17 Sep 1976
The Front
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Doctor Ray and the Devils
The story behind and around famous American director Nicholas Ray's 1960s stay in SFR Yugoslavia. The celebrated director who was the toast of Hollywood only a decade earlier having made Rebel Without a Cause has fallen on hard times and is now desperately trying to re-establish his spiraling film career. On the other hand, his powerful host, Avala Film director and former Yugoslav secret service operative Ratko Dražević, is dreaming big dreams - he is trying to establish a 'Hollywood behind the Iron Curtain' of sorts.
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Dragan Bjelogrlić Ratko Dražević
Lena Bogdanović Nada
Svetozar Cvetković D.W. Griffith
Ana Sofrenović Betty
Tihomir Stanić Ivica
Jana Milić Olja
Miodrag 'Miki' Krstović Drug Branko
Slobodan Ćustić Recepcioner u hotelu
Pavle Pekić Zlatan
Marko Gvero Aleksa
Bojan Dimitrijević Borislav Mihajlović 'Mihiz'
Gordon Murray Orson Welles
Ivana Popović Oja
Milena Predić Jeanne Moreau
Lazar Stojanović Samuel Bronston
Dragan Velikić 
Paul Leonard Murray Nicholas Ray
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