Petar Kralj

Acting

Petar Kralj

Born — Died

1941-04-04 — 2011-11-10

Place of birth

Zagreb, Croatia

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Petar Kralj was a Serbian film and television actor and appeared on stage about 3,000 times, and starred in over 200 films, TV series and TV dramas. In 2005, he played lead role in first Serbian science fiction television series The Collector.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

Technotise: Edit and I poster
6.9

Belgrade, 2074. Edit Stefanović, a psychology student, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help her pass the exam. Edit also has a job at a scientific and social research company, in taking care of Abel Mustafov, an autistic math genius who discovered a formula that connects all forces in the world, but no computer was able to calculate it fully without becoming self-aware and shutting down immediately after that. After Edit sees the formula graph, the chip calculates the formula, and becomes able to "survive" thanks to its connection to Edit. It develops a parallel personality and affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined.

Technotise: Edit and I

2009

When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo poster
8.2

A young student Braca is trying to seduce a beautiful model Iris. Although they are from two different worlds, they both try not to show it. In another story, Šomi and Duje anxiously follow the football match between Manchester and Eastwich. They bet on Eastwich, because their childhood friend Kengur is their goalkeeper. The plot of the third story takes place on the roof of the solitaire, where Avaks and Hibrid are wasting time in anticipation of something happening.

When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo

2004

Peasants poster
4.5

Comedy about the life of a modern village family and many neighbors of theirs, dealing with Serbian mentality at the turn of the XXI century. Based on TV series of the same title.

Peasants

2001

Take a Deep Breath poster
4.3

Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are moving to Canada. That same night Saša and Stefan suffer a car accident. Saša wakes up in hospital and meets Stefan's charming and clever sister Lana, a photographer living in Paris. Stefan remains in hospital to recover. Saša finds out that her mother Lila is having an affair. Her father, a well-known judge, desperately tries to keep the family together. Lana becomes Saša's closest friend - a person able to prove that life is sometimes a mere game. In the midst of historical and family chaos, Saša gets involved in a love relationship with her boyfriend's sister.

Take a Deep Breath

2004

Te quiero, Radisa poster
8.0

The main character is businessman Tihomir Stojković, who decides to film a Latin-American-Spanish-Venezuelan-Mexican series, or soap opera, with Serbian actors, consisting of 150 episodes, and hires writer Radiša, a permanent candidate for the Nin Award, who has written 28 novels, to write the script.

Te quiero, Radisa

2004

Bora Under Occupation poster
NR

Serbian novelist Bora Stankovic lives in Belgrade during WWI. He’s torn between the need to work and the need to resist working for the papers controlled by the occupiers, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Bora Under Occupation

2007

Everything's for People poster
8.0

A returnee from Australia causes uproar in his native village when he announces he's looking for bride.

Everything's for People

2001

1990s · 11 titles

Underground poster
7.7

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.

Underground

1995

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

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

The World poster
7.0

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

The World

1990

Love and Marriage poster
8.0

A TV adaptation of comedy novel by Jovan Sterija Popovic. In the manner of an experienced analyst, Sterija portrays the topic of finding a life companion as an essential need to build a life with seductive illusions, in which banality and kitsch are important building blocks.

Love and Marriage

1997

The Crush and the Dislike poster
NR

A young girl solves her love problems through skillful manipulation. Based on the play of the same name by Jovan Sterija Popović.

The Crush and the Dislike

1996

Kick-Off poster
5.1

A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.

Kick-Off

1990

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

Some Birds Can't Fly poster
6.4

The doctors predicted Vesna to have one more year. The very sick girl is taken, by her estranged grandfather, up to the mountains, where she learns of a different life.

Some Birds Can't Fly

1997

The Infantry Ant poster
8.0

Black ant Ameisen, the infantry ant, got mixed up in war and love turmoils. He's an experienced military slacker who does not respect strict military standards, but performs each task successfully. Red ants, headed by their clumsy general, are on the war path with black ants. Unfortunately for both sides, war happened because of a jar of moldy marmalade.

The Infantry Ant

1993

The Death of Lady Minister poster
8.5

The story about Zhanka Stokic, the most famous Yugoslav actress before WW2. After the war, she experiences humiliation and the trial for acting at the cabaret and reading the texts on the radio while the people died on front. She's not sure if there was guilt in her act or not, but she's certain that the thing she did was not a crime that deserves a death penalty.

The Death of Lady Minister

1992

1980s · 21 titles

Dying Out of Bears poster
8.0

A satire of the corrupt society and political system of Yugoslavia, where the rulers hide their shortcomings with invisible bears, mice and other animals.

Dying Out of Bears

1983

No artwork available
8.0

Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.

Miss

1986

Interests poster
10.0

A 1980 Serbo-Croatian language short film directed by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Ljiljana Krstic, Branislav Jerinić and Radmila Andrić.

Interests

1980

Special Treatment poster
5.2

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.

Special Treatment

1980

The Fall of Rock and Roll poster
6.3

Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them.

The Fall of Rock and Roll

1989

The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences poster
9.0

An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.

The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences

1989

The Last Lap at Monza poster
5.3

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.

The Last Lap at Monza

1989

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot poster
7.0

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot

1983

Spadijer: One Life poster
6.0

A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.

Spadijer: One Life

1986

It Happened on This Very Day poster
6.3

Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.

It Happened on This Very Day

1987

Never Speak Ill of the Dead poster
6.2

Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.

Never Speak Ill of the Dead

1984

Stories from the End of the Corridor poster
8.0

The action takes place over one weekend and shows women who are being treated for infertility at a gynecology clinic, but also face hypocrisy and alienation from society.

Stories from the End of the Corridor

1986

Battle of Kosovo poster
6.3

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.

Battle of Kosovo

1989

Shady Business poster
6.6

Residents of a shanty town are faced with its destruction. With the help of the local trickster, Paja "the Bighead" moves with his family to an empty flat in New Belgrade blocks. Everything goes fine until the real owner knocks at the door.

Shady Business

1981

No artwork available
7.0

A monodrama in which Petar Kralj stars as a fisherman who remembers the old Belgrade and times spent with friends on the river.

Me, Porfirius the Third of the River

1980

The Medusa Raft poster
6.2

Story about a group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.

The Medusa Raft

1980

Una poster
5.6

A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of two people: student Una and a respected professor. She is pretty and intelligent, but unable to cope with complicated relationships in which she became involved, while the professor is a person whose lectures on mass media are most visited by students at the Faculty. However, his views are not met with approval by the bureaucratic circles at the University. Vice Dean of the Faculty by means of intrigue manages to lure Una into a game with the professor. Thus, an innocent interview turns into a record of life, philosophical and ideological views of the controversial professor, and then into a malicious report about his life, behaviour, action and movement ... The Film is based on the novel Una written by Momo Kapor.

Una

1984

Oktoberfest poster
6.6

Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.

Oktoberfest

1987

Ever-Ready Women poster
5.0

Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.

Ever-Ready Women

1987

Five o'clock Tea poster
6.5

TV movie by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Rahela Ferari.

Five o'clock Tea

1984

Forces in the Air poster
10.0

Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying her, and on the other he has a wife and an adult son with whom he constantly comes into conflict. When Mile's wife realizes what life is like, things take another direction.

Forces in the Air

1989

1970s · 18 titles

No artwork available
9.0

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

Sons

1975

The Surgery poster
7.0

This TV movie is in the top TV movies filmed by TV Belgrade. Renowned doctor (surgeon), tired from daily work and meetings, in addition to high availability and problems, learned from a patient who is dying name of the murderer of his father and grandfather and that after 30 years since the end of World War II who was a Chetnik, learned the name the man who destroyed his childhood. Dilemma advanced to meet our doctor, that you do revenge or forgive the man who carries so many horrors. At a time when we have to decide what to do, chetnik who is now an old man comes with serious diseases in the hospital and on the operating table. This raises the issue now and in the consciousness comes Hippocratic oath, what to do now, kill and become animals or help relieve itself a considerable burden.

The Surgery

1977

The Coronation poster
NR

The story is centered around members of the Kamshatov family (including Sergei Petrovich and his grandson Yakov Ivanovich) alongside various relatives, acquaintances, and family contacts.

The Coronation

1970

Ancika Dumas poster
10.0

A married woman falls head-over-heels in love with her husband’s friend, and she throws herself instantly into an affair, with plans of eloping. But not everything is as it seems.

Ancika Dumas

1977

The Lady Minister poster
8.0

A TV adaptation of Branislav Nusic's legendary comedy "The Lady Minister", which follows the wife of a minister who changes her lifestyle and becomes sophisticated all of a sudden. However, her husband resigns after being involved in a scandal, but she finds hard to get back to previous life.

The Lady Minister

1978

The End of the Week poster
8.0

The employees at a printing company talk about the mutual relations of employees at the company and their family problems.

The End of the Week

1975

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

The Spanish Request poster
NR

The docu-drama plays out just before the decision on financing Magellan's travels, which will reveal "the Western passage". Portugal cannot help, so he travels to Spain, where he is opposed by the Church.

The Spanish Request

1978

Mister Dimkovic poster
8.0

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.

Mister Dimkovic

1979

Murtal's Case poster
7.0

The protagonist is a young man, a future scientist, who plans his future life with mathematical precision, but the calculation betrays him.

Murtal's Case

1976

Under Investigation poster
8.0

A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.

Under Investigation

1977

Lost Happiness poster
7.0

The story is set on the outskirts of Belgrade, and the protagonists are a group of neighbors who are unsuccessfully trying to find happiness through romantic relationships.

Lost Happiness

1976

Violets poster
10.0

While searching for the “right” subject, the journalist decides to interview his former professor, who is a school friend of a famous Spanish fighter. During the conversation, the young journalist reveals the shocking story of a professor who fundamentally changed her life.

Violets

1975

House Therapy poster
10.0

A 1977 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravasi, starring Jelisaveta ‘Seka’ Sablić, Petar Kralj and Mira Dinulović.

House Therapy

1977

Gluttony poster
7.0

A TV drama “Gluttony” is part of the unfinished “Seven Deadly Sins” cycle. The main subject of this story is a dedication to one of the greatest biblical sins – gluttony itself.

Gluttony

1972

Third for the Preference poster
10.0

A young professor Vladimir wants to write a book in peace far from big city life, but finds a different reality. His ambition drowns in the lethargy of a provincial tavern, as he plays an endless card game of preference.

Third for the Preference

1975

Manhunt poster
7.0

The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunting them instead.

Manhunt

1977

No artwork available
8.0

The action is set in the Paris Commune, established in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and the play follows the historical events surrounding this revolutionary uprising. The main character is the pacifist teacher Gabrielle Langevin, but historical figures such as Gustave Courbet also appear.

The Defeat

1972

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits

A White Ship poster
5.1

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

A White Ship

2006

Vuk Karadžić poster
7.0

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Vuk Karadžić

1987

Bitter Fruit poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bitter Fruit

2008

Goose Feather poster
NR

TV series which serves as an extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Goose Feather

2007

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

Once Upon a Time There Was a Country poster
8.8

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation. An extended television version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.

Once Upon a Time There Was a Country

1996

Svetozar Markovic poster
10.0

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.

Svetozar Markovic

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The Graduates poster
10.0

The series is about the life of a group of students on the outskirts of Belgrade. One of the main characters is Buda, who fails to pass the final exam, but with the help of his father Sima Bumba, manages to get a job.

The Graduates

1971

Granny's Grandchild poster
9.0

Funny peasant granny moves from her village to Belgrade with her grandson so he can finish elementary school in the city. The clash between the human, rural, and honest and the depraved, false, and petty-bourgeois is inevitable.

Granny's Grandchild

1977