Svetolik Nikačević

Acting

Svetolik Nikačević

Born 1905-06-05 · Orašac, Ottoman Empire [now Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Svetolik Nikačević was a prominent Serbian and Yugoslav actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theater. Throughout a career spanning several decades, he became a recognizable face in Yugoslav cinema, often portraying authoritative or historical figures.

Acting credits

Escape from Sobibor poster
7.2

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Escape from Sobibor

1987

The Time of Kites poster
7.0

Each time has its own games. This is a time when children's imagination was able to create art through fantasy. The adults shared the enthusiasm as well. A time that the war severely interrupted and marked the end of one's childhood and youth.

The Time of Kites

1982

Boxers Go to Heaven poster
6.8

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

Boxers Go to Heaven

1967

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy poster
6.4

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

1966

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

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

The Beauty of Vice poster
6.8

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.

The Beauty of Vice

1986

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7.0

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1975

The Sarajevo Assassination poster
7.3

A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

The Sarajevo Assassination

1968

Blacklist poster
10.0

It catches the essence of the no man’s land in which an accused artist found himself. In the hysteria of the political witch hunt neither society nor the law offered a way out.

Blacklist

1974

Pretty Women Walking Through the City poster
4.9

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.

Pretty Women Walking Through the City

1986

Wild Seed poster
5.0

A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.

Wild Seed

1967

This Crazy World of Ours poster
4.7

A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.

This Crazy World of Ours

1970

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

Night and Fog poster
9.0

Written and performed in 1968, Night and Fog is, in Kiš’s words, “a set of lyrical variations on the theme of time and memory”. After 20 years, Andreas Sam returns to a Hungarian village where he spent the war years. Each of the three characters-Andy, Mrs & Mr.Rigo – sees the past in their own way.

Night and Fog

1968

A Shot in the Plum Yard Across the River poster
9.0

A young enthusiastic teacher comes to the mountain village to open a school along the party lines. The head of the municipality helps him with that, for he believes that the lofty goals justify all the means to achieve them. But, on the field, things among the peasants are not going smoothly.

A Shot in the Plum Yard Across the River

1978

The Reichstag Fire poster
9.0

The court trial of the 1933 arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin by a Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. The incident took place only four weeks after Adolf Hitler sworn as the German chancellor The film was damaged and only 23 mins are preserved.

The Reichstag Fire

1972

Do Not Mention the Cause of Death poster
6.0

In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, but the naive dyer believes in "straight" intentions of his godfather - black marketeer, and he gives away free canvas to the people. But in all their pain, people are unable to distinguish good intentions from the evil ones.

Do Not Mention the Cause of Death

1968

The Swarm poster
6.8

During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.

The Swarm

1966

Do You Know Pavle Pleso? poster
6.5

Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.

Do You Know Pavle Pleso?

1975

The Oppenheimer Case poster
7.8

During World War II, the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer was at the head of the research work for the production of the atomic bomb. He was removed from that position in 1953 due to disagreements with the US Atomic Commission regarding the development of the hydrogen bomb. The investigation that was conducted against him during the infamous time of anti-communist hysteria and the "witch hunt" during the time of Senator McCarthy is testimony to the great moral and psychological dilemma in which the scientists of that era found themselves.

The Oppenheimer Case

1970

Luka's Jovana poster
6.0

A young married couple live alone in the Montenegrian mountains and work hard to make ends meet. Their ordinary life is interrupted by various different characters who pass by their home, and serve as a temptation, both carnal and spiritual, which threatens to corrupt the woman's innocent soul. Each new visitor is a threat of sorts and gradually she becomes suspicious towards the world and the unknown.

Luka's Jovana

1979

Burning poster
5.7

Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.

Burning

1979

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade poster
9.0

A TV drama set shortly after WW2 about court trial of former German generals accused for bombing the Yugoslavia's capital Belgrade.

The Man Who Bombed Belgrade

1976