Toma Jovanović

Toma Jovanović

Born: August 21, 1929
Died: June 9, 2012
in Valjevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Movies for Toma Jovanović...

When Day Breaks
Title: When Day Breaks
Character: Najfeld
Released: August 17, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
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Migrations II
Title: Migrations II
Character: Major Božić
Released: November 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
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Summer
Title: Summer
Character: Daničin otac
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Jaguar Jump
Title: Jaguar Jump
Character: Policajac
Released: June 28, 1984
Type: Movie
The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero goes to America in order to find her.
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Broad Are the Leaves
Title: Broad Are the Leaves
Character: Mile
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: Movie
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.
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The Mulberry Tree
Title: The Mulberry Tree
Released: September 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Johan, a former Volksdeutscher, after thirty years after the end of the Second World War, comes back to the place where he was born and grew up, visits his birthplace where he finds Dane and Janja, the colonists who were assigned Johan’s house to. Johan recognizes the mulberry tree in the yard.
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Title: Hot Wind
Character: Magistar Čolović
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 Trophy
Title: The Trophy
Released: July 3, 1979
Type: Movie
A committee made up to investigate illegal masonry in Yugoslavia causes more problems both for the builders and government, and in fact no one have any use of it. The pressure from all sides makes committee work less diligently.
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Arrive Before Daybreak
Title: Arrive Before Daybreak
Character: Uča
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
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Back of the Medal
Title: Back of the Medal
Character: Policijski inspektor Hribar
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.
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In Conflict
Title: In Conflict
Character: Ognjen
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The conflict between a reactionary surgeon and his progressive son over new methods of surgery.
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The Choosy Bride-to-Be
Title: The Choosy Bride-to-Be
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A filmed stage play based on Kosta Trifkovic novel about mischievous girl who, together with her female cousin, makes fun of the whole bunch of her admirers.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Mladić (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
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Title: Svetozar Markovic
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.