Darko Damevski

Acting

Darko Damevski

Born 1932-05-12 · Prilep, Macedonia, Yugoslavia

Acting credits

Return from Paradise poster
NR

The first Macedonian TV drama produced by TV Skopje.

Return from Paradise

1969

Days of Temptation poster
5.5

In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.

Days of Temptation

1965

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7.0

Simon is a young man who has decided to make quick money by smuggling narcotics. At a meeting with his contact they are ambushed by the police. Simon runs away but loses his wallet and so supposes that his identity must now be known to the police. Kalpak, the unscrupulous man who organizes this group of smugglers insists that he and Simon to leave at once. Simon agrees to cross the border illegally. Simon's girl-friend Lena and his brother Cvetko are involved in this operation by chance. They all leave together. Lena tries to persuade Simon to give himself up to the authorities, but the arguments of Kalpak, who uses the lost wallet as a threat, are stronger. In the attempt to cross the lake in a stolen boat they are chased by the police. Kalpak gets killed, Simon is wounded and the girl Lena drops the narcotics into the lake.

The False Passport

1959

Black Seed poster
6.2

The story of Macedonian soldiers who were captured by the Greek army and taken to the prison camps on Greek islands during Greek Civil War in 1946. Suspected of being communists, they are maltreated by the Greek officers running the camp

Black Seed

1971

Salt poster
7.1

Due to fighting against the Germans and the Ustashas, the partisans in central Bosnia decide to strike the salt pans, and take the much needed salt for the people and army. After serious attacks and heavy losses, they complete their mission successfully.

Salt

1973

Stand Up Straight, Delfina poster
6.4

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.

Stand Up Straight, Delfina

1977

Gunfight poster
5.8

In this sequel to "Captain Leshi", a group of Albanian nationalist movement (ballists) continues obstruction of the new Yugoslavian authorities even after the war. Captain Leshi manages to fight them successfully, as well as to fulfill his romance with beautiful Azira.

Gunfight

1962

Macedonian Blood Wedding poster
6.6

The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.

Macedonian Blood Wedding

1967

Wolf of Prokletije poster
5.4

Uka is an old Albanian who lives in the mountains on the border of Kosovo and Albania. As an honorable man, he must deal with his son who befriended Italian fascists during WW2.

Wolf of Prokletije

1968

Life Is a Mass Phenomenon poster
5.9

Two friends dream of what they will do when they become adults. One friend dreams of travelling to far off places, but stays at home. The other one leaves and sends him postcards from exotic locations, with descriptions of impossible adventures. But, his friend at home engages in a passionate love affair with his beautiful young landlady. When his friend-the traveller returns he admits he may have exaggerated about some of his adventure stories.. The two friends continue on dreaming of new excitements.

Life Is a Mass Phenomenon

1970

No artwork available
NR

Macedonian TV drama.

Reception

1976

A Quiet Summer poster
6.0

Young scientist Zare and his wife, a theater costume designer Mira, live in a rented apartment where they were under the pressure of curious and disturbing neighbors. Once Zare was given the keys of the Ethnographic Museum in Ohrid in order to sort out the situation in this museum, this means escape for the family.

A Quiet Summer

1961

Doctor Homer's Brother poster
7.4

This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes place in Kosovo in 1945, in an atmosphere of uncured wounds, wandering, betrayal, burned homes, typhoid and other postwar misery. An authentic story from those days was taken as the film's basis.

Doctor Homer's Brother

1968

No artwork available
7.0

After the liberation in 1946, in a village in western Macedonia implemented collectivization farms. The President of the rural cooperative Stamat, former fighter, who with all their revolutionary zeal and enthusiasm believes collectivization only way for poor farmers. In doing so, he faces resistance from wealthy farmers who can hardly be separated from the property. In contrast, Stamat faced with the decision of the Committee, the mountain that provides a livelihood and that villagers consider her to be assigned to the Wood Industry. His attempt to change this decision, there is no success. He feels that his revolutionary ideal betrayed. In these circumstances Stamat faced with the fact that the villagers do not trust him, but nevertheless he stands on the right side.

Mountain of Wrath

1968

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

No artwork available
NR

A poor Macedonian woman named Ilinka is offered to marry a guest worker for German papers, but she first must divorce her husband Trajče who's struggling to provide for the family.

Ilinka

1975

Captain Lechi poster
5.5

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain. As Ramiz is trying to get Ahmet out of the gang and hunt down the rest of the Balists, 2 new girls arrive in town. One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.

Captain Lechi

1960

Aleksandra poster
NR

TV film adaptation of the play Aleksandra written by Tome Arsovski.

Aleksandra

1970

The Lead Brigade poster
6.5

The story of a mine and the men who work it, particularly one miner, who has problems both at work and at home.

The Lead Brigade

1980

Under the Same Sky poster
7.1

Three partisans come to a fascist held town at the end of the war to create diversions. Their protector is tortured to reveal their whereabouts, but the partisans arrive in time.

Under the Same Sky

1964

The Salonika Terrorists poster
6.8

The story of a famous group of Macedonian freedom fighters that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century.

The Salonika Terrorists

1961

A Monument poster
NR

A story about a man who appropriates other people's knowledge and achievements and erects a monument to himself in whose justification and necessity he believes.

A Monument

1968

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

No artwork available
6.2

Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.

Times without War

1969