Mihailo 'Miša' Janketić

Acting

Mihailo 'Miša' Janketić

Born — Died

1938-05-24 — 2019-05-15

Place of birth

Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

​Mihajilo Misa Janketic is a Serbian actor. He graduated at the Academy of Acting for theater, film, radio and television 1962. In his career he achieved roles in dozens of films and TV series, and also made ​​a number of roles at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre. He is very popular with television audiences with the roles in TV series "Grey House" (Serbian: Sivi Dom), "Better Life" (Serbian: Bolji Zivot), "Happy People" (Serbian: Srecni Ljudi), and the series "Family Treasure" (Porodicno Blago) where he played the male lead. He was awarded 2003. with "Dobricin Prsten". Janketic was married to Svjetlana Knezevic. He died on May 15, 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Known for

A White Ship poster
5.1

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

A White Ship

2006

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 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

Grey Home poster
8.7

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Grey Home

1986

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

Unconquered City poster
8.0

In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.

Unconquered City

1982

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1990s · 11 titles

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1 poster
6.6

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1

1990

Mrs. Kollontay poster
7.0

It deals with the personal destiny of the revolution, the first wife of an ambassador in the history of world diplomacy – the destiny of the Alexandra Kollontay, a Russian woman who lived and worked in the most difficult days of the revolution, at a time of suffering, sacrifice, purge, change…

Mrs. Kollontay

1996

Bereaved Family poster
7.0

A classic comedy from the most famous Serbian comedy playwright, Branislav Nušić.

Bereaved Family

1990

The Crush and the Dislike poster
NR

A young girl solves her love problems through skillful manipulation. Based on the play of the same name by Jovan Sterija Popović.

The Crush and the Dislike

1996

People Will Reward All This poster
8.0

A story about war-disabled combatants that fought in Serbo-Turkish wars in 1876-1878. Left on their own and without limbs, they became beggars – a burden for the state that doesn’t pay attention about them. Their destiny depends exclusively on people who feel sympathy.

People Will Reward All This

1995

Sugar Loaf poster
5.8

It describes the social process of stratification in the Serbian countryside during late 19th century, which occurs with the penetration of the commodity-money in the countryside. Under new conditions, peasants and farmers are unable to adapt, and rot under the burden of debts.

Sugar Loaf

1991

Under the Grindstone poster
9.0

Based on a play, it consists of three one-acts: "Merry Home", "At the Break" and "Before a New Life". The author depicts the grim world of the Belgrade outskirts, and the people who are bound by a common yard and common destiny, those faced with a wall of hopelessness.

Under the Grindstone

1991

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

Kick-Off poster
5.1

A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.

Kick-Off

1990

The Battle of Kolubara poster
8.0

A filmed theatre play based on Dobrica Cosic novel "Time of Death". It tells the story of Serbian army during Kolubara battle in 1914.

The Battle of Kolubara

1990

Desire Named Streetcar poster
8.0

In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.

Desire Named Streetcar

1994

1980s · 9 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

July 13th poster
5.5

This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.

July 13th

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

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot poster
7.0

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot

1983

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot poster
7.0

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot

1983

End of the Weekend poster
9.0

A married couple, in which one spouse sacrifices for the other, where the initial intimacy and love is lost, finds ways to torment each other. In the end, they find attraction again, which unites them.

End of the Weekend

1985

What Happens When Love Comes to Town poster
6.1

Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language.

What Happens When Love Comes to Town

1984

Svetozar Markovic poster
NR

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

1980

Andric and Goya poster
10.0

In the TV drama-essay, M. Pervić took Andrić's texts as a basis, and interpolated excerpts from other Andrić's works into their imagined meeting. Their meeting is permeated with reflections on art, the artist's relationship to life, and the wisdom that a writer and painter gain by doing their thankless, but only possible job for decades. As an interlude, Cervantes' one-act play The Case of Wonders was used...

Andric and Goya

1984

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

The Hunt poster
NR

Through Šimun’s conflict with the head of the new agricultural cooperative, where he is forced to work in order to feed his family, the changes that land reclamation has brought to everyday life in the Neretva Valley are depicted, destroying the traditional way of life.

The Hunt

1974

Belgrade Kids poster
10.0

Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.

Belgrade Kids

1976

No artwork available
8.0

The action is set in the Paris Commune, established in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and the play follows the historical events surrounding this revolutionary uprising. The main character is the pacifist teacher Gabrielle Langevin, but historical figures such as Gustave Courbet also appear.

The Defeat

1972

Wedding poster
5.4

Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.

Wedding

1973

Wedding poster
5.4

Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.

Wedding

1973

The Kitchen poster
9.0

The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.

The Kitchen

1976

Wintering in Jakobsfeld poster
8.0

The story takes place during WW II in Vojvodina. Two boys, Milan and Rasa, are sent from a partisan squad to a village for the winter. Soon Rasa becomes very ill and Milan goes to a nearby village populated by Germans. Here he finds a job as servant in Jakob Jerih's house. At night, Milan secretly nurses his friend Rasa in a hut in a swamp near the village. Soon, he finds another hiding place in master Jerih's stable. Jerih likes the diligent Milan and he even considers adopting the boy, but Jerih's cousin and assistant is against this idea. Namely because he counts on inheriting master Jerih's estate.

Wintering in Jakobsfeld

1975

A Shot poster
6.2

Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov...

A Shot

1972

Girl from the Mountains poster
6.0

The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not thinking in those moments of what the horrors of war can bring.

Girl from the Mountains

1972

1960s · 8 titles

Horoscope poster
5.2

A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.

Horoscope

1969

The Dream poster
5.8

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

The Dream

1966

How Romeo and Juliet Loved Each Other poster
5.5

The story of unfortunate lovers from contemporary Belgrade, a young woman married for money, and a student whom she loved before marriage. Juvenile love romance gets extinguished by social intolerance, calculated and upstarted.

How Romeo and Juliet Loved Each Other

1966

A Nun and a Commissar poster
6.2

After the war, a partisan hospital is set up in a monastery, with the nuns working as nurses. A beautiful young nun, Maria, becomes very fond of the partisan leader, Commissar Nenad.

A Nun and a Commissar

1968

Murder Commited in a Sly and Cruel Manner and from Low Motives poster
5.7

An eminent Belgrade physician is found murdered. The investigation reveals dark side of his character - illegal abortions and abuse of his wife. The wife's lover becomes the prime suspect. The newspaper reporter, however, starts his own investigation. Besides being a crime story, this movie in quasi-documentary fashion presents alternative cultural scene of Belgrade in late sixties.

Murder Commited in a Sly and Cruel Manner and from Low Motives

1969

Bury the Dead poster
7.0

An expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw. It dramatizes the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American society—to be buried. Each rises from a mass nameless grave to express his anguish.

Bury the Dead

1969

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

The Magnificent Cuckold poster
NR

Bruno, the village scribe, is married to a beautiful and devoted young woman named Stella. He makes a good living composing love letters for the uneducated villagers, many of which are addressed to his wife. Bruno’s eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration.

The Magnificent Cuckold

1969

Series credits

A White Ship poster
5.1

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

A White Ship

2006

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

Grey Home poster
8.7

A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Grey Home

1986

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

Unconquered City poster
8.0

In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.

Unconquered City

1982

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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Hide-and-Seek poster
4.0

The story of the fate of boys and girls who go to school on the day of the Victory of Fascism on May 9, 1945. The script is based on true events and tells the fate of the children of the victorious and vanquished in a common environment at the end of World War II in Serbia.

Hide-and-Seek

2019