Personal Info
Birth date
1957-03-29 (68 Years)
Day of death
2021-03-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Pula, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Also known as
Boris Komnenic
Boris Komnenić
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
Colleagues
1
Overview:
Bojana just finished psychology studies and rents a cheap apartment to practice psychotherapy, and is trying to find any kind of job. Zorica, who is a life coach and astrologer, comes from Qatar. Fresh roommates become colleagues and start sharing clients, but also interest in their landlord.The Storks Will Return
8
Overview:
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...Yugoslavian Woman
1
Overview:
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.Marked in the Restricted Area
8.5
Overview:
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.Better Life
7.8
Overview:
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.Grey Home
8.8
Overview:
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 Misfit Brigade
5.778
Overview:
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.Hey Babu Riba
5.5
Overview:
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.When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo
8.3
Overview:
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.Obituary for Escobar
6.6
Overview:
Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.The Dumb Waiter
NYR
Overview:
Two hit-men, Ben and Gus, are waiting in a basement room for their assignment. As the play begins, Ben, the senior member of the team, is reading a newspaper, and Gus, the junior member, is tying his shoes. Gus asks Ben many questions as he gets ready for their job and tries to make tea.T.T. Syndrome
5.7
Overview:
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.Taiwan Canasta
6.1
Overview:
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.Spring on the Last Lake
NYR
Overview:
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.The Belgrade Phantom
5.8
Overview:
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.Be Damned, America
6.3
Overview:
A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.Falsifier
4.8
Overview:
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...Open Cage
10
Overview:
Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refugees. Upon her arrival to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, Anna finds out that she can't go about her task the way she had planned. Through the cabdriver Dzeki, she meets the distrustful but interesting young refugee Maja who works at a nearby fast food restaurant. Miserable with her life in Serbia, Maja dreams of a new beginning somewhere abroad. In an attempt to successfully finish her project, Anna starts photographing Maja, secretly making a documentary about her. Blinded by the wish to change her life, Maja doesn't realize Anna's true intentions.Belgrade 011
2
Overview:
The film follows three young people from Belgrade, a city that offers nothing but pragmatism and not many life opportunities.Taxi Blues
5.9
Overview:
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.Who the Fuck Is Milos Brankovic?
3.8
Overview:
A story of a struggling filmmaker delving deep into Belgrade underworld in order to make a documentary about a young architect struggling in the corrupt and decaying world of contemporary Serbia.Live Broadcast
5.8
Overview:
Two young men and a girl, going through all the dilemmas of their generation, live together and try to build different world, to find their place in society. The manner of their life, understanding of truth and justice, love and passion, gets each of them in conflict with environment, with people who want to change their relationship and fit them into accepted moral norms. They are giving in slowly, and their whole world changes. Some of them will fit the dull everyday's life, and some will find strength to resist.Spadijer: One Life
5.7
Overview:
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.Russian Art Experiment
NYR
Overview:
An experimental TV movie based on the lives and work of Soviet avant-garde artists from the first half of the 20th century.From Love
NYR
Overview:
Picture of most likely our greatest enemy but motivation as well - ego. Lonely, lost and confused, destructed and abused. How much we really know ourselves? How indeed we are capable to keep our love clear?Acting
TBAColleagues (1 Episode) as Steva
2022The Key as Vladika
2021Alexander of Yugoslavia as Ljubomir Davidović
2020Yugoslavian Woman (38 Episodes) as Nemanja Pavlović
2020Spring on the Last Lake as Josip Sibe Miličić
2019From Love as Marijanin otac
2019Taxi Blues as Kale
2018Marked in the Restricted Area (44 Episodes) as Radovan
2016Apophenia as Marko Mazibrada
2015Open Cage as Luka
2013The Sindjelic Family (229 Episodes) as Jezdimir 'Jezda' Sinđelić
2013Falsifier as Upravnik zatvora
2010Flashback as Sanitarac
2009The Belgrade Phantom as Inspektor
2008Who the Fuck Is Milos Brankovic? as Profesor Koen
2008Obituary for Escobar as Ministar
2007The Storks Will Return (25 Episodes) as Rodoljub 'Rođa' Švabić
2006Seven and a Half as Radoje
2006Claused Freedom as Kontraadmiral Gazivoda
2006Aporia as Zenon
2005On Christmas Eve as Žandarm
2004When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo as Doktor
2004Scaffold as Strani putopisac
2003Belgrade 011 as Pero
2003Loving Glances as Professor Jablan
2003Ilka as Ministar vojni Grujić
2002T.T. Syndrome as Magistar Đorđević
2000The Debt from Baden Baden as Aleksandar Fjodorovič Oto
2000The Debt from Baden Baden as Aleksandar Fjodorovič Oto
1999The Dumb Waiter as Ben
1995People Will Reward All This as Tanasije Jeličić, kapetan
1992Be Damned, America as (segment "Šargarepo ti ne rasteš lepo")
1989Better Life as Aleksandar 'Saša' Popadić
1987The Misfit Brigade as Bauer
1987Better Life (142 Episodes) as Aleksandar Popadić
1986Spadijer: One Life as Doktor II
1986Grey Home (12 Episodes) as Vaspitač Katić
1985Hey Babu Riba as Veslač Partizana I
1985Taiwan Canasta as Saša Belopoljanski
1985Stay the Same as Miroslav
1982Live Broadcast as Filip
1982Russian Art Experiment as Vladimir Tatljin
1980The Medusa Raft as Mišić
1980Days of Dreams as Slavoljub Nikolić, pilot