Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević

Acting

Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević

Born 1923-01-14 · Pozarevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević was a Serbian stage, film, and television actor, permanent member of the Belgrade Drama Theatre since 1950. He was born to the family of a wealthy Greek Zoe Paskal. He spent his childhood and youth years in Kruševac, Serbia. Most of his stage and film career were comic roles. His first dramatic role was that of the father of a protagonist Olgica in the 1987 film Reflections by Goran Marković, for which he received the award for the best male supporting role at Niš Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bata Paskaljević, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

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

It Will Be Better poster
6.0

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

Grumpy Husband poster
10.0

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

Grumpy Husband

1998

A Suspicious Character poster
8.0

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

White Shirt poster
8.0

A TV drama set in a brick factory.

White Shirt

1973

No artwork available
7.0

Professor of mathematics (played by Petar Kralj) confesses to the famous writer Ivo Andric (played by Tihomir Stanic). The professor’s psychological drama starts off when he picks up a package addressed to a certain lady. In her gratitude, the professor sees a discreet romantic sign.

Signs

1995

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

The Dreams Came by Coach poster
6.6

Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.

The Dreams Came by Coach

1960

The Invisible Man poster
10.0

Yugoslav adaptation of the famous film.

The Invisible Man

1976

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

The Written Off poster
9.0

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

The Written Off

1974

The Poem poster
8.0

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.

The Poem

1961

The Marathon Family poster
7.6

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

The Marathon Family

1982

Neighbors poster
8.0

A biography of Ivo Andrić on the eve of the Second World War catastrophe. Andrić is accompanied by the landlady Marija, her talkative brother Baron, a friend-associate Vera and his lover, pianist Vanda. A complex mix of human destinies including politicians, writers, friends and lovers.

Neighbors

2000

The Flight poster
10.0

The TV movie "Escape" shows the agony of "white" officers, soldiers and citizens who fled before the October Revolution, pursued by the power of the Red Army, but also by the blood of their own crimes. Composed in several "pictures", it is a kind of ballad about madness and despair, the battle for bare life, but also an elegy about exile, crime and punishment.

The Flight

1968

Frozen Stiff poster
7.2

The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.

Frozen Stiff

2002

The Seventh Day poster
7.0

Short student film.

The Seventh Day

1987

Whistle at Eight poster
6.0

A film crew wants to make a serious drama, but the investors agree to fund the movie only if they make something funny. Hence the drama becomes a comedy with famous singer Đorđe Marjanović in star role.

Whistle at Eight

1962

Open Space poster
NR

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.

Open Space

1985

Rain poster
7.0

A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".

Rain

1972

Eagles Fly Early poster
7.4

A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, but have been discovered and caught. The sudden arrival of year 1941 turns their game into reality.

Eagles Fly Early

1966

Zamfir's Zona poster
6.3

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

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

God Died in Vain poster
4.9

A trademark comedy by well known Yugoslav writer Radivoje 'Lola' Djukic. Nenad and Predrag are twin brothers. Nenad is the poor carpenter who works in the factory with deep financial problems, and he is one of the union leaders. On the other hand, his twin brother Predrag is the successful executive of a large socialist company, and he enjoys all the benefits of his position. As Predrag's company refuses to give a loan to Nenad's factory, Nenad decides to kidnap his twin brother with his union mates and to take his place in order to get the credit. But in the process, their plan has been unexpectedly changed.

God Died in Vain

1969