Lazar Ristovski

Lazar Ristovski
Country: Serbia
Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor), 2 (Director), 3 (Writer)
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Underground
The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations... (imdb)
San zimske noci
Goran Paskaljevic tells a story bout a man with "criminal" past and his relationship with autistic girl... (IMDB Comments)
Cabaret Balkan
In Beograd, mid-1990s, 20 people's paths crisscross one night in rage and theater... (imdb)
Optimisti
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." (imdb)
Tito and Me
Goran Markovic's semi-autobiographical Tito and Me is the story of a 10-year-old named Zoran (Dimitrie Vojnov), who is growing up in Belgrade in 1954. Zoran is obsessed with Yugoslavia's dictatorial leader, "Comrade Tito," and over the course of the film, the young boy learns that worshipping idols is a naive, foolhardy practice. (All Movie Guide)
Dobro ustimani mrtvaci
The main heroes of this black comedy are two morgue workers, Risto and Safet. The two of them are betting daily on how many corpses will arrive that day. One morning, Risto predicts less than 4 bodies, while Safet states 4 or more. Ruzduja Kucuk (Laza Ristovski), a local swindler, is their first "guest"... (Yu4You.com)
Zbogum na dvaesetiot vek
Goodbye, 20th Century is movie with three time periods - it starts post-apocalypitic (Mad Max like) in 2019, than it moves in time that was 100 years before and it ends on December 31st 1999.
Neka cudna zemlja
Lazar Ristovski is playing a role of story guide, stranger finding himself in a country that should be his fatherland, but is to the most bizarre boundaries spoiled and ruined by actual government. The country is ruled by mindless dictators, old fellows disconnected from reality, having no touch with the people themselves. (karagarga)
Sveti Georgije ubiva azdahu
Story of war veterans in Serbian village near frontier of Austria just before WWI, and their loyalty to love and country.
Sutra ujutru
After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love... (imdb)
Djavolja varos
A series of interconnected stories taking place in Belgrade during the course of one day. A teenage girl from a poor family wants to accompany her well-off friend in her tennis lessons, but she can't afford it. A man recently returned after many years abroad finds it difficult to conduct business in his native country... (imdb)
Beli lavovi
Allegorical story about the problems of the working class in the society with distorted values. (imdb)
Boomerang
'Yesterday's tragedy is today's comedy.' 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. It stoically puts up with its guests, and their misguided efforts to control their own destinies, until the very end when it too has had enough... (imdb)
Medeni mesec
'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together. (Written by Human Rights Watch Film Festival (imdb)
La seconda moglie
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 up falling in love with her handsome stepson. (imdb)
The November Man
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 level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect. (imdb)
Along the Roadside
Two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different cultures and their journey of self-discovery during the drive to the largest music festival in California.
Dnevnik masinovodje
Statistics show that during their career every railroad engineer working unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives. (imdb)
S One Strane
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 the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
King of Thieves
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 promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other. Mimma is sold to prostitution, while Barbu is taught to snatch purses together with an older Albanian boy Marcel. Barbu finds out about Mimma's fate and decides to free her from the brothel. (imdb)
Mali svet
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 caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.
My Country
Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict. (Letterboxd)
L\
A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.
Original falsifikata
The plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan, and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immediately after the war. Pavle, a former war commissar, is now a school teacher. Thanks to him, Stojan, who was a bakery assistant before the war, does the job of a district committee's secretary, while Dragisa works in the state's secret police. The reason for the conflict between Pavle and Stojan in 1947 was Stojan's fiancée Lena... (Mario)
Belo odelo
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 prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic. (Mario)
What a Country!
A story about suicidal general, a minister who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president (imdb.com).
Kralj Petar I
Rise of King Petar since his coming to power to retreat of Serb army trough Albania as first world war is raging. (imdb)