Ivan Bekjarev
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Biography: Ivan Bekjarev is a Serbian theatre and movie actor. The first role played on film in 1967. year, in "Boxers Go To Heaven" (Serb: "Bokseri Idu U Raj"), where the leading role was Mija Aleksic. Gained fame as Vujkovic role in the TV series "Banjica" (1984) and Stevice Kurcubić in the TV series "Better Life" (1987, 1990) ("Bolji Život"). For many years Bekjarev is a professor of the BK Academy of Arts , where in 2001. elected to the position of Associate and 2006. full professor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 06, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 16, 2020
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Files No.128
Overview: The plot of this television movie is located in Belgrade, the hometown of screenwriter Velimir Lukic, in the 1960s. It was the time of the party discipline, in which the free thinking and free behavior of individuals meant heresy. This is a drama about political showdown, about the metamorphosis of high-level intellectuals ready to do anything to defy the authorities and retain their privileges. At the same time - this is also a love story that, under the political circumstances that accompany it, is misused precisely because of those well-known higher goals.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Let's Make Love 3
Overview: Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-11-19
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Alexander of Yugoslavia
Overview: A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-08-24
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Cabaret Balkan
Overview: 20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Mister Dollar
Overview: Mr. Dollar is a 1989 Yugoslav television drama. It was directed by Slobodan Radović based on the work of the same name by Branislav Nušić.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-18
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Frivolous Branislav Nusic
Overview: The frivolous Branislav Nusic is a 1986 Yugoslav television drama. It was directed by Aleksandar Djordjevic, and the screenplay was written by Miodrag Djurdjevic based on the person of Branislav Nusic.
Genres: History Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-02-04
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Battle of Kosovo
Overview: In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-06-12
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Love Stars
Overview: "Love Stars" is a film about loneliness, growing up and search for love. Laza is a romantic 20 year-old, who after being isolated a long time, comes to the city. There he gets to know a group of young voyeurs, led by a 50 year-old, with classy attitude and manners (the Count). Laza joins them and during the course of film that simple group of voyeurs becomes a witness of the whole state of spirit dominating in our everyday life. By the irony of fate, on the end Laza's dreams still come through.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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Flirt
Overview: Two girls swear their former boyfriends and sent two demons Strahinja and Lola to take them. Strahinja must deliver the main heroes of this world or, by the decision of the judge of the Dark Vilayet, be returned to the unpleasant state of death. The four stories that make this omnibus film, follow main characters which Lola and Strahinja should pick up. Each of them tries to avoid death. You will see how the sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and kolerik cope with the death officers.
Genres: Comedy Horror Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-08-02
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The Optimists
Overview: Five 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."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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Clement of Ohrid
Overview: Life and work of Saint Kliment of Ohrid, a medieval Slav saint, scholar, writer and patron saint of the Republic of Macedonia.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Romance with a Double Bass
Overview: Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Boxers Go to Heaven
Overview: Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-13
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Flashback
Overview: A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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People Will Reward All This
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-02-02
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Bear 007
Overview: A satirical story about small town forester who finds himself in trouble when the local authorities announce the visit of a high state official, who is supposed to go on bear hunt as a sign of welcome. The trouble is, no bears were around for decades...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-04-10
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Volunteers
Overview: In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-07-20
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Mister Dimkovic
Overview: The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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Inventors
Overview: A middle-aged couple go through emotional crisis. They cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel until a total stranger injects new energy and hope into their impoverished and restricted life.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Marko Kraljevic: The Fantasy Adventure
Overview: Serbian legend Marko Kraljevic goes on a journey to stop evil Turkish pasha harrassing Serbian people, especially women. He fights his foes, such as Musa Kesedzija, in company of his talking horse Sarac, Ravijojla the Fairy and others.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2015-01-21
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And God Created a Tavern Singer
Overview: An electro-technician falls in love with a bar singer, but her job environment, full of alcohol, despair and tired truck drivers, causes nothing but troubles for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-05-11
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More Than a Game
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-20
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Plum Noodles
Overview: Three families who live in a shared backyard wait their problems to be solved by others. Drama develops when owner of the house comes back from America with his rich pension. His family starts to fantasize what will they do with all this money once he passes away, but old man dies after a month without leaving a written testament behind.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Once Upon a Time in Serbia
Overview: This is a warm human story set between the two world wars in Leskovac, where a real miracle happens with an unusual set of circumstances and builds the history of that small place where great people live...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-03-10
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Attack Against the Assembly
Overview: Milka is a state employee in the office for approval of the applications for registration of political parties. Her problem is how to make his escaped husband back, while her clients are only worried how to seize power.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Hotshot
Overview: A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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A Present for Sanja
Overview: Having been ditched by his girlfriend Sanja for a Turk called Murat, a Bosnian refugee who lives in Germany reaches a decision to commit suicide on the New Year's Eve. To cheer him up, his boss sends him a prostitute called Jovanka, not knowing that Jovanka is a Serb. In consequence, Jovanka and the suicidal Bosnian are forced to spend the New Year's Eve together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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The Saga About 3 Virgin Men
Overview: This is a saga about three unusual friends madly in love with their girlfriends. But Zoran, Aleksandar and Damjan are still virgins. Their girls are just not redy yet. So they made up a challenge - get your girlfriend to bed by friday! They will try anything possible and impossible to make their dreams come true, even if terrible "niagra" needs to be consumed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2017-01-11
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The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure
Overview: Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery but has nothing to do with the murder of the child.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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Honeymoons
Overview: 'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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The Serbian Girl
Overview: The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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Mammoth Bone
Overview: The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Little One
Overview: In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Out of Step
Overview: A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of the show is admonished for trying to incite the public against the system. The media, the man and the television manager gather to try to talk out the misunderstandings they all experience with the system of slow-moving social injustices. The message of the film also states that the days of media scrutiny and public-opinion feedback are here to stay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-02-13
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The Secret of Family Treasure
Overview: Tihomir Stojkovic suspects that there's a hidden treasure in the property of his neighbors. Since this piece of land belongs to a man who has unmarried daughter, Tihomir persuades his friend Djosa to marry her so they could get in possession of that jar full of money. The characters are based on TV series "Family Treasure".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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See You in Chicago
Overview: In 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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Desire Named Streetcar
Overview: In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Poor Little Hampsters
Overview: Two 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-08-26
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The Serbian Dane
Overview: Miniseries of 3 episodes of 50 minutes based on the bestseller by Leif Davidsen. Religious fanatics put a price on the head of the controversial Anglo-Iranian writer Sara Santanda. $ 4 million. Sarah decides to come out of hiding and face in Copenhagen. The uncomfortable visit for the government of Denmark triggered a great safety device. Meanwhile, somewhere in the troubled former Yugoslavia, a young man named Vuk (Serbian sniper does not kill for money but for ideology) accepted the task of killing the famous writer during his visit to Copenhagen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2001-10-30
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The Red and the Black
Overview: This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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The Battles of Simeon the Student
Overview: Thematically diverse stories written by Petar Kocic are bond by the thread, creating the basis for a dramatic story of the events surrounding the student Simeun. In the foreground there's a summary of Simeun's features, some patriotic, but some arrogant as well. These Simeun's actions are manifesto of the complexity of his nature, acting like a tyrant and patriot who displays bravery for the sake of freedom of his people.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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A Suspicious Character
Overview: The second TV adaptation of popular novel by Serbian comedian Branislav Nusic. A small town is disturbed by the arrival of a "suspicious person", an unknown man wanted by the local authorities. During the hunt, it turns out that the suspect is no one else than the mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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A Night at My Mother's House
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-04-18
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Happy New '49
Overview: The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1986-06-27
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Manifesto for Freedom
Overview: 6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Years of the Sweet Sin
Overview: The biggest Balkan star Lepa Brena in the documentary speaks about the fame but also reveals and yet unknown details from her biography. From childhood in Brcko, growing up in the working family to the achievement of the most successful career in the former Yugoslavia. How she built the brand, what was the role of her manager Raka Djokic, in the success of Lepa Brena and "Slatki greh" and how it looked like a tour that lasted for 9 years. The film is featured by prominent artists and public workers of a time brought by artists like Lepa Brena today.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2018-01-09
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Women in Prison
Overview: After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town with her small child, alcohol addiction, and the battle with the prisoners and prison brutality and other schemers who wanted to remove her from working spot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Bishop vs. Rook
Overview: State security inspector Ivan reveals an inserted terrorists in Yugoslavia, sent there by Croatian emigrants, enemies of the above socialist state. Their mission is to select the appropriate places on Adriatic coast which they would later blow up. The terrorists are expected to set a series of explosions that would cause a public disturbance and uncertainty in the Yugoslavia's position in Europe. Ivan follows Pavle and Elsa who are staying in Croatia as tourists, stepping into action in a crucial moment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Last Ones
Overview: A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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Better Life
Overview: A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head of the Popadić family, organizes a Women's Day shopping trip to Thessaloniki, Greece, for his female coworkers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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