Personal Info
Birth date
1933-06-13 (92 Years)
Day of death
1993-11-11
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kragujevac, Serbia
Also known as
Dragomir Bojanić Gidra
Драгомир «Гидра» Боянич
Драгомир Боянич Гидра
Драгомир Боянич
Драгомир Боянич-Гидра
Anthony Gidra
Antony Ghidra
Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić
Biography
Dragomir Bojanić, best known by his nickname Gidra, was a famous Serbian actor. In several films he was credited as Anthony Ghidra. He appeared in many former Yugoslav films, and even some international production, usually playing villains. The best known of such roles is Kondor, German secret agent in popular 1972 film Valter brani Sarajevo. He is, however, best known for the comical role of family patriarch Žika Pavlović, which he played 12 times in Lude godine series of films.
Filmography
Hot Wind
9.4
Overview:
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.Life Is Beautiful
7.6
Overview:
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 Only Road
5
Overview:
Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the prisoners.Second Žika's Dynasty
5.5
Overview:
Unlike in the previous sequel of "Foolish Years"/"Zika's Dynasty" film series, Zika's and Milan's grandson became crazy for girls, having sex with them simultaneously in his apartment. Granddads are now worried for different reason, so they visit the doctor who gives them an advice to send their grandson to the country in order to use his strength appropriately.Hotshot
6.1
Overview:
A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...Ballad of a Gunman
5.9
Overview:
Instead of fighting over newly gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collects the money) and Rocco (a righteous ex-sheriff who doesn't and shows off even more skill in using his pistol) on their plans.Let's Fall in Love
7.1
Overview:
Three kidnappers are out to get Lepa Brena, the most popular singer in Yugoslavia. Policemen are on their trail, but Lepa Brena is not helpful being on a massive Yugoslavian tour with her band "Slatki Greh", a manager and their crazy bus driver Gile. And even the band members have their own problems, many of them being horny groupies of Bale, the guy with the flute.May God Forgive You... But I Won't
6.2
Overview:
While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.The Last Killer
6.1
Overview:
Ramon's parents are killed by men of landowner John Barrett. While trying to get revenge, Ramon is wounded but has saved the life of Rezza, an old disillusioned killer. While nursing his wounds, the men become reluctanfriends and Rezza teaches Ramon the art of shooting, surviving and the loneliness a killer has to bear. Ramon becomes threat for Barrett, the landowner engages Rezza to kill Ramon.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.What Happens When Love Comes to Town
6.2
Overview:
Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language.Like Grandpa, Like Grandson
6.6
Overview:
Zika and Milan are fighting over who gets to spend more time with grandson Misha, who is five years old. Although Misha lives with his parents in Milan grandfather, Zika all ways of trying to learn Misa tavern life and his craft. A Milan his grandson sent to violin lessons and English. Come up with a number of interesting situations.Group Portrait with a Lady
4.9
Overview:
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.It Rains in My Village
6
Overview:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.Hallo, Taxi
4.8
Overview:
Being suspicious that his wife is cheating on him, a Belgrade taxi driver discovers that she's about to be traded by a local gang who drug women and sell them to Arabs. He decides to take the matter into his own hands, and fight the gang without the help of police.Walter Defends Sarajevo
7
Overview:
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.Fourteenth Day
6.4
Overview:
The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.What Is with You, Nina?
4.3
Overview:
In search of her own identity, a young champion in fencing is torn between two men, which leads her to personal conflict.Let's Make Love 2
4.6
Overview:
Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.Holding the Air
4.3
Overview:
The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his teachers, friends, and mostly his "only brother".Foolish Years
6.7
Overview:
Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a plan to help the young couple out.Tequila Joe
4.8
Overview:
A young deputy tries to sober and revitalize a washed up, alcoholic sheriff to take down a pair of warring gangs of criminals in the Old West.Massacre at Noon
5
Overview:
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.Weird Years
4.8
Overview:
After the road accident, Zika and Milan end up in an overcrowded hospital, run by doctor Nedeljkovic and his sexually obsessed nurse. Accompanied by a crazy bandmaster and a peasant with farting problems, they will try to get away from the ongoing chaos.Majstor i Šampita
5
Overview:
A young reporter girl nicknamed Cream Pie writes an article on money-making in small businesses. She meets a married shoemaker who falls for her and steals his wife's money for their love nest, but Cream Pie discovers it by accident and takes it to the newspapers' office. Shoemaker's wife interferes into this whole confusion and the whole fuss resolves at a hospital.Zarki
5
Overview:
In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.The Time Has Come for Love to Try
6.3
Overview:
Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.Žika's Marriage
5.5
Overview:
Milan tells Žika to get married and come to a suitable candidate, and they decide to give an advertisement in all national and international newspapers. From Slovenia to Brazil, the offers on VHS keep arriving. As Žika do not err on the final selection of young, Milan offers him a language instruction of their knowledge and skills. Žika understands what it is all about and finds out the real tricks of his friend Milan.Acting
2023Life of a Shock Force Worker as Unknown
1993Gunfight at Casino Cabaret as Kornelone
1992Žika's Marriage as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1992The Killer Lady as Don Kornelone
1990Balkan Perestroika as Života Cvijović
1989Let's Make Love 2 as Šofer Gile
1989The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences as Života Cvijović
1988Weird Years as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1987Let's Fall in Love as Gile
1986Majstor i Šampita as Mile Čupić 'Majstor'
1986Second Žika's Dynasty as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1986Hotshot as Tramvajdžija
1986Part-Time Divorce as Bora
1985Zika's Dynasty as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1985Hey Babu Riba as Rile (stariji)
1985Fat and Thin as Mitar Mirić
1985Holding the Air as Doktor
1985Life Is Beautiful as Kamiondžija
1985Women in Prison as Blagoje
1985Indian Mirror as Javor
1984What Happens When Love Comes to Town as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1984What Is with You, Nina? as Vozač autobusa
1984Lazar as Podnarednik
1984Watch Your Step as Nedeljković
1983Come to Me and Go from Me as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1983The Timok Rebellion as Ljuba Didić
1983Like Grandpa, Like Grandson as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1983Hallo, Taxi as Cire
1981Kiss, Kiss, But Don't Lose Your Head as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1980The Time Has Come for Love to Try as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1980Hot Wind (10 Episodes) as Jednoruki Krstivoje
1978The South Railway Battle as Savetnik / Stanković
1978Love and Rage as Salih
1978Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha as Unknown
1977Foolish Years as Živorad 'Žika' Pavlović
1977Beasts as Pop
1977Group Portrait with a Lady as Mehmed
1976The Written Off Return as Mikula
1976Bullet in the Back as Jovo Škava, četnički vojvoda
1976Soldier's Love as Stariji vodnik Pop
1976The Peaks of Zelengore as Snajperist
1975The Only Road as Zoran
1975Massacre at Noon as Avram Vranić
1974Walter Defends Sarajevo (1 Episode) as Kondor
1973Miloje's Death as Martin
1973Wedding as Tadija Čemerkić
1972Walter Defends Sarajevo as Kondor
1972How the Two Fools Loved Each Other as Unknown
1971Breakfast with the Devil as Karan
1971The Ballad of the Ferocious... as Petar
1971A Day Longer Than a Year as Metalac
1971Plug Impermeable to Water as Zmaja
1970Zarki as Albin
1970Burdush as Rade Lazić
1970The Eleventh Commandment as Drač Vuković, inženjer
1969Low Tide as Unknown
1969Downstream from the Sun as Bajo Bakić
1968It Rains in My Village as Pilot Mile
1968May God Forgive You... But I Won't as Dick Smart
1968Hole in the Forehead as Stranger
1968Tequila Joe as Joe Donnell
1968Out of Step as Jablan Jezdić
1967The Last Killer as Rezza / Rocco
1967Ballad of a Gunman as Rocco
1966Merry People Die Twice as Četnički vojvoda Dača
1965To Come and Stay as Radovan
1965Three as Milicioner
1964March on the River Drina as Kaplar
1962Siberian Lady Macbeth as Prystaw
1962Cat Under a Helmet as Martin
1961Summer Is to Blame for Everything as Milicioner
1961The Poem as Hans, nemački vojnik
1961The First Citizen of a Small Town as Milicioner Jablan
1960Fourteenth Day as Tabadžija
1958SS Strike at Dawn as Partizan
1958Shots in the Sky as Milić
1957Zenica as Radnik u železari 1
1956The Last Railway as Jordan Popovski
1955Solaja as Jokan
1955The Song from Kumbara as Unknown