Lazar Ristovski

Lazar Ristovski

Born: October 26, 1952
in Ravno Selo near Vrbas - Serbia - Yugoslavia
Lazar Ristovski is a famous Serbian actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly in lead roles.

Movies for Lazar Ristovski...

Title: Tunel
Released: November 11, 2023
Type: TV
A tense psychological drama based on police reports depicts the work and lives of members of the negotiating group of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Serbia, whose work takes place on the border between life and death
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Title: Dream Team
Character: Ika
Released: January 2, 2021
Type: TV
Dream team is a 12 episode humorous TV Series intended for broadcasting on Sunday evenings. It's partly created based on the unverified biography of Maradona from Zvezdara, the famous Inge, the TV Series Dream team, is the story of not that successful football player Ilija Ika Srdic and his team made of his 11 sons. Each episode will tell one funny story from the life of this numerous football family, this unusual football team. At the very beginning of the TV Series " BULBUDERAC " (the name of this fraternal team) performs in the zone competition but with great ambition to enter one day to the Second League then the First League and even to the Champions League.
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Neverending Past
Title: Neverending Past
Character: Čovjek koji traži mrtvog sina (segment "III priča")
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A triptych set in three different time periods about fathers who find themselves in borderline situations in which one is forced to make a decision among several contradictory choices.
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Leeches
Title: Leeches
Character: Stjepan Stroh
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Writer Petar Miric, at the time of the great social and political crisis in Serbia represents attitudes that conflict with the principles of the political regime. A close encounter with the State Security Authority leads him to life in paranoia and searching for the truth.
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What a Country!
Title: What a Country!
Character: Karlo
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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King Petar the First
Title: King Petar the First
Character: Kralj Petar I Karađorđević
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.
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The Man Who Bought The Moon
Title: The Man Who Bought The Moon
Character: Taneddu
Released: November 29, 2018
Type: Movie
A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.
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Train Driver's Diary
Title: Train Driver's Diary
Character: Ilija
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
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On the Other Side
Title: On the Other Side
Character: Zarko
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
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Point Blank
Title: Point Blank
Character: Aco Gorić
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Berlin, Germany. Police officer Klaus Roth infiltrates the Serbian mafia, specializing in manipulating sports betting, and befriends the naive Luka, in order to capture Aco Gorić, the enigmatic head of the criminal ring.
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For the King and Fatherland
Title: For the King and Fatherland
Released: March 23, 2015
Type: Movie
The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a member of the "Ravnogorski pokret". The storyline narrates his memories of the past and the war events in the spring of 1941 interwoven with the contemporary moments, the author features the attack of fascist Germany, the April war and the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the misfortune placed upon the Serbian people, loss of freedom, birth of the freedom movement in Serbia and one Serbian soldier, who after 70 years of expatriation in America returns to his homeland.
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We Will Be the World Champions
Title: We Will Be the World Champions
Character: Tito
Released: February 26, 2015
Type: Movie
The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.
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The November Man
Title: The November Man
Character: Arkady Federov
Released: August 27, 2014
Type: Movie
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
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Title: Flat Hill
Character: Đeneral Borivoje Mirković
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: TV
Ravna Gora tells story of events after April War 1941. Serbia with accent on the Chetnic-Partisan conflict, at the beginning of World War II
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Who Is This Kusturica?
Title: Who Is This Kusturica?
Released: August 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...
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Along the Roadside
Title: Along the Roadside
Character: Milutin
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Road movie about two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different clashing cultures and their journey of self-discovery during the drive to the largest music festival in California.
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The Priest's Children
Title: The Priest's Children
Character: Biskup
Released: January 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
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White Lions
Title: White Lions
Character: Dile
Released: April 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.
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Honeymoons
Title: Honeymoons
Character: Verin ujak
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.
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St. George Shoots the Dragon
Title: St. George Shoots the Dragon
Character: Đorđe
Released: March 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
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Devil's Town
Title: Devil's Town
Character: Rajko Zorić
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Black comic debut film about modern Belgrade in which a group of people cross each other’s paths on the same day that Serbian tennis players play an international match at an international tennis tournament. The moral vacuum that was left after the nationalist conflicts in the area are reflected in the self-satisfied behaviour of the characters. Black comedy and ensemble film about modern Belgrade, where several people’s paths cross on the same day that several popular Serbian tennis players play a match in an important international tournament. A young girl tries her best to get her hands on new tennis equipment, a taxi driver blames the rest of the world for not being able to get on in life, a rich adolescent discovers that love is not for sale. Driven by instincts, fears and obsessions, the characters discover that reality will not fit in with their desires.
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Sonetàula
Title: Sonetàula
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.
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Save Our Souls
Title: Save Our Souls
Character: Gvozden
Released: July 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).
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Title: The Village Is Burning, and the Grandmother Is Combing Her Hair
Character: Jovan
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: TV
Selo gori, a baba se češlja is a television series in Serbia. First aired in 2007, the show quickly gained national fame with episodes in its third season averaging approximately 2.9 million viewers. The show was aired on RTS1.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Kaminofsky
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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The Optimists
Title: The Optimists
Character: Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
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Tomorrow Morning
Title: Tomorrow Morning
Character: Zdravko
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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Tailor's Secret
Title: Tailor's Secret
Character: Pukovnik
Released: January 25, 2006
Type: Movie
The story is set in an ambiance of a dark utopian future, a city of mentally dead zombies under the firm grip of military dictatorship. Boldly, like a man on a mission, the Tailor will walk the Kafkaesque and macabre streets of a city where terror and gloom roam freely, in his Diogenes’ search for purity and love.
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Well Tempered Corpses
Title: Well Tempered Corpses
Character: Ruždija Kučuk
Released: October 28, 2005
Type: Movie
A couple of morticians entertain themselves by betting on how many cold customers will come in that day. But one of the corpses refuses to cooperate...
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Midwinter Night's Dream
Title: Midwinter Night's Dream
Character: Lazar
Released: October 28, 2004
Type: Movie
A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna and Jovana, he changes his mind after seeing the squalid conditions of the shelter they are to move into. It is an allegory of the Balkan wars. When first released in Serbia, it caused some public outrage because of the sharp criticism of Serbia's role in the war.
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Falling in the Paradise
Title: Falling in the Paradise
Character: Ljubiša Kundačina
Released: August 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets romantically involved with his sister while unsuccessfully trying to escape.
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King of Thieves
Title: King of Thieves
Character: Caruso
Released: November 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
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Small World
Title: Small World
Character: Ras
Released: May 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.
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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Character: Bobi
Released: September 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.
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The White Suit
Title: The White Suit
Character: Savo / Vuko Tiodorović
Released: May 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.
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Goodbye, 20th Century
Title: Goodbye, 20th Century
Character: Santa Claus
Released: November 17, 1998
Type: Movie
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
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The Second Wife
Title: The Second Wife
Character: Fosco
Released: November 5, 1998
Type: Movie
In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.
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Cabaret Balkan
Title: Cabaret Balkan
Character: Svetin kum
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
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My Country
Title: My Country
Released: June 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict.
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Balkan Rules
Title: Balkan Rules
Character: Matori
Released: April 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Kovač
Released: March 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the establishment. The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge, deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony.
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Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
Title: Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
Character: Himself
Released: November 30, 1996
Type: Movie
While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his film crew to overcome this reality. A new world, which carries the signs of the old, comes to life.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Petar 'Crni' Popara
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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Byzantine Blue
Title: Byzantine Blue
Character: Aranđel
Released: July 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.
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A Little Joke
Title: A Little Joke
Character: Svetislav
Released: November 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged friends, Mićko and Đorđe, decide to make a joke with their childhood friend, teacher Svetislav, who is a stingy when it comes to paying for the bills at bars where they often hang out. After filling his lottery ticket with numbers that Mićko claims he saw in his dream, they invite him to his home to watch lottery live on TV, but instead they play a previously recorded video material in order to make him believe he scored all seven hits. However, a joke goes wrong after Svetislav ditches his wife, resigns at the school where he works, and raises a credit at the bank, believed he's about to make a new start.
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Tito and Me
Title: Tito and Me
Character: Raja
Released: March 2, 1992
Type: Movie
At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" to Tito's hometown of Kumrovec.
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The Original of the Forgery
Title: The Original of the Forgery
Character: Pavle
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
The plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immediately after the war. Pavle, a former war commissar, is now a school teacher. Thanks to him, Stojan, who was a bakery assistant before the war, does the job of a district committee's secretary, while Dragisa works in the state's secret police. The reason of conflict between Pavle and Stojan in 1947 was Stojan's fiancée Lena, who loves Pavle, marries him and gets pregnant, right when Pavle is taken to the state prison. Stojan accepts his wife and kid again, but the avalanche of political events will make all them unable to stop the inevitable catastrophe.
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Let's Make Love 3
Title: Let's Make Love 3
Character: Miloje
Released: November 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
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The Border
Title: The Border
Character: Topić
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 Bizarre Country
Title: The Bizarre Country
Character: Putnik
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
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The Way Steel Was Tempered
Title: The Way Steel Was Tempered
Character: Leo
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A moulder wants to live a happy life, but the circumstances in his factory are such that everyone is looking for an opportunity to grab the money before the ship sinks down to the bottom.
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Knot
Title: Knot
Character: Nikola
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.
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The Damned Yard
Title: The Damned Yard
Character: Ljubitelj žena
Released: December 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
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Zadar's Memento
Title: Zadar's Memento
Character: Krševan Stipčević
Released: May 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.
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The Igman March
Title: The Igman March
Character: Josip Broz Tito
Released: June 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
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Svetozar Markovic
Title: Svetozar Markovic
Character: Svetozar Marković
Released: May 30, 1980
Type: Movie
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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Breakdown
Title: Breakdown
Character: Psihijatar Savić
Released: December 4, 1978
Type: Movie
A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend resting in nature and self-examination. In the mountains, in a lonely house near the lake, he meets a woman, also unadjusted and lonely. The consequences of this encounter are beneficial. Capable to love again, he gets his moral strength, and disease retreats. He breaks off his contacts with his wife's family and with "petit bourgeois" of his former life, confronts his boss and wins, realizing that this is only a first victory which has straightened him up.
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Manhunt
Title: Manhunt
Character: Ivan
Released: June 28, 1977
Type: Movie
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.
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Title: Dream Team
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Belgrade's Srdić family faces trouble again on Bulbulder in the second season of this hilarious comedy. Ilija, his wife Ciga and eleven sons must find a way to preserve their unconventional way of life after losing everything in the last soccer game.
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Title: Svetozar Markovic
Character: Svetozar Marković
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.