Miodrag Radovanović

Acting

Miodrag Radovanović

Born

1929-08-20 (97)

Place of birth

Čačak, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

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

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 Written Off poster
8.7

"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.

The Written Off

1974

Things Like Love poster
6.8

A sitcom that follows intertwined lives of three couples set mostly in the building in which they live and the café owned by one of these people.

Things Like Love

2009

Sky Hook poster
7.2

Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.

Sky Hook

2000

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

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Sky Hook poster
7.2

Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.

Sky Hook

2000

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

Ilka poster
7.0

A biopic about Jelena 'Ilka' Markovic, a woman who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the Serbian prince Milan Obrenovic in order to revenge her husband, who was previously executed for taking part in the Topola uprising of 1877.

Ilka

2003

Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms poster
6.0

By the end of 1915, during the second half of World War I, which had started by the Austro-Hungarian Empire's attack on a small Kingdom of Serbia, Serbian people, its army, and the state found themselves in the greatest tribulation in its long history. Serbia is attacked by the combined militaries of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and Bulgaria. Defending every road, every hill, every creek, during the time when every village, every plato, every crossing was becoming a historical landmark, Serbia, relying on the Allies, moved its people, its government, and its remaining troops to Kosovo--the only unoccupied part of the Serbian territory, but soon had to cross Albania in the hopes of reaching the Allies' ships in the Mediteranian.

Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms

2006

Shadows of Memories poster
7.2

Actor who used to be a celebrity once upon a time, when he played in number of films and theatre shows, lives his elderly days monotonously... Up until he meets a girl wanting to become an actress. In their encounters actor revives his love affairs from his young age...

Shadows of Memories

2000

The Kingdom of Serbia poster
8.0

A documentary re-enactment of the last few hundred years in Serbian history.

The Kingdom of Serbia

2008

1990s · 6 titles

Paradise poster
7.0

Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.

Paradise

1993

The World poster
7.0

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

The World

1990

A Suspicious Character poster
5.5

The arrival of an unknown man wanted by the local authorities disturbs the small town. However, it turns out that the suspect is mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.

A Suspicious Character

1990

The Gambler poster
8.0

An impoverished Russian aristocrat spends his days in a fashionable German town waiting for news from Russia about the death of his rich grandmother, so that he can repay his debts to a troubled French adventurer and marry his troubled cousin. His stepdaughter Polina also expects the inheritance.

The Gambler

1993

Files No.128 poster
7.0

The plot of this television movie is located in Belgrade, the hometown of screenwriter Velimir Lukic, in the 1960s. It was the time of the party discipline, in which the free thinking and free behavior of individuals meant heresy. This is a drama about political showdown, about the metamorphosis of high-level intellectuals ready to do anything to defy the authorities and retain their privileges. At the same time - this is also a love story that, under the political circumstances that accompany it, is misused precisely because of those well-known higher goals.

Files No.128

1998

The Battle of Kolubara poster
8.0

A filmed theatre play based on Dobrica Cosic novel "Time of Death". It tells the story of Serbian army during Kolubara battle in 1914.

The Battle of Kolubara

1990

1980s · 21 titles

The Elusive Summer of '68 poster
7.4

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

The Elusive Summer of '68

1984

No artwork available
9.0

It follows the events at the University of Belgrade that were the basis for this dramatic story. Students are on strike, and the story of Josip Broz’s illegal stay in Belgrade is taking place in parallel. It takes place at a time when Broz is taking over the leadership of the Party.

Wrong Assessment

1987

The Far Sky poster
6.7

A youth has a burning ambition to be a pilot, but this is met with opposition by his mother because his father, also a pilot, was killed in a jet-fighter crash in a storm. The youth goes ahead with his career but one day he encounters a bad storm.

The Far Sky

1982

Go Blue! poster
NR

A high school class tries to remove the arrogant teacher Olga known as Dragon by petitioning and boycotting her. The climax ensues when she decides not to release students go home earlier to watch the important football match between Yugoslavia and France, which triggers them all bunking off.

Go Blue!

1989

The Falcon poster
5.0

Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.

The Falcon

1983

The Great Talent poster
NR

A group of factory workers is trying to make a theatrical play as amateur production, but political bigwigs want to supress them.

The Great Talent

1984

Boiling poster
NR

The action takes place in the period from 1930 to 1934. The main protagonist is a so-called “collective hero”, that is, the revolutionary movement of Yugoslavia during the 1930s, although, conditionally speaking, the main hero is Rodoljub Colakovic.

Boiling

1986

Spite poster
NR

Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a bond of unbreakable friendship. To realize the plan to leave hated Army, Jozo are pretending to be deaf and dumb. But his firm determination comes into question when his friend's life comes into mortal peril.

Spite

1988

The Overpass poster
NR

A 1987 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Faruk Piragić, starring Miodrag Radovanovic, Iva Marjanovic and Bogdanka Savić.

The Overpass

1987

No artwork available
8.0

Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.

Miss

1986

The Donator poster
4.6

A war drama about a German officer's search for a priceless art collection.

The Donator

1989

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

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 Last Owls and the First Peacocks poster
8.0

During the final battles of liberation in 1945, the three generations of a bourgeoisie family gather in their villa. Their children, who recognized the momentum of “new age”, are in touch with the communists. The arrival of their escaped sibling brings the tension into family crisis.

The Last Owls and the First Peacocks

1983

No artwork available
6.0

A group of partisans in Syrmian front gets task to break in the German back up platoon and find out what happened to the previous group of partisan agents who have disappeared without a trace. As it usually happens, the betrayal, personal tragedy and mutual distrust are being unfolded.

Double Impact

1985

Balkan Express 2 poster
5.2

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

Balkan Express 2

1988

Belgrade Postcard of 1920 poster
8.0

Young journalist Nenad Bajkic works in the editorial office of the newspaper “Press”, managed by Despotovic. Bajkic suspects that Despotovic killed his father and wants to expose him. In 1920, “Press” became the center of increasingly complex intrigues.

Belgrade Postcard of 1920

1980

Two Coffins of Dynamite poster
NR

After getting into conflict with the head of the construction company, the party secretary and even majority of his fellow workers who took the management’s side, Perisa writes a letter to the Central Committee asking for his labor rights. Just before the arrival of the press, an accident occurs.

Two Coffins of Dynamite

1980

The Time Has Come for Love to Try poster
6.2

Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.

The Time Has Come for Love to Try

1980

Orchestra of One Youthhood poster
4.7

True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.

Orchestra of One Youthhood

1985

The Ambassador poster
4.8

Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...

The Ambassador

1984

1970s · 16 titles

The Bald Soprano poster
9.0

The Smiths are a traditional couple from London who have invited another couple, the Martins, over for a visit. They are joined later by the Smiths’ maid, Mary, and the local fire chief, who is also Mary’s lover. The two families engage in meaningless banter.

The Bald Soprano

1972

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

The End of the Week poster
8.0

The employees at a printing company talk about the mutual relations of employees at the company and their family problems.

The End of the Week

1975

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

The Fragrance of Wild Flowers poster
5.4

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with his conditions at home and at the theater suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes on the Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a poor settlement to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses everyone in the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reason for the actor’s odd behavior and to find out when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that he only knows what he does not want! The young director, who had started working on filming a portrait of the actor prior, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

The Fragrance of Wild Flowers

1977

The Farm in the Small Marsh poster
7.4

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge, the boy sets the German corn on fire. An intelligent and shrewd Gestapo officer Šicer arrives to investigate. He does not even suspect that he is up against a group of small boys, led by Milan and Vaso, and orders that all men from the village be taken to custody. He announces that one man will be shot each day unless the real culprit steps forward. Children contact the partisans.

The Farm in the Small Marsh

1976

The Rosenbergs Must Not Die! poster
9.0

Heroes from the title are American married couple who in the 1950 were captured and sentenced for spying in favour of Soviet Union.

The Rosenbergs Must Not Die!

1972

One Summer at Spa poster
8.0

Set in a spa motel during summer, this is a story about the fancy lifestyle which gives these personalities a chance to imitate better, fashionable world of Europe. Hence they become the victims of one such fashion, the victims of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and its influence on generations of young people.

One Summer at Spa

1977

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

A Tram Case poster
7.0

In occupied Belgrade, a writer considers ethical dilemma of a professor involuntarily involved in a difficult situation, which forces him to choose to be for or against the resistance movement.

A Tram Case

1978

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade poster
9.0

A TV drama set shortly after WW2 about court trial of former German generals accused for bombing the Yugoslavia's capital Belgrade.

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade

1976

No artwork available
8.0

The action is set in the Paris Commune, established in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and the play follows the historical events surrounding this revolutionary uprising. The main character is the pacifist teacher Gabrielle Langevin, but historical figures such as Gustave Courbet also appear.

The Defeat

1972

Tomo Bakran poster
8.0

A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.

Tomo Bakran

1978

First Serbian Railway poster
10.0

It shows the inclusion of a backward country in the age of technical progress with all the doubts, dilemmas and contradictions that arise in such crucial moments. It was made on the basis of authentic parliamentary records and memoirs, as well as records from the satirical press of that time.

First Serbian Railway

1979

Against King poster
4.9

A group of children are harassed by a local bully. In order to stop him, they seek help of a retired boxer.

Against King

1974

The Last Ones poster
NR

A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908.

The Last Ones

1973

Series credits

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

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 Written Off poster
8.7

"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.

The Written Off

1974

Things Like Love poster
6.8

A sitcom that follows intertwined lives of three couples set mostly in the building in which they live and the café owned by one of these people.

Things Like Love

2009

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

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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No artwork available
5.0

Miniseries about the life of Serbian statesman Nikola Pašić.

The Last Audience

2008