Jovan Janićijević 'Burduš'

Acting

Jovan Janićijević 'Burduš'

Born — Died

1932-05-18 — 1992-02-26

Place of birth

Maskare, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

The Bridge poster
7.0

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

The Bridge

1969

Migrations poster
6.3

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Migrations

1989

Neighbors poster
8.0

A friendship strikes between an intellectual couple and a poor craftsman after a chance encounter at the cemetery.

Neighbors

1973

Yellow Devil poster
6.5

When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.

Yellow Devil

1964

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

Film credits

1990s · 7 titles

The Big Fuss poster
4.0

Čeda is a clerk, pushed around by everyone. He is "everybody's girl". He walks his poodle, makes coffee for a group of poker players and their wives. Čeda goes to sanatorium because his mother-in-law decided to go on vacation just then, and he is her obligatory companion. When he returns alone, because of his job, he finds big fuss in his house, many tempting, unknown girls, local bullies and other, funny creatures. He is wondering how to get out of it.

The Big Fuss

1992

The Killer Lady poster
4.4

The cops Boki and Pajko try to catch the arms smugglers. Their commander claims that the smugglers are women who have AIDS, which only makes their quest even more difficult.

The Killer Lady

1992

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

Tsubok poster
9.0

A butcher and his associate befriend a group of workers from construction site. Escape from family problems only makes new ones for the duo.

Tsubok

1990

Aliens Are to Be Blamed for Everything poster
3.4

The election campaign in a small provincial town is in full swing. Candidates for ministry position pop up elsewhere, promising "milk and honey" to the voters. Two inseparable policemen, Boki and Pajko, are in charge of peace and order. Everything goes as usual until unexpected visitor from space shows up.

Aliens Are to Be Blamed for Everything

1991

Be Damned, America poster
6.2

A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: 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.

Be Damned, America

1992

Sekula Innocent Accused poster
4.5

This time Sekula does not have any problems with women but is accused of stealing electricity.

Sekula Innocent Accused

1992

1980s · 13 titles

Migrations poster
6.3

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Migrations

1989

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

Sekula and His Women poster
4.1

A village blacksmith Sekula, hard-muscled but soft-hearted, has terrible luck when it comes to love. Many women pass through his house - a local spinster of ill health, a belly dancer, a veterinarian experienced in the castration of bulls a singing star-to-be - but stay just long enough to give birth to another child, only to then run away.

Sekula and His Women

1986

Uros the Stupid poster
8.0

The Zivkovic family lives on a hilly village, on cleared part of land. Having many relatives, their lives are interlaced, and jobs distributed. Their biggest problem is a family that lives on the village edge and whose members steal, and Uros the Stupid, single and infantile Markovic family member. Contrary to the world of elders, Urosh and children lead their life of some kind. Suddenly, postman brings the telegram saying that some forgotten cousin from America has died and left two million dollars of inheritance. Unrest enters life of peasants. Everyone has some idea on how to invest the money, feeling at the same time that they don't need it. All of their actions will end differently from what they expected.

Uros the Stupid

1989

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

The Death of Black George poster
9.0

The story about the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.

The Death of Black George

1984

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

Shady Business poster
6.6

Residents of a shanty town are faced with its destruction. With the help of the local trickster, Paja "the Bighead" moves with his family to an empty flat in New Belgrade blocks. Everything goes fine until the real owner knocks at the door.

Shady Business

1981

Hi, Inspector 2 - Vampires Are Among Us poster
5.4

In the first sequel of "Hi Inspector", the cops Boki and Pajko get bored in their quite little town until the arrival of foreign visitors. These people reside at the local hotel where international conference on organ transplantation takes place. At the same time, the fresh corpses of deceased people begin to disappear, while the rumors about the vampires at the graveyard start spreading. The cops try to solve the riddle.

Hi, Inspector 2 - Vampires Are Among Us

1989

No Problem poster
6.2

The manager of a company gets in trouble when he cannot pay his workers. The billions were spent on a football stadium which is empty now, and the bank did not approve new credits for the meaningless investments. Maybe the stadium will get filled during the concert of popular singer Lepa Brena.

No Problem

1984

Weird Years poster
5.0

After the road accident, Zika and Milan end up in an overcrowded hospital, run by doctor Nedeljkovic and his sexually obsessed nurse. Accompanied by a crazy bandmaster and a peasant with farting problems, they will try to get away from the ongoing chaos.

Weird Years

1988

Pals poster
4.0

A young student hungry for cash engages in the world of shady deals.

Pals

1988

The Tombola poster
10.0

Two factory workers with gambling addictions invest all their wages in a sweepstakes that will take place in the factory's bar without realizing that they are taking part in shady dealings between the factory head and the president of the local boxing club.

The Tombola

1985

1970s · 12 titles

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

Neighbors poster
8.0

A friendship strikes between an intellectual couple and a poor craftsman after a chance encounter at the cemetery.

Neighbors

1973

Hell River poster
6.2

Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.

Hell River

1974

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

Manhunt poster
7.0

The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.

Manhunt

1977

Requiem for a Heavyweight poster
6.7

The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1974

Special Education poster
6.8

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

Special Education

1977

Mirko and Slavko poster
5.8

Live-action adaptation of the popular Yugoslav comic book about two young Partisan couriers in World War II.

Mirko and Slavko

1973

The Wind poster
6.5

The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and the other one wants to earn money by smuggling, Beli. Between them two there's young woman, Mila, who has had experience with the second one. Running away from the man who is the incarnation of evil for her, she is trying to find happiness and peace with another one in vain.

The Wind

1974

Massacre at Noon poster
5.6

In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.

Massacre at Noon

1975

Burdush poster
6.0

Three poor musicians become rich and famous, due to an appearance on a TV show. Unexpected success and money tears old friends apart. The bass player, Burduš, lonely and lost, decides to go and find new friends.

Burdush

1970

A Miracle poster
8.0

A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.

A Miracle

1971

1960s · 23 titles

The Bridge poster
7.0

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

The Bridge

1969

Yellow Devil poster
6.5

When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.

Yellow Devil

1964

The Demolition Squad poster
6.9

The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.

The Demolition Squad

1967

There's Love, There's Not poster
6.5

Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.

There's Love, There's Not

1968

Count Bobby, the Terror of the Wild West poster
6.3

An Austrian earl learns that he has inherited land in Arizona, in the American wild west. The count and his friend journey to America to claim the inheritance. There, they encounter danger, desperados, and the none-too-friendly daughter of the local sheriff.

Count Bobby, the Terror of the Wild West

1965

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

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

The Return poster
6.8

An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.

The Return

1966

Shameful Summer poster
6.6

A returnee finds disapproval in his hometown he once left.

Shameful Summer

1969

The Great Day poster
9.0

Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.

The Great Day

1969

No artwork available
5.8

Commander Pavle receives partisan Jovan to shot him for not executing his orders. While listening to his unfortunate love story from the war, Pavle remembers his own relationship which had an equally bitter epilogue, and decides to set Jovan free.

Two Nights in a Day

1963

Shoot and It Shall Open poster
6.0

Three young delinquents, two boys and a girl - go through their personal drama alongside wrongdoings they do. The local chief inspector gives his best to help them, besides the fact that he's beholden to arrest them.

Shoot and It Shall Open

1965

The Tough Ones poster
5.5

Two brothers return to their devastated home village after the end of the Second World War with nothing to their name but their army-issue machine guns. There they find a traumatised German, abandoned in retreat. Together, the three men act out a tragicomic tale.

The Tough Ones

1968

Cat Under a Helmet poster
5.9

A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.

Cat Under a Helmet

1962

Escapes poster
5.8

Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.

Escapes

1968

When the Pigeons Arrive poster
10.0

A group of children build a loft in an abandoned yard, but instead of pigeons, a man and his two sons move into it. At first, boys try to get rid of the unwanted intruders, but eventually they befriend with them. However, the municipality sends their men to tear down the illegal housing, but the children decide to stop them at all costs.

When the Pigeons Arrive

1968

Šeki's Rolling, Watch Out! poster
9.0

A group of young men suggest to the local tinsmith to make a movie, but he agrees only if its director would be his cousin Šeki, a Red Star FC soccer legend. Šeki, though, thinks that the movie-making is the same thing as a soccer match, which causes many argues amongst the members of the film crew.

Šeki's Rolling, Watch Out!

1962

Children of Duke Schmidt poster
5.4

A group of WW2 orphans, now young people in their late teens, find out that one of them is a child of a war criminal. They are determined to discover his identity, even though this person could be any of them.

Children of Duke Schmidt

1967

Downstream from the Sun poster
7.0

Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.

Downstream from the Sun

1969

Out of Step poster
6.0

A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of the show is admonished for trying to incite the public against the system. The media, the man and the television manager gather to try to talk out the misunderstandings they all experience with the system of slow-moving social injustices. The message of the film also states that the days of media scrutiny and public-opinion feedback are here to stay.

Out of Step

1968

Poor Maria poster
6.5

A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.

Poor Maria

1968

The Time of Love poster
6.0

"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.

The Time of Love

1966

The Soldier poster
8.0

A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.

The Soldier

1966

1950s · 4 titles

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