Ivan Bekjarev
Birthday: Born in 1946-04-06 in Belgrade, Serbia
Deathday: 2020-11-16
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.
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Vruć vetar
Character: Golman
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns t...
Više od igre
Character: Novinar
The 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....
Otpisani
Character: Cane 'Kurbla'
"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 charact...
Dva smo svijeta različita
Character: Uzeir
The two worlds are different...
Bolji život
Character: Stevan Kurčubić
Bolji život is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade it is considered to be the most successful TV show ever produced in Yugoslavia. Written by Siniša Pavić, most prolific Serbian screenwriter, the series helped jump start cinematic careers for many of its protagonists, most notably Dragan Bjelogrlić who went on to become successful actor, director, and producer....
Gorki plodovi
Character: Mucula, beskućnik
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Misija majora Atertona
Character: Narednik
This true story is made up of two episodes that show Operation Hydra. After the fall of the Uzice Republic and the success of the first enemy offensive, the British sent their mission and this series shows the events....
Movie Credits
Files No.128
Character: Drug Riste
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 i...
Let's Make Love 3
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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....
Alexander of Yugoslavia
Character: Lekar na dvoru kralja
A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic....
Cabaret Balkan
Character: Muž u autobusu
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade....
Mister Dollar
Character: Gospodin predsednik kluba
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....
Frivolous Branislav Nusic
Character: Branko Sekulić
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....
Battle of Kosovo
Character: Paramunac
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....
Love Stars
Character: Rista
"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....
Flirt
Character: Policajac 2
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....
The Optimists
Character: Šef kazina
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."...
Romance with a Double Bass
Character: Mladoženja
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....
Boxers Go to Heaven
Character: Toma Grković
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol....
Flashback
Character: Boris, trener
A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war....
People Will Reward All This
Character: Gazda David, meandžija
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....
Volunteers
Character: Novinar
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...
Mister Dimkovic
Character: Avramović, načelnik
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....
Inventors
Character: Janko, pronalazač
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....
And God Created a Tavern Singer
Character: Živko
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....
More Than a Game
Character: Novinar
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....
Plum Noodles
Character: Pajica
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....
Once Upon a Time in Serbia
Character: Gradonačelnik
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......
Hotshot
Character: Oficir
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......
A Present for Sanja
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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....
The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure
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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....
Honeymoons
Character: Komšija
'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....
Mammoth Bone
Character: Šef kuhinje
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....
The Little One
Character: Inspektor
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 unscrupul...
Out of Step
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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 st...
The Secret of Family Treasure
Character: Velja Valjarević
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"....
See You in Chicago
Character: Stojče 'Mafiment'
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....
Desire Named Streetcar
Character: Lažni kontrolor
In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way....
Life Is Beautiful
Character: Gitarista
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....
Poor Little Hampsters
Character: Stari ministar
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 ...
The Serbian Dane
Character: Kravtsov
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 ki...
The Red and the Black
Character: Direktor Zanini
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, ...
The Battles of Simeon the Student
Character: Turčin na konju
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....
A Night at My Mother's House
Character: Bata Dobrica
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....
Happy New '49
Character: Inspektor vo Subotica
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 belong...
Manifesto for Freedom
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6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price....
The Years of the Sweet Sin
Character: Himself
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 work...
Women in Prison
Character: Velja Stanić
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....
Bishop vs. Rook
Character: Gazda kazina Šarlo
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 crucia...
The Last Ones
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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....