Tanasije Uzunović

Acting

Tanasije Uzunović

Born — Died

1942-09-25 — 2023-03-10

Place of birth

Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Tanasije Uzunović is a Serbian actor.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

King Petar the First poster
7.9

The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

King Petar the First

2018

The Bloody Lilly of the Valley poster
NR

Unknown Serbian author creates one of the most popular Serbian folk songs "Djurdjevdan" (St. George Day) in the 'Train of Death' on it's way to Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac, during World War 2.

The Bloody Lilly of the Valley

2015

Love Comes After poster
NR

In this romantic tragedy, love drama, three stories are interwoven with characters that are trying to solve their emotional problems and unresolved relationships from the past during one night. Each of the characters survive their loneliness with others.

Love Comes After

2013

The Scent of Rain in the Balkans poster
NR

Trials and tribulations of a Jewish family from Sarajevo during turbulent times between 1914 and 1945. Based on TV series of the same title.

The Scent of Rain in the Balkans

2011

The Touch to Pain poster
7.0

Love story about old man struggling with wife's Alzheimer's disease.

The Touch to Pain

2017

Off poster
5.0

Petar Lubarda, a young medical student, leads a secret life as one of the best drivers of "Serbian Roulette" - illegal street-races taking place during nighttime in downtown Belgrade. His older brother Mihajlo, once a top driver of "Roulette" himself, now a renowned anesthesiologist, gets involved in a maze of blackmail, conspiracy and revenge, when a former childhood friend Boban, a corrupt police inspector, threatens to incarcerate Petar for the deadly crash he supposedly done. In disturbing search for his brother, Mihajlo is drawn into a tangled web of corrupt Belgrade police, immense dark labyrinth of Secret service and brutal world of "Serbian Roulette". The search turns into his personal pursuit of meaning of life, and literally, into the race of life and death.

Off

2015

Military Academy 5 poster
7.0

Captain Stosic tries to make a comeback to his old love - flying.

Military Academy 5

2019

Little Buddho poster
5.0

A Montenegrin teenager is sent to Serbia in order to evade blood-feud caused by his father's reckless behavior. Little does he know that even greater dangers await for him. In Belgrade he will face both the avengers who went after him and this metropolis' very own nightlife and foxy ladies. And in cities like Belgrade - women and nightlife can be deadlier than a bullet. People of Montenegro are known for their specific mentality and system of values, not unlike Sicilians, Corsicans or Cretans.

Little Buddho

2014

Menagerie poster
NR

"Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attraction between Srna and Jovan, they still don't want to be married by the wish of their fathers. Suddenly Petar, the ex-forester who was seven years in jail for killing Strain's older son, returns to the village. His return changes lives of all characters in this story indicating the uncertain end of it.

Menagerie

2012

Señor poster
NR

When Dunya decides to accompany her father on his wine delivery route, a chance encounter with her father's old love confronts her with the mystery of who her father is and more perilously - who he used to be.

Señor

2019

2000s · 7 titles

No artwork available
NR

After the 1848 revolution with the help of Serbs and other allies Austrians managed to defeat Hungarians and preserve the centralist system of the Austrian Monarchy. A number of prominent Serbs lived in Vienna for years after the revolution. But their merits are slowly forgotten. The story begins in Vienna 1851 on a ball given by general's wife Ada, ahead of Easter.

The Mask

2007

Fade to Black poster
4.5

Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.

Fade to Black

2006

Someone Is Still Waiting poster
NR

1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital, waiting to be called to prepare for abortion. This unexpected meeting will start a lot of questions in their mind, and make them reconsider their decision. 2nd STORY: The Road. A country, somewhere in Serbia: mother is taking her daughter, along the road, to the doctor who lives alone in a wagon, in which he makes illegal abortions. All over that journey there is collision between mother's traditional attitude against pregnancy before marriage and daughter's youthful wish for a birth of a new life from love. 3rd STORY: Water. Nada, a young woman in late twenties, remembered in a prison cell, the tragical events which made her kill her husband. In the hospital, where she was taken by a police car, for making abortion of his child, she met a person, who she didn't expect to meet.

Someone Is Still Waiting

2009

Scaffold poster
9.0

This performance, a monument to the Serbian language, culture and history, was created in Orašac, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the modern Serbian state.

Scaffold

2004

The Christmas Eve of 1943 poster
NR

Serbia in WW2. Two brothers on Christmas Eve visits their parents after two years fighting in different armies.

The Christmas Eve of 1943

2007

The Ambulance poster
6.0

A contemporary historical film reflecting the drama of the profound social changes that the Serbian society underwent at the turn of this century. The story is delivered through an account of the development of the local ambulance service. Adhering to the spirit of modern neo-realism, this evolution is illustrated by three stories set in three different periods linked by mutually connected and conditioned characters; and there is also a dream of what it could be!

The Ambulance

2009

Who the Fuck Is Milos Brankovic? poster
3.7

A story of a struggling filmmaker delving deep into Belgrade underworld in order to make a documentary about a young architect struggling in the corrupt and decaying world of contemporary Serbia.

Who the Fuck Is Milos Brankovic?

2008

1990s · 5 titles

Dziga Vertov's Wondrous Dream poster
9.0

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

Dziga Vertov's Wondrous Dream

1990

The First Matins with My Father poster
5.5

An eminent and respected merchant has a problem with gambling, alternately winning and losing until the fateful night when he loses everything. He decides to kill himself, but his wife stops him. Kind words make him go with his son to the church to pray and start new life from the beginning. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.

The First Matins with My Father

1993

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

Games People Play poster
NR

A hybrid of psychological drama, thriller, rock and roll music and melodrama. The three main characters live in a special world of separate reality, as a kind of Pirandello’s heroes, actors in the endless theater of life. Their space is a house – a labyrinth, a metaphor for their state of psyche.

Games People Play

1992

Eternal Tap poster
10.0

Main heroes of this drama are inheriting bad luck from the owner of the local tavern.

Eternal Tap

1994

1980s · 9 titles

Meeting Place poster
7.5

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Meeting Place

1989

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

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

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

Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration poster
5.0

A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution, when communist zealots hunt down everyone who will not forswear their Orthodox Catholic ways.

Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration

1989

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

Mrs. Stremnicka poster
10.0

Oppressed by the great sadness of the life, in her mid-30s Isidora agrees to marry the Polish doctor Emil Stremnicki without love. She lives with him for a short time in Norway. The writer reveals the complexity of the relationships that existed in her marriage, as well as inability to escape grief.

Mrs. Stremnicka

1989

The Damned Yard poster
8.0

Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.

The Damned Yard

1984

The Place of Meeting: Belgrade poster
9.0

A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.

The Place of Meeting: Belgrade

1987

1970s · 12 titles

Leptirica poster
6.5

A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.

Leptirica

1973

The Man to Kill poster
5.8

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.

The Man to Kill

1979

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 Spanish Request poster
NR

The docu-drama plays out just before the decision on financing Magellan's travels, which will reveal "the Western passage". Portugal cannot help, so he travels to Spain, where he is opposed by the Church.

The Spanish Request

1978

Third for the Preference poster
10.0

A young professor Vladimir wants to write a book in peace far from big city life, but finds a different reality. His ambition drowns in the lethargy of a provincial tavern, as he plays an endless card game of preference.

Third for the Preference

1975

Maiden Bridge poster
6.6

"Maiden Bridge" is a place of exchange of German prisoners and partisans captured by the Germans. Unit with nine captured Germans is marching towards the bridge. there is double trouble for partisans, since they are surrounded by the hostiles and also going directly into the hands of ruthless enemy leaders.

Maiden Bridge

1976

First Garrison poster
7.0

This is a story about a young second lieutenant Janković who, after graduating from the Military Academy, comes to the unit for his first officer's duty. The film follows the period of his adjustment, getting to know the collective, establishing the first meetings with soldiers and elders, the city and the environment in which he lives. Crises and dilemmas were quickly overcome. The collective accepted the young officer thanks to his knowledge, skill and ability to establish real human relations. This is actually the first and introductory story from the series about the life of an officer.

First Garrison

1976

The Apology of Socrates and Death poster
7.5

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence.

The Apology of Socrates and Death

1971

Misery poster
10.0

The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.

Misery

1975

No artwork available
7.0

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1975

The Kitchen poster
9.0

The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.

The Kitchen

1976

No artwork available
9.0

Vuko, a young servant of Kotor prince, makes entourage with his brother and friends in order to obtain for the daughter of Venetian Doge for the prince's son. They spend seven weeks of drinking, whoring and without thoughts of anything else. And then, one morning, running through narrow streets before the army, Vuko accidentally witnesses the fight between the knights and the guards. Vuko falls into the hands of guards, and finds himself imprisoned. Even without knowing beforehand who is Maltese, Vuko is being sworn in on the eve of execution, so that the knight would deceive his miserable destiny at least a bit.

The Oath

1974

Series credits

Civil Servant poster
4.3

This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents in Belgrade who eliminate the most dangerous threats to Serbia behind the eyes of the public on a daily basis and lead the struggle in the labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues.

Civil Servant

2019

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

Bitter Fruit poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bitter Fruit

2008

My Cousin from the Village poster
7.4

Two parallel stories set in a village in Central Serbia about two families and the political context of the time.

My Cousin from the Village

2008

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

No artwork available
5.0

Miniseries about the life of Serbian statesman Nikola Pašić.

The Last Audience

2008

The Last Act poster
7.0

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

The Last Act

1982

The Mould poster
NR

Under the pressure of the international community, the Serbian Government establishes a Mixed Commission, and conferred to it the examination of facts in the affair "missing babies" that has lasted for several decades.

The Mould

2020