Acting

Džemail Maksut

Acting credits

Before the Rain poster
7.4

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

Before the Rain

1994

From Behind poster
NR

Early Spring 1945. Albanian criminals attack innocent Macedonians in Macedonia.

From Behind

1985

T.T. Syndrome poster
6.3

Several people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.

T.T. Syndrome

2002

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

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

No artwork available
5.8

A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.

Across the Lake

1997

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

The Falcon poster
5.0

Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.

The Falcon

1983

Body Scent poster
4.6

Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.

Body Scent

1983

No artwork available
NR

A Macedonian TV drama adaptation of the short story 'Love in the village' by Ivo Andric.

A Rainy Sun

1978

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

Aleksandra poster
NR

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

Aleksandra

1970

Meeting Place poster
7.6

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Meeting Place

1989

Hi-Fi poster
8.1

Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.

Hi-Fi

1987

Flowers of Love poster
9.0

This fantasy film is one of the early productions of Kosovar cinema that seeks to express the inner and poetic dimensions of love and nature.

Flowers of Love

1988

Let God Kill the Spies poster
8.0

Five centuries of persecution and the struggle of the Macedonian people for freedom and an independent Macedonian state in which freedom will reign equally for all, have created their own myth and tradition for themselves. The struggles, sufferings, betrayals and self-sacrifice were later translated and woven through Macedonian songs, stories, tales and plays. Starting from there, this TV movie approaches the events of that time.

Let God Kill the Spies

1993

Leaving Paskvelija poster
7.0

A TV film adaptation of the book Paskvelija by renowned Macedonian author Živko Čingo.

Leaving Paskvelija

1992

The Longest Journey poster
8.0

In March 1903, amidst the crumbling Ottoman Empire, Macedonia remains unliberated, with its revolutionary movement burgeoning. In retaliation for supporting freedom fighters, the Turks besiege a wedding, capturing over two hundred villagers and sentencing them to lengthy prison terms. These prisoners are then transported to Asia Minor, enduring severe hardships and humiliation through the desert, with many perishing along the way before reaching their final destination in October 1908.

The Longest Journey

1976

No artwork available
9.0

Life and work of Saint Kliment of Ohrid, a medieval Slav saint, scholar, writer and patron saint of the Republic of Macedonia.

Clement of Ohrid

1986

No artwork available
7.0

About the life and work of Grigor Prlichev, a Macedonian revivalist and poet from Ohrid.

The Teacher

1980

No artwork available
10.0

Macedonian TV drama.

The Premiere

1983

The Cry of the Mute Indian poster
NR

Macedonian TV film.

The Cry of the Mute Indian

1993