Doctor Ray and the Devils

Mar 4, 2012

1h 36m

★ 5.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Viktorija Film

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Cast

Ratko Dražević

Dragan Bjelogrlić

Nada

Lena Bogdanović

D.W. Griffith

Svetozar Cvetković

Betty

Ana Sofrenović

Ivica

Tihomir Stanić

Olja

Jana Milić

Drug Branko

Miodrag 'Miki' Krstović

Recepcioner u hotelu

Slobodan Ćustić

Zlatan

Pavle Pekić

Aleksa

Marko Gvero

Borislav Mihajlović 'Mihiz'

Bojan Dimitrijević

Orson Welles

Gordon Murray

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