Predrag 'Preža' Milinković

Acting

Predrag 'Preža' Milinković

Born — Died

1933-08-20 — 1998-04-04

Place of birth

Belgrade, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Predrag "Preža" Milinković was a legendary Serbian and Yugoslav actor, widely regarded as the most famous supporting actor in the history of Yugoslav cinema. Over a career spanning four decades, he appeared in an astounding 222 films and numerous television series, often playing distinct and memorable character parts.

Known for

Escape from Sobibor poster
7.2

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Escape from Sobibor

1987

Truckers poster
8.6

The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.

Truckers

1973

More Than a Game poster
7.7

The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.

More Than a Game

1974

Balkan Express 2 poster
5.5

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.

Balkan Express 2

1989

The Written Off poster
8.7

"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, 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.

The Written Off

1974

Hot Wind poster
8.9

Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries 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.

Hot Wind

1980

Film credits

1990s · 12 titles

We Are Not Angels poster
7.5

Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.

We Are Not Angels

1992

A Little Joke poster
7.0

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.

A Little Joke

1992

Scherzo poster
7.0

Story about people who have neither luck in finding new instruments to play after war, nor new romance. Instruments experience war just like people do. Originally shot in 1971, the film was not released until 1994.

Scherzo

1994

From Every Man I Loved poster
NR

A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.

From Every Man I Loved

1999

The Wedding March poster
8.0

In the family of Colonel Mitrovic, all three daughters are ready for marriage, but they have problems finding husbands. The icebreaker occurs when the youngest daughter marries a young assistant at the university. Her wedding, however, starts a chain of events which helps the other two daughters.

The Wedding March

1995

Let's Make Love 3 poster
5.2

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.

Let's Make Love 3

1990

Dark Is the Night poster
6.0

Belgrade in 1992. - breaking up of Yugoslavia, blockade, shortages, food queues, student rebellion. Life of two Belgrade families and personal drama of their members, caused by social breakdown and civil war.

Dark Is the Night

1995

Deserter poster
4.8

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.

Deserter

1992

A Night at My Mother's House poster
5.0

A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest for the meaning of life proves to be nothing but failure.

A Night at My Mother's House

1991

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret poster
4.2

Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret

1993

It Will Be Better poster
5.2

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.

It Will Be Better

1994

Sekula Is Getting Married Again poster
4.0

After so much unrequited love and so many failed marriages, yet with the heaps of children he's left with, Sekula decides to change his life and get serious, but it seems that it's too late for that, and the temptations keep growing...

Sekula Is Getting Married Again

1991

1980s · 26 titles

Escape from Sobibor poster
7.2

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Escape from Sobibor

1987

The Elusive Summer of '68 poster
7.4

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

The Elusive Summer of '68

1984

No artwork available
9.0

It follows the events at the University of Belgrade that were the basis for this dramatic story. Students are on strike, and the story of Josip Broz’s illegal stay in Belgrade is taking place in parallel. It takes place at a time when Broz is taking over the leadership of the Party.

Wrong Assessment

1987

Through the Jungles of South America poster
NR

A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.

Through the Jungles of South America

1989

Husino Rebellion poster
10.0

This is the true story of the miners who were seeking their rights by doing the hardest job in the world. Husinska rebellion is an armed resistance miners mine Krek against the violence of the state government during the general strike of miners Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 21 to 28 December 1920, named after the mining village Husin near Tuzla.

Husino Rebellion

1980

The Killer poster
NR

A chance encounter at the train station and a journey together brings up two men's memories of a woman who played different roles in their lives. The meeting ends with a tragic turn - one leads to death, and the other to restlessness and tragic sense of guilt.

The Killer

1985

Revenge poster
8.0

After 15 years spent working in Germany, forty-something-year-old Nada is getting divorced. Her husband is returning to the home country, opens the mechanic shop and starts a new life with his new young wife. To prevent Nada from returning home, he starts spreading the word about her misconducts. But Nada also knows the ways of the old community, therefore she comes back in a brand new Mercedes, accompanied by a young German.

Revenge

1986

The German Girl poster
NR

A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.

The German Girl

1980

Hey Babu Riba poster
5.5

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Hey Babu Riba

1985

Maternal Half-Brothers poster
6.4

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.

Maternal Half-Brothers

1988

What Is with You, Nina? poster
4.8

In search of her own identity, a young champion in fencing is torn between two men, which leads her to personal conflict.

What Is with You, Nina?

1984

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway poster
8.0

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

The Death of Mr Goluza poster
5.5

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.

The Death of Mr Goluza

1982

Truckers Ride Again poster
6.4

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.

Truckers Ride Again

1984

The Istrian Way poster
10.0

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

The Istrian Way

1985

My Part-Time Dad poster
6.8

The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.

My Part-Time Dad

1982

Battle of Kosovo poster
6.3

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.

Battle of Kosovo

1989

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović poster
6.8

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.

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović

1980

The Other Man poster
6.0

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.

The Other Man

1988

The Moth poster
6.4

The story of a man called "Moth", who becomes an entertainment star. Burdened with great popularity and entertainment events, he can not find his way around, and gets in series of comic situations.

The Moth

1984

Take It and You'll Be Given to poster
8.0

The drama takes place in the compartment of a passenger train that is moving from Belgrade to Sumadija. The main character is a woman of strong individuality and combative in character, despite all the hardships of life. She travels towards her goal: to provide for her grandchildren.

Take It and You'll Be Given to

1985

What Happens When Love Comes to Town poster
6.1

Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language.

What Happens When Love Comes to Town

1984

Sixth Gear poster
6.3

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

Sixth Gear

1981

Una poster
5.6

A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of two people: student Una and a respected professor. She is pretty and intelligent, but unable to cope with complicated relationships in which she became involved, while the professor is a person whose lectures on mass media are most visited by students at the Faculty. However, his views are not met with approval by the bureaucratic circles at the University. Vice Dean of the Faculty by means of intrigue manages to lure Una into a game with the professor. Thus, an innocent interview turns into a record of life, philosophical and ideological views of the controversial professor, and then into a malicious report about his life, behaviour, action and movement ... The Film is based on the novel Una written by Momo Kapor.

Una

1984

Never Speak Ill of the Dead poster
6.2

Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.

Never Speak Ill of the Dead

1984

Body Scent poster
5.2

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.

Body Scent

1983

1970s · 11 titles

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment poster
5.3

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

1971

Rain poster
7.0

A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".

Rain

1972

Down with Weapons poster
8.0

In this TV film, the action takes place in the Bay of Kotor in 1918, where the famous revolt of sailors of the Austro-Hungarian fleet happened, here reconstructed in the form of a docudrama.

Down with Weapons

1975

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels poster
10.0

The title protagonist is Aleksandar Ignjatovic, a modest young man who spoke against the occupiers during the German occupation in the Second World War. In addition to the acted part, it also contains documentary segments, i.e. contemporary interviews with his friends, acquaintances and relatives.

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels

1975

National Class Category Up to 785ccm poster
6.6

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.

National Class Category Up to 785ccm

1979

The Pals poster
4.7

The war is over, and a group of young Partisans returns to their town to continue their interrupted education. They are doing everything in their way, because they are young enough to go to school and to horse around, but mature enough to react to lies and injustice. Loud, ready to fight, they are a problem in school, in youth organization, in town's command. And when they get used to normal life, one of them gets killed by Chetnik renegades' ambush. The comrades wear their uniforms again, take their weapons and succeed in revenging their comrade. When they return to school again, they are determined to pass the maturity test as well...

The Pals

1979

Construction Site poster
NR

A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in the air due to his jealousy, instigated by the ridicule of his co-workers.

Construction Site

1979

Osceola poster
5.4

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But white plantation owners, angry at the increasing numbers of black slaves fleeing to Seminole protection, want to take their land. Plantation owner Raynes, in particular, has convinced the military to wipe out the Seminoles. His rival Moore, a sawmill owner from the North who has a Seminole wife, is against slavery and considers it unprofitable. Chief Osceola sees the coming danger; he tries to avoid provoking the whites, but cannot prevent the war that breaks out in 1835.

Osceola

1971

Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija poster
4.6

The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.

Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija

1979

The Last Cheers poster
8.0

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

The Last Cheers

1976

The Written Off poster
9.0

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

The Written Off

1974

1960s · 10 titles

Amazons of Rome poster
4.8

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.

Amazons of Rome

1961

White Wolves poster
5.8

Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When they are attacked by the outlaw Bashan, Falcon strikes out for the town of Tanglewood to take on Bashan's boss, mining magnate Harrington.

White Wolves

1969

Man Is Not a Bird poster
6.1

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

Man Is Not a Bird

1965

Noon poster
6.2

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Noon

1968

Face poster
7.0

A short avantgarde film by Ivan Martinac.

Face

1962

Cross Country poster
6.0

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

Cross Country

1969

The One Eyed Soldiers poster
5.2

The body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief Colonel Ferrer (Andrew Faulds) arrives in time to hear the dying Berens last words: "July the 18th! The One Eyed Soldiers."

The One Eyed Soldiers

1966

The Feast poster
6.0

In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for the pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.

The Feast

1967

Bitter Fruit poster
9.0

A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad and Tita.

Bitter Fruit

1967

Before the Truth poster
6.4

Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose.

Before the Truth

1968

Series credits

Truckers poster
8.6

The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.

Truckers

1973

More Than a Game poster
7.7

The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.

More Than a Game

1974

Balkan Express 2 poster
5.5

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.

Balkan Express 2

1989

The Written Off poster
8.7

"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, 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.

The Written Off

1974

Hot Wind poster
8.9

Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries 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.

Hot Wind

1980

Stories from the Workshop poster
8.2

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

Stories from the Workshop

1982

Svetozar Markovic poster
10.0

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.

Svetozar Markovic

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The Last Act poster
7.0

The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.

The Last Act

1982

The Pillow of My Grave poster
10.0

Trieste in 1807. Dositej Obradovic, founder of modern Serbian literature and the minister of education, goes through a creative and spiritual decline because of love of a young woman. Despite his old age, he can't resist this strong emotional flame, and subsequently travels to Belgrade following his agreement to be the leader of the Serbian uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

The Pillow of My Grave

1991

Room 405 poster
8.0

Room 405, is a room in children's hospital. In it, happy and unusual things happen continuously, because, of course, not even a hospital can do anything to a child's vitality. The favorite Dr. Marković is played by Goran Sultanović, and the strict head nurse of the hospital is played by Milena Dravić.

Room 405

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