Branko Vidaković

Acting

Branko Vidaković

Born

1959-09-10 (67)

Place of birth

Belgrade, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Branko Bane Vidakovic is a Serbian actor.

Known for

Emergency Center poster
10.0

A Serbian remake of the classic medical TV series 'ER'.

Emergency Center

2014

Come Yesterday poster
NR

The central theme of this contemporary story is a seventy-year-old, an extremely rich, clever and witty man, the so-called tycoon Krsto Karamancic.

Come Yesterday

2021

Jelena poster
9.0

The story of Jelena is set to Serbia's capital Belgrad and it follows the life of an ordinary woman, who's not happy in love. She's married to Ratko and has two children Sasa and Lidija. Inspite of years that went by, Jelena never managed to forget Vuk, a love of her life she has been involved with in her youth. She was separated from Vuk under tragic and mysterious circumstances. After 3 decades in his wish to pursue justice, Vuk returns to his city bringing his daughter Helen with him. His attempt to clarify what happened and to prove the truth is sabotaged by Jelena's husband who keeps failing in business more and more. Even though he loves Jelena, he has a relationship with Sofija, the owner of a modeling agency. Nobody expects that the accidental encounter between Sasa and Helen will become fatal once they decided to start the life together.

Jelena

2004

Grey Home poster
8.7

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Grey Home

1986

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

Love Cookies poster
NR

The story revolves around two friends who try to open an illegal restaurant in Dorcol, in order not to pay taxes, which puts them into various comic situations. One is a Belgrade scammer who resells everything and lives that way, and the other is a village hipster attempting to become a Belgradian.

Love Cookies

2021

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Rooted poster
NR

A young man visits his grandmother in Belgrade, as he thinks she’s not well. A summer day spent in her vibrant neighborhood among food, beverages, and old acquaintances triggers in him a sense of not belonging.

Rooted

2023

The Funeral, the Bijouterie and an Occasional Coat poster
7.0

The story follows humorous moments around a seemingly ordinary funeral.After the mother's death, the sons return to their native village to prepare the funeral.Upon arrival,they learn that her wish was to be buried with a priceless locket.

The Funeral, the Bijouterie and an Occasional Coat

2023

Behind the Camera poster
7.0

Young filmmaker Tanja receives money to shoot her debut film.

Behind the Camera

2023

Weekend with Pops poster
8.3

A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.

Weekend with Pops

2020

First Class: Full Speed! poster
6.0

The plot follows rivals Beba and Nemac as they race iconic Yugos, chasing the national championship and their dreams of Formula 1. However, racing isn't their only source of adrenaline.

First Class: Full Speed!

2024

What a Wonderful World poster
NR

Angel Ljubiša (Nikola Pejaković) is trying to bring together the incompatible, the unestablished director Bata (Andrija Kuzmanović), Una (Anđelka Prpić), the popular and charismatic TV presenter and the police inspector Trišić. (Andrej Šepetkovski).

What a Wonderful World

2022

Wolfberries poster
NR

It displays constant efforts of a four-member family to respond to the numerous challenges of urban modern life, at the same time showing the tendency of the younger members to find the solution to everything in a calmer rural environment.

Wolfberries

2022

2010s · 4 titles

Flashback poster
6.0

The main character returns from the prison with a desire to build a normal relationship with his, now, adult daughter who didn't have a father for a long period of her life. When he comes home sees that the daughter ran away from home and that his wife is cheating on him with a friend who also moved into the apartment. Armed with a sarcastic sense of humor he accepts all that and starts searching for his daughter, whom, by the way, does not want to be found.

Flashback

2010

Mama's Boy poster
5.5

Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs start raining down on Serbia, the two of them become refugees. After a surreal journey, they end up in New York, where Pera realizes that he can no longer do the old job he loved so much. While he and Mara were struggling to survive, the new age of digital projection was born. Then Pera stumbles upon some discarded projectors and his new mission in life becomes clear: he will travel around and show people the magic of Real Cinema - the magic that can only be created by celluoid, mechanical projectors, the silver screen and flickering light.

Mama's Boy

2013

Jackhammer Hit to the Head poster
4.0

Jealousy and mistrust come in place one night, when a woman decides to expose her aggressive self, leading to several ruined lives.

Jackhammer Hit to the Head

2012

Sisyphus K. poster
6.0

Sisyphus is a shepherd who lives by the river. A solitary man who falls into trap set by the gods. He dares to stand against the almighty Zeus, bringing upon himself his wrath. The revenge of the gods seems simple – they send Death after Sisyphus.

Sisyphus K.

2015

2000s · 9 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

Mechanism poster
5.3

The conflict between innocence and evil is the shortest definition of the leitmotifs of the film. The story is taking place on a winter day in a remote province, far from all major events that shook the world today. A young woman teacher goes to a remote village where he got the first job after six years of waiting. Happy and hopeful that her life finally begins ... The other main feature is similar to it. Male character returns from the war in which, in fact, he was not. The first day of the war he was wounded and spent eight months in the hospital. His first job as a taxi driver on an empty train station where there is not many passengers, but it offers the peace that he needs to overcome his trauma and that gives hope that he is finally something good to happen. But harsh times threaten to destroy the dreams of the teacher and taxi drivers. Fortunately the man who is young like them, but he has completely different goals in life.

Mechanism

2000

T.T. Syndrome poster
6.3

Several people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.

T.T. Syndrome

2002

Save Our Souls poster
7.0

The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).

Save Our Souls

2007

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

We Are Not Angels 2 poster
6.1

In this sequel of "We Are Not Angels", a highly successful Yugoslavian comedy, a former playboy must cope with his daughter's adolescence, as well as numerous boys that keep knocking at her doors. A worried father thinks she may get in type of troubles he used to cause when he was just the age of her wooers.

We Are Not Angels 2

2005

Seven and a Half poster
6.5

A collection of seven stories "from the block," linked by the theme of the seven deadly sins, humorously portrays the everyday life of New Belgrade's inhabitants, who are consumed by their minor foibles and guided by their passions. While pride, sloth, envy, wrath, greed, lust, and gluttony are biblical sins, they seem almost ridiculous in contemporary times when set against the backdrop of civilization's far more severe challenges.

Seven and a Half

2006

Flirt poster
6.9

Two girls swear their former boyfriends and sent two demons Strahinja and Lola to take them. Strahinja must deliver the main heroes of this world or, by the decision of the judge of the Dark Vilayet, be returned to the unpleasant state of death. The four stories that make this omnibus film, follow main characters which Lola and Strahinja should pick up. Each of them tries to avoid death. You will see how the sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and kolerik cope with the death officers.

Flirt

2005

Sheitan Warrior poster
5.7

Trouble usually starts when the power falls into the wrong hands. That's how the book that hides an ancient evil fell to Stanislav. It does not matter whether Stanislav is a nice guy who helps old ladies cross the street, a psychopath, nerd, or a blood-thirsty young man.

Sheitan Warrior

2006

1990s · 8 titles

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

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1 poster
6.6

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1

1990

We Are Not Angels poster
7.5

Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.

We Are Not Angels

1992

Balkan Rules poster
5.7

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.

Balkan Rules

1997

Buy Me an Eliot poster
6.2

A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs...

Buy Me an Eliot

1998

The Clef poster
7.0

A 1990 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Aleksandar Fotez, starring Nebojsa Bakocevic, Ljuba Tadić and Branislav Jerinić.

The Clef

1991

Vukovar Poste Restante poster
5.4

The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.

Vukovar Poste Restante

1994

Terrace on the Roof poster
6.2

Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love and a better life, outside the strife of Yugoslavia's civil war, are short-lived as jealousy and army duty tear them apart.

Terrace on the Roof

1995

1980s · 18 titles

The Misfit Brigade poster
5.7

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.

The Misfit Brigade

1987

No artwork available
7.0

A slang-filled urban comedy involving a group of youths who call their friends over the telephone to chit-chat and spread gossip.

Telephonomania

1987

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

Hey Babu Riba poster
5.5

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

Truckers Ride Again poster
6.4

New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.

Truckers Ride Again

1984

Fat and Thin poster
5.3

An imposter and thief called Dumpling escapes prison and arrives to a respectable institute of doctor Strukl in Balm Sanatorium. The doctor is a specialist for reduction and gaining of weight, and wanted by many celebrities, especially because it is known that he has specialized in Switzerland. Dumpling, discovering that he is physically similar to doctor, and seeing his big chance in it, disables the doctor and takes his place at the sanatorium.

Fat and Thin

1985

No artwork available
6.2

Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.

Swedish Package Holiday

1989

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

Ekran sneži poster
8.0

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind, thus finding out more about the ill children she cured and the secrets of this sleepy settlement.

Ekran sneži

1984

Live Broadcast poster
5.8

Two young men and a girl, going through all the dilemmas of their generation, live together and try to build different world, to find their place in society. The manner of their life, understanding of truth and justice, love and passion, gets each of them in conflict with environment, with people who want to change their relationship and fit them into accepted moral norms. They are giving in slowly, and their whole world changes. Some of them will fit the dull everyday's life, and some will find strength to resist.

Live Broadcast

1982

This Time Only poster
6.7

A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody knows that the old man is mortally ill.

This Time Only

1983

And This Will Pass, Too... poster
8.0

Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.

And This Will Pass, Too...

1985

A Dangerous Track poster
6.2

A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.

A Dangerous Track

1984

Savamala poster
6.0

In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and there are hints that the bloody strikes are a prelude to a major battle. The young man tries to escape from the slums and live in a better society. He falls in love and draws comics, while Savamala offers him the misery of everyday life, the world of criminals, gamblers, anarchists, singers and failed poets.

Savamala

1982

Russian Art Experiment poster
8.0

An experimental TV movie based on the lives and work of Soviet avant-garde artists from the first half of the 20th century.

Russian Art Experiment

1982

Blackbird poster
7.3

A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.

Blackbird

1988

Tempting the Devil poster
4.9

Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Živko Nikolić continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families' vying with each other.

Tempting the Devil

1989

Black Marija poster
4.1

After the death of their sponsor, rock band Zenit falls into a crisis. They need to make new arrangements of old songs in only 6 days. There comes to disagreement between band members because of different opinions.

Black Marija

1986

Series credits

Emergency Center poster
10.0

A Serbian remake of the classic medical TV series 'ER'.

Emergency Center

2014

Come Yesterday poster
NR

The central theme of this contemporary story is a seventy-year-old, an extremely rich, clever and witty man, the so-called tycoon Krsto Karamancic.

Come Yesterday

2021

Jelena poster
9.0

The story of Jelena is set to Serbia's capital Belgrad and it follows the life of an ordinary woman, who's not happy in love. She's married to Ratko and has two children Sasa and Lidija. Inspite of years that went by, Jelena never managed to forget Vuk, a love of her life she has been involved with in her youth. She was separated from Vuk under tragic and mysterious circumstances. After 3 decades in his wish to pursue justice, Vuk returns to his city bringing his daughter Helen with him. His attempt to clarify what happened and to prove the truth is sabotaged by Jelena's husband who keeps failing in business more and more. Even though he loves Jelena, he has a relationship with Sofija, the owner of a modeling agency. Nobody expects that the accidental encounter between Sasa and Helen will become fatal once they decided to start the life together.

Jelena

2004

Grey Home poster
8.7

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Grey Home

1986

Love Cookies poster
NR

The story revolves around two friends who try to open an illegal restaurant in Dorcol, in order not to pay taxes, which puts them into various comic situations. One is a Belgrade scammer who resells everything and lives that way, and the other is a village hipster attempting to become a Belgradian.

Love Cookies

2021

Walking with a Lion poster
7.0

The series deals with the suffering of creators and all those, in all times, who sincerely searched for the truth.

Walking with a Lion

2022

Three Men and Aunt poster
3.5

Serbian sitcom following adventures of three men who live together with their dominant and matriarchal aunt.

Three Men and Aunt

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First Class: Full Speed! poster
7.0

Beba and Nemac are chasing the national championship and their dreams of GT3 while driving the iconic Yugos. Their team START is led by Gojko, a multiple first class champion for years. Their rivals are the Montenegro team MONTERARI, who are trying to get to the title off the track as well. That nothing is that simple and that the tension is greater when love is involved in the story, will be proven by the club's mechanic who additionally raises the temperature.

First Class: Full Speed!

2026

Weekend with Pops poster
NR

The 2020 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a seven part mini-series. A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.

Weekend with Pops

2021