
Acting
Petar Božović
Born
1946-05-22 (80)
Place of birth
Zemun, Serbia
Known for
Acting
Credits
74 titles
Petar Božovic is a popular Serbian actor, born on May 22, 1946 in Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor and director, known for Reflections (1987), The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1980) and Svetozar Markovic (1980).
Known for
5.5TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.
Balkan Express 2
1989
7.7The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.
More Than a Game
1974
7.9In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996
7.4Spasoje and Cole are cute and silly boys who constantly find themselves in risky situations. They work in a morgue. One night they heard mobile phone that rings in your pocket just dead guy. Of course, they can not resist, and answer the call. On the other side man voice ordered them to go to a specific address and get some money. Cole and Spasoje don't reject easy profit...
A Little Night Music
2002
NRTV series which serves as an extended version of the eponymous feature film.
Goose Feather
2007
6.2Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
NRA young man visits his grandmother in Belgrade, as he thinks she’s not well. A summer day spent in her vibrant neighborhood among food, beverages, and old acquaintances triggers in him a sense of not belonging.
Rooted
2023
NRA war drama told through the memories of Sofija (Sofka’s daughter) – Bojana Peković and the daily stories she hears from her grandfather or father Marko – Rade Šerbedžija. The fate of the family sends Sofija to the Komitas in order to avenge her ancestors. Sofija's weapons are a pistol, a rifle, a saber, but also a fiddle.
The Balkan War
2025
7.7A sports drama that follows a disco security guard who is nearing the end of his martial arts career, but also has a moral debt from the past coming to pay. A drama about a group of guys who have to choose between water and fire but want to keep both.
Megdan: Between Water and Fire
2024
NROn the way to his homeland with the intention of committing suicide, the mysterious protagonist encounters two hunters and a bizarre series of events takes place.
Mouth Full of Earth
2023
7.5A story inspired by the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen behind enemy lines in aviation history of all time, codenamed “The Halyard Mission”. This action took place in the summer of 1944. It was led by the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland that was headed by General Dragoljub “Draža” Mihailović. It was at great cost and sacrifice that the Serbian people saved 508 American and other Allied countries’ airmen from certain death, sending them off to safety from the improvised airfield in the Serbian village of Pranjani, at the foot of Mt Suvobor.
The Heroes of Halyard
2023
NRAn emotional journey through the life and film works of Nikola Stojanović, a graduate architect who directed five feature films, significant amount of short films and also founded and edited the legendary film magazine Sineast. He collaborated with some of the most prominent actors of Tito's Yugoslavia (Petar Božović, Mira Furlan, Predrag Ejdus, Radmila Živković) and was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award of the Martovski festival. His son Srđan Stojanović directed this documentary with tender loving care, saluting the man he so admired.
Rebel with a Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942-2021)
2024
2010s · 6 titles
NRFamous TV host Ivan Ivanovic interviews a bloodthirsty monster caught by a cunning older man.
The Cage
2014
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
A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.
Laush
2014
6.3A young lawyer employed at the Serbian State Prosecutor's office is sent to investigate a war crime commited by a paramilitary unit during the military conflicts in late 90s Kosovo.
Redemption Street
2012
4.4Stanko (30) has to kill a man, for the first time. The same day, his younger brother Vojo (16) has to have sex for the first time. Roads of the two brothers will cross the same day several times, in an unusual way
The Boys from Marx and Engels Street
2014
NRA documentary about Dusan Petrovic Prele "urban Jekyll and Heidi". Singer. Bohemian. Wild intellectual. His life philosophy was - as little philosophize. The last of its kind from Belgrade. Equally well-known to sing, write and drink.
All Right, I Won
2010
2000s · 11 titles
7.4Spasoje and Cole are cute and silly boys who constantly find themselves in risky situations. They work in a morgue. One night they heard mobile phone that rings in your pocket just dead guy. Of course, they can not resist, and answer the call. On the other side man voice ordered them to go to a specific address and get some money. Cole and Spasoje don't reject easy profit...
A Little Night Music
2002
7.2A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.
Bal-Can-Can
2005
4.8This is the story of the multinational and ethnically conflicted assembly of apatrides from war torn ex-Yugoslavia, hired by a crippled war merchant to sew labels upon fake jeans and participate in drug smuggling ring. Forced and humiliated into doing such work they are locked up in a Paris cellar where they find out that their Western fate brings even worse temptations then the war in Yugoslavia that made them leave the motherland.
Balkan Brothers
2005
5.2The main character is a young and very beautiful girl, Marijana. Marijana is 25 and when she was 16, her father's boss sexually abused her. Marijana's father did nothing against his boss, and because of that became very successful at his profession due to the boss' assistance. Marijana's father became a famous discreet gynaecologist for illegal abortions. Ten years after the incident, Marijana's family is very rich and popular in her town of Podgorica. Marijana did not forget what happened to her when she was younger. Marijana decides that it is time to avenge what was done to her. She does this by becoming a prostitute, and sleeping with her father's colleagues and there by harming his reputation. At one moment Marijana meets a poor but talented sculptor named Vanja whom she begins to love and care for. Marijana soon discovers that the world of prostitution and love of Vanja cannot coexist.
A View from the Eiffel Tower
2005
6.2Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.
Boomerang
2001
NRPetar Božović, the legendary actor, masterfully speaks the poem of the great and genius poet Matija Bećković: We will fight again.
We Will Fight Again
2006
6.0Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that follow without stop.
Poor Little Hampsters
2003
5.7Trouble usually starts when the power falls into the wrong hands. That's how the book that hides an ancient evil fell to Stanislav. It does not matter whether Stanislav is a nice guy who helps old ladies cross the street, a psychopath, nerd, or a blood-thirsty young man.
Sheitan Warrior
2006
5.4The lives of three brothers who left their small village in Serbia to live in Sweden. The first one escaped from police, while the other two followed his path.
Made in YU
2005
6.7Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
The Optimists
2006
5.7Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic and is mentioning suicide constantly, he simply doesn't want to accept that the relationship is over. He has self-pitying sessions with his friend Bane (Milos Samolov) everyday. Despite Bane's advice, Alek keeps calling Teodora who has fallen in love with Nemanja (Branislav Trifunovic) in the meantime. However decisive and tough Teodora is when she is with Alek, she is as indulgent and helpless when she is spending time with Nemanja. The problem is that Nemanja is not in love with her but with Marina (Vanja Ejdus), a girl by a few years younger. Unfortunately, Marina is not in love with him, she is very attracted to Alek's "Slavic depression". She doesn't know that reason for his "charm of a desperate" is his failure with Teodora, she thinks Alek was born like that.
Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
2009
1990s · 12 titles
7.9In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996
4.6An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
Playroom
1990
6.3In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
The Black Bomber
1992
5.5A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.
Gorilla Bathes at Noon
1993
5.0The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in the Balkans and an assassination attempt of Franz Ferdinand, which caused the beginning of the First World War.
The Last Waltz in Sarajevo
1990
5.0A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest for the meaning of life proves to be nothing but failure.
A Night at My Mother's House
1991
6.2Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love and a better life, outside the strife of Yugoslavia's civil war, are short-lived as jealousy and army duty tear them apart.
Terrace on the Roof
1995
5.4After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.
Charuga
1991
5.1In this spoof of gangster and crime films, two veteran detectives get involved in mafia world. One of them is hired by a kingpin to follow his wife who seems suspicious.
See You in Chicago
1996
6.8The story about typical Montenegrin family Miletic in post-war Yugoslavia, which shows personal tragedy of a father, whose only son comes back from the war as a different man.
In the Name of the Father and Son
1999
6.4In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
The Knife
1999
5.0Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.
Three Summer Days
1997
1980s · 15 titles
6.2Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
6.8In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
The Beauty of Vice
1986
5.5This 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
6.3Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
Migrations
1989
6.4This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Maternal Half-Brothers
1988
9.0An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
1989
6.0A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
Taiwan Canasta
1985
5.5Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.
Evening Bells
1986
6.4Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at the university in Belgrade where they both work. His feelings are awakened after a long period, but this relationship makes him see the flashbacks, as well as yet unseen images that remind him of his troubled childhood - as if he experienced this already. When their university wins a contest to hold public TV performance, Mihailo fails to play the piano on the decisive night and she dumps him. The boiling point is about to come.
Reflections
1987
6.5The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father's house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests.
Unseen Wonder
1984
5.6After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young grandchildren. But Marko's quiet life is in for a shake up when he meets the pretty new village schoolteacher, Lana (Jodi Thelen). Malden pays tribute to his Yugoslav heritage in this affecting 1982 drama.
Twilight Time
1982
5.2A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Balkan Express 2
1988
5.0A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution, when communist zealots hunt down everyone who will not forswear their Orthodox Catholic ways.
Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration
1989
8.0Village goverment has changed, father has authority no more, neither in his house and in the village, and the son decides to leave his father and switch sides, joining the new village goverment.
Father and Son
1987
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
1970s · 8 titles
10.0After a 1958 accident at the Vinca nuclear institute, six workers are irradiated and wind up becoming the first receivers of a bone marrow transplant in the world.
Irradiated
1976
6.5A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
Leptirica
1973
9.0Between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia was ruled by a monarchy. This movie explores the difficulties faced by a Communist Party organizer under that regime when an order goes out to kill anyone threatening the current regime. At first he is willing to leave the country, but his experience of the situation of workers moves him to stay. Despite efforts of captors to help him escape, he refuses, and dies a martyr's death.
Four Days to Death
1976
10.0The story of three brothers who visit their parents for their 40th wedding anniversary. According to the playwriter, their characters are based on aspects of himself: one was a very passive nature, the second was a kind of conformist nature, and the third was a kind of bolshie nature.
In Celebration
1973
7.0Students Marko, Dragan, Misko and Cutko make a foursome living in the spirit of their high-school "gang". One day they meet Irena, a student of medicine, who subsequently has an affair with Marko. Relationships within the foursome begin to deteriorate.
Dear Irena!
1970
8.0An immigrant returns home in Montenegro after spending years in America.
M.V.
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
8.0The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.
Looking Into the Night
1978
Series credits
5.5TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.
Balkan Express 2
1989
7.7The story follows a ten-year period before WW2 in a fictional town of Gradina, Serbia and its residents, which went through the turbulent events like the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. But the most important segment of the story revolves around rivalry between two city's football clubs - Radnicki and Gradjanski.
More Than a Game
1974
NRTV series which serves as an extended version of the eponymous feature film.
Goose Feather
2007
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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3.5Serbian sitcom following adventures of three men who live together with their dominant and matriarchal aunt.
Three Men and Aunt
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7.5Its plot is bound to a specific time of the cathartic end of the World War II in Serbia. The heart of the story is a unique endeavor - the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen in aviation history of all time, known as the “Halyard Mission”.
Air Bridge
2024
7.0The story of the capture of General Draza Mihailovic and his Chetniks.
The Last Act
1982
8.0This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.
Nikola Tesla
1977
In a series of comic situations, the hilarious Simeon, with the help of his extramarital sons, Momir and Dragan, and his roommate, Marina, manages to deceive everyone he meets on the doorstep of his apartment in the center of Belgrade.
Felix
2021
NRDusan is determined to bring the case to an end and to show his father, a famous retired professor at the law faculty, but to his boss too, the war crimes prosecutor, that he is capable for this job. This becomes for Dusan much more than a simple case – it becomes a personal confrontation. We do not expect much of the investigation and by Dusan’s associates it is condemned to failure, until he finds the unit’s only surviving soldier, Micun, who tried to live peacefully and quietly. Dusan and Micun’s encounter changes their lives and directly affects their families.”
Redemption Street
2013
7.4Taking place just after the end of Bosnian War, the series is mostly set in a kafana named Složna braća owned by Halimić brothers and located on a small patch of UN-controlled territory (covering 0.0657 km2) not claimed by any of the three warring sides. Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats, otherwise very hostile to each other following a ferocious civil war, regularly visit the said kafana in no man's land in order to arrange mutual black market activities (weapons and food trade, oil and cigarette smuggling, etc.). When the word gets around about an important weapons shipment passing through the territory that can supposedly completely change the division of power in the Balkans, the place becomes a lively hub of espionage, deal making, and skulduggery.
United Brothers
1996
Behind the camera
NRPetar Božović, the legendary actor, masterfully speaks the poem of the great and genius poet Matija Bećković: We will fight again.
We Will Fight Again
2006
8.0Adaptation of Prince-Bishop and poet Peter Petrovic Njegoš's epic poem.
The Mountain Wreath
2000
8.0Adaptation of Prince-Bishop and poet Peter Petrovic Njegoš's epic poem.
The Mountain Wreath
2000


