Dragan Bjelogrlić

Acting

Dragan Bjelogrlić

Born 1963-10-10 · Opovo, Srbija

Dragan Bjelogrlic is one of the greatest Serbian actor, director, and producer. Among successful acting career that lasts 40 years, last two decades he also devoted to producing and directing movies and TV shows, therefore he became one of the most recognized and successful cinematographic creators in the entire region. Dragan Bjelogrlic was born on October 10, 1963 and after finished elementary and high school in Belgrade, he enrolls at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDA). His first acting role in front of the camera was at the age of 15, as the character of Sava Jovanovic Sirogojno in the film "Bosko Buha" (1978). After graduating from the FDA in 1989, he had a number of roles that made him a well-known actor and also recognized as one of Serbia's leading artists. He attracted a lot of public attention with the role of Slobodan Popadic in the series "Better Life" (1987-1990). After that role, he was in the TV show "Forgotten" (1990) and the films "The Black Bomber" (1992), "Full Moon over Belgrade" (1993), " Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" (1996). So far, he has played in almost 40 films, about 20 TV shows and dramas and 11 theater plays. At the beginning of 1994, he founded the production company "COBRA FILM", which has produced some of the most famous theater plays, films and TV shows. For the last 20 years, Bjelogrlic has dedicated himself to production. The first film he produced was " Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ". He continued his artistic ambitions as a director and achieved a lot of success for directing the feature film and TV series "Montevideo, God Bless you". The film was chosen to represent Serbia at the Oscars when it was released. Over the last two years, he has set new standards for TV shows s with his very successful TV show "Black Sun", which second part was filmed and released in 2020. Also, this is the first Serbian TV show broadcasted on Amazon Prime. During 2020, Bjelogrlic directed and produced a film about the famous Serbian singer Toma Zdravkovic, whose premiere is expected in 2021. The film Guardians of the Formula, a big project from which a lot is expected, will start shooting in the middle of 2021. The Guardians of the Formula movie will be an emotional story that connects the Serbian and French people. Two years ago, he established Master class at Faculty for media and communications, Singidunum University Belgrade. He is married to Maja Bjelogrlic with whom he has a daughter Mia and a son Aleksej.

Acting credits

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2.0

A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.

Laush

2014

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame poster
7.9

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

1996

Back Up poster
NR

A man, old, decrepit, terrified, in a house with his friend Goran. Outside he wanders aimlessly, seeing enemies in both neighbours and foreigners. Ena, a journalist, arrives in the village, to film a story on heritage guardians. Through her camera lens she discovers a strange Man, secretly watching. His „hiding place“ has been exposed. Ilness and reality clash. In the house a threat appears, a wartime lover, with the message that the devil has come to collect his due. A stormy night and fateful encounters. To run or to fight and face it all? And return?

Back Up

2024

Doctor Ray and the Devils poster
5.8

The story behind and around famous American director Nicholas Ray's 1960s stay in SFR Yugoslavia. The celebrated director who was the toast of Hollywood only a decade earlier having made Rebel Without a Cause has fallen on hard times and is now desperately trying to re-establish his spiraling film career. On the other hand, his powerful host, Avala Film director and former Yugoslav secret service operative Ratko Dražević, is dreaming big dreams - he is trying to establish a 'Hollywood behind the Iron Curtain' of sorts.

Doctor Ray and the Devils

2012

Orkestar aka Orchestra poster
5.8

Story about Plavi orkestar (Blue Orchestra), a pop band from Sarajevo who were one of the biggest pop sensations in the 1980s Yugoslavia.

Orkestar aka Orchestra

2011

The Wedding poster
7.3

Miljenko, a successful Croatian businessman, receives the news that his company has just filed for bankruptcy. Things seem to be looking up, however, when his daughter announces not only her engagement, but also her pregnancy and upcoming nuptials. The only caveat? The love of her life is none other than the son of the Serbian prime minister.

The Wedding

2026

The Black Bomber poster
6.4

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

Sky Hook poster
7.4

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

War Live poster
6.0

Belgrade, 1999. Producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation - the film they're making is under threat - there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied - and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then a member of the State Security Service (Mileta) comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried, in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him - arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film - in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works - the State supports the film and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists, and not being patriots.

War Live

2000

Ænigma poster
5.3

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

Ænigma

1987

Maternal Half-Brothers poster
6.8

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.

Maternal Half-Brothers

1988

Guardians of the Formula poster
7.1

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Guardians of the Formula

2024

Trail of the Beast poster
NR

An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.

Trail of the Beast

2022

The Seventh Day poster
7.0

Short student film.

The Seventh Day

1987

No artwork available
NR

Three years after the events of the first film, the Dimitrijević and Lončarić families have, once again, fallen on hard times. Miljenko finds himself guilty of financial fraud and seeks refuge, along with his family, in an isolated mountain town in Herzegovina. At the same time, Vuk's political career is swiftly heading south, as he once again finds himself at the mercy of the ruthless oposition. Too hotheaded to think things through, both parties decide that the only way to fix things might just be to organize yet another wedding.

The Wedding 2

A New Year's Tale poster
NR

What happens when you find documents and compromising feminine items belonging to an unknown young woman in a taxi on New Year's Day, and you forget to inform your wife about it?

A New Year's Tale

1988

South Wind poster
7.2

A story about Petar Maraš, a Belgrade criminal in his late twenties, whose one reckless move causes an avalanche of events that will greatly affect the lives of those around him.

South Wind

2018

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

Exit poster
3.0

What do you do when suddenly in your mid twenties you realise that your life has become a routine which consists of a monotonous nine to five job on weekdays and equally predictable Friday night parties?

Exit

2013

Hey Babu Riba poster
5.6

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Hey Babu Riba

1985

Wanderlust poster
NR

A young artist named Toma begins to feel that his life in Belgrade begins suffocating him, so he sneaks aboard a cargo ship and travels down the Danube, eventually settling on a small island where ha can continue to work on his nature-inspired artworks in peace. Along the way, he meets a number of different characters representing various social groups that call 1950s Belgrade their home.

Wanderlust

2025

Great Transport poster
7.5

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

Great Transport

1983

Electrically Powered Music poster
NR

In chronological order, the film follows the career of Momčilo Bajagić – Bajaga, one of the most prominent rock musicians from former Yugoslavia, together with his band ‘Instructors,’ who have been accompanying him for 25 years now.

Electrically Powered Music

2009

The Wounds poster
7.3

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

The Wounds

1998

Behind the camera

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame poster
7.9

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

1996

Toma poster
6.7

Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.

Toma

2021

Toma poster
6.7

Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.

Toma

2021

Toma poster
6.7

Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.

Toma

2021

War Live poster
6.0

Belgrade, 1999. Producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation - the film they're making is under threat - there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied - and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then a member of the State Security Service (Mileta) comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried, in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him - arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film - in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works - the State supports the film and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists, and not being patriots.

War Live

2000

Guardians of the Formula poster
7.1

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Guardians of the Formula

2024

Guardians of the Formula poster
7.1

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Guardians of the Formula

2024

Belonging poster
NR

Germans settled in Vojvodina in the late 17th century. In time, customs and traditions were assimilated and former newcomers became natives and locals. However, WWII puts former neighbors to the test and reveals the best and worst in people. Defeated, collectively guilty, their trace will vanish. What is left is Vojvodina and places they inhabited, quiet witnesses and silent traces of existence.

Belonging

2020

The Wounds poster
7.3

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

The Wounds

1998

See You in Montevideo poster
7.2

A football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.

See You in Montevideo

2014

See You in Montevideo poster
7.2

A football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.

See You in Montevideo

2014

Montevideo, God Bless You! poster
6.8

A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.

Montevideo, God Bless You!

2010