Đorđe Jelisić
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 11, 1925
Place of Birth: Šabac, Serbia
Known For
Stories from the Workshop
Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)
The Written Off
"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
Priests Ćira and Spira
"Priest Ćira and Priest Spira" is a Yugoslavian television mini-series from 1983 based on Stevan Sremac's story of the same name. It's a humorous adaptation directed by Soja Jovanović, who also made an earlier film version in 1957. The story revolves around the rivalry between two village priests when a young teacher is set to marry the daughter of only one of them.
Grey Home
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...
The Oppenheimer Case
During World War II, the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer was at the head of the research work for the production of the atomic bomb. He was removed from that position in 1953 due to disagreements with the US Atomic Commission regarding the development of the hydrogen bomb. The investigation that was conducted against him during the infamous time of anti-communist hysteria and the "witch hunt" during the time of Senator McCarthy is testimony to the great moral and psychological dilemma in which the scientists of that era found themselves.
The Karlovci Experience of 1889
A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
The Boy Who Followed the Sun
Story of a 12 year old orphaned boy who takes to wandering about the countryside after the death of his drunkard father.
Sixth Gear
Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
Backbone
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.
The Last Day
A group of former members of the Gestapo participates in espionage activities, helped by a group of locals, dissatisfied with the new authorities. However, members of the Yugoslav secret police, the infamous UDBA, are on their track. This is the first Yugoslavian spy film.
Filmography
as Doktor
as Pop Spira
as Prota Vasa, otac Milanov
as Otac
as Dragiša
as Seljak
as Pop Ivan Protić
as Profesor gimnazije
as Alfred
as Komšija
as Žare
as Sibinović, direktor rudnika
as Miloje Plavša
as Viktor Prokić
as Otac
as Skitnica II
as Direktor Laza
as Herbert Marks
as Komesar
as Petar