Salaetin Bilal

Acting

Salaetin Bilal

Born 1942-03-19 · Skopje, Macedonia

Acting credits

Dust poster
5.5

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.

Dust

2001

The Third Half poster
6.5

Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

The Third Half

2012

From Behind poster
NR

Early Spring 1945. Albanian criminals attack innocent Macedonians in Macedonia.

From Behind

1985

Balkan Is Not Dead poster
7.3

A Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.

Balkan Is Not Dead

2013

Temptation poster
NR

A story about the priest Stefan, the trials he faces and the eternal struggle between good and evil.

Temptation

2008

Gipsy Magic poster
5.2

In modern-day Macedonia, an East Indian gypsy Taip (Miki Manojlovic) becomes friends with UN peacekeeper Riju and introduces him to his life of squalor. When Taip's mother dies, he collects government money for the funeral -- but then she comes back to life.

Gipsy Magic

1997

Mirage poster
6.8

As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.

Mirage

2004

Shadows poster
5.2

A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...

Shadows

2007

Times, Waters poster
7.8

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a watermill. Such an enterprise gets two villages in conflict over water rights, threatening to permanently turn people against each other. In the past, the territory had been occupied by the Italian armies, and a flashback shows a massacre in one village, a revelation that disaster has been a part of their history, in one way or another. No matter how he argues, the young man who advocated the watermill loses out to the builders of a dam - something that does not bode well for the low-lying village.

Times, Waters

1980

J.A.C.E. poster
5.7

Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging

J.A.C.E.

2012

An Unforgettable Spring in a Forgotten Village poster
7.0

The calm and ordinary life of a forgotten village is disturbed with the arrival of three prostitutes in the village’s bar, owned by two pimp brothers. The men, despite the efforts of their wives to stop them, spend all their time in the village’s bar, spending their last money on alcohol and sex. Chaos overcomes the village school; its devotees abandon the mosque. Only two youngsters benefit from all this mayhem, by realizing their love affair, forbidden by their parents. At the end, the women start upraising. Consequently, the bar is burnt down and the village looks that it will return to normality.

An Unforgettable Spring in a Forgotten Village

2019

The Salonika Rattles poster
10.0

The action takes place in Thessaloniki, where Cande, the son of the Prilep pilgrim, deceives his father and takes 3000 altans for trade, but spends them on his mistress Fatime. The plot begins when his father, Aji Jankula, comes with his servant Sekula to look for Cande and teams up with Itar Pejo, a servant of Yashar Bey, who also longs for Fatime.

The Salonika Rattles

1986

Let God Kill the Spies poster
8.0

Five centuries of persecution and the struggle of the Macedonian people for freedom and an independent Macedonian state in which freedom will reign equally for all, have created their own myth and tradition for themselves. The struggles, sufferings, betrayals and self-sacrifice were later translated and woven through Macedonian songs, stories, tales and plays. Starting from there, this TV movie approaches the events of that time.

Let God Kill the Spies

1993

Mothers poster
6.2

Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.

Mothers

2011

Glow poster
NR

The action takes place in one day, on the street and in the fancy part of the town. It is a hot day in August. There is a truck parked with watermelons for sale. A father and his son, both farmers, are selling the watermelons. The son, 15-year-old Dime, glares at a girl who lives here, the 14-year old Eli. They grow to like each other, exchange shy glances, their first meeting is puzzling. The fluid creates a frail glow of first love ... But, the parents interfere and they ruin the innocence of the first love.

Glow

2011

Grandfather and Grandson poster
4.0

What is like to be a widowed old man in a small town where every single day is the same like the previous? And what will happen when the grandson that man haven't seen in 10 years will knock on his door and suddenly brake all of his routines?

Grandfather and Grandson

2019

Three Days in September poster
5.3

Story about a vengeance, about the secrets we carry and the roles we play.

Three Days in September

2015

Revenge poster
5.5

The story of is placed at the end of the 19th and at the second half of the 20th century. The locations are different and completely opposite: the rural Macedonia at one hand, and the urban environment of an industrial region in Belgium at another...

Revenge

2001

No artwork available
10.0

Macedonian TV drama.

The Premiere

1983

Midnight Sun poster
7.0

A story about a poor man who finds a way out of his situation by escaping into dreams and desires. The screenplay is based on the short story "A Little Sun" by the contemporary Syrian writer Zekerija Tamir.

Midnight Sun

1982

Play and Save poster
NR

Gligor, a young misfit from a countryside becomes marked by his instinctive need to deal with irregularities which a time-storm imposes. He is recalling the dramatic scenes of the past - from rattle games, from delicate moments with Marija, from the foreign mockery and from the pointless heroism - he finally comes across an absurd ring like a new purified and transformed man devoted to his native hearth and God's salvation.

Play and Save

2013

No artwork available
8.0

"Glas" is the most widely circulated newspaper in the country. Editor-in-Chief Gligor agrees with a government minister to bring him into bankruptcy with one goal - to buy him cheap. To that end, they are appointing Anna as the newspaper's new director. Anna is a young journalist, full of enthusiasm, but inexperienced. She believes that the dirty and criminal games in the country are not the most important for a newspaper. In that sense, it's changing the newspaper's editorial policy - it no longer writes about the underworld. The circulation of the newspaper is declining day by day. Faced with the drop in circulation, she is in a dilemma, whether to continue to cover up the dirty things around her or to start publishing them, that is, to expose them…

Glas

2000

A Step Ahead of Time poster
NR

A short retrospect into the life and work of the Manaki brothers. The film represents passion of having the first camera as well as the very beginnings of photography and movie making in the Balkans. The production employed original costumes and photography equipment from the era.

A Step Ahead of Time

2003

The Trap poster
NR

A psychological thriller set in Macedonia leaving naive son Jane to discover the truth about his father.

The Trap

2007