Boris Komnenić

Actor

March 29, 1957 (63 years)

† March 6, 2021

Pula, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Biography

Boris Komnenić was born on March 29, 1957 in Pula, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Vratiće se rode (2007), Bolji život (1987) and Montevideo: Taste of a Dream (2010). He was married to Rene Penanen. He died on March 6, 2021 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Filmography

8.3

Better Life

Aleksandar Popadić

Trials and tribulations of the Popadic family, a typical family of five with everyday problems... BOLJI ŽIVOT is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade it is considered to be the most successful TV show ever produced in Yugoslavia. Written by Siniša Pavić, most prolific Serbian screenwriter, the series helped jump start cinematic careers for many of its protagonists, most notably Dragan Bjelogrlić who went on to become successful actor, director, and producer.

1.0

Yugoslavian Woman

Nemanja Pavlović

The story begins at the darkest moment in 1916 when the country is occupied, the army on Corfu. The plot follows the historical events until 1921 and the death of King Peter, ie the Great War, the liberation of the country, the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

9.0

Grey Home

Vaspitač Katić

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...

7.9

The Storks Will Return

Rodoljub 'Rođa' Švabić

It follows the two lead characters, Svaba and Ekser, as they try to make a living on the streets of Belgrade through the life of petty crime. Making matters worse is the fact that Shvaba owes a lot of money to a local big-shot criminal. And just when things seem lost for the two men, Shvaba's mother inherits a house in Baranda - a village near Belgrade no one's ever heard of. As Shvaba and Ekser happily rush to Baranda, hoping to sell the house and solve all their problems, the villagers are equally happy to see them, thinking that two businessmen from Belgrade are finally taking an interest in their village...

9.5

The Sindjelic Family

Jezdimir 'Jezda' Sinđelić

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8.3

When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo

Doktor

A young student Braca is trying to seduce a beautiful model Iris. Although they are from two different worlds, they both try not to show it. In another story, Šomi and Duje anxiously follow the football match between Manchester and Eastwich. They bet on Eastwich, because their childhood friend Kengur is their goalkeeper. The plot of the third story takes place on the roof of the solitaire, where Avaks and Hibrid are wasting time in anticipation of something happening.

5.7

The Misfit Brigade

Bauer

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.

8.5

Marked in the Restricted Area

Radovan

Two best friends and former basketball players are trying to re-establish their once successful basketball club. A nostalgic and romantic comedy about second chances, and about friendship between a Serb and a Croat.

5.8

Taiwan Canasta

Saša Belopoljanski

A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.

4.8

Falsifier

Upravnik zatvora

Our story takes place at the end of the 1960s. This is the time of the collapse of the ideals of a more just and honorable life brought into prominence by students worldwide in the great rebellion in 1968 and of the beginning of the end of an equally grand illusion called Yugoslavia. Andjelko is the principal of a middle school in a small Bosnian place Dubica. He believes in Yugoslavia and worships its leader Josip Broz Tito. Andjelko, however, has one serious fault: he is a forger, he makes forged school diplomas. He does not do this out of self-interest, but because he is a staunch philanthropist. One day, a neighbor for whom Andjelko forged the leather-working school diploma, in order to take revenge on the local veterinarian, reports to the police that this one too has Andjelko's diploma. Our hero is, therefore, forced to flee to the big city. He lives there illegally, at the harborers of outlaws for whom he once forged diplomas. But one day, Andjelko runs into his schoolmate...

5.6

The Belgrade Phantom

Inspektor

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979; a mysterious "Phantom" occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets.

N/A

Stay the Same

Miroslav

Miroslav moves to a city and begins to study hard. He was very actively involved in the 1968 student riots. He meets Dragana, also a student activist, and they get married soon. While increasingly turning the attention to career prospects, he starts forgetting his former revolutionary slogans.

5.6

Hey Babu Riba

Veslač Partizana I

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

6.3

T.T. Syndrome

Magistar Đorđević

Several people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy.

N/A

Spring on the Last Lake

Josip Sibe Miličić

The film follows the celebrated writer and Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during WWII, when diplomats and diplomatic staff from Yugoslav missions from countries occupied by the Third Reich, including Andrić, who was ambassador of the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Berlin, were deported to a hotel on Lake Constance.

5.0

Apophenia

Marko Mazibrada

Relying on the work of Letonian scientist Constantine Raudive, Marko Mazibrada, a psychiatrist disappointed in his profession, performs experiments aimed to empirically determine whether there is life after death, by phenomenon of apophenia. Together with Simon Besedić, alcoholic and editor of Armageddon Monthly, the magazine that deals with the paranormal phenomena, Nikola Mrzopoljić, manual labourer and paterfamilias, and Eta, pharmacist and unusual prostitute which Besedić offers a relationship, he experiences a sequence of weird events...

6.0

Flashback

Sanitarac

The main character returns from the prison with a desire to build a normal relationship with his, now, adult daughter who didn't have a father for a long period of her life. When he comes home sees that the daughter ran away from home and that his wife is cheating on him with a friend who also moved into the apartment. Armed with a sarcastic sense of humor he accepts all that and starts searching for his daughter, whom, by the way, does not want to be found.

7.0

Ilka

Ministar vojni Grujić

A biopic about Jelena 'Ilka' Markovic, a woman who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the Serbian prince Milan Obrenovic in order to revenge her husband, who was previously executed for taking part in the Topola uprising of 1877.

7.0

Better Life

Aleksandar 'Saša' Popadić

A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head of the Popadić family, organizes a Women's Day shopping trip to Thessaloniki, Greece, for his female coworkers.

5.9

Taxi Blues

Kale

The key character in the story story is Marko, a failed scriptwriter, who has been working as a taxi driver for years and follows his adventures during one hilarious night.