Nikola Kojo
Birthday: Born in 1967-09-05 in Belgrade, Serbia
Deathday: Alive
Nikola was named after his great-grandfather, who was an protoiereus in Mostar. He made his acting debut before he turned 13, with the role of the boy Ivan in the 1980 film "Rad na određeno vreme". During the 1980s, he played notable roles in the film "Igmanski marš" (1983), the TV series "Sivi Dom" (1986), and one of the main roles in three sequels of the very popular film series Foolish Years, which profiled him as one of the most famous actors of the younger generation in the former Yugoslavia. In 1992, he played the main role in Srđan Dragojević's film "Mi nismo anđeli" (We're Not Angels), for which he remains notable. He starred again in the 2005 sequel Mi nismo anđeli 2. He is married to Aleksandra Đurić, with whom he has a daughter Ana (2008) and two twin daughters (2013). He made his directing debut in the film Herd (2016).
TV Credits
Александар од Југославије
Character: Ivan Meštrović
The series covers the period from the entry of King Alexander into liberated Belgrade after the end of the First World War until the assassination in Marseilles....
Sivi dom
Character: Velizar
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual d...
Crna svadba
Character: Bane Tomić
After a horrible massacre in a village where twelve people lost their lives, the killer shoots himself in the head, but with a strange combination of circumstances, he still remains alive. Petar, a BIA operative, is trying to figure out what actually happened because the killer, before he shot himself, uttered the word "katabaza", the same one that his late son said before he committed suicide. The psychologist Natasha helps him in that, who, unlike Petra, rationalizes the whole case, and does n...
Pozorište u kući
Character: Čvrga
An updated version of a legendary Yugoslavian 1970s sitcom “Theater at Home”....
Čudne Ljubavi
Character: Filip
The romantic and family adventures of various people from different generations whose lives and destinies intertwine during the New Year's holidays....
Деца зла
Character: Drobnjak
A masked perpetrator murders a prominent politician and leaves an old, golden coin in his hand. Nikola Bobic, a defence attorney, reluctantly takes a case and plunges into a dangerous game that will change his life forever....
Crni Gruja
Character: Crni Đorđe
The outbreak of the Serbian uprising against the Turks leaves a corrupt local chieftain struggling to find a way to a better life....
Вратиће се роде
Character: Batrić
A story of two friends and petty thieves trying to make a living, but failing in every possible way....
U klinču
Character: Velja Kovač
At the turning point of his life, 20-year-old Aljoša Kovač is trying to strike a balance between the expectations of his father Velja, the ambitions of his mother Mira, his own hard-to-achieve passion for music, and a love that is nearing its inevitable end....
Radio Mileva
Character: Dača
The comedy "Radio Mileva", directed by Elmir Jukić, is based on the idea of Nebojsa Garić. Mileva is the head of the house, she knows everything, she knows everything and she understands everything. A pensioner who spent her working life as a secretary to the President of the Municipality. Confident, energetic, anointed, a woman who has all the information, a woman for all time, resourceful and shrewd....
Zaboravljeni
Character: Marko
A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total....
Vera
Character: Tanasije Dinić
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Dnevnik velikog Perice
Character: Zastavnik Milivoj Žegar
A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964....
Kriza
Character:
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Movie Credits
Life Is a Miracle
Character: Filipović
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation....
Wheels
Character: Vladimir Korenko
Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpour in a seedy hotel called The Wheel. The hotel is populated by seemingly upstanding citizens, until Nemanya is accused of being the notorious Laughing Monster, a serial killer who has been terrorizing the neighborhood....
Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom
Character: Karađorđe
Based on a comedy TV series about Serbian "aristocracy" during the Turkish "answer" to the Serbian Uprising during the Serbian-Turkish war in the 19th century. During this time it was of the utmost importance to take the right steps and wisdom is really needed for making those right steps. With the help of a fortune teller, Karadjordje (the leader of the Uprising) learns that, according to a legend, somewhere in the hills exists a Stone of Wisdom which makes you, if you hit your head against it ...
We Are Not Angels 2
Character: Nikola
In this sequel of "We Are Not Angels", a highly successful Yugoslavian comedy, a former playboy must cope with his daughter's adolescence, as well as numerous boys that keep knocking at her doors. A worried father thinks she may get in type of troubles he used to cause when he was just the age of her wooers....
We Are Not Angels
Character: Nikola
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant....
The Fourth Man
Character: Major
A man awakens from a two-month-long coma. Total amnesia. A bullet fired point blank. He doesn't remember anything. He's told that he had a wife and a son. They've been killed. He's revealed his past identity by the Colonel, who insists they are best friends. He's a Major of the Military Security Agency. An inspector from the State Security Agency appears affirming that he has information on people responsible for the massacre of his family. The Major is discharged from the hospital. He tries to ...
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Character: Velja
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force....
Let's Make Love 3
Character: Željko
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: Ivan Meštrović
A biographical story of Serbian King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic....
Out of the Woods
Character: Pop
TV mini-series based on a eponymous feature film....
Balkan Brothers
Character: Pakito
This is the story of the multinational and ethnically conflicted assembly of apatrides from war torn ex-Yugoslavia, hired by a crippled war merchant to sew labels upon fake jeans and participate in drug smuggling ring. Forced and humiliated into doing such work they are locked up in a Paris cellar where they find out that their Western fate brings even worse temptations then the war in Yugoslavia that made them leave the motherland....
The Wounds
Character: Biber
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society....
The Knife
Character: Milan Vilenjak
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith....
The Parade
Character: Limun
The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade....
Zika's Dynasty
Character: Mihailo
Misa is already a teenager but with little interest in girls and much for his violin. Two granddads, Zika and Milan, are worried for their grandson who may 'deviate' like Steven from "Dynasty", the show they like to watch. That's why they decide to introduce him better to their attractive housekeeper....
Second Žika's Dynasty
Character: Mihailo
Unlike in the previous sequel of "Foolish Years"/"Zika's Dynasty" film series, Zika's and Milan's grandson became crazy for girls, having sex with them simultaneously in his apartment. Granddads are now worried for different reason, so they visit the doctor who gives them an advice to send their grandson to the country in order to use his strength appropriately....
Ivko's Feast
Character: Muzikant
The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality....
Contact
Character: Janko
A Romantic Drama with humor about two different Misfits who meet by accident in an old devastated Villa and step by step discover their feelings for each other...You must see this picture......
Skinning
Character: Inspektor Milutin
Novica is a mathematics champion in a Belgrade high school. In an attempt to overcome the ‘geek’ status at school, Novica becomes attracted to the world of skinheads by his school friend Relja. Novica is exposed to violence, hooliganism and racism; embracing the ideology and climbing up the ladder in the gang hierarchy....
The State of Shock
Character: Jovo Stanković Kranjc
Set in socialist Yugoslavia in 1986, a humble and diligent factory worker falls into a 10-year shock right at his working place. He wakes up from coma in hospital in 1996 capitalist Slovenia, only to find out that he's left without job as being redundant....
Mechanism
Character: Mak
The conflict between innocence and evil is the shortest definition of the leitmotifs of the film. The story is taking place on a winter day in a remote province, far from all major events that shook the world today. A young woman teacher goes to a remote village where he got the first job after six years of waiting. Happy and hopeful that her life finally begins ... The other main feature is similar to it. Male character returns from the war in which, in fact, he was not. The first day of the w...
Sky Hook
Character: Zuba
Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son....
The White Suit
Character: Alkoholičar I
A sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic....
Rage
Character: Musa
Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the establishment. The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge, deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony....
Zduhac Means Adventure
Character: Reditelj
Our heroes are high school students spending an unforgettable summer, full of adventures, on their way to a big rock festival. Producer Sava and director Žarko Babajić are filming an extreme sports commercial with Marija and Sindi. Mysterious “Zduhach” “refreshes” Uroš and Nenad with some local “kleka” juice. Stolen identity makes new rapper star G Spot Tornado angry, so things get even more complicated....
Riders
Character: Peter
Slovenia, the spring of 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey. Looking for freedom and love, they travel through dreams of the past and visions of the future. Driven by mad impulses and haunted by the conservative moulds of traditions, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia - two countries that have just recently seceded from Yugoslavia - they are accom...
What Are You Doing Tonight?
Character: Neša
A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An u...
Part-Time Work
Character: Ivan
A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not h...
My Part-Time Dad
Character: Ivan
The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together....
Two Hours of Quality TV Program
Character: Versaće
Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and the introduction of new values to the urban culture....
The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Character: Bogati košarač
Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
To the Hilt
Character: Agent
Macedonia is a small country, in the heart of the Balkans, which for five centuries was under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. The action of the film "To the Hilt" takes place in the years of the general collapse and "free fall", after the Macedonian uprising of 1903 which was extinguished in blood. The story is a love quadrangle between an uncompromising idealist rebel, a merciless Turkish officer, an opportunist rich man's son returning home after his studies in Europe and a lucid and open mind...
Zagreb-Belgrade Across Sarajevo
Character: Mornar
A fictitious meeting of the two famous Serbian writers Ivo Andrić and Miloš Crnjanski in a train back in 1919....
The Hangovers
Character: Kolja
Kolja and Cveja, long-time friends and fellow actors are trying to cope with debt bondage, which led to Cveja's eviction from the apartment by the executor. Beside personal, family and business misfortunes, they will experience series of incredible events during one day. What will the next morning bring?...
The Policeman from Cock's Hill
Character: Riđi
The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring father....
Vera
Character: Tanasije Dinić
Vera has young woman as the main heroine, who is in the jaws of the war spy network in WW2 and also of the patriarchal society in the Balkans with full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly....
Eclipse
Character:
A drunkard is obsessed with a young attractive lady who refuses his advances....
A Thousand
Character: Josip Broz Tito
A young man by the name of Atif Kurtovic goes into a mine for the first time in his life to become a miner and to continue exactly where his now retired grandfather had left off. However, his fate is soon completely changed when he is picked as the face for the most valuable banknote in the country, the bill in the amount of one thousand dinars. Because of this, Atif soon finds himself on his way to Belgrade where Tito's personal photographer takes his picture and thus allows Atif to become a pa...
The Samurai in Autumn
Character: Miloje
Vladica lost the only thing that mattered to him - an amateur karate championship. Now he's back in his home town looking for a job, love and redemption....
Herd
Character: Kolja
Two of the most popular Serbian actors discover a script that they immediately want to work on, forgetting that creating in Serbia isn't as easy as it seems....
Anka
Character: Vlasnik ciglane
A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its mysterious creatures....
What Happens When Love Comes to Town
Character: Miša
Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language....
It Will Be Better
Character: Sale
A local bar/restaurant run by a feuding husband and wife find themselves and their business threatened by a not so bright group of extortionists. With the help of their patrons who wish to preserve their quiet mode of patronage and a motor cycle riding stranger, they take the fight directly back to the villains with some non conventional approaches....
Death of a Man in the Balkans
Character: Kompozitor/Branko Matić
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior....
Bal-Can-Can
Character: Osman Rizvanbegović
A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld....
Boomerang
Character: Pavle
Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that....
Shadows of Memories
Character: Miloš
Actor who used to be a celebrity once upon a time, when he played in number of films and theatre shows, lives his elderly days monotonously... Up until he meets a girl wanting to become an actress. In their encounters actor revives his love affairs from his young age......
Buy Me an Eliot
Character: Boki Latino / Amor Latino
A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs......
Out of the Woods
Character: Pop
60 year old woman leaves urban life and goes to live in a village to take care of her grandchildren whose parents now live in America. There she faces lots of financial hardships as the family doesn't send any money, and tries her best to provide all for their happier childhood....
Kick-Off
Character: Marko
A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging....
Free Fall
Character: Šef
Nikola is getting ready to parachute jump from an airplane. During the jump he falls into a state near death and lives through a series of dream-like sequences in which he recapitulates his life....
The Igman March
Character: Jovica
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II....
Balkan Rules
Character: Ministar
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....
Like Me a Million
Character: Slobodan
It is a comedy about a young couple – Charlie, a news editor on a private television station, and Dana, the TV owner's secretary. Their story is intercepted by the reality news idea of Slobodan, the owner of the television station where both of them work. Slobodan is in a hurry to start the reality as soon as possible because he owes money to a tycoon and time is running out, and trashy programs generate quick profits. Charlie is reluctant to support Slobodan's idea but Slobodan convinces him it...
Tune Up
Character: Šepavi Martin
Legendary TV host Branko Uvodić invites all tamburica bands for a competition at a music festival. Attracted by the big prize, the band 'Aveti ravnice" travels to the festival and is wrongfully accused of stealing the main prize. During the night, they are chased by the police and have to fight other tamburica bands on their way to their home village. When they finally arrive, they face their last and biggest challenge....
Vera
Character: Tanasije Tasa Dinić
Vera is a young woman in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who gets entangled in the WW2 spy network and also in the patriarchal society full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly....