Borivoje Todorović

Borivoje Todorović

Born: November 5, 1930
Died: July 7, 2014
in Belgrade, Serbia
Borivoje "Bora" Todorović (born 5 November 1930 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor. His sister is the famous actress, Mira Stupica, and father of Srđan Todorović. Bora Todorović has an extensive acting career, and has had roles in critically acclaimed Yugoslavian films such as Who's That Singing Over There (1980), The Marathon Family (1982), Balkan Express (1983), Balkanski Špijun (Balkan Spy, 1984), Time of the Gypsies (1988), and Underground (1995). Bora's father died during his childhood. Following secondary school, Bora completed army service, at which point he had no plans to pursue an acting career. However, his older sister Mira's passion for acting exposed him to the business and soon he became passionate about it as well. He enrolled in the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy, and eventually acted on stage at the Belgrade Drama Theatre. In 1957, Bora lived and acted in Zagreb, eventually returning to Belgrade in 1961. Between 1961 and 1983, Bora was a member of the "Atelje 212" theater in Belgrade, where he performed various roles. In October 2002, he appeared on the Zvezdara Theatre stage in Belgrade, in the play Larry Thompson. Bora Todorović now alternates residence between Prague and Belgrade. He is currently married to Carolyn Kilkka, with whom he has two children, Dana and Tara. Bora also has a child from his previous marriage to Snežana Matić. He died on July 7, 2014 after suffering a brain-stroke.

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St. George Shoots the Dragon
Title: St. George Shoots the Dragon
Character: Aleksa
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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Introduction to Employment
Title: Introduction to Employment
Character: Buda Jeremić
Released: October 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Dragi, young intern with his experienced colleague went to the province on a business trip. Older colleagues has the task to introduce a younger colleague into the business. They are sellers of books. But time is socialism. How to sell a book?
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The Professional
Title: The Professional
Character: Luka Laban
Released: May 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Golub
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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The Little One
Title: The Little One
Character: Stojan
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
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SA 204-272
Title: SA 204-272
Character: Rade
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A high representative goes by the narrow macadam road to the grand opening of the facility in a mountain village, another new victory of his own. In the car with him was not his wife but his mistress, a young and rather attractive girl. The car stucks in the quite large and deep puddle in the middle of the country road...
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Time of the Gypsies
Title: Time of the Gypsies
Character: Ahmed
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
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Balkan Express 2
Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Pik
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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Ever-Ready Women
Title: Ever-Ready Women
Character: Đura
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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Title: Grey Home
Character: Dragiša, Velizarov otac
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
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Ada
Title: Ada
Character: Martin
Released: May 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A married woman unsuccessfully tries to find a job in order to provide a better life to her son.
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Taiwan Canasta
Title: Taiwan Canasta
Character: Jogi
Released: March 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
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Peter the Punk
Title: Peter the Punk
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Balkan Spy
Title: Balkan Spy
Character: Petar Markov Jakovljević
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
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The Death of Black George
Title: The Death of Black George
Character: Naum
Released: January 23, 1984
Type: Movie
The story about the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Title: Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Character: Pop Jordan
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
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Balkan Express
Title: Balkan Express
Character: Pik
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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Twilight Time
Title: Twilight Time
Character: Nikola
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young grandchildren. But Marko's quiet life is in for a shake up when he meets the pretty new village schoolteacher, Lana (Jodi Thelen). Malden pays tribute to his Yugoslav heritage in this affecting 1982 drama.
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The Marathon Family
Title: The Marathon Family
Character: Đenka
Released: March 4, 1982
Type: Movie
The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
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Montenegro
Title: Montenegro
Character: Alex Rossignol
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
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Erogenous Zone
Title: Erogenous Zone
Character: Đoka 'Zver'
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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The Last Act
Title: The Last Act
Character: Inžinjer Mitrović
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.
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Who's Singin' Over There?
Title: Who's Singin' Over There?
Character: Ožalošćeni
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group of passengers is headed for Belgrade...
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Title: The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Character: Slobodan Bob Mihajlović
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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Special Treatment
Title: Special Treatment
Character: Rade
Released: March 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.
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Title: Hot Wind
Character: Slobodan Bob Mihajlović
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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What a Day!
Title: What a Day!
Character: Zoranov kolega iz kancelarije
Released: November 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Zoran leads a quiet family life with his wife, a primary school teacher Ana, their son, and Ana’s brother. Zoran works as a clerk and has a great desire to attend a symposium in Dubrovnik, but the manager will not sign the travel order.
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National Class Category Up to 785ccm
Title: National Class Category Up to 785ccm
Character: Žika
Released: January 9, 1979
Type: Movie
One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
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Arrive Before Daybreak
Title: Arrive Before Daybreak
Character: Svetozar Vujković
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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Stardust
Title: Stardust
Character: Ivan
Released: June 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.
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The Beach Guard in Winter
Title: The Beach Guard in Winter
Character: Petar Dunjić
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.
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Death Fury
Title: Death Fury
Character: Dragutin Molerović
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman who killed her husband by accident comes out of prison after sixteen years to meet with her two children at municipality office. Before children's arrival, she recalls her supposedly happy marriage that turned into a nightmare when her husband's brother came back from Germany and begun to influence her husband in a bad way.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
Title: Requiem for a Heavyweight
Character: Mes Lumis
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.
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Miloje's Death
Title: Miloje's Death
Character: Branilac
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
An already convicted woman becomes a key witness for the unraveling of a very complex court process.
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Title: The Graduates
Character: Budimir 'Buda' Bumba
Released: September 26, 1971
Type: TV
The series is about the life of a group of students on the outskirts of Belgrade. One of the main characters is Buda, who fails to pass the final exam, but with the help of his father Sima Bumba, manages to get a job.
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Steps Through the Mist
Title: Steps Through the Mist
Character: Murđa
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.
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The Swarm
Title: The Swarm
Character: Čovek u ime svih
Released: May 16, 1966
Type: Movie
During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.
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The Bitter Part of River
Title: The Bitter Part of River
Character: Poštar
Released: July 15, 1965
Type: Movie
While trying to push away a little boy who keeps coming near his cottage at the river, a whimsical mayor meets boy's mother. These people find hard to make contacts because of their own troublemarks from the past, even though they know that the common effort is needed for the future and survival.
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Little Man
Title: Little Man
Character: Assistant Inspector
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A boy named Miso runs away from home and befriends new people who happen to be criminals.
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In the Net
Title: In the Net
Character: Mladi ribar s gitarom
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A small coastal town, where almost everybody are into fishing. Niko and Mato are friends, both in loved with the same girl Visnja, in charge of the fishermen's strike against the owners of the fishing boats. After being caught, Mato betrays his friends. Thus he becomes the subject of scorn both by the entire village and Visnja, who then marries Niko.
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Title: Balkan Express 2
Character: Pik
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.