Petar Arsovski

Acting

Petar Arsovski

Born

1945-06-12 (81)

Place of birth

Mokreni, Macedonia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

He is one of the most famous actors in the history of Macedonian theater. He has been part of the ensemble of the Macedonian National Theater for more than 30 years where he had more than 150 premieres, among which the most significant are: Demons directed by Vladimir Milchin; Crime and Punishment directed by Egon Savin; Happy New ’49 directed by Slobodan Unkovski; Dias Irae directed by Slobodan Unkovski; Julius Caesar directed by Ljubisha Georgievski; Power Cag directed by Saso Milenkovski; Government Inspector directed by Vladimir Milchin; The Glembaj’s directed by Ljubisha Georgievski. Lately He also took part in numerous independent and alternative projects among which: Mad Forest direct…

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

Flat Hill poster
6.3

Ravna Gora tells story of events after April War 1941. Serbia with accent on the Chetnic-Partisan conflict, at the beginning of World War II

Flat Hill

2013

The Third Half poster
6.5

Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

The Third Half

2012

Bal-Can-Can poster
7.2

A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.

Bal-Can-Can

2005

The Border Post poster
7.0

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. However, when their liuetenant is secretly diagnosed with siphilis, he decides to keep them at their positions in order to ensure a safe and secretive treatment by the medic, inventing a fictional military conflict as a means to keeping them in line.

The Border Post

2006

Memed My Hawk poster
6.0

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.

Memed My Hawk

1984

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 9 titles

The Third Half poster
6.5

Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

The Third Half

2012

For the King and Fatherland poster
4.0

The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a member of the "Ravnogorski pokret". The storyline narrates his memories of the past and the war events in the spring of 1941 interwoven with the contemporary moments, the author features the attack of fascist Germany, the April war and the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the misfortune placed upon the Serbian people, loss of freedom, birth of the freedom movement in Serbia and one Serbian soldier, who after 70 years of expatriation in America returns to his homeland.

For the King and Fatherland

2015

This Is Not an American Movie poster
7.5

A gang of small-time criminals dream of glamor like in an American movies and plan their biggest heist - the secret room of CIA.

This Is Not an American Movie

2011

The Happiness Effect poster
7.0

Lea, 21, is being diagnosed with leukemia. Having no time left she starts appreciating every hour, seeing beauty where she's never seen before. Hoping she could change the world, Lea makes a video project aiming to give her contribution to living by creating a viral happiness effect.

The Happiness Effect

2019

Golden Five poster
8.0

This is a feature about one discontinued and one started love, with passion and betrayal floating between them. Kata and Djidji live their own life, escaping the absurd sins of the past. But then Alavantie discovers some new clues that lead to the case in which a group of students is liquidated. One of those 5 innocent boys had a relationship with Kata. The long kept secret is finally here. The end of damnation is approaching.

Golden Five

2016

No artwork available
NR

Every day in Petar's life is worse than the previous one, which means that every new day is the worst day in his life, until... one day a mysterious, mute stranger starts hitting Petar at his head with an umbrella. He hits without an intention to stop. Whatever Petar does to liberate himself from this menace, the strange little man is constantly by his side.

The Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella

2012

Nightlife poster
5.8

The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljič excels in the role of the resourceful wife.

Nightlife

2015

Siska Deluxe poster
6.2

Three almost middle-aged men decide to open up a pizzeria in the neighbourhood of Šiška in Ljubljana.

Siska Deluxe

2015

Mrs. Rubin poster
5.3

The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of the 45-year-old resident of the ward, Mrs. Erme. The professor, Sophie’s mentor and the medical administrator of the facility, sees Sophie’s obsession with her faces and brings the two women together. As the doctor-patient relationship develops, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme shares her obsession with her face, and furthermore, discovers that Mrs. Erme’s illness is closely connected to this obsession. Through investigation and the torture of her own dreams, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme had a son, who at the age of ten died from chicken pox, while his mother was too afraid to ruin her face by getting infected by the disease.

Mrs. Rubin

2011

2000s · 16 titles

Bal-Can-Can poster
7.2

A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.

Bal-Can-Can

2005

The Border Post poster
7.0

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. However, when their liuetenant is secretly diagnosed with siphilis, he decides to keep them at their positions in order to ensure a safe and secretive treatment by the medic, inventing a fictional military conflict as a means to keeping them in line.

The Border Post

2006

Is It Clear, My Friend? poster
6.7

Socialist Croatia, sometime during the 1980s. After he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, Martin is sent to a high-security state prison where he accidentally becomes a target of a violent gang.

Is It Clear, My Friend?

2000

The Great Water poster
5.5

An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.

The Great Water

2004

Spare Parts poster
6.2

Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. Together they become a well-trained duo who almost every night convey "spare parts" to Italy. Of course the story of their illegitimate exports into Europe ends tragically, for everyone. The whole idea of this account is that everyone - including ourselves - is looking for happiness: the "spare parts" because of the misery they are plunged into without, and our characters because they can't find it inside

Spare Parts

2003

Headnoise poster
6.6

In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.

Headnoise

2002

Temptation poster
NR

A story about the priest Stefan, the trials he faces and the eternal struggle between good and evil.

Temptation

2008

Revenge poster
5.5

The story of is placed at the end of the 19th and at the second half of the 20th century. The locations are different and completely opposite: the rural Macedonia at one hand, and the urban environment of an industrial region in Belgium at another...

Revenge

2001

Steep-headed poster
NR

Urban drama about ordinary people in a period of transition.

Steep-headed

2006

Wolves poster
NR

Macedonian TV drama.

Wolves

2003

No artwork available
6.0

One morning the old janitor in a mountain hut finds a scared, young woman hiding in the kitchen. Moments later, a middle aged man – her lover – enters the hut, introduces himself as her uncle and starts asking about her. The old man decides to protect her and lies, saying he hadn’t seen anyone around. At the end that decision will cost him dearly.

At Daybreak

2009

Ghoul Quest poster
9.0

Serafim is a vampire hunter - who wanders through Macedonian villages and destroys the vampired dead man for money. His apprentice is young fellow named Fidan, who Serafim teaches the rough and dangerous vampire craft, along with the alphabet and the insecure life in Macedonia. Vampire man and his student in their surroundings get in struggle with: Macedonian vampires, Turkish Authority and with Komiti (Macedonian Revolutionaries), also with Avdzi - Taburi (paid hunters of Komiti). Fidan experiences damnation of the vampire skill, who doesn't know if Serafim is a God's angel or servant of Devil.

Ghoul Quest

2002

One of the Death's Faces poster
NR

The film is based on the story FATHER by Petre M. Andreevski. An excerpt from life that weaves like a spider web around human destinies. The questions will hardly ever get the right answers.

One of the Death's Faces

2003

A Bridge poster
NR

Film about the legend of Rada's Bridge in the city of Kratovo.

A Bridge

2006

The American poster
NR

Macedonian TV drama

The American

2006

The Trap poster
NR

A psychological thriller set in Macedonia leaving naive son Jane to discover the truth about his father.

The Trap

2007

1990s · 8 titles

Tattoo poster
5.6

After a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he'll find himself locked in a prison with several other, mostly innocent people. The true horror begins only then.

Tattoo

1991

Goodbye, 20th Century poster
6.0

In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.

Goodbye, 20th Century

1998

Charuga poster
5.4

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.

Charuga

1991

Gipsy Magic poster
5.1

In modern-day Macedonia, an East Indian gypsy Taip (Miki Manojlovic) becomes friends with UN peacekeeper Riju and introduces him to his life of squalor. When Taip's mother dies, he collects government money for the funeral -- but then she comes back to life.

Gipsy Magic

1997

Leaving Paskvelija poster
7.0

A TV film adaptation of the book Paskvelija by renowned Macedonian author Živko Čingo.

Leaving Paskvelija

1992

Let God Kill the Spies poster
8.0

Five centuries of persecution and the struggle of the Macedonian people for freedom and an independent Macedonian state in which freedom will reign equally for all, have created their own myth and tradition for themselves. The struggles, sufferings, betrayals and self-sacrifice were later translated and woven through Macedonian songs, stories, tales and plays. Starting from there, this TV movie approaches the events of that time.

Let God Kill the Spies

1993

Angels of the Dumps poster
8.0

A tragicomedy on displaced people in the post-Communist era. Its protagonist are mostly oldtimers from the circus world and the variety stage. When the circus burns down and the "last performance" ends in tragedy, the fault for the loss is laid upon corrupt officials and smalltime gangsters. Veteran screen star Meri Boshkova - who played the title role in the first Macedonian feature film made, Frosina (1952) - can be seen in the role of Mimi, a woman at the dumpyard who lives with her dreams.

Angels of the Dumps

1995

The Cry of the Mute Indian poster
NR

Macedonian TV film.

The Cry of the Mute Indian

1993

1980s · 10 titles

Memed My Hawk poster
6.0

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.

Memed My Hawk

1984

Happy New '49 poster
6.3

The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.

Happy New '49

1986

Knot poster
10.0

The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.

Knot

1985

A Dangerous Track poster
6.2

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

A Dangerous Track

1984

Skopje's Dreams poster
NR

The film takes place in Skopje in the summer of 1963, just before the catastrophic earthquake.

Skopje's Dreams

1988

Times, Waters poster
7.8

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a watermill. Such an enterprise gets two villages in conflict over water rights, threatening to permanently turn people against each other. In the past, the territory had been occupied by the Italian armies, and a flashback shows a massacre in one village, a revelation that disaster has been a part of their history, in one way or another. No matter how he argues, the young man who advocated the watermill loses out to the builders of a dam - something that does not bode well for the low-lying village.

Times, Waters

1980

Lamb on the Spit poster
NR

Brothers and their sister come to their native village on their deceased father's burial. Each of them has own plan of taking particular area of property, but in the will their father left behind it is stated they can use the lot only together. They leave the village in disappointment.

Lamb on the Spit

1982

The Southern Trail poster
9.0

Follows the course of three different and independent relationships. The first in which a man renews a relationship with a former girlfriend. In the second a couple suddenly decide to marry, while in the third a couple are getting a divorce.

The Southern Trail

1982

Haven't I Told You poster
7.0

Based on real events in Macedonia during the Ottoman era. The plot revolves around a number of Macedonian revolutionaries battling against a large Ottoman-Turkish Army.

Haven't I Told You

1984

No artwork available
10.0

Macedonian TV drama.

The Premiere

1983

1970s · 10 titles

The Macedonian Part of Hell poster
5.7

At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.

The Macedonian Part of Hell

1971

The Longest Journey poster
8.0

In March 1903, amidst the crumbling Ottoman Empire, Macedonia remains unliberated, with its revolutionary movement burgeoning. In retaliation for supporting freedom fighters, the Turks besiege a wedding, capturing over two hundred villagers and sentencing them to lengthy prison terms. These prisoners are then transported to Asia Minor, enduring severe hardships and humiliation through the desert, with many perishing along the way before reaching their final destination in October 1908.

The Longest Journey

1976

Misery poster
10.0

The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.

Misery

1975

People and Birds poster
NR

Macedonian TV drama.

People and Birds

1973

No artwork available
NR

Macedonian TV film.

The Roommates from Room 306

1976

Good Valley poster
NR

A small village in the valley, where young people traditionally go to work in overseas countries. Gligor also intended to leave several times, but changed his mind at the last moment. This time, he was determined to finally go to Canada. On his way, the love of a village woman prevented him.

Good Valley

1973

No artwork available
NR

Macedonian TV drama depicting the historical event of Smilevo Congress.

The Smilevo Congress

1973

A Shot poster
6.2

Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov...

A Shot

1972

The Verdict poster
6.0

In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned to the brigade, Mitko was declared a deserter and was disarmed and bound. Since he lost his weapon, the Commissioner sent him to patrol the action to take weapons from the Germans. All partisans patrol that went with him dying and the only Mitko and Vane, who was seriously injured remain alive. Thinking it was dead Vane, Angelov returns to the brigade. But the commander did not believe him, thinking that he had fled from the battle, and that is why the prison in the basement. In the meantime, get wounded fighter Vane, and the story of the heroic struggle led by Mitko. But at the same time, a military court condemned him to death for desertion.

The Verdict

1977

No artwork available
NR

Macedonian TV drama.

Encounter

1974

Series credits