Rade Marković

Acting

Rade Marković

Born — Died

1921-10-14 — 2010-09-10

Place of birth

Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Rade Marković was a famous Serbian actor. His Wife Olivera Marković is also an actress, and his son Goran Marković is a movie director.

Known for

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

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

Stories from the Workshop poster
8.2

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

Stories from the Workshop

1982

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

Baby Deer poster
7.5

A group of kids saves a baby deer from the woods and then they take care of it until it grows up. Original title: JELENKO

Baby Deer

1981

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 15 titles

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

The Gold Rimmed Glasses poster
6.2

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

1987

Migrations poster
6.3

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Migrations

1989

Wild Flesh poster
8.0

In Skopje in 1939 a family of a disabled bricklayer clashes over tradition, patriarchal morality and modern world views as fascism and World War II loom on the horizon.

Wild Flesh

1982

Meeting Place poster
7.5

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Meeting Place

1989

Hey Babu Riba poster
5.5

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Hey Babu Riba

1985

Handymen, Handymen poster
7.6

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Handymen, Handymen

1980

The Far Sky poster
6.7

A youth has a burning ambition to be a pilot, but this is met with opposition by his mother because his father, also a pilot, was killed in a jet-fighter crash in a storm. The youth goes ahead with his career but one day he encounters a bad storm.

The Far Sky

1982

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

The Swelling River poster
7.0

In a mining plant in Kosovo, as occurs in many work organizations across the country, workers continue to win new positions in the self-management. The former miner and fighter - now general manager of the factory - is on the side of the workers, but has troubles in personal life.

The Swelling River

1981

The Train for Kraljevo poster
5.6

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.

The Train for Kraljevo

1981

Pretty Women Walking Through the City poster
4.9

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.

Pretty Women Walking Through the City

1986

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 Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud poster
4.6

Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories.

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

1984

Cyclops poster
5.9

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Cyclops

1982

1970s · 14 titles

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

The Battle of Sutjeska poster
6.6

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

Buffet Titanic poster
5.9

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Buffet Titanic

1979

Merits poster
NR

A pre-war communist, who did not participate in the war, is included in the post-war society as a printing company manager. Haunted by the feeling of guilt, and needing to prove himself, he makes one mistake after another...

Merits

1973

Irradiated poster
10.0

After 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

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution poster
6.2

An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily follows a group of young partisans who are placed in the home of a pre-war bourgeois family. The family then tries to adapt to the new ideology and values, often leading to various absurd situations.

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

1971

Indian Summer poster
7.5

Two married couples cruise from town to town along the Adriatic coast. While men are occupied with booze and sea, their wives are more interested in the young "skipper", who seems to be a virgin. Frivolous flirting evolves into drama when one of the wives and the skipper start feeling something that appears to be love.

Indian Summer

1970

National Class Category Up to 785ccm poster
6.6

One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.

National Class Category Up to 785ccm

1979

Aretheus poster
NR

The last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.

Aretheus

1978

The Trophy poster
7.0

A committee made up to investigate illegal masonry in Yugoslavia causes more problems both for the builders and government, and in fact no one have any use of it. The pressure from all sides makes committee work less diligently.

The Trophy

1979

Bullet in the Back poster
9.0

This TV movie in two parts is one of the greatest movies filmed by Television Belgrade modeled on the BBC. At the end of the Second World War, coroner Ozne examines the surrender of captured partisans to the Germans, which is intertwined with the death of a young lieutenant who is a chetnik, who disappeared missing in November 1941. In this vetting the surface exposes many events and crimes that have been long hidden.

Bullet in the Back

1976

The Written Off Return poster
8.0

Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is assassinating resistance sympathizers, and Prle and Tihi must return to Belgrade deal with it. In order to cross through enemy lines, they use cars, clothes and documents of captured pro-Nazi minister. During their journey the minister escapes and warns the Gestapo.

The Written Off Return

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

Occupation in 26 Pictures poster
6.5

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

Occupation in 26 Pictures

1978

1960s · 19 titles

The Knife poster
6.4

In 1960s Belgrade, a young and much-loved singer Aleksandar Kiš is murdered in his flat. His body is discovered by Ana, his model lover. For Inspector Marko and his team, the case seems unsolvable. The subsequent investigation pieces together the victim’s past and reveals the price of his success: ambition, cynicism and many enemies.

The Knife

1967

The Girl poster
6.8

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

The Girl

1965

The Demolition Squad poster
6.9

The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.

The Demolition Squad

1967

The Rubber Stamp poster
10.0

A satirical documentary examining the reach of bureaucracy through the everyday authority of the rubber stamp. Directed by Branko Ćelović, the film presents a mock historical survey of the stamp, tracing its supposed evolution from a pre-bureaucratic past to its omnipresence in modern administration. Through rapid montage, official seals are shown authorizing everything from marriages to food inspection, exposing how bureaucratic approval permeates daily life.

The Rubber Stamp

1966

Sasha poster
6.1

A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.

Sasha

1962

Noon poster
6.2

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Noon

1968

The Climber poster
6.8

A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladder. But the whirlpool of compromises and corruption eventually threatens to render his life meaningless.

The Climber

1966

Hassan-Aga's Wife poster
6.0

Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war; but she refuses to go to him when summoned, because of a warning dream. On Hassan’s return, he throws her out of his house.

Hassan-Aga's Wife

1967

Trumpets of Dragačevo poster
10.0

Documentary about the first Assembly of Trumpeters in Guča.

Trumpets of Dragačevo

1961

The Peach Thief poster
7.1

The wife of a Bulgarian POW camp's warden falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.

The Peach Thief

1964

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 Naked Man poster
5.5

The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".

The Naked Man

1968

Have Anything to Declare? poster
10.0

Humans confine themselfes with borders, while birds fly freely.

Have Anything to Declare?

1963

The Poem poster
8.0

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.

The Poem

1961

Children, Beware! poster
10.0

Careless walkers, especially children, are often to blame for traffic accidents. Through an interesting story, with mister Pura and Vučko, the rules of street walkers’ behavior are shown to young viewers so they can understand the message of the film.

Children, Beware!

1961

Operation Titian poster
6.0

In a small seaside town in the middle of tourist season, an old eccentric, Ugo Bonacic, is murdered. The homicide inspector leads the investigation, which directs him to a strange foreigner dressed in white, who came to town with an American diving representation. During the investigation, he finds out that old Ugo had a copy of one Titian paintings, for which unusual legend is bind. Finally, a new version of an old Titian painting legend is cleared up.

Operation Titian

1963

Summer Is to Blame for Everything poster
5.7

Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Višnja has to travel to the seaside before her husband. After arrival many men start romanticizing her. In the same time, her husband is having troubles of his own trying to get to the seaside by any means necessary.

Summer Is to Blame for Everything

1961

The Swarm poster
6.8

During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.

The Swarm

1966

Three Wishes poster
6.8

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...

Three Wishes

1963

1950s · 3 titles

Series credits

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

Stories from the Workshop poster
8.2

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

Stories from the Workshop

1982

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

Baby Deer poster
7.5

A group of kids saves a baby deer from the woods and then they take care of it until it grows up. Original title: JELENKO

Baby Deer

1981

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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Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
NR

An extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1974

The Pillow of My Grave poster
10.0

Trieste in 1807. Dositej Obradovic, founder of modern Serbian literature and the minister of education, goes through a creative and spiritual decline because of love of a young woman. Despite his old age, he can't resist this strong emotional flame, and subsequently travels to Belgrade following his agreement to be the leader of the Serbian uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

The Pillow of My Grave

1991