Acting

Novak Bilbija

Born

1950-01-01 (76)

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Juzni Vetar poster
6.9

A young member of a gang in Belgrade puts his family in danger when he angers a mafia boss.

Juzni Vetar

2020

The Storks Will Return poster
7.9

It follows the two lead characters, Svaba and Ekser, as they try to make a living on the streets of Belgrade through the life of petty crime. Making matters worse is the fact that Shvaba owes a lot of money to a local big-shot criminal. And just when things seem lost for the two men, Shvaba's mother inherits a house in Baranda - a village near Belgrade no one's ever heard of. As Shvaba and Ekser happily rush to Baranda, hoping to sell the house and solve all their problems, the villagers are equally happy to see them, thinking that two businessmen from Belgrade are finally taking an interest in their village...

The Storks Will Return

2007

The Secret of the Vineyard poster
6.4

The family of the rich businessman Vuk Tomovic from Subotica hides many secrets, but Vera, a single mother of two sons from Negotinska Krajina, also lives in fear that her secrets will not be revealed.

The Secret of the Vineyard

2021

On the Milky Road poster
6.5

Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.

On the Milky Road

2016

Pasjača poster
8.5

Nikola, a teacher from Belgrade, accepts a job in the remote mountain village of Gornik, unaware that deep-buried secrets await him there. At the same time, Lucija, an ambitious PhD in anthropology, arrives in the village to investigate a community that claims to be descendants of ancient Celts. However, the locals are not ready for change due to their fears and old legends, a mysterious past, and the suspicious motives of the new arrivals.

Pasjača

2025

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

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

On the Milky Road poster
6.5

Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.

On the Milky Road

2016

South Wind poster
7.2

A story about Petar Maraš, a Belgrade criminal in his late twenties, whose one reckless move causes an avalanche of events that will greatly affect the lives of those around him.

South Wind

2018

Artilheiro poster
3.8

A young fan of Red Star Belgrade FC is disappointed with team's performances in the last 20 years, ever since his beloved club won the European Champions Cup. He comes up with idea to bring the former Red Star player Nemanja Vidic from Manchester United F.C., by collecting money for this hardly feasible task.

Artilheiro

2012

Withering poster
2.5

After years spent in Belgrade, Janko returns to his half-deserted village, the home of his widowed mother Milica. The latter sincerely hopes that Janko has come back for good; her son, however, has other plans.

Withering

2013

The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip poster
5.2

When Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand, Austrian future king , the World War I began. What will Gavrilo Princip do? He has to choose, hard jail untill death, or hanging. There are so much things happening in Bosnia.

The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip

2014

The Load poster
6.3

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.

The Load

2019

Flesh poster
NR

Mirko, an average football player at the end of his career, is back in his hometown because of a knee injury. His family owns a restaurant which is on the verge of collapsing, both because of the economic unprofitability, and because of the plans of local criminals who are interested in the plot where the restaurant is located. One of those criminals is Slavko, Mirko's childhood friend, who suddenly returns to his life, just when Mirko needs him the most.

Flesh

2018

2000s · 5 titles

The Tour poster
6.6

Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.

The Tour

2008

Fellowship Offerings poster
NR

The screenplay was written immediately after the bombing of Novi Sad, 1999, but it was only a motive to speak up about the people that were humiliated for more than ten years in various ways, and that way became the victims of wrong politics, not only Milosevic's, but Western as well. The title of the movie was born there. In the second book of Moses it is written: " An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings." The people who suffered most in the wars on this territory are the ones that had no influence of what so ever on the development of situation on the Balkan. But, at the same time. there was ambitious youth, that the sense of their life in these stormy time. The film is about them and that is why it sounds optimistic. Film is about the fact that we will always have the energy to survive senseless time and live normally after that.

Fellowship Offerings

2004

Autumn in My Street poster
6.5

The main story is about two twenty year old guys who spend day in a remote suburb of Novi Sad. The are gathering money to go to seaside for the very first time since they finished primary school. Despite all the signs that this will be just another autumn day, on this trip they will experience the moment that will change their lives forever.

Autumn in My Street

2009

Waning Moon poster
5.0

A story about rich lady who invites a poor fellow to her house with intentions to marry him. He accepts her offer, yet it soon proves that the reason were his high debts, as well as prostitute he's secretly seeing. The story becomes more complex when the lady starts an affair with their gardener.

Waning Moon

2008

The Party poster
7.0

In the summer of 1991 the war broke out in Croatia. In a holiday house in Fruška Gora hills in Serbia, near the border with Croatia, a group of young people are having a birthday party. They try to have some fun and act like nothing is going on. The party is shattered by the war. They can hear the artillery, but something is also happening between them. Inevitably, some of the boys end up on the frontline and everyone of them is effected by the war that is starting to rage. "The Party" is about individual destinies of the characters trapped in isolated house in hills and surrounded by growing paranoia of the officially not yet declared war.

The Party

2004

Series credits

Juzni Vetar poster
6.9

A young member of a gang in Belgrade puts his family in danger when he angers a mafia boss.

Juzni Vetar

2020

The Storks Will Return poster
7.9

It follows the two lead characters, Svaba and Ekser, as they try to make a living on the streets of Belgrade through the life of petty crime. Making matters worse is the fact that Shvaba owes a lot of money to a local big-shot criminal. And just when things seem lost for the two men, Shvaba's mother inherits a house in Baranda - a village near Belgrade no one's ever heard of. As Shvaba and Ekser happily rush to Baranda, hoping to sell the house and solve all their problems, the villagers are equally happy to see them, thinking that two businessmen from Belgrade are finally taking an interest in their village...

The Storks Will Return

2007

The Secret of the Vineyard poster
6.4

The family of the rich businessman Vuk Tomovic from Subotica hides many secrets, but Vera, a single mother of two sons from Negotinska Krajina, also lives in fear that her secrets will not be revealed.

The Secret of the Vineyard

2021

Pasjača poster
8.5

Nikola, a teacher from Belgrade, accepts a job in the remote mountain village of Gornik, unaware that deep-buried secrets await him there. At the same time, Lucija, an ambitious PhD in anthropology, arrives in the village to investigate a community that claims to be descendants of ancient Celts. However, the locals are not ready for change due to their fears and old legends, a mysterious past, and the suspicious motives of the new arrivals.

Pasjača

2025

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 Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom poster
NR

Story about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.

The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom

2018

The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom poster
NR

Story about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.

The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom

2018

Goose Feather poster
NR

TV series which serves as an extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Goose Feather

2007

Flat Hill poster
6.3

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

Flat Hill

2013

The Call poster
7.5

Anica Reljic, a former police inspector who now works in a call center, receives a call from Sonja Tosic, a rich single mother who wants to know the identity of the person who is threatening her on the phone. As Anica investigates the threatening calls, she realizes that they are connected to a criminal group from her past life. She tries to warn Sonja, but Sonja disappears, prompting Anica and Tiana, Sonja's rebellious daughter, to go in search of her. They soon discover that Sonja may be the key to uncovering the truth behind an environmental scandal rocking the country: the mysterious poisoning of three boys.

The Call

2023

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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Trail of the Beast poster
7.0

Yugoslavia, 1979. Jugoslav is an ambitious reporter in a country that strictly controls the media. Blagoje is a colonel of UDBA before retirement, broken by health problems. Their paths cross when a brutal murder shakes a town in Serbia. They both go to investigate the case, for different reasons.

Trail of the Beast

2023