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Velimir Živojinović

Velimir Živojinović

Acting

Biography

Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović was a Serbian stage and film actor. After he graduated from acting schools in Užice and Novi Sad, he enrolled at the Drama Academy in Belgrade.

Known For

The Bridge
7.0

In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

The Bridge

1969
The Battle of Neretva
6.8

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

The Battle of Neretva

1969
Grey Home
9.0

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 dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...

Grey Home

1986
Happy People
5.7

The intertwined lives of numerous characters set in 1990s Belgrade who all try to live happily during rather unhappy times.

Happy People

1993
The Igman March
5.9

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

The Igman March

1983
A Weekend of Deceased Persons
10.0

Very black and grotesque comedy about the little office-worker Tase and his death wife Kata. She died in hospital in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, but the nurses mixed her body with someone else. Then he must make exchange of bodies with Klime, the banker. But Tase lives in Prilep and Klime lives even in Ohrid. Then it becomes tragicomedy!

A Weekend of Deceased Persons

1988
Balkan Express 2
8.0

TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.

Balkan Express 2

1989
The Invincible Heart
6.5

Set in the 1930s, the series is about the impossible love between a poor young man from the province, an unemployed law graduate and a talented singer, and the rich and sensitive heiress of a bank manager and owner.

The Invincible Heart

2011
Basketball Players
8.0

A drama series about a small Belgrade basketball club, the life and times of middle-aged coaches and the teenage players, their athletic and romantic struggles on and off court.

Basketball Players

2005
The Battle of Sutjeska
6.5

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973
The Great Transport
N/A

The 1983 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a three part mini-series.

The Great Transport

1983
Frozen Stiff
7.3

The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.

Frozen Stiff

2002
The Teacher
N/A

The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.

The Teacher

1983
War Live
6.0

Belgrade, 1999. Producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation - the film they're making is under threat - there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied - and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then a member of the State Security Service (Mileta) comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried, in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him - arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film - in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works - the State supports the film and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists, and not being patriots.

War Live

2000
Vuk Karadžić
8.0

Vuk Karadžić, is а Yugoslavian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Vuk Karadžić

1987
Walter Defends Sarajevo
7.0

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972
The Dreams Came by Coach
6.6

Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.

The Dreams Came by Coach

1960
Open Space
7.5

Summer of ‘72 – a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito’s regime. Loosely based on true events, it depicts the manhunt that followed.

Open Space

Walter Defends Sarajevo
N/A

An extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1974
The Poem
8.0

An influential Serbian poet decides to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join partisans in the country. A young resistance activist, however, is not so thrilled with the idea because the old and womanizing intellectual doesn't fit in with his strict moralistic standards.

The Poem

1961