Danilo 'Bata' Stojković

Danilo 'Bata' Stojković

Birthday: 1934-08-11

Place of Birth: Belgrade

Biography: Born on 11th of August 1934 in Belgrade, Stojkovic was one of the most prominent and respected actors in the history of Yugoslav cinema. He acted in more than 150 films during his life, though he began his career as a theatre actor in the 1960s. One of the favourite actors of director Slobodan Sijan and scriptwriter Dusan Kovacevic, his first role on stage was for the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, before becoming a permanent member of the ensemble Atelier 212. HIs film career began with a role in 'Traitor' in 1964. year, followed by a series of television and film roles. His biggest role in the movies included 'Beach Guard in Winter' ( 1976), 'The Dog Who Loved Trains' (1977 ) , 'The Who' ( 1980), 'The Marathon Family', 'How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot' (1983) and 'Balkan Spy'.

Movies

The Professional
The Professional

A stage play by Dušan Kovačević which tells the story of a successful manager of a publishing compan...

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Balkan Spy
Balkan Spy

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep para...

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Underground
Underground

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage...

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The Marathon Family
The Marathon Family

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelij...

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Who's Singin' Over There?
Who's Singin' Over There?

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a...

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Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1
Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he ...

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Cabaret Balkan
Cabaret Balkan

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

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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita

Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical s...

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Man Is Not a Bird
Man Is Not a Bird

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship....

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Balkan Express 2
Balkan Express 2

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks ...

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Premeditated Murder
Premeditated Murder

Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's w...

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The Dog Who Loved Trains
The Dog Who Loved Trains

A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining tog...

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The Beach Guard in Winter
The Beach Guard in Winter

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way through...

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The White Suit
The White Suit

A sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his ...

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The Black Bomber
The Black Bomber

In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. Aft...

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The Elusive Summer of '68
The Elusive Summer of '68

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent poli...

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Eighth Day in a Week
Eighth Day in a Week

A middle-aged businessman is left by his wife, who was dissatisfied with their marital routine. For ...

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Boxers Go to Heaven
Boxers Go to Heaven

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol....

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How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots
How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death an...

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Lilika
Lilika

A story about young orphan girl who was rejected by her mother....

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Testament
Testament

A man comes back to life after his physical death in order to identify his persecutors, who may be r...

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The Bug Killer
The Bug Killer

A teenager fails to find (and keep) jobs which makes his father doubt the reason might be the boy's ...

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Special Treatment
Special Treatment

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "specia...

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Before the Truth
Before the Truth

Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after...

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The Traitor
The Traitor

A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades an...

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The Walled In
The Walled In

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides ...

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The Last Lap at Monza
The Last Lap at Monza

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied wit...

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Young and Healthy as a Rose
Young and Healthy as a Rose

Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolić, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and h...

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National Class Category Up to 785ccm
National Class Category Up to 785ccm

One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 7...

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The Tragic Burlesque
The Tragic Burlesque

In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the d...

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Backbone
Backbone

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist ...

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Gluttony
Gluttony

A TV drama “Gluttony” is part of the unfinished “Seven Deadly Sins” cycle. The main subject of this ...

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Freckled Girl
Freckled Girl

Keti runs through her life, cheating on everybody who she encounters. She joins the company of two b...

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Milan - The Gift
Milan - The Gift

The drama is about several prominent people of Serbian culture and art. Milan Savic, a well-known do...

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Cans or Bags
Cans or Bags

A satire set during a house council meeting, where the tenants argue over the problem of taking out ...

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Stardust
Stardust

A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that the...

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Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat

Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed kno...

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The Swarm
The Swarm

During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman w...

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The Man from the Oak Forest
The Man from the Oak Forest

An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under di...

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The Man with Four Legs
The Man with Four Legs

On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his...

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There's Love, There's Not
There's Love, There's Not

Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look fo...

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You Get It, Man
You Get It, Man

Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy...

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The Tough Ones
The Tough Ones

Two brothers return to their devastated home village after the end of the Second World War with noth...

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Plug Impermeable to Water
Plug Impermeable to Water

A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt o...

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In the Name of the Father and Son
In the Name of the Father and Son

The story about typical Montenegrin family Miletic in post-war Yugoslavia, which shows personal trag...

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Requiem
Requiem

An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a...

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Time of Miracles
Time of Miracles

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and pai...

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Let's Move On
Let's Move On

The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of Liberatio...

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The Time of Love
The Time of Love

"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old gir...

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Dear Video
Dear Video

Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugosl...

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Terrace on the Roof
Terrace on the Roof

Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled l...

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The Farm in the Small Marsh
The Farm in the Small Marsh

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through t...

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Say Why Have You Left Me?
Say Why Have You Left Me?

The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himse...

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Orphan
Orphan

Story of children growing up in Yugoslavia right after the end of World War II....

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Holding the Air
Holding the Air

The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his ...

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Mammoth Bone
Mammoth Bone

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dream...

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No Title
No Title

Goran Markovic's first movie, based on the short story of the same name by Boris Pilnyak. In the mov...

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Out of Step
Out of Step

A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is...

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Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration
Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration

A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution,...

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Burdush
Burdush

Three poor musicians become rich and famous, due to an appearance on a TV show. Unexpected success a...

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Ninth Miracle on the East
Ninth Miracle on the East

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination...

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Sleeping Car
Sleeping Car

A man and a woman, each with a stable marriage of their own, meet in the wagon compartment. The shor...

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Daredevil Times
Daredevil Times

Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: ...

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Looking Into the Night
Looking Into the Night

The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery ...

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Happy Family
Happy Family

Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family....

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Pavle Pavlovic
Pavle Pavlovic

Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television s...

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The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K.
The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K.

The entire movie is shot in one take. It shows how a command is twisted from the moment it was given...

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You Don't Know Martin
You Don't Know Martin

A subtle play of characters, in which people who live isolated lives in concrete skyscrapers are tem...

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The Honorary Duty
The Honorary Duty

A professor of geography and a farmer befriend during their military service. On a day of taking the...

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Meeting Place
Meeting Place

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the ga...

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The Wounds
The Wounds

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society....

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Unseen Wonder
Unseen Wonder

The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful...

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Natural Boundaries
Natural Boundaries

A middle-aged man married a young woman but his war memories and her lack of them stand between them...

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The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily...

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Balkan Rules
Balkan Rules

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 ...

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Forces in the Air
Forces in the Air

Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is heade...

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Peregrination
Peregrination

A three-part anthology film....

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First Serbian Railway
First Serbian Railway

It shows the inclusion of a backward country in the age of technical progress with all the doubts, d...

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The Silver Fox
The Silver Fox

The action takes place in a Bosnian town during the Second World War and shows how anti-fascist ille...

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