Slobodan Aligrudić
Actor
Biography
Slobodan Aligrudić was a Serbian actor known for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.
He earned prominence as a thespian in Belgrade's Atelje 212 Theatre, but to a wider audience he is best known for his memorable character portrayals on film. Some of those roles were achieved in classic films of former Yugoslav cinema, including Love Affair: Or the Case of Missing Switchboard Operator. Due to his distinctly coarse look, most of his roles were stern authority figures, but he always managed to give them a breath of humanity. One of the best examples is Maho, a father character in Emir Kusturica's 1981 coming-of-age drama Do You Remember Dolly Bell?.
Aligrudić worked with Kusturica again in his 1985 celebrated drama When Father Was Away on Business, in which he played an UDBA agent in charge of protagonist's "re-education". He died shortly after that film won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and shortly after the death of his long-time colleague Zoran Radmilović. This event led many former Yugoslav film critics to say that "heaven had received a huge boost".
Filmography
When Father Was Away on Business
as Ostoja Cekić 1985
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
as Otac 1981
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
as Ahmed, sanitarni inspektor 1967
Variola Vera
as Drug Vlada 1982
National Class Category Up to 785ccm
as Funkcioner Vidoje 1979
Special Education
as Komandir milicije 1977
The Promising Boy
as Psihijatar 1981
When I Am Dead and White
as upravnik Milutin 1967
The Ambush
as drug Jotić 1969
The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
as Direktor OOUR-a 1977
Great Transport
as Novoverac Rade 1983
Early Works
1971
This Crazy World of Ours
as Silovatelj 1970
Erogenous Zone
as Milicioner 1981
And God Created a Tavern Singer
as Direktor hotela II 1972
Yellow
as Milicioner 2 1973