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Doctor Ray and the Devils

Doctor Ray and the Devils

2012•1h 36m•5.8/10
ComedyDrama

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5.8/10(4)

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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Production

Viktorija Film

Language

SR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Dragan Bjelogrlić

Dragan Bjelogrlić

Ratko Dražević

Lena Bogdanović

Nada

Svetozar Cvetković

Svetozar Cvetković

D.W. Griffith

Ana Sofrenović

Betty

Tihomir Stanić

Tihomir Stanić

Ivica

Jana Milić

Olja

Miodrag 'Miki' Krstović

Miodrag 'Miki' Krstović

Drug Branko

Slobodan Ćustić

Slobodan Ćustić

Recepcioner u hotelu

Pavle Pekić

Zlatan

Marko Gvero

Marko Gvero

Aleksa

Bojan Dimitrijević

Bojan Dimitrijević

Borislav Mihajlović 'Mihiz'

Gordon Murray

Orson Welles

Ivana Popović

Ivana Popović

Oja

Milena Predić

Milena Predić

Jeanne Moreau

Milan Konjević

Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić

Lazar Stojanović

Samuel Bronston

Dragan Velikić

Paul Leonard Murray

Paul Leonard Murray

Nicholas Ray

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