Branislav Lečić
Also Known As: Branislav Lecic
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Branislav Lečić (born 25 August 1955 in Šabac, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor, and politician. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Belgrade as an actor in 1978. Original founder of the "My Serbia" Movement, he is the President of the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia. He has been very successful in theater, where he received several prizes. He's one of the founders of several of the most important theater groups that influenced theater of the former Yugoslavia. A member of the Yugoslav drama theater (Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište) from 1980. He is divorced and a father of two. Besides acting, he also took part in political life, being the leader of "Plišana revolucija" (Plush Revolution), during the reign of Slobodan Milošević. After the victory of the DOS in the 2000 presidential elections, he was named the Minister of culture in the government of the late Zoran Đinđić. After Čedomir Jovanović left Democratic Party (Serbia), Lečić followed, and became one of the founders of LDP. Soon afterwards, he left LDP, and founded the "Moja Srbija" (My Serbia) Movement, taking part in Serbian elections in 2008. In early 2010 he and his party merged into the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia. After the death of its founder and long-term leader Vladan Batić due to prolonged and progressive cancerous illness, Lecic was elected DHSS party president. Lečić appears in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Branislav Lečić, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Šabac, Serbia
Birthday: August 25, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Migrations
Overview: Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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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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St. George Shoots the Dragon
Overview: Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Three Tickets to Hollywood
Overview: The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962. start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khruschev and J.F.K. have failed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1993-04-09
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Human Zoo
Overview: In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a deserter called Srdjan Vasiljevic in 1999. They move to Belgrade where Srdjan becomes a gangster, dealing weapons and becoming an assassin. Adria learns how to shoot and helps Srdjan with his work at first, becoming his mistress later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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The Professional
Overview: Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2003-05-21
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Montevideo, God Bless You!
Overview: A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2010-12-19
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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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Labyrinth
Overview: The story evolves around the Arian sect. During the III century AD they have seriously shaken the very foundations of Christian world. It is also known that in this region they had a stronghold between towns of Sirmium and Belgrade. "Labyrinth" is not only the story about our times, but a story of our roots.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2002-08-26
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Boulevard of the Revolution
Overview: A love story between a teenager girl and a small time mob set in Belgrade during the times of great political turmoil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1992-06-19
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Silent Gunpowder
Overview: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-03-15
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October
Overview: Through the intimate stories of seven young directors, October is the generational attitude towards Serbia today, shown in different perspectives and through different genres - from black comedy to melodrama, poetic portrait to the socially engaged horror. Motif that binds all of the stories together is the tenth anniversary of the democratic revolution. Each film is taking place on that day, 5th of October in 2010, and each film is differently related to the anniversary and what that event means 10 years after. The film brings fresh visions of the seven young directors who were teenagers at the time of the overthrow of president Milosevic and his regime. On a personal and emotional way they show a complex picture of modern Serbia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2011-06-21
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The Beautiful Blue Danube
Overview: Luxurious Danube river cruiser "Kriemhild", on a 2 day tour from Vienna to Belgrade. The ship "Kriemhild" is a floating sin city. Exhausted, unhappy, frustrated people from western Europe come here to "relax" and conduct business with alcohol, entertainment and sex. The crew of the "Kriemhild" are young people from eastern Europe who are trying to earn enough money to escape their small insignificant lives. That one night on this ship will shuffle the hands of fate of both the passengers and the crew of the ship. Prejudices, stereotypes and lack of communication between men and women, people of different religions, nationalities and social statutes will lead to absurd and, at times, dangerous situations, all colored with elements of dark humor. The night will unveil pain and tears, happiness and laughter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-03-02
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Sheitan Warrior
Overview: Trouble 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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The Igman March
Overview: The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-06-26
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Bekim Fehmiu
Overview: Bekim Fehmiu was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War, and he was one of the internationally best-known actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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Electrically Powered Music
Overview: In chronological order, the film follows the career of Momčilo Bajagić – Bajaga, one of the most prominent rock musicians from former Yugoslavia, together with his band ‘Instructors,’ who have been accompanying him for 25 years now.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Oktoberfest
Overview: Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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Special Education
Overview: Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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The Promising Boy
Overview: A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Born to Be a Warrior
Overview: Couple of guys from a small town in Montenegro come to the big city, they plan to leave their mark in the new environment by winning in street fights but keep the chivalry they brought from back home. One of them (Dragomir Stojanovic), deals with injustice with his fists, hiding behind "tough guy" facade his deep sensitivity. Along the way he finds love with a pretty young girl.
Genres: Action
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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Balkan Rules
Overview: Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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In the Middle of Nowhere
Overview: The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-07-02
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Picnic in Topola
Overview: The two young men roam through the night. One of them proposes a girl he just met in a supermarket for a fun. However, the wedding actually comes true a few days later at a river canal near the small town. Influenced by booze and boredom, the old problems emerge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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Rudi
Overview: An-ex anarchist gets back from Germany to visit his female friend he met in 1968 and stay in the apartment of hers and her husband's. The husband suspects that there's more than a friendship between them.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-01-26
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Underground
Overview: A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip
Overview: When Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand, Austrian future king , the World War I began. What will Gavrilo Princip do? He has to choose, hard jail untill death, or hanging. There are so much things happening in Bosnia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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Black Marija
Overview: After the death of their sponsor, rock band Zenit falls into a crisis. They need to make new arrangements of old songs in only 6 days. There comes to disagreement between band members because of different opinions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-06-25
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The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Overview: An 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Military Academy 2
Overview: Who will finish the academy, and who will quit? What relationship will survive, and what will fade away? Young cadets have a lot in their lives - ambitions, careers, problems and happy endings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Laush
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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My Uncle's Legacy
Overview: In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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Blackbird
Overview: A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Grace
Overview: "Grace" is a story about the fragments of life of one family, their habits and their decisions. The daughter is forced to sacrifice herself to take care of her mother. Or is that her choice?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Outlaw
Overview: After WWI, two friends, awarded officers return to their lives in peacetime. One of them becomes a commander of the gendarme's, while the other gets into conflict with the authorities and gets imprisoned, but escapes soon. A former hero becomes an outlaw hunted by the police.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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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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Balkan Perestroika
Overview: A modernized comedy of Branislav Nusic's novel, about the life and work of a "small manufacturer", his professional and familial relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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A Summer to Remember
Overview: Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Svetozar Markovic
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-05-30
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Charuga
Overview: This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-04-11
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My Brother Aleksa
Overview: The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family from Mostar, in conservative social environment, in controversial times in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. As a young man, he falls in love with the Slavonian girl, Anka Tomlinovic, daughter of poor photographer, leaving her under pressure of his family. Later, he meets Zorka Solina, young and rich girl from Mostar who, again because of the interests of her family, leaves the poet. In his mature years, Aleksa Santic engages himself passionately in social and political life of his age. Disappointments, poverty, sickness and loneliness follow. And the certainty of early death. His older brother tells the story of poet's life, while he is dying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-06-26
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In the Deathroom
Overview: When a television network refuses to broadcast Rasko's television show, Rasko decides that it should be sold over the internet in order to expose the truth about the death of his brother, and face the consequences.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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The Absurd Scam
Overview: The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud, not knowing who cheats, and who is deceived.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sr
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Wild Wind
Overview: August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Execution
Overview: A family is being evicted from their home illegally by the private investor. On the morning of the eviction a lot of tension rises among the family members as they try to figure out why this is happening and how to save their home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Name: Dobrica, Last Name: Unknown
Overview: This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would get out of its own way and enjoy it for a change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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Serbia in the Great War
Overview: Brief history of Serbian history from the World War I
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-12-15
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Dirty Old Man
Overview: Branislav Lecic stars as Charles Bukowski in this monodrama based on his work “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Tombola
Overview: Two factory workers with gambling addictions invest all their wages in a sweepstakes that will take place in the factory's bar without realizing that they are taking part in shady dealings between the factory head and the president of the local boxing club.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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