Branimir Brstina

Acting

Branimir Brstina

Born

1960-01-04 (66)

Place of birth

Banatsko Veliko Selo, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Branimir Brstina (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранимир Брстина; born 4 January 1960) is a Serbian actor.

Known for

Shadows over the Balkans poster
7.8

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Shadows over the Balkans

2017

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

Radio Mileva poster
8.0

The comedy "Radio Mileva", directed by Elmir Jukić, is based on the idea of ​​Nebojsa Garić. Mileva is the head of the house, she knows everything, she knows everything and she understands everything. A pensioner who spent her working life as a secretary to the President of the Municipality. Confident, energetic, anointed, a woman who has all the information, a woman for all time, resourceful and shrewd.

Radio Mileva

2021

Vuk Karadžić poster
7.0

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Vuk Karadžić

1987

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

It's Easy for Rale poster
5.0

Rip-off of “Everybody Loves Raymond” with a very annoying over-the-top comedian and star of the gambling commercials in the role of Raymond (Rale).

It's Easy for Rale

2023

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 6 titles

Goose Feather poster
6.4

Goose Feather (Serbian: Jesen Stiže, Dunjo Moja) was Serbia submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Vaguely based on a song By Djordje Balasevic called "Prica o Vasi Ladackom" (the story of Vasa Ladacki). The story is about a very poor boy that wanted abundance and wealth because he basically didn't own anything. He was in love with an equally poor girl that his father wouldn't accept. He moves to another village and starts drinking...

Goose Feather

2004

Ivko's Feast poster
5.7

The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.

Ivko's Feast

2005

Zamfir's Zona poster
6.1

Zona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane, an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.

Zamfir's Zona

2002

Storks in the Fog poster
5.7

Svaba, Marina, Ekser and Dule live and work peacefully in Baranda. However, a few days before the New Year, Spricer, Ekser and Dule's friend from early youth, arrives, who is in trouble and asks for their help. This TV film was made as a continuation of a popular Serbian TV series "The Storks Will Return".

Storks in the Fog

2009

Gee, Bro! poster
10.0

Tihomir Stojković became famous after the series The Family Treasure, and profits around Serbia on his fame. He receives an invitation from Serbian TV that he should hand over the car to the prize winner, but his uncle Žitko wrongly tells him that the car is going to be given to him.

Gee, Bro!

2005

The Secret of Family Treasure poster
6.2

Tihomir Stojkovic suspects that there's a hidden treasure in the property of his neighbors. Since this piece of land belongs to a man who has unmarried daughter, Tihomir persuades his friend Djosa to marry her so they could get in possession of that jar full of money. The characters are based on TV series "Family Treasure".

The Secret of Family Treasure

2000

1990s · 14 titles

Bereaved Family poster
7.0

A classic comedy from the most famous Serbian comedy playwright, Branislav Nušić.

Bereaved Family

1990

Tito and Me poster
7.0

At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" to Tito's hometown of Kumrovec.

Tito and Me

1992

No artwork available
8.0

This drama is about Alma Mahler, the wife of the famous composer Gustav Mahler, who herself was engaged in music, loved composing and conducting, and who was the muse of many famous artists: Klimt, Zemlinsky, Kokoska, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and her husband.

Unfinished Symphony

1998

Grumpy Husband poster
10.0

A TV comedy based on Jovan Sterija Popovic’s work.

Grumpy Husband

1998

The Infantry Ant poster
8.0

Black ant Ameisen, the infantry ant, got mixed up in war and love turmoils. He's an experienced military slacker who does not respect strict military standards, but performs each task successfully. Red ants, headed by their clumsy general, are on the war path with black ants. Unfortunately for both sides, war happened because of a jar of moldy marmalade.

The Infantry Ant

1993

A Lighter Case of Death poster
7.0

This poetic story of growing up and maturing sudden two boys and concerns of adults who fail to understand the changes that occur in their lives, is set in the sixties.

A Lighter Case of Death

1993

Under the Grindstone poster
9.0

Based on a play, it consists of three one-acts: "Merry Home", "At the Break" and "Before a New Life". The author depicts the grim world of the Belgrade outskirts, and the people who are bound by a common yard and common destiny, those faced with a wall of hopelessness.

Under the Grindstone

1991

Ship Floats to Shanghai poster
6.5

A young married couple does not share the bed. However, they try to hide all the obstacles and their problems in public, presenting their marriage to be an idyllic and exemplary one. Below their provincial mask, one can reveal the intolerance, strong emotions and passions of a spoiled Belgrade girl and an ambitious small-town lawyer.

Ship Floats to Shanghai

1991

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

The White Suit poster
4.9

A sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.

The White Suit

1999

In the Name of the Father and Son poster
6.8

The story about typical Montenegrin family Miletic in post-war Yugoslavia, which shows personal tragedy of a father, whose only son comes back from the war as a different man.

In the Name of the Father and Son

1999

The Knife poster
6.4

In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.

The Knife

1999

Thief's Comeback poster
5.5

A con leaves the prison with a plan to deceive people by entering financial bank business.

Thief's Comeback

1998

Kir Janja poster
7.0

A comedy of characters in three acts by the Serbian writer Jovan Sterija Popovic from 1837. Sterija presented Kir Janja as a negative comic hero whose passion for money deformed his personality. He keeps complaining, even though he is very rich.

Kir Janja

1998

1980s · 12 titles

The Fall of Rock and Roll poster
6.3

Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them.

The Fall of Rock and Roll

1989

Strangler vs Strangler poster
6.9

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.

Strangler vs Strangler

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

My Name Is Mitar poster
7.0

At the time when Montenegro was kingdom, many people left their homes for better life abroad. This drama depicts a group of Montenegrins who found themselves on a ship sailing to America. On board, they learn English from each other as well as American laws and everything they will need when they disembark as immigrants.

My Name Is Mitar

1984

Lazar poster
6.0

A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.

Lazar

1984

Majstor i Šampita poster
6.2

A young reporter girl nicknamed Cream Pie writes an article on money-making in small businesses. She meets a married shoemaker who falls for her and steals his wife's money for their love nest, but Cream Pie discovers it by accident and takes it to the newspapers' office. Shoemaker's wife interferes into this whole confusion and the whole fuss resolves at a hospital.

Majstor i Šampita

1986

The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K. poster
6.4

The entire movie is shot in one take. It shows how a command is twisted from the moment it was given by a colonel to the moment it reaches a regular soldier.

The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K.

1987

In the Heart of My Blonde poster
9.0

This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a milkmaid. Later one of them dies in the battle, leaving the milkmaid in sorrow…

In the Heart of My Blonde

1984

The Karlovci Experience of 1889 poster
7.5

A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”

The Karlovci Experience of 1889

1983

Milan - The Gift poster
9.0

The drama is about several prominent people of Serbian culture and art. Milan Savic, a well-known doctor from Novi Sad and writer from the turn of 20th century, feels a personal obligation to take care and deprive his friends of existential worries.

Milan - The Gift

1987

No artwork available
4.2

Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.

Sugar Water

1983

A Swanky Pumpkin poster
10.0

The first TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popovic's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble, aiming to climb up the social ladder. However, it isn't easy for her to stick up with the manners.

A Swanky Pumpkin

1986

Series credits

Shadows over the Balkans poster
7.8

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Shadows over the Balkans

2017

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

Radio Mileva poster
8.0

The comedy "Radio Mileva", directed by Elmir Jukić, is based on the idea of ​​Nebojsa Garić. Mileva is the head of the house, she knows everything, she knows everything and she understands everything. A pensioner who spent her working life as a secretary to the President of the Municipality. Confident, energetic, anointed, a woman who has all the information, a woman for all time, resourceful and shrewd.

Radio Mileva

2021

Vuk Karadžić poster
7.0

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Vuk Karadžić

1987

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

It's Easy for Rale poster
5.0

Rip-off of “Everybody Loves Raymond” with a very annoying over-the-top comedian and star of the gambling commercials in the role of Raymond (Rale).

It's Easy for Rale

2023

Mom and Dad Are Playing War poster
7.2

Follow heroes who are on the threshold of middle age, focusing on that moment of their lives when their "youth" and all the illusions they clung to finally give way to decisions and obligations that require maturity.

Mom and Dad Are Playing War

2020

Montevideo, God Bless You! poster
5.9

This is a story about Yugoslavian national football team and their journey to the first world championship in Montevideo.

Montevideo, God Bless You!

2012

Open Doors poster
7.0

Otvorena vrata, is a Serbian comedy television series filmed in 1994-1995. Broadcast on state television RTS, it ran for 2 seasons featuring a regular family living in Belgrade during the 1990s. The show was created by Biljana Srbljanović and Miloš Radović, starring Vesna Trivalić, Milan Gutović, Bogdan Diklić, Nikola Đuričko, Sofija Jović, Bojana Maljević, Olivera Marković and Zoran Cvijanović, with guest stars such as: Mirjana Karanović, Nikola Simić, Seka Sablić, Branka Katić, Mira Stupica. The show had many reruns over the following years, and acquired a cult following. In spring of 2012, after the Serbian presidential election results were announced, Bojana Maljević announced on her Twitter account that she and Biljana Srbljanović were thinking about doing another season of the show. In the following days the idea of the third season was officially confirmed and members of the original cast started announcing that they would take part in the project.

Open Doors

1994

Theater at Home poster
NR

An updated version of a legendary Yugoslavian 1970s sitcom “Theater at Home”.

Theater at Home

2007

The Heroes of Our Time poster
NR

A well-educated family man realizes that his life is in crisis. Could the next generation do better?

The Heroes of Our Time

2019

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

Goose Feather poster
NR

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

Goose Feather

2007

Alexandar of Yugoslavia poster
6.0

The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles.

Alexandar of Yugoslavia

2021

The Mission of Major Atherton poster
NR

This true story is made up of two episodes that show Operation Hydra. After the fall of the Uzice Republic and the success of the first enemy offensive, the British sent their mission and this series shows the events.

The Mission of Major Atherton

1986

Goodnight, Children poster
10.0

"Laku noć, deco" (Goodnight, Children) is a beloved Serbian puppet television series produced by Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). Set in a whimsical forest, the show features a cast of charming animal puppets—including the wise Owl, the gentle Bear, and the playful Rabbit—portraying them not just as neighbors, but as a close-knit family. Designed as a "bedtime story" format for toddlers and young children, each short episode focuses on themes of friendship, kindness, and nature. With its soft aesthetics, poetic dialogue, and calming atmosphere, the series became a cultural cornerstone for generations, serving as a gentle transition into sleep for millions of children.

Goodnight, Children

1989