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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Name of the People
2020
Producer
Life of Serbian patriot and intellectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.

Neverending Past
2019
as Čovjek koji traži mrtvog sina (segment "III priča")
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
2019
as Stjepan Stroh
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!
2018
as Karlo
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
2018
as Kralj Petar I Karađorđević
The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

The Man Who Bought The Moon
2018
as Taneddu
A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.

Train Driver's Diary
2016
as Ilija
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
2016
Producer
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
2016
as Zarko
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
2016
Co-Producer
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
2016
as Aco Gorić
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
2015
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
2015
as Tito
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
2014
as Arkady Federov
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
2014
as Himself
Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.
Who Is This Kusturica?
2013
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
2013
as Milutin
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
2013
as Biskup
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
2011
as Dile
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
2011
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2009
as Verin ujak
'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
2009
as Đorđe
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
2009
Producer
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
2009
as Rajko Zorić
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
2008
as Egidio Malune
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
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
2006
as Kaminofsky
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
2006
as Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić
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
2006
as Zdravko
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
2006
as Pukovnik
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
2005
as Ruždija Kučuk
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
2004
as Lazar
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
2004
Producer
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
2004
as Ljubiša Kundačina
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
2004
Producer
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
2003
as Caruso
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
2003
as Ras
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
2002
Producer
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
2001
as Bobi
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
2001
Writer, Producer
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
1999
as Savo / Vuko Tiodorović
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
1999
Director, Writer
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
1998
as Santa Claus
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
1998
as Fosco
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
1998
as Svetin kum
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
My Country
1997
Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict.

Balkan Rules
1997
as Matori
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
1997
as Kovač
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
1996
as Himself
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
1996
Original Music Composer
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Underground
1995
as Petar 'Crni' Popara
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Byzantine Blue
1993
as Aranđel
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
1992
as Svetislav
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
1992
as Raja
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
1991
as Pavle
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
1990
as Miloje
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
1990
as Topić
The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.

The Bizarre Country
1988
as Putnik
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
1988
as Leo
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
1985
as Žan, sluga
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
1985
as Nikola
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
1984
as Ljubitelj žena
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
1984
as Krševan Stipčević
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
1983
as Josip Broz Tito
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.

Svetozar Markovic
1980
as Svetozar Marković
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philos...

Breakdown
1978
as Psihijatar Savić
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
1977
as Ivan
The leftover disbanded partisan battalion draws Chetniks' attention, who push their plans of attacking the partisan headquarters aside and start hunti...