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Otpisani is a Yugoslav drama TV series, produced by Radio Television Belgrade and first aired in 1974. The series follows the lives of young Partisans during the World War II in Yugoslavia in occupied Belgrade. It is based the book Zabranjeni život by Dragan Marković.
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Brodogradiište (S01E13) Airdate: 16 March 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 44 minutes If Dragan Marković, the nominal creator of *Otpisani*, had held absolute creative control, the iconic series would have concluded as a far bleaker, more orthodox chronicle of sacrifice. His initial conception was starkly fatalistic: each of the thirteen episodes would en…More
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Ranjenici (S01E12) Airdate: 9 March 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 40 minutes Hollywood action cinema has taught countless generations that guerilla warfare is the most exciting and entertaining form of warfare; the dashing commando, the improvised explosive, the heart-pounding ambush. Yet, one of the less shown or profoundly appreciated aspects of bein…More
Provala (S01E11) Airdate: 2 March 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 42 minutes Contrary to the enduring popular perception of *Otpisani* as a purely romanticised, action-adventure series, the show was, from its inception, deeply rooted in the brutal reality of Belgrade under Nazi occupation. Its nominal creator, Dragan Marković, was himself a resistance ve…More
Vlada Rus (S01E10) Airdate: 23 February 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 42 minutes *Otpisani* has long occupied a curious space in Yugoslav television history, frequently dismissed either as escapist wartime melodrama or, in the post-Communist era, as historical fabrication devoid of authentic connection to the brutal realities of Nazi-occupied Belgrade.…More
Paja Bakšiš (S01E09) Airdate: 16 February 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 42 minutes From its premiere, the acclaimed Yugoslav TV series *Otpisani* (The Written-Off Men) has danced on a precarious line between patriotic myth-making and historical drama. Critics have long noted its tendency to stray from the meticulous record of Belgrade’s brutal World Wa…More
Poštar (S01E08) Airdate: 9 February 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes The 1970s American sitcom *Happy Days* is famous, among other things, for introducing phrases like “jumping the shark” and “Fonzie Syndrome” into the global lexicon. While the former is often applied subjectively, referring to a perceived, irreversible decline in a show’s qual…More
Banjički logor (S01E07) Airdate: 2 February 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes TThe sixth episode of *Otpisani*, *Kanal*, despite being a partial rehash of motives from the earlier *Garaža*, proved to be extremely effective and arguably the series' peak so far through its claustrophobic tension and ruthless pacing. The seventh episode, *Banjički…More
Kanal (S01E06) Airdate: 26 January 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes The enduring quality of the Yugoslav television series *Otpisani* (The Written Offs) is such that even an episode which, on its surface, appears to be a deliberate rehash of a previous premise can, through sheer creative grit and execution, be transformed into something radical…More
Pečurke (S01E05) Airdate: 19 January 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes Even within a relatively short and thematically consistent television series like *Otpisani*, which maintains a tightly focused narrative on the Yugoslav Partisan resistance in occupied Belgrade, it is inevitable that certain episodes will prove more controversial than others…More
Štamparija (S01E04) Airdate: 12 January 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes When a television series attempts to depict the granular reality of resistance activities in an occupied city, it inevitably faces a narrative hierarchy. Some endeavours—daring rescues, spectacular sabotage, tense internal betrayals—are naturally conducive to action and su…More
Izdajnik (S01E03) Airdate: 5 January 1975 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes _Otpisani_ (The Written-Offs) enjoys a hallowed place in the collective memory of the former Yugoslavia, often recalled with a fond, nostalgic glow as prime entertainment, a thrilling series about dashing young resistance fighters outwitting their Nazi occupiers. This percept…More
Garaža (S01E02) Airdate: 29 December 1974 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 48 minutes In the post-Communist era, it became a fashionable intellectual stance across the former Yugoslavia, particularly in Serbia, to dismiss the once-revered partisan series *Otpisani* as little more than state-sanctioned agitprop. While it is undeniable that the series enjoyed th…More
Bolnica (S01E01) Airdate: 22 December 1974 Written by: Dragan Marković & Siniša Pavić Directed by: Aleksandar Đorđević Running Time: 47 minutes The Partisan film, a genre specific to socialist Yugoslavia, is typically associated with ambitious, large-scale cinematic epics glorifying the National Liberation Struggle. However, its most iconic and enduringly popular characters—the street-smart Prle and the earnest Tihi…More
