Branko Cvejić

Branko Cvejić

Born: August 25, 1946
Died: July 26, 2022
in Belgrade, Serbia
Branko Cvejić was a Serbian actor. In the period 2002-2011 he was director of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.

Movies for Branko Cvejić...

Alexander of Yugoslavia
Title: Alexander of Yugoslavia
Character: Vlatko Maček
Released: August 24, 2021
Type: Movie
A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic.
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The Living Man
Title: The Living Man
Character: Svetozar
Released: May 20, 2021
Type: Movie
A melancholic comedy dealing with the question „What is freedom?" and focusing on a man who, after a series of big disappointments, is now trying to regain his own.
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Title: Alexandar of Yugoslavia
Character: Vladimir Maček
Released: March 15, 2021
Type: TV
The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles.
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Title: The Heroes of Our Time
Character: Arsenije Čičanović
Released: December 17, 2019
Type: TV
A well-educated family man realizes that his life is in crisis. Could the next generation do better?
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Title: Hide-and-Seek
Character: Učitelj
Released: March 31, 2019
Type: TV
The story of the fate of boys and girls who go to school on the day of the Victory of Fascism on May 9, 1945. The script is based on true events and tells the fate of the children of the victorious and vanquished in a common environment at the end of World War II in Serbia.
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What a Country!
Title: What a Country!
Character: Živojin
Released: December 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
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Razor
Title: Razor
Character: Direktor
Released: March 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A game of destiny or cosmic justice?
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For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Title: For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Character: Museum Guide
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.
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Tomorrow Morning
Title: Tomorrow Morning
Character: Čika Sava
Released: August 30, 2006
Type: Movie
After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.
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Free Fall
Title: Free Fall
Character: Glavni član komisije
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Nikola is getting ready to parachute jump from an airplane. During the jump he falls into a state near death and lives through a series of dream-like sequences in which he recapitulates his life.
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Loving Glances
Title: Loving Glances
Character: Otac
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.
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Strawberry in the Supermarket
Title: Strawberry in the Supermarket
Character: Dragan
Released: February 6, 2003
Type: Movie
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.
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And Now, Goodbye!
Title: And Now, Goodbye!
Character: Lister
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
On the morning of 31st December at a Belgrade market, Spic and Djosa are selling baby pigs and Christmas trees. The European mad cow madness is doing harm to their profit, mostly because Lister, an upstart with shallow past, is persuading people not to buy pork. The locals are waiting for a New Year's Eve with the sound of trumpets and popular songs of the past century.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Kapetan
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
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Sweet of Dreams
Title: Sweet of Dreams
Character: Špigeti
Released: April 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Deni, a young woman working in McDonalds, has dreams of fame. When a producer discovers her singing talent he gets her into the game. However, she soon feels overburdened. Fortunately, the ghost of Elvis is there to help her.
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It Will Be Better
Title: It Will Be Better
Character: Pera
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A local bar/restaurant run by a feuding husband and wife find themselves and their business threatened by a not so bright group of extortionists. With the help of their patrons who wish to preserve their quiet mode of patronage and a motor cycle riding stranger, they take the fight directly back to the villains with some non conventional approaches.
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Better Than Escape
Title: Better Than Escape
Character: Upravnik pozorišta
Released: July 15, 1993
Type: Movie
A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
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Deserter
Title: Deserter
Character: Vojni doktor
Released: June 15, 1992
Type: Movie
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
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Chauvinistic Farce 2
Title: Chauvinistic Farce 2
Character: Ludi Aca
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A sequel of the locally acclaimed theater play in which a drunken Serb and a drunken Croat argue over who’s the better nation.
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My Brother Aleksa
Title: My Brother Aleksa
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family from Mostar, in conservative social environment, in controversial times in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. As a young man, he falls in love with the Slavonian girl, Anka Tomlinovic, daughter of poor photographer, leaving her under pressure of his family. Later, he meets Zorka Solina, young and rich girl from Mostar who, again because of the interests of her family, leaves the poet. In his mature years, Aleksa Santic engages himself passionately in social and political life of his age. Disappointments, poverty, sickness and loneliness follow. And the certainty of early death. His older brother tells the story of poet's life, while he is dying.
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The Border
Title: The Border
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
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The Deceased
Title: The Deceased
Character: Gospodin Đurić
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An architect Pavle is furious with his wife for conducting an affair with his best friend and business partner. Weeks later, a deformed corpse is found washed up on the river banks and is identified to be that of Pavle. Three years later, Pavle, now the deceased, unexpectedly returns.
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Battle of Kosovo
Title: Battle of Kosovo
Character: Levčanin
Released: June 12, 1989
Type: Movie
In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.
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The Last Lap at Monza
Title: The Last Lap at Monza
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
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The Other Man
Title: The Other Man
Character: Živković
Released: December 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Title: Maternal Half-Brothers
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
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A Film with No Name
Title: A Film with No Name
Character: Prijatelj I
Released: May 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
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Balkan Express 2
Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Kostica
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
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Thirteen
Title: Thirteen
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two girls who study theatre & drama and their friend photographer decide to rob a bank, using all sorts of their creative force and imagination to implement the idea.
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The Magpie Strategy
Title: The Magpie Strategy
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.
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Ever-Ready Women
Title: Ever-Ready Women
Character: Poslodavac
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
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The Harms Case
Title: The Harms Case
Character: Marija Vasiljevna
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced by the Soviet authorities.
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Golden Apple
Title: Golden Apple
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.
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Miss
Title: Miss
Character: Filmski režiser
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.
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And This Will Pass, Too...
Title: And This Will Pass, Too...
Character: Janko Đorđević 'Karlo'
Released: April 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
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Strawberries in the Throat
Title: Strawberries in the Throat
Character: Bane Bumbar
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
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Truckers Ride Again
Title: Truckers Ride Again
Character: Sekretar
Released: April 5, 1984
Type: Movie
New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.
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The Elusive Summer of '68
Title: The Elusive Summer of '68
Character: Godfather Spasoje
Released: January 30, 1984
Type: Movie
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
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Balkan Express
Title: Balkan Express
Character: Kosta
Released: January 24, 1983
Type: Movie
In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
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Body Scent
Title: Body Scent
Character: Železničar u Beogradu
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
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The Karlovci Experience of 1889
Title: The Karlovci Experience of 1889
Character: Mihajlo, lekar
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
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Something in Between
Title: Something in Between
Character: Barmen
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
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Erogenous Zone
Title: Erogenous Zone
Character: Boki
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.
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Plum Juice
Title: Plum Juice
Character: Delatnik kombinata
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
DJ from a small town plans to organize a great artistic happening. His plans coincide with those by local bigwigs who desperately want to promote a local food company.
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Handymen, Handymen
Title: Handymen, Handymen
Character: Kole
Released: October 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Title: The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Character: Vesnin bivši verenik
Released: October 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").
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The Woman from Sarajevo
Title: The Woman from Sarajevo
Character: Rafo Konforti
Released: July 2, 1980
Type: Movie
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
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Happy Family
Title: Happy Family
Character: Ujakov kolega
Released: February 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.
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Petria's Wreath
Title: Petria's Wreath
Character: Doktor Stanimirović
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: Movie
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
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Title: Hot Wind
Character: Miša, gost na prijemu
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: TV
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV series that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Ćopo
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
After WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and gets imprisoned, but escapes soon. A former hero becomes an outlaw hunted by the police.
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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Title: Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Character: Gospodin u kafani 1
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Mister Dimkovic
Title: Mister Dimkovic
Character: Veljić, novinar
Released: March 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.
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The Fragrance of Wild Flowers
Title: The Fragrance of Wild Flowers
Character: Kole
Released: December 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Title: The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Character: Profesor Plavišić
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.
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Title: The Unpicked Strawberries
Character: Bane 'Bumbar' Živković
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV series directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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Title: The Written Off
Character: Džokej
Released: December 22, 1974
Type: TV
"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV series, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
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The Girl in the Park
Title: The Girl in the Park
Character: Marko
Released: July 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of the birth of a love between two young people, about its duration, with all the difficulties and beauty that it brings, the closing of that love because of conflicts with exaggerated dynamics and false values of contemporary life.
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There's Love, There's Not
Title: There's Love, There's Not
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.
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Smoke
Title: Smoke
Character: Newermannov sin
Released: July 13, 1967
Type: Movie
The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and who returns from prison after serving the minimum sentence. Coincidentally, planned revenge takes a different turn.
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Title: Svetozar Markovic
Character: Milan Obrenović
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.
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Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Kosta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.