Toma Jovanović

Acting

Toma Jovanović

Born August 21, 1929 · Valjevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Died June 9, 2012 · aged 82

No biography available.

Known For

The Tail-GuyThe Tail-Guy · 1969
The Tail-Guy
1969
MovieComedy
The eighth story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. An eternally undervalued and ridiculed clerk tries to change his attitude and life.
The Mulberry TreeThe Mulberry Tree · 1980
The Mulberry Tree
1980
MovieTV MovieDrama
Johan, a former Volksdeutscher, after thirty years after the end of the Second World War, comes back to the place where he was born and grew up, visits his birthplace where he finds Dane and Janja, the colonists who were assigned Johan’s house to. Johan recognizes the mulberry tree in the yard.
Broad Are the LeavesBroad Are the Leaves · 1981
Broad Are the Leaves
★ 6.81981
MovieWar
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.
SummerSummer · 1989
Summer
★ 7.01989
MovieFamilyDrama
This TV drama is the graduate work of a screenwriter which deals with the maturation process of three characters of different age: a 12-year-old girl, a 30-year-old man and the 50-year old girl's granddad.
Migrations IIMigrations II · 1989
Migrations II
★ 8.01989
MovieHistoryDrama
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
The TrophyThe Trophy · 1979
The Trophy
★ 7.01979
MovieDrama
A committee made up to investigate illegal masonry in Yugoslavia causes more problems both for the builders and government, and in fact no one have any use of it. The pressure from all sides makes committee work less diligently.
Jaguar JumpJaguar Jump · 1984
Jaguar Jump
★ 6.01984
MovieDrama
The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero goes to America in order to find her.
The Choosy Bride-to-BeThe Choosy Bride-to-Be · 1961
The Choosy Bride-to-Be
★ 7.01961
MovieComedy
A filmed stage play based on Kosta Trifkovic novel about mischievous girl who, together with her female cousin, makes fun of the whole bunch of her admirers.

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When Day BreaksWhen Day Breaks · 2012
When Day Breaks
★ 6.32012
MovieDrama
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.

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