — Director
15. Second Generation (1983) — Director
16. Kenedi, Lost and Found (2005) — Director
17. Inventory (1975) — Director
18. Good Morning, Belgrade (1986) — Director
19. Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time (1994) — Director
20. Wanderlust (1998) — Director
21. The Way Steel Was Tempered (1988) — Director
22. Farewell (1975) — Director
23. Oldtimer (1989) — Director
24. Brooklyn - Gusinje (1988) — Director
25. Public Execution (1975) — Director
26. Stanimir Descends To Town (1984) — Director
27. Fortress Europe (2000) — Director
28. Market People (1978) — Director
29. Vera and Erzika (1981) — Director
30. Cinetracts '20 (2020) — Director
31. House Orders (1975) — Director
32. Under the Protection of the State (1975) — Director
33. Hot Paychecks (1987) — Director
34. Request (1974) — Director
35. I Do Not Know What That Should Mean (1975) — Director
36. The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimovic (1977) — Director
37. Cosmo Girls (2000) — Director
38. The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis (1983) — Director
39. The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus (1980) — Director
40. Dragoljub and Bogdan (1982) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Taiwan Canasta (1985) — Građevinski inspektor 2
2. Black Film (1971) — Himself
3. Warm Film (2024) — Himself
4. Censored without Censorship (2007) — Himself
5. ŽŽŽ: Journal About Želimir Žilnik (2021) — Himself
6. Alpe-Adria Underground! (2025) — Himself
7. Ideal 68 (2018) — Himself
8. As One (2022) — Želimir Žilnik
9. The Other Line (2016) — Himself
10. Martinac (2015) — Himself
11. Pirika on Film (2013)
12. What Do Those Lunatics Want? (2007) — Himself