Dragan Jovanović

Acting

Dragan Jovanović

Born

1965-10-04 (61)

Place of birth

Beograd, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

A White Ship poster
5.1

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

A White Ship

2006

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

Swindlers poster
NR

In September 1930, the State Class Lottery of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia announced that a lottery ticket with the main prize money of the Tourist Lottery had been drawn, in the amount of an incredible million dinars. Two petty fraudsters, Ivan Razumović Ika and his friend Boža Baćković, are returning to their hometown, Palanka, after they learned that the prize in the lottery was won by one of their fellow citizens.

Swindlers

2019

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

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

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 6 titles

2000s · 11 titles

The Professional poster
7.5

Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.

The Professional

2003

Boomerang poster
6.2

Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.

Boomerang

2001

Comrade Black in World War II poster
2.4

Set in April of the turmoil that is the year 1941. The Germans have occupied Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade. Adolf Hitler is again drawing the new borders of Europe. Remains of Belgrade are filled with chaos, despair, black markets, famine and poverty. The Serbian people are broken up into national traitors, servants of the German occupants, chetniks, communists etc. That is the setting where our well-known characters find themselves. Our hero is Zivota Grujic – Comrade Black, the descendant of the notorious Black Gruya. Just as cunning and witty as his predecessor, Comrade Black endeavors to make use of every situation he finds himself in. Ideal opportunities open up when against his own will, he is forced to cooperate with all the present influential heads of Europe.

Comrade Black in World War II

2009

The Optimists poster
6.7

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."

The Optimists

2006

Normal People poster
4.8

The plot follows Steva, who is in love with an actress, Duja, who adores his motorcycle, and Bane, who plans to steal the motorcycle. Nikola desperately searches for a job, while Toma is in love with Mira, who is in an abusive relationship and occasionally thinks about Toma. The film highlights the despair and isolation of a generation in the post-war era.

Normal People

2001

Two poster
5.0

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number that unites a man and a woman, sky and earth, yin and yang... It also tells two stories that are merged into one whole.

Two

2007

Small World poster
6.0

A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.

Small World

2003

Made in YU poster
5.4

The lives of three brothers who left their small village in Serbia to live in Sweden. The first one escaped from police, while the other two followed his path.

Made in YU

2005

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

Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom poster
7.0

Based on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it three times, more wise. So he employs his nephew Crni Gruja, with assistants Ceda Velja and Bole, to find him this miraculous Stone. Crni Gruja finds the Stone and, convinced that he is really becoming more wiser, decides to make some business.

Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom

2007

New Year's Mix Fairytale for Adult Children poster
NR

A street-slang-filled parody of Little Red Riding Hood, written and played by the members of Belgrade music band The Kuguars.

New Year's Mix Fairytale for Adult Children

2000

1990s · 19 titles

Byzantine Blue poster
4.9

The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.

Byzantine Blue

1993

Cabaret Balkan poster
7.4

20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Cabaret Balkan

1998

The Black Bomber poster
6.3

In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.

The Black Bomber

1992

In the Middle of Nowhere poster
7.1

The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.

In the Middle of Nowhere

1994

The Hornet poster
6.8

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

The Hornet

1998

Say Why Have You Left Me? poster
5.8

The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...

Say Why Have You Left Me?

1993

The Wedding March poster
8.0

In the family of Colonel Mitrovic, all three daughters are ready for marriage, but they have problems finding husbands. The icebreaker occurs when the youngest daughter marries a young assistant at the university. Her wedding, however, starts a chain of events which helps the other two daughters.

The Wedding March

1995

A Holy Place poster
5.4

Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row.

A Holy Place

1990

Package Deal poster
7.0

A three-part omnibus. First story: A young couple agrees to pretend to be in love with each other. Second story: After deciding to leave his band, a young bassist shows up for an audition for a drummer. There he meets a man who offers him money to kill his wife. Third story: Two successful robbers go through a hard time when one of them starts to pay to much more attention to his guitar playing skills than the job.

Package Deal

1995

Barking at the Stars poster
6.8

Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.

Barking at the Stars

1998

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced poster
4.2

A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.

Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced

1997

Two Hours of Quality TV Program poster
7.2

Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and the introduction of new values to the urban culture.

Two Hours of Quality TV Program

1995

It Will Be Better poster
5.2

A local bar/restaurant run by a feuding husband and wife find themselves and their business threatened by a not so bright group of extortionists. With the help of their patrons who wish to preserve their quiet mode of patronage and a motor cycle riding stranger, they take the fight directly back to the villains with some non conventional approaches.

It Will Be Better

1994

Kick-Off poster
5.1

A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.

Kick-Off

1990

Zagreb-Belgrade Across Sarajevo poster
10.0

A fictitious meeting of the two famous Serbian writers Ivo Andrić and Miloš Crnjanski in a train back in 1919.

Zagreb-Belgrade Across Sarajevo

1992

Duel for Three poster
9.0

Divorced couple receives a farewell VHS cassette from their son who voluntarily joined military forces in Bosnia. Only then they realize whole futility of their lives.

Duel for Three

1996

Chauvinistic Farce 3 poster
9.0

The third part of the locally acclaimed theater play in which a drunken Serb and a drunken Croat argue over who’s the better nation.

Chauvinistic Farce 3

1996

Wounded Country poster
4.5

Stories and destinies of people hidden in underground shelter during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Wounded Country

1999

Attacker poster
9.0

A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...

Attacker

1993

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

A White Ship poster
5.1

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

A White Ship

2006

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

Swindlers poster
NR

In September 1930, the State Class Lottery of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia announced that a lottery ticket with the main prize money of the Tourist Lottery had been drawn, in the amount of an incredible million dinars. Two petty fraudsters, Ivan Razumović Ika and his friend Boža Baćković, are returning to their hometown, Palanka, after they learned that the prize in the lottery was won by one of their fellow citizens.

Swindlers

2019

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

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

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat poster
3.0

The incredible story of good-hearted and eccentric Professor Kosta Vujic who, in the 19th century, taught some of the greatest minds of that era. Among his students were Mihailo Petrovic - Mika Alas, Jovan Cvijic, Pavle Popovic, Jasa Prodanovic, Milorad Mitrovic, Ljubomir Stojanovic and others who later became academics, teachers, politicians... The TV Show is based on the best seller novel by Milovan Vitezovic.

Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat

2013