Lazar Ristovski

Lazar Ristovski

1952-10-26 Ravno Selo near Vrbas - Serbia - Yugoslavia 67 Credits

Biography

Lazar Ristovski is a famous Serbian actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly in lead roles.

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The Name of the People

The Name of the People

2020

Producer

7.0
Producing

Life of Serbian patriot and intellectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.

Neverending Past

Neverending Past

2019

as Čovjek koji traži mrtvog sina (segment "III priča")

4.5
Acting

A triptych set in three different time periods about fathers who find themselves in borderline situations in which one is forced to make a decision am...

Leeches

Leeches

2019

as Stjepan Stroh

1.0
Acting

Writer Petar Miric, at the time of the great social and political crisis in Serbia represents attitudes that conflict with the principles of the polit...

What a Country!

What a Country!

2018

as Karlo

5.9
Acting

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal ...

King Petar the First

King Petar the First

2018

as Kralj Petar I Karađorđević

9.1
Acting

The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

The Man Who Bought The Moon

The Man Who Bought The Moon

2018

as Taneddu

6.9
Acting

A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.

Train Driver's Diary

Train Driver's Diary

2016

as Ilija

6.6
Acting

Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a sto...

Train Driver's Diary

Train Driver's Diary

2016

Producer

6.6
Producing

Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a sto...

On the Other Side

On the Other Side

2016

as Zarko

7.6
Acting

20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back th...

On the Other Side

On the Other Side

2016

Co-Producer

7.6
Producing

20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back th...

Point Blank

Point Blank

2016

as Aco Gorić

6.4
Acting

Berlin, Germany. Police officer Klaus Roth infiltrates the Serbian mafia, specializing in manipulating sports betting, and befriends the naive Luka, i...

For the King and Fatherland

For the King and Fatherland

2015

4.0
Acting

The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a membe...

We Will Be the World Champions

We Will Be the World Champions

2015

as Tito

3.6
Acting

The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based o...

The November Man

The November Man

2014

as Arkady Federov

6.1
Acting

An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high le...

Rock the Trumpet

Rock the Trumpet

2014

as Himself

Acting

Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

Who Is This Kusturica?

2013

6.0
Acting

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in b...

Along the Roadside

Along the Roadside

2013

as Milutin

6.4
Acting

Road movie about two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different clashing cultures and their journey of self-discovery duri...

The Priest's Children

The Priest's Children

2013

as Biskup

6.4
Acting

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he de...

White Lions

White Lions

2011

as Dile

2.7
Acting

The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker ...

White Lions

White Lions

2011

Director, Producer, Writer

2.7
Directing Producing Writing

The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker ...

Honeymoons

Honeymoons

2009

as Verin ujak

6.6
Acting

'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one i...

St. George Shoots the Dragon

St. George Shoots the Dragon

2009

as Đorđe

6.2
Acting

Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Bal...

St. George Shoots the Dragon

St. George Shoots the Dragon

2009

Producer

6.2
Producing

Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Bal...

Devil's Town

Devil's Town

2009

as Rajko Zorić

5.0
Acting

Black comic debut film about modern Belgrade in which a group of people cross each other’s paths on the same day that Serbian tennis players play an i...

Sonetàula

Sonetàula

2008

as Egidio Malune

6.5
Acting

A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.

Save Our Souls

2007

as Gvozden

Acting

The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition...

Casino Royale

Casino Royale

2006

as Kaminofsky

7.6
Acting

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his win...

The Optimists

The Optimists

2006

as Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić

6.3
Acting

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is i...

Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow Morning

2006

as Zdravko

6.6
Acting

After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four...

Tailor's Secret

Tailor's Secret

2006

as Pukovnik

4.4
Acting

The story is set in an ambiance of a dark utopian future, a city of mentally dead zombies under the firm grip of military dictatorship. Boldly, like a...

Well Tempered Corpses

Well Tempered Corpses

2005

as Ruždija Kučuk

5.6
Acting

A couple of morticians entertain themselves by betting on how many cold customers will come in that day. But one of the corpses refuses to cooperate.....

Midwinter Night's Dream

Midwinter Night's Dream

2004

as Lazar

5.0
Acting

A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Laz...

Midwinter Night's Dream

Midwinter Night's Dream

2004

Producer

5.0
Producing

A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Laz...

Falling in the Paradise

Falling in the Paradise

2004

as Ljubiša Kundačina

5.3
Acting

A half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets ro...

Falling in the Paradise

Falling in the Paradise

2004

Producer

5.3
Producing

A half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets ro...

King of Thieves

King of Thieves

2003

as Caruso

6.3
Acting

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who pr...

Small World

Small World

2003

as Ras

6.6
Acting

A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be c...

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

2002

Producer

7.2
Producing

Spasoje and Cole are cute and silly boys who constantly find themselves in risky situations. They work in a morgue. One night they heard mobile phone ...

Boomerang

Boomerang

2001

as Bobi

6.7
Acting

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.

Boomerang

Boomerang

2001

Writer, Producer

6.7
Writing Producing

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.

The White Suit

The White Suit

1999

as Savo / Vuko Tiodorović

5.3
Acting

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 pr...

The White Suit

The White Suit

1999

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

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 pr...

Goodbye, 20th Century

Goodbye, 20th Century

1998

as Santa Claus

6.2
Acting

In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. ...

The Second Wife

The Second Wife

1998

as Fosco

5.7
Acting

In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends...

Cabaret Balkan

Cabaret Balkan

1998

as Svetin kum

7.6
Acting

20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

My Country

1997

6.0
Acting

Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict.

Balkan Rules

Balkan Rules

1997

as Matori

5.6
Acting

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much ...

Rage

Rage

1997

as Kovač

7.0
Acting

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 establ...

Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground

Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground

1996

as Himself

6.5
Acting

While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his film crew to overcome this reality. A new world, w...

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

1996

Original Music Composer

7.9

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Underground

Underground

1995

as Petar 'Crni' Popara

7.7
Acting

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Byzantine Blue

Byzantine Blue

1993

as Aranđel

4.7
Acting

The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.

A Little Joke

A Little Joke

1992

as Svetislav

Acting

Two middle-aged friends, Mićko and Đorđe, decide to make a joke with their childhood friend, teacher Svetislav, who is a stingy when it comes to payin...

Tito and Me

Tito and Me

1992

as Raja

7.1
Acting

At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" t...

The Original of the Forgery

The Original of the Forgery

1991

as Pavle

6.3
Acting

The plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immedia...

Let's Make Love 3

Let's Make Love 3

1990

as Miloje

4.6
Acting

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...

The Border

The Border

1990

as Topić

5.8
Acting

The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.

The Bizarre Country

The Bizarre Country

1988

as Putnik

5.5
Acting

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of ...

The Way Steel Was Tempered

The Way Steel Was Tempered

1988

as Leo

7.5
Acting

A moulder wants to live a happy life, but the circumstances in his factory are such that everyone is looking for an opportunity to grab the money befo...

Miss Julie

Miss Julie

1985

as Žan, sluga

Acting

Adaptation of Strindberg’s novel about a Swedish count’s daughter who is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is well-traveled and well-...

Knot

Knot

1985

as Nikola

Acting

The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spe...

The Damned Yard

The Damned Yard

1984

as Ljubitelj žena

Acting

Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.

Zadar's Memento

Zadar's Memento

1984

as Krševan Stipčević

5.0
Acting

The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.

The Igman March

The Igman March

1983

as Josip Broz Tito

6.0
Acting

The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.

Svetozar Markovic

Svetozar Markovic

1980

as Svetozar Marković

Acting

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philos...

Breakdown

Breakdown

1978

as Psihijatar Savić

4.6
Acting

A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his...

Manhunt

Manhunt

1977

as Ivan

6.4
Acting

The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunti...