Acting

Aco Jovanovski

Acting credits

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6.7

The film takes place in a small town where the Germans are getting ready to retreat near the end of the war. But a carload of Russian prisoners get people to feed them, then the prisoners overcome their guards and escape. The town people try to save them from the Germans but do not succeed.

The Price of a Town

1970

Return from Paradise poster
NR

The first Macedonian TV drama produced by TV Skopje.

Return from Paradise

1969

Steep-headed poster
NR

Urban drama about ordinary people in a period of transition.

Steep-headed

2006

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

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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

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

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NR

Macedonian TV drama.

Maybe a Last Event

1972

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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

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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

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

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NR

After death of his wife, Stojan is proclaimed by his fellow villagers to be a living saint. They thought God will have mercy upon them, and life in their village would become better and happier. Stojan liked this at start, he got used of his nickname and listening to people's problems and sins. However, he gets fed up of this burden that is not easy to get rid of.

The Saint from Slatina

1975

You Don't Drink Tea on the Balkans poster
7.0

Macedonian TV film.

You Don't Drink Tea on the Balkans

1998

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

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NR

Macedonian TV comedy.

New Year Carousel

1973

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NR

A documentary film dedicated to the Macedonian National Theater in Skopje. In 48 minutes, this documentary film will take us back to the time when the previous building of the MNT existed, destroyed in the earthquake, to its work, to the audience of that time and its culture of going to the theater. All this is captured through the testimonies of the greatest theatrical legends and old recordings that exist in the archives of the Republic of Macedonia, and which capture the spirit of the theater once upon a time.

Straight to the Stars

2017

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

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NR

Macedonian TV drama.

The Forgotten

1995

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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

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NR

A short film about the life of the peasant Mitre, who, unable to complete his agricultural work on time because he has only one ox, asks for help from his fellow villager Kostadin. He, in turn, is carried away by envy and malice, and using the moment when Mitre is tired from the midday heat, spreads lies to the villagers in the middle of the village. Mitre restrainedly and consciously overcomes the lies and leaves along the village alley...

Dawn in the Fields

1953

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

Time, Life poster
9.0

Adaptation of a TV Series with 3 episodes, "Third Age", filmed in 1986. This is a movie that shows how the old people live in a city (Skopje), film about love in the "third age", with a knit of humor and lyrically transposed characters.

Time, Life

1992

Anno Domini 1573 poster
6.3

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.

Anno Domini 1573

1975

The Rakoc Cross poster
6.0

Shortly after World War II, the government sent a crew of drivers with large tractors to clear-cut and plow a vast, barren piece of land called "Krst Rakoc" in the hills of Kosovo and Metohia, for future orchards. They encounter deprecation and revolt from indigenous Albanian population who do not believe in good intentions of the government and the crew.

The Rakoc Cross

1962

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