Talk:List of Yugoslav films

This Article Should Not Be Deleted

This article should definitely not be deleted, the Yugoslav cinema has an amazing array of great movies and providing a collection of them on Wikipedia would be a great addition to this great resource. This is actually a pretty good idea. :)

Instead of deleting this article, it should be improved by adding movies. I'm not sure how to do that myself, so I ask others to do it instead.

And maybe also change the name of the article to "Yugoslavian Films" rather than "List of Yugoslavian Films".

These should include all significant movies created in Yugoslavia during its existence (including Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, and Macedonian films between 1918 and 1991). Stop The Lies 06:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Stop_The_Lies

One more thing, why is this article a candidate for deletion but not such articles as "List of Spanish Films" or "List of Hungarian Films"? I think they all belong in Wikipedia. Stop The Lies 07:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Stop_The_Lies

Now I realize that an a few articles on this topic already exist... hmmm... maybe that's why this article is a candidate... Stop The Lies 07:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Stop_The_Lies

The films made till 25th June 1991 can go into this category.
The films made after that date should go into the categories of the respective countries that after that date became independent (those from Serbia and Montenegro should go into "Serbo-Montenegrin films.). Kubura 11:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Confusing

Why are there two parallel lists on this page. Someone merge them, the article looks confusing as it is... Sideshow Bob 22:47, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Back in August 2022 I merged the List of Yugoslav films of the 1950s to this article, and I figured to come back now and finish the job. But I ought to gather community opinion before doing that. Decade sections of this page with just Years, Titles and Directors are like 'lite' versions of their page counterparts that additionally have Cast, Genre and Notes columns: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990–2003. I personally think this is unnecessary and redundant, and that this page should be expanded with information (and missing entries that were added to separate lists and not here, and vice-versa) found on these five lists of films by decade. If there exists a concern of the page becoming too large, this main list page could just be disambiguated to refer readers to lists by decade, ultimately solving semi-redundancy. What do you think? -Vipz (talk) 01:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Just a couple of thoughts though. Bear in mind that the name "Yugoslavia" referred to one country consisting of six republics until 1991, and then it referred to a different country with only two of these keeping the name, as four had seceded in quick succession. When people from there think of "Yugoslav films" they usually mean the pre-1991 era only. It's a political thing, yes, but since film production in Yugoslavia was entirely handled by state-run film studios (and with each republic having its own "main" film production company or two) the politics was inextricably linked to the local film industry. The 1991-2003 period is usually separated to belong into the List of Serbian films. If you want to keep it here, make sure to include a note. Also, I'd like to see English-language titles included (no idea why we are using native titles when individual articles on these films are mostly in English). And I'm not sure if each and every film made in Yugoslavia deserves a mention here, for notability reasons. Some of these include films which are only known from archived lists, with no surviving copies, and many are not available publicly to this day, so their cultural impact and notability are dubious at best. Also, it may be worth noting that starting in the 1950s there was the Pula Film Festival, an annual event which served as a sort of year in review for the local film industry, where all Yugoslav films shot in the preceding year would be screened (the 1991 edition was scheduled but was cancelled at the last minute). It may be useful to order them by the year they premiered at Pula, or list that info in one of the columns. And I don't think there's any danger of the list becoming too large, Yugoslavia's film output wasn't that large, at least until the 1980s, especially if you remove all the really obscure stuff. That's just my 2 cents. Timbouctou (talk) 05:46, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

I'd definitely split off films made in the FRY after the breakup of Yugoslavia into a separate article, because the context is different. In the vernacular, it's plausible that people could refer to these as "Yugoslav films", but the encyclopedia should maintain a certain level of rigor. --Joy (talk) 11:23, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Fair arguments, I'll take the last one off the list and propose a title change for that one instead. -Vipz (talk) 17:51, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

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