Miroljub Lešo

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

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Some Birds Can't Fly poster
6.4

The 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

Package Deal poster
7.0

A 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

Third Time Lucky poster
5.0

Older 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

Vukovar Poste Restante poster
5.4

The 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

Games People Play poster
NR

A 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

Boulevard of the Revolution poster
6.3

A 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

No artwork available
6.9

A TV film depicting life of the famous inventor.

Tesla

1993

1980s · 19 titles

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

Wild Wind poster
4.5

August 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

Scent of Quinces poster
5.0

Set 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

Open Space poster
NR

Summer 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

The End of War poster
6.6

As 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

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović poster
6.8

The 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

The Outlaw poster
6.4

After 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

The Felons poster
6.5

Peter 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

Persecution poster
6.0

Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.

Persecution

1982

Berlin kaputt poster
4.4

Story of three partisans whose fates are determined by different encounters with women.

Berlin kaputt

1981

The Place of Meeting: Belgrade poster
9.0

A 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

The Sunset poster
6.2

Grim and almost surreal depiction of corruption in Vojvodina city.

The Sunset

1982

Pereat poster
8.0

Short drama.

Pereat

1983

Savamala poster
6.0

In 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

The Red and the Black poster
6.0

This 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

Some Other Woman poster
6.8

The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.

Some Other Woman

1981

Love poster
6.6

In 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

Moss-Covered Asphalt poster
9.0

A 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

The Trojan Horse poster
NR

During 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

No artwork available
9.0

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

Sons

1975

Ancika Dumas poster
10.0

A 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

The Farm in the Small Marsh poster
7.4

War 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

The Bombers poster
6.3

Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.

The Bombers

1973

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

Maiden Bridge poster
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

Boshko Buha poster
6.8

The 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

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

Backbone poster
6.5

An 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

No artwork available
6.2

A speechless war poem set in a remote village. The farmers struck by war turn into fighters.

Destinies

1978

Series credits

Truckers poster
8.6

The 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

The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom poster
NR

Story about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.

The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom

2018

The Written Off poster
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

Salas u malom ritu poster
10.0

Adventures of a small boy with a big heart and lots of courage during the Nazi occupation of Vojvodina.

Salas u malom ritu

1976

The Bonfires of Kapela poster
8.8

Based 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

Svetozar Markovic poster
10.0

A 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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Basketball Players poster
8.0

A 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

Bosko Buha poster
8.0

TV mini-series about Bosko Buha and the group of teenagers who joined Yugoslav partisans in WW2.

Bosko Buha

1980

The Last Act poster
7.0

The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.

The Last Act

1982

The Ice Road poster
7.0

The 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