
Acting
Miroljub Lešo
Born — Died
1946-06-27 — 2019-03-05
Place of birth
Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
Known for
Acting
Credits
54 titles
Miroljub Lešo was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor known for his prolific career in film and television, appearing in over 90 productions between 1968 and 2018. He was particularly recognized for his roles in iconic Yugoslav projects that depicted historical and wartime events.
Known for
7.2The 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
8.6The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.
Truckers
1973
NRStory about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.
The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom
2018
8.7"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
The Written Off
1974
10.0Adventures of a small boy with a big heart and lots of courage during the Nazi occupation of Vojvodina.
Salas u malom ritu
1976
8.8Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
The Bonfires of Kapela
1975
Film credits
2010s · 5 titles
3.7The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As their time runs out, the team must battle to unlock the terrifying truth behind the ill-fated mission.
The Rift
2016
NRThe story follows an encounter of the childhood friends that have not seen each other for more that twenty years. Their reunion, in the cold and windy night, will open a series of moral dilemmas and uncover deep buried traumas of the past.
The Cry
2010
9.5Guided by their maverick sociology professor, three students set up separate experiments around the city to prove his "Tetris" theory of chaos: that human nature inevitably deteriorates from order to anarchy.
Offenders
2018
6.9Vladica lost the only thing that mattered to him - an amateur karate championship. Now he's back in his home town looking for a job, love and redemption.
The Samurai in Autumn
2016
NRThe story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Kočić spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade, Kosta Herman, finds out that Kočić is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.
A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools
2016
2000s · 2 titles
4.5Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.
Fade to Black
2006
6.1When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
The State of the Dead
2002
1990s · 7 titles
6.4The 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
7.0A three-part omnibus. First story: A young couple agrees to pretend to be in love with each other. Second story: After deciding to leave his band, a young bassist shows up for an audition for a drummer. There he meets a man who offers him money to kill his wife. Third story: Two successful robbers go through a hard time when one of them starts to pay to much more attention to his guitar playing skills than the job.
Package Deal
1995
5.0Older but wealthiest man in the village Života waits for his Russian bride, but when his freshly single nephew Dragoljub arrives he falls for the girl and takes her away. Nevertheless, wedding happens. Života marries local psychic, Dragoljub marries the Russian girl and his son marries his own girlfriend.
Third Time Lucky
1995
5.4The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.
Vukovar Poste Restante
1994
NRA hybrid of psychological drama, thriller, rock and roll music and melodrama. The three main characters live in a special world of separate reality, as a kind of Pirandello’s heroes, actors in the endless theater of life. Their space is a house – a labyrinth, a metaphor for their state of psyche.
Games People Play
1992
6.3A love story between a teenager girl and a small time mob set in Belgrade during the times of great political turmoil.
Boulevard of the Revolution
1992
A TV film depicting life of the famous inventor.
Tesla
1993
1980s · 19 titles
7.2The 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
4.5August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.
Wild Wind
1985
5.0Set in Sarajevo during the 1941 Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, a local businessman rapidly amasses wealth by collaborating and maintaining close friendships with the Nazis. However, his financial success is complicated when he becomes deeply infatuated with a Jewish girl.
Scent of Quinces
1982
NRSummer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.
Open Space
1985
6.6As WW2 comes to an end in the former Yugoslavia, a man without an arm and his young son are on a mission. Their goal is to find and kill five members of the fascist militia who had tortured and killed their wife and mother
The End of War
1984
6.8The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
1980
6.4After WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and gets imprisoned, but escapes soon. A former hero becomes an outlaw hunted by the police.
The Outlaw
1980
6.5Peter Berdon (Mario Selič) joins a group of Stalinists after his father is killed by the Nazis in this grim political drama. The film begins with his arrest and uses flashbacks to tell the events that led to his incarceration. His abuse is chronicled both in and out of prison after he falls in with a Bonnie and Clyde-like duo after the war is over.
The Felons
1987
6.0Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.
Persecution
1982
4.4Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.
Berlin kaputt
1981
9.0A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.
The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
1987
6.2Grim and almost surreal depiction of corruption in Vojvodina city.
The Sunset
1982
8.0Short drama.
Pereat
1983
6.0In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and there are hints that the bloody strikes are a prelude to a major battle. The young man tries to escape from the slums and live in a better society. He falls in love and draws comics, while Savamala offers him the misery of everyday life, the world of criminals, gamblers, anarchists, singers and failed poets.
Savamala
1982
6.0This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
The Red and the Black
1985
6.8The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.
Some Other Woman
1981
6.6In 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang in Ljubljana, experiencing all the problems of his age. With Lenka he's experiencing his first "pure" love, while discovering sexuality... The Italian occupation brings many changes, gang breaks up, some join the liberation movement, the others join collaborationist forces. Marjan remain "unlisted". Italians surrender, and hand over the city to Germans. Frivolous Milena, who has good connections with them, seduces Marjan whom she lost her innocence with. The war is over and the partisans win. The new authorities mistakenly imprison Marjan.
Love
1984
9.0A boy-poet from the village enrolls at the elementary school in the nearest city, but the other kids reject him for not being one of theirs. However, the real values emerge at the surface.
Moss-Covered Asphalt
1983
NRDuring the WWII, the communist resistance, with the help of a few local anti-fascists, makes sabotage and obstructs the actions of the Yugoslav quislings.
The Trojan Horse
1982
1970s · 10 titles
After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.
Sons
1975
10.0A 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
7.4War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge, the boy sets the German corn on fire. An intelligent and shrewd Gestapo officer Šicer arrives to investigate. He does not even suspect that he is up against a group of small boys, led by Milan and Vaso, and orders that all men from the village be taken to custody. He announces that one man will be shot each day unless the real culprit steps forward. Children contact the partisans.
The Farm in the Small Marsh
1976
6.3Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
The Bombers
1973
9.0A 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
6.6"Maiden Bridge" is a place of exchange of German prisoners and partisans captured by the Germans. Unit with nine captured Germans is marching towards the bridge. there is double trouble for partisans, since they are surrounded by the hostiles and also going directly into the hands of ruthless enemy leaders.
Maiden Bridge
1976
6.8The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.
Boshko Buha
1978
7.1Due 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
6.5An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.
Backbone
1975
A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.
Destinies
1978
Series credits
8.6The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.
Truckers
1973
NRStory about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.
The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom
2018
8.7"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
The Written Off
1974
10.0Adventures of a small boy with a big heart and lots of courage during the Nazi occupation of Vojvodina.
Salas u malom ritu
1976
8.8Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
The Bonfires of Kapela
1975
10.0A 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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8.0A drama series about a small Belgrade basketball club, the life and times of middle-aged coaches and the teenage players, their athletic and romantic struggles on and off court.
Basketball Players
2005
8.0TV mini-series about Bosko Buha and the group of teenagers who joined Yugoslav partisans in WW2.
Bosko Buha
1980
7.0The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.
The Last Act
1982
7.0The young farmhand Veit Kolb from Hausberg in Bavaria loses his job at the farmer Kriele, who emigrates to America with his family.
The Ice Road
1985

