Predrag Laković
Acting
Biography
He was born on March 28, 1929 in Skopje. He completed his secondary education in Peć. After completing his education, he enrolled at the Academy of Theater Arts and studied in the class with Oliver Marković, Đuza Stojiljković, Vlasta Velisavljević, Mihailo Viktorović. He graduated in 1952 in the class of Professor Mate Milosević. In Paris, he perfected pantomime with Marcel Marceau and Jacques Lecoq. He started his acting career on the stage of the Belgrade Drama Theater. He is remembered for the roles of ordinary people, mostly marginalized, melancholic recluses and bohemians. In 1987, he received the October Award of the City of Belgrade.
Born: March 28, 1929
Place of Birth: Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Known For
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...
Truckers
The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.
Hi-Fi
Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.
Black Cat, White Cat
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.
Balkan Spy
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.
We Are Not Angels
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
Life Is Beautiful
After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.
The Trap
Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.
When Father Was Away on Business
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous, years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
Handymen, Handymen
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Filmography
as Kosta Antić
as Gazda
as Pesnik
as Milan
as Priest
as Sima
as Šef posluge
as Manetov deda
as Deda Mile
as Kupac
as (voice)
as Otac
as DJ Brzi
as Milan
as gospodin Galić
as (segment "Šargarepo ti ne rasteš lepo")
as Bora
as Sluga Andrej
as Doktor
as Ahmedov stariji brat
as Tola Dačić
as Teofan
as Šilja
as Ujka Vasa
as Pokeraš Ristić
as Harmonikaš
as Upravnik Hapšek
as Tata Paja
as Šiljin gazda
as Inženjer
as Kućepazitelj Franjo
as Stanislavski
as Profesor
as Mlinar Vidoje
as Ariško
as Čuvar
as Direktor radija
as Kočijaš
as Bogdan
as Pepi
as Prvi službenik
as Nastavnik muzičkog
as Violinista
as Službenik
as Ranjenik na nosilima II
as Mladi ćumurdžija s brkovima
as Berberin
as Bogoslov