Petar Arsovski

Acting

Petar Arsovski

Born 1945-06-12 · Mokreni, Macedonia, Yugoslavia

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 directed by Nina Nikolikj; Tito directed by Branko Brezovec; Sex, Lies and Wild Geese directed by Nina Nikolikj; The Other Side directed by Martin Kochovski; Picnic on the Front directed by Luca Cortina. The career of Petre Arsovski is also marked by an extensive number of movies (70 leading roles), TV films and TV serials.

Acting credits

Steep-headed poster
NR

Urban drama about ordinary people in a period of transition.

Steep-headed

2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NR

Macedonian TV film.

The Roommates from Room 306

1976

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

It All Ends Here poster
8.0

Maks is a brilliant lawyer who has been serving for years one of Croatia’s most powerful and ruthless businessmen, who made his fortune in the aftermath of the Balkan War. Maks’ latest service has been to have his client declared innocent of the murder of two of his workers for acting in self-defense. But the sudden appearance of a former girlfriend triggers a crisis of conscience in Maks, leading him to confront his employer and risk his life by uncovering a dense network of corruption at the highest level involving all branches of the State.

It All Ends Here

2024

Is It Clear, My Friend? poster
6.7

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.

Is It Clear, My Friend?

2000

Temptation poster
NR

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

Temptation

2008

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. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.

The Border Post

2006

The Great Water poster
5.5

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

The Great Water

2004

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

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

Gipsy Magic poster
5.2

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

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

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

Goodbye, 20th Century poster
6.1

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

A Dangerous Track poster
6.2

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

A Dangerous Track

1984

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

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

Happy New '49 poster
6.6

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