Meto Jovanovski

Acting

Meto Jovanovski

Born 1946-01-17 · Pancharevo, Macedonia

Meto Jovanovski is a Macedonian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1971.

Acting credits

The Hornet poster
7.1

A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.

The Hornet

1998

Before the Rain poster
7.4

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

Before the Rain

1994

The Third Half poster
6.5

Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

The Third Half

2012

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

Macedonian Saga poster
5.5

The arrival of the young teacher Damjan in one village in western Macedonia shakes the usual daily life of its inhabitants who belong to different religions.

Macedonian Saga

1993

No artwork available
10.0

The film "Kosova: Desperate Search" recounts the repercussions and effects of the Kosovar war on the Albanian population. Ethnic cleansings and other atrocities mentally and physically destroyed the people. The entwined destinies of individual persons and families from various geographic regions and social classes are the basis of a closely interconnected storyline. Families are not only looking for their missing children, but also for new hope and perspectives.

Kosovo: Desperate Search

2006

From Behind poster
NR

Early Spring 1945. Albanian criminals attack innocent Macedonians in Macedonia.

From Behind

1985

The Abandoned poster
9.0

The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.

The Abandoned

2010

The Judgement poster
6.3

This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area, near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin, done 25 years ago.

The Judgement

2014

Enclave poster
7.2

Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.

Enclave

2015

Normal poster
5.1

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist's values become warped.

Normal

2009

The Balkan War poster
NR

A war drama told through the memories of Sofija (Sofka’s daughter) – Bojana Peković and the daily stories she hears from her grandfather or father Marko – Rade Šerbedžija. The fate of the family sends Sofija to the Komitas in order to avenge her ancestors. Sofija's weapons are a pistol, a rifle, a saber, but also a fiddle.

The Balkan War

2025

Endeavor poster
10.0

A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.

Endeavor

1982

The Last Church Bells poster
NR

The last remaining occupant of an old abandoned village uses a church bell to communicate with the last remaining occupant of a neighboring village. One day, the old man is extremely disturbed by the fact that the bell from the other village is silent. He decides to go to the other village, where he finds his friend dead. He buries him and then returns to his everyday life. After a while, the old man is disturbed again when the usual silence is broken by the bell from the other village.

The Last Church Bells

2017

No artwork available
NR

TV Movie based on a play from Macedonian author Goran Stefanovski.

Tattooed Souls

1985

No artwork available
7.0

Macedonian TV drama.

Tumba, tumba divina

1982

White, White World poster
4.7

In the Serbian drama "White, White World", the characters sing, but never dance. Formulated as a modern day Greek tragedy set in the decrepit eastern mining town of Bor, the movie follows a close group of alienated locals through misguided love affairs and other brash misdeeds. But the songs feature no choreography or other stylish methods of breaking the harsh, downtrodden tableaux.

White, White World

2010

The Meadow poster
8.0

This is a story of a friendship between two characters that have obviously had too many differences. The first one is a doctor and an Orthodox, and the other is a peasant and a Muslim. Both of them share the same dedication to their work. The one who is a peasant can not harvest the meadow due to the health difficulties. In spite of the doctors' disagreement, he decides to harvest the grass.

The Meadow

1998

A Film with No Name poster
6.0

The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.

A Film with No Name

1988

The Beautiful Ones poster
NR

A fantastic psychological thriller that tells a touching story about the untamed, indestructible power of a true lifelong love between two lovers.

The Beautiful Ones

2008

The Great Water poster
5.5

An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.

The Great Water

2004

No artwork available
NR

Macedonian TV comedy.

New Year Carousel

1973

The House by the Railway Tracks poster
7.0

A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.

The House by the Railway Tracks

1988

No artwork available
NR

Vera returns from abroad to her homeland in order to sell her parents’ old house. There she meets her ex-boyfriend, and the old romance sparks up again. Is she going to be strong enough to return to her old life?

Short Encounter

1984

Behind the camera