Ljuba Tadić

Acting

Ljuba Tadić

Born — Died

1929-05-31 — 2005-10-28

Place of birth

Uroševac, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Ljubivoje "Ljuba" Tadić (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубивоје Тадић Љуба) (31 May 1929 — 28 October 2005) was a Serbian actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. He made his screen debut in 1953, but his first truly memorable role was in the 1957 film Nije bilo uzalud. In this film, like in many others, he played the villain, but he turned out to be the most memorable character. Later he built on this reputation and continued to play important historical and larger-than-life characters. He also made history by uttering an obscenity in one of the final scenes of 1964 World War I epic Marš na Drinu, which was the first such instance in the hi…

Known for

Ulysses' Gaze poster
7.5

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Ulysses' Gaze

1995

Impure Blood poster
10.0

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

Impure Blood

1996

Vuk Karadžić poster
7.0

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Vuk Karadžić

1987

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

Jovča poster
NR

Jovča is a respected and rich man in the 19th-century Vranje. He loves his daughter Vaska a little bit too much, so he does not let any of the suitors, even the best ones, approach her. Over time, she starts a relationship with a servant she grew up with.

Jovča

1976

Nikola Tesla poster
8.0

This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.

Nikola Tesla

1977

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 8 titles

Ulysses' Gaze poster
7.5

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Ulysses' Gaze

1995

Impure Blood poster
10.0

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

Impure Blood

1996

Cabaret Balkan poster
7.4

20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Cabaret Balkan

1998

Clay Pigeons poster
7.0

Milutin, a former powerful man in a small town, is terminally ill. Members of his family gather around his bed on the day of his baptism. It is also an opportunity to once again recall the events from the past that changed everyone's lives. At the same time, this meeting is the last chance to cross paths with that past and start a new life.

Clay Pigeons

1991

No artwork available
10.0

Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former Yugoslavia. One of them was delegate with the Chetniks, while the other one was with partisans.

British Gambit

1998

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach poster
7.0

Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where the question concerning happiness is taken very seriously. A man comes and is drawn into a confusing game. A child an a mysterious woman play an important role in the game. He is mistaken for someone else and gradually sees the possibility of leaving his former life behind and finding happiness on the island. Is this only an illusion which should be rejected?

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach

1990

The Clef poster
7.0

A 1990 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Aleksandar Fotez, starring Nebojsa Bakocevic, Ljuba Tadić and Branislav Jerinić.

The Clef

1991

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced poster
4.2

A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced

1997

1980s · 12 titles

Golden Apple poster
5.7

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.

Golden Apple

1986

Wild Flesh poster
8.0

In Skopje in 1939 a family of a disabled bricklayer clashes over tradition, patriarchal morality and modern world views as fascism and World War II loom on the horizon.

Wild Flesh

1982

Dirty Movie poster
NR

A tale of dirty filmmakers' job, constructed in the form of collage consisting of authentic events, movie document, while also being an experiment. In the movie, real writer Radoslav Pavlovic and film director Dusan Sabo play themselves as other people, and others as themselves. They're trying to make a film about Kosovo... Cinema observed as parallel life. At the same time, it is homage to French New Wave classic "Breathless" by Jean-Luc Godard.

Dirty Movie

1989

Byzantine Empire '88 poster
NR

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Milan Bilbija, starring Senad Bašić, Snježana Martinović and Stojan ‘Stole’ Aranđelović.

Byzantine Empire '88

1988

Special Treatment poster
5.2

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.

Special Treatment

1980

Outrage poster
4.6

After the end of World War II, a young partisan falls in love with a German secretary who is captured and imprisoned by partisans. He decides to free her and escape with her.

Outrage

1982

Cyclops poster
5.9

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Cyclops

1982

Pretty Women Walking Through the City poster
4.9

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.

Pretty Women Walking Through the City

1986

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

Time of Miracles poster
6.1

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.

Time of Miracles

1989

Migrations II poster
8.0

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.

Migrations II

1989

Good Morning, Belgrade poster
6.2

In the center of this docudrama are the events and tensions of the shooting of a feature film about Belgrade in the future. The director sets up unrealistic requirements to the producer, who breaks the law by overstepping the budget. During a court trial where the crew members are at the witness stand, we follow up the drama of how a film is made.

Good Morning, Belgrade

1986

1970s · 18 titles

Jovča poster
NR

Jovča is a respected and rich man in the 19th-century Vranje. He loves his daughter Vaska a little bit too much, so he does not let any of the suitors, even the best ones, approach her. Over time, she starts a relationship with a servant she grew up with.

Jovča

1976

White Shirt poster
8.0

A TV drama set in a brick factory.

White Shirt

1973

The Battle of Sutjeska poster
6.6

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

The Coach poster
7.0

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

The Coach

1978

The Master and Margarita poster
5.4

Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.

The Master and Margarita

1972

Doctor Mladen poster
6.4

The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.

Doctor Mladen

1975

Pavle Pavlovic poster
5.8

Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board, takes his statement back, but looses the trust of his colleagues. He starts all over again: in another company he gains new friends, however while facing the criminals who illegally transport workers abroad, he loses his life.

Pavle Pavlovic

1975

An Accident poster
7.0

An architect in a construction company gets close to a young girl who has just graduated, whom he met while she was a student doing an internship at that company. Their relationship becomes more and more serious, and despite a few small frictions, they stay together. He is going on a business trip by plane to Libya. The plane crashes on landing. He survives, but remains immobile. Despite such an accident, she stays by his side.

An Accident

1973

The Ballad of the Ferocious... poster
6.4

Deeply hurt by his wife's adultery, a man leaves her and his son to live high up alone in the mountains of Montenegro. Many years later, the war breaks out and the two enemy factions must cross the very mountain. One of them seeks the man's help to find a path through the snow. Later that day, he finds out that one of the other side's members is no other than his son.

The Ballad of the Ferocious...

1971

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

No artwork available
5.8

The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.

Fear

1974

Four Days to Death poster
9.0

Between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia was ruled by a monarchy. This movie explores the difficulties faced by a Communist Party organizer under that regime when an order goes out to kill anyone threatening the current regime. At first he is willing to leave the country, but his experience of the situation of workers moves him to stay. Despite efforts of captors to help him escape, he refuses, and dies a martyr's death.

Four Days to Death

1976

Black and White Like Day and Night poster
6.3

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.

Black and White Like Day and Night

1978

The Visit of the Old Lady poster
9.0

As a young woman, Klara left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly bankrupt and in urgent need of money. Everybody hopes Clara will come to the rescue. And she will. However, there is a condition: somebody must kill the man who was her lover all those years ago.

The Visit of the Old Lady

1976

Zarki poster
5.7

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.

Zarki

1970

A Day Longer Than a Year poster
6.5

The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.

A Day Longer Than a Year

1971

No artwork available
7.5

TV adaptation of the Bora Stankovic drama, the most staged play in the history of Serbian theatre. Set in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, it is a tragedy about a Gypsy singing girl destined to marry but not for love. The old man Mitke loves her beauty and singing, but doesn't love her as a woman. Her talent and free spirit reminds him of his youth, young age and all he had to sacrifice for loveless marriage and unhappiness in order to fit into conventions.

Koshtana

1976

A Lovely Parade poster
5.3

Life in a small town, sunk in boredom and lack of excitement where dogcatcher is very important person.

A Lovely Parade

1970

1960s · 19 titles

The Morning poster
7.5

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

The Morning

1967

Bomb at 10:10 poster
5.6

An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.

Bomb at 10:10

1967

Noon poster
6.2

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

Noon

1968

The Walled In poster
6.8

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides to save guard's life who have been fallen into the river while trying to catch him. Since the guard's job is now to keep an eye on him in the cell, they spend a lot time together and their hatred turns into a sincere friendship. The guard wants to help inmate to escape again.

The Walled In

1969

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

Citizen Pokorni poster
6.3

A story of Cule Pokorni, an intimidated and obedient economist devoted to idea of making society a better place to live.

Citizen Pokorni

1964

The Flight poster
10.0

The TV movie "Escape" shows the agony of "white" officers, soldiers and citizens who fled before the October Revolution, pursued by the power of the Red Army, but also by the blood of their own crimes. Composed in several "pictures", it is a kind of ballad about madness and despair, the battle for bare life, but also an elegy about exile, crime and punishment.

The Flight

1968

A Burlesque about the Greek poster
NR

The story of famous painter Dominico Theotocapuli, better known as El Greco.

A Burlesque about the Greek

1969

The Dream poster
5.8

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

The Dream

1966

March on the River Drina poster
7.2

A Serbian artillery battery of the Combined Division makes a forced march to the Cer Mountain in western Serbia to meet Austro-Hungarian troops, who have invaded the country by crossing over the Drina River. A chronicle of the Battle of Cer; a landmark battle of World War I and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.

March on the River Drina

1964

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

Siberian Lady Macbeth poster
5.8

A ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

Siberian Lady Macbeth

1962

Doctor Homer's Brother poster
7.4

This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.

Doctor Homer's Brother

1968

On the Day of Fire poster
9.0

The protagonist, interpreted by Ljuba Tadic, is a scientist in an institute who becomes a victim of the intrigues of his co-workers who took advantage of his once problematic participation in the Chetnik movement during the Second World War.

On the Day of Fire

1969

A Bloody Tale poster
6.4

Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused to work for the invaders, and the whole city was exposed to harsh repression and persecution of innocent citizens and the abolition of the regular rations of food.

A Bloody Tale

1969

Wolf of Prokletije poster
5.4

Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.

Wolf of Prokletije

1968

The Girl in the Park poster
5.3

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.

The Girl in the Park

1968

Commandments for a Gangster poster
9.0

Northon is a retired gangster wants to avenge the death of his sister, who was married to Frank Cline. Cline disappeared while transporting a large shipment of the Organization's gold, leaving three dead bodies behind him. Northon follows the trail to the sunken ship and tries to beat rival gangsters to the lost gold.

Commandments for a Gangster

1968

No artwork available
10.0

A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.

The Saint-Fiacre Affair

1963

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