Acting

Ivo Jakšić

Acting credits

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

The Written Off poster
9.0

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

The Written Off

1974

No artwork available
10.0

A 1979 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Stevo Žigon, starring Jelena Zigon, Marko Todorović and Olga Spiridonovic.

Chains

1979

The Apology of Socrates and Death poster
7.5

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence.

The Apology of Socrates and Death

1971

The Granny Had a Kitty Cat poster
NR

The ninth story from the "Singles" comedy anthology. A mousy and bashful single man has a cat, for which he needs to find a mating female. When he finally finds a candidate at his female neighbor's, the plot thickens.

The Granny Had a Kitty Cat

1969

No artwork available
10.0

A Serbian adaptation of a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed.

The Saint-Fiacre Affair

1963

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
7.9

At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

1961

I Was Stronger poster
10.0

Instead of running away from enemy raid, a female partisan-doctor decides to stay and help one of their wounded children.

I Was Stronger

1953

Two Peasants poster
8.0

The struggle of two Serbian peasants to choose between love of their families and love of their country.

Two Peasants

1955

The Descent Upon Drvar poster
6.0

German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.

The Descent Upon Drvar

1963

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

Witness Out of Hell poster
7.0

Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?

Witness Out of Hell

1967

The Song from Kumbara poster
7.7

Story of the revolt of the people of Serbia against the Turks, who ruled the country for four centuries. The battle and the fall of the fortress of Belgrade in 1806.

The Song from Kumbara

1955

The Pursuit poster
7.0

Jelena and dr Mirkovic realize that their relationship is not just fulfilling the party's task of better maintenance of the illegal press. When Mirkovic joined partisans, one of the illegal fighters didn't endure interrogation of the police and reveals the pressroom's location. Jelena manages to save herself and the press continues its work.

The Pursuit

1956

More Than a Game poster
NR

Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.

More Than a Game

1976