Personal Info
Birth date
1934-08-11 (90 Years)
Day of death
2002-03-16
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Belgrade
Also known as
Danilo Bata Stojkovic
Bata Stojkovic
Danilo Stojkovic
Danilo Bata Stojković
Данило Бата Стојковић
Danilo 'Bata' Stojković
Biography
Born on 11th of August 1934 in Belgrade, Stojkovic was one of the most prominent and respected actors in the history of Yugoslav cinema. He acted in more than 150 films during his life, though he began his career as a theatre actor in the 1960s. One of the favourite actors of director Slobodan Sijan and scriptwriter Dusan Kovacevic, his first role on stage was for the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, before becoming a permanent member of the ensemble Atelier 212. HIs film career began with a role in 'Traitor' in 1964. year, followed by a series of television and film roles. His biggest role in the movies included 'Beach Guard in Winter' ( 1976), 'The Dog Who Loved Trains' (1977 ) , 'The Who' ( 1980), 'The Marathon Family', 'How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot' (1983) and 'Balkan Spy'.
Filmography
The Teacher
NYR
Overview:
The 1982 theatrical film "Idemo dalje" reedited into a seven part mini-series. WW2 is coming to an end and a young Partisan must face new challenges as a schoolteacher in small Serbian town.The Unpicked Strawberries
6.8
Overview:
Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.National Class Category Up to 785ccm
6.682
Overview:
One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.The Elusive Summer of '68
7.6
Overview:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.Underground
7.7
Overview:
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.The Forgotten Ones
10
Overview:
A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.The Master and Margarita
5.259
Overview:
Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.Who's Singin' Over There?
7.623
Overview:
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.Balkan Express 2
NYR
Overview:
TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.Stories from the Factory
NYR
Overview:
Works and private lives of 800 female employees in the textile factory named "Star".Svetozar Markovic
NYR
Overview:
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.The Graduates
NYR
Overview:
The series is about the life of a group of students on the outskirts of Belgrade. One of the main characters is Buda, who fails to pass the final exam, but with the help of his father Sima Bumba, manages to get a job.Man Is Not a Bird
6.1
Overview:
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.Nikola Tesla
10
Overview:
This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
8.9
Overview:
This movie reflects the history of Yugoslavia since the beginning of WWII (and similar to all ex-communist countries) to the last horrible events in Balcanian countries. Behind the comedy is hidden the pain of whole generations, which have suffered WWII, The Cold War, the war in Yugoslavia, the communism, the treachery of their own leadership, the fall. The film shows us the reality, as seen by those who feel unlimited love for their country and culture. Marko and Blacky represent the true leaders of the country, the soul of the nation and not without controversies. Once Upon A Time There Was A Country is an extended TV version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.The Beach Guard in Winter
5.8
Overview:
Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.The Wounds
7.333
Overview:
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.Balkan Spy
7.6
Overview:
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.Meeting Place
7.4
Overview:
During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.Backbone
6.2
Overview:
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.Balkan Express 2
4.8
Overview:
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.Plug Impermeable to Water
6.3
Overview:
A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.Boxers Go to Heaven
6.5
Overview:
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.Requiem
4.5
Overview:
An American commando officer, in search of his father's killers, becomes part of a plot to capture a trainload of gold bullion destined to finance the Nazi cause. What begins as mission impossible explodes into a battle to rock the Balkans.Before the Truth
6.6
Overview:
Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose.Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1
5.8
Overview:
The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.Acting
TBASvetozar Markovic (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Peregrination as Stojan (segment "Srebrni metak")
1999In the Name of the Father and Son as Mrgud Miletić
1999The White Suit as Sveštenik
1998Cabaret Balkan as Acin otac
1998The Wounds as Komšija
1997Balkan Rules as Sajdžija
1996Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (6 Episodes) as Deda
1995Premeditated Murder as Stavra
1995Underground as Deda
1995The Tragic Burlesque as Vasilije
1995Terrace on the Roof as Dragutin Hercer „Sova“
1993Say Why Have You Left Me? as Teča
1992The Forgotten Ones (11 Episodes) as Adamov tast
1992The Black Bomber as Predsednik Bogdan Marković
1991Dear Video as Milovan
1990Sex - Party's Enemy No. 1 as Gvozden
1990The Professional as Luka Laban
1990Eighth Day in a Week as Marko, Nikolin kum
1989The Last Lap at Monza as Dobrivoje
1989Balkan Express 2 (10 Episodes) as Mida Baba
1989Gardens of Athos - Transfiguration as Arkadije
1989Time of Miracles as Jovan
1989Meeting Place as Simeun
1989Forces in the Air as Toša
1988Balkan Express 2 as Mida
1987You Don't Know Martin as Martin
1987Milan - The Gift as Dr. Milan Savić, lekar
1987The Sudden and Premature Death of Colonel K.K. as Major
1986The Honorary Duty as Stevan
1985Stories from the Factory (5 Episodes) as Đura Bošnjaković 'Tambura'
1985Holding the Air as Upravnik doma
1984Balkan Spy as Ilija Čvorović
1984The Elusive Summer of '68 as Veselin Cvetković
1984Unseen Wonder as Gazda Šćepan
1983The Man with Four Legs as Fotoreporter
1983How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots as Babi Papuška
1983The Teacher (7 Episodes) as Božur
1982Cans or Bags as Drug Kačavenda
1982The Marathon Family as Laki Topalović
1982Let's Move On as Božur
1980Who's Singin' Over There? as Brka
1980Special Treatment as Steva
1980Happy Family as Poslovođa
1979National Class Category Up to 785ccm as drug Čabor
1979Mammoth Bone as Dušanov otac
1979First Serbian Railway as Marko Bogdanović
1978Looking Into the Night as Dežurni ljekar (segment "Koma")
1978Orphan as Učitelj
1978Tit for Tat as Budić - Buda Filadelfija
1977Nikola Tesla (10 Episodes) as George Westinghouse
1977The Dog Who Loved Trains as Otac
1977Daredevil Times as Narednik Munižaba
1976The Unpicked Strawberries (10 Episodes) as Banetov otac Sreten
1976Stardust as Kum
1976The Beach Guard in Winter as Milovan Pašanović
1976The Farm in the Small Marsh as Damjan
1976Sleeping Car as I putnik
1975Pavle Pavlovic as Pavlov bivši kolega
1975Backbone as Čovek iz kafane
1975Testament as Unknown
1973Freckled Girl as Unknown
1973You Get It, Man as Pekar
1972Ninth Miracle on the East as Milicioner
1972The Master and Margarita as Unknown
1972Gluttony as Drug Strogi
1971The Graduates (10 Episodes) as Dušan Bubuleja
1971The Bug Killer as Živan Gašić
1971Young and Healthy as a Rose as Unknown
1971The Role of My Family in the World Revolution as Strogi
1971Plug Impermeable to Water as Milicioner
1971No Title as Unknown
1970Burdush as Reditelj
1970Natural Boundaries as Major
1970Requiem as Skretničar
1970Lilika as Poočim
1969The Walled In as Gavrilo
1968Out of Step as Poštar
1968Before the Truth as Vođa bande
1968There's Love, There's Not as Unknown
1968The Tough Ones as Gvozden
1967Boxers Go to Heaven as Profesor
1966The Time of Love as Ratko (segment "Put")
1966The Swarm as Nikola
1965Man Is Not a Bird as Unknown
1964The Man from the Oak Forest as Stevan
1964The Traitor as Unknown