Film database

  Velimir (Bata) Zivojinovic

  Performed in films:

1956 - Little shoes on the asphalt
1957 - A little man
1959 - Train without a schedule
1960 - War
1960 - Signals over the city
1961 - The song
1961 - The flaming city
as monter
1962 - Dr
1962 - Rakocs cross
1963 - Double encirclement
1963 - Kozara
1963 - Men
1963 - Uprising in Nevesinje
1963 - Radopolje
1963 - Compatriots
1964 - The man from the oak forest
1964 - The good Fate
1964 - People's representative
1964 - Trip around the world
as lopov
1965 - The Liar
1965 - Enemies
1965 - Three
1966 - Clay pigeon
1966 - Glance to the pupil of the Sun
1966 - The return
1966 - Before the war
as G. Novakovic
1966 - The dream
1967 - The birch
1967 - Saboteurs
1967 - The knife
1967 - Send your man at half past one
1967 - Holiday
1967 - Feather gatherers
as Mirta
1968 - The desertions
1968 - Doctor Homer's brother
as Simon Petrovic
1968 - There's love, there's not
1968 - Operation "Belgrade"
as Nemacki pukovnik
1968 - Do not mention the cause of death
as Mitar Velimirovic
1968 - Tasmajdan's cherry tree
as profesor filozofije
1969 - The battle of Neretva
as Stole
1969 - Bloody fairy tale
1969 - Bridge
1969 - The tide
1970 - Zarki
1971 - Breakfast with the devil
1971 - My crazy head
1971 - The bet
1972 - And God created a pub singer
1972 - Master and Margarita
1972 - The traces of a black girl
1972 - Walter defends Sarajevo
as Valter
1972 - The stars are the eyes of the warriors
1973 - The bombardiers
as Djoka
1973 - Mirko and Slavko
1973 - Sutjeska
1973 - We are cursed, Irina
1974 - Red impact
1974 - The dervish and Death
1974 - The heavy wind
1974 - The Partisans
1975 - The red land
1975 - Naïve man
as slikar Vidak
1975 - History about good people
as Peter Kostrca
1975 - The 1573. farmer's uprising
1976 - Beach guard in winter period
1976 - The return of the goners
1976 - The peaks of Zelengora
1977 - The beasts
1977 - The pursuit
1977 - The love life of Budimir Trajkovic
1977 - Crazy years
as ginekolog
1977 - A dog which loved trains
1978 - Tit for tat
as profesor
1978 - To arrive before the dawn
1978 - The tiger
1978 - A jiffy
1979 - Great friends
as Kosta
1979 - Partisans squadron
as Vuk
1979 - Radio Whirlwind calls Andjelija
1979 - Red heat
1980 - Special treatment
as direktor
1980 - Theatre connection
1980 - Temporary work
1980 - Dreams, life and death of Filip Filipovic
1981 - A promising boy
1981 - Dorotej
as Dadara
1981 - Erogenous zone
1981 - Ladies' man at heart
1981 - Fishing in troubled waters
as Paja
1981 - The fall of Italy
1981 - Sixt gear
1981 - Plum juice
1981 - High Voltage
1982 - 13th of July
1982 - Let's go further
1982 - My part-time dad
1982 - Sunday's lunch
1982 - The persecution
1983 - Balkan express
as Popajev prijatelj
1983 - Hello, taxi
as Sugar
1983 - Easy come, easy go
as dr. Nedeljkovic
1983 - The Igman march
1983 - Just once more
1983 - Sugar water
as Brankin otac
1983 - Stairway to heaven
1983 - The Timok rebellion
1983 - The great transport
1984 - The Balkan spy
as pekar
1984 - The unseen miracle
as Makarije cudotvorac
1984 - Love fever
1984 - The end of the war
as Baja
1984 - The little train robbery
as Todor Strasni
1984 - No problem
1984 - The dangerous trail
1984 - Watch your step (The graduates)
1984 - Landscapes in the mist
1984 - Within the jaws of life
as Steficin ljubavnik
1985 - The Island
1985 - Ciao, inspector
1985 - The fat and the skinny one
1985 - Holding on for air
1985 - That will pass also
1985 - Men are not easy to handle
1985 - In the prison
1985 - Zika's dynasty
1985 - Life is beautiful
as pregovarac
1986 - Volunteers
1986 - Second Zika's dynasty
1986 - Master and Cream pie
1986 - The beauty queen
1986 - Promissed land
1986 - Revenge
1986 - A part-time divorce
1986 - Sekula and his wives
1987 - Let's make love
1987 - The wanderer
as gazda Daca
1987 - Octoberfest
as Skoblar
1987 - People in love
1987 - The criminals
1988 - Brothers by motherhood
1988 - Some fine day
1988 - A spy on high-heels
as Ruzic
1988 - Foolish years
1988 - The secret of the monastery brandy
1988 - Tight skin 3
1988 - Vanbracna putovanja
1989 - The gardens of Athos - the transfiguration
1989 - Balkan express 2
1989 - Let's make love 2
1989 - How rock and roll was ruined
1989 - Vampires are amongst us
1990 - Sex - Party's enemy No. 1
as Ciganin Sekula
1991 - The original of the forgery
1991 - Aliens are to be blamed for everything
1992 - Lady that kills
1992 - Cursed America
1992 - The big fuss
as Sima
1993 - Full moon over Belgrade
1993 - Three tickets to Hollywood
1994 - Dream preserves
1995 - Dark is the night
as komandant
1995 - A stroke of luck
1996 - See you in Chicago
1996 - Pretty Villages, Pretty Flame
1997 - Balkan rules
as Sef
1997 - Birds that never fly
1998 - The powder keg
as otac Bosanskog Srbina, vozac autobusa
1998 - Buy me an Elliot
as 'Tabakera'
1998 - Barking on stars
as Bozovic
1998 - The Wounds
as vojnik na tenku
1999 - The White Suite
as gospodin
1999 - The knife
as Nicifor
1999 - Wounded Country
2000 - War Live
as Velibor Tatulic 'Tatula'
2000 - Shadows of Memories
2001 - Deadly cold
2001 - Peasants
as Jeremija
2001 - Everything's for people
as Jeremija

Biography:
Rodjen u Koracici pod Kosmajem 5.VI 1933. Od svoje 15. godine nastupa kao scenski radnik, ponekad i kao statista u Akademskom pozoristu u Beogradu. Bez nekog upadljivog i izrazito vidljivog talenta zavrsio je Srednju glumacku skolu u Nisu i Novom Sadu. Nakon sto je dva puta pao na prijemnim ispitima za Pozorisnu akademiju, 1954. godine biva primljen na Pozorisnu akademiju. U Beogradskom dramskom pozoristu vise godina igra sve sto mu ponude ( cak i zenu s feredzom i crnca koji u poluprofilu proseta scenom ). Zanimljiv je podatak da je bas u tom periodu imao po 300 angazmana godisnje. Uveravajuci sebe i druge da `daleko vise voli pozoriste nego film`, na filmu se prvi put pojavljuje 1955.godine u ostvarenju R. Novakovica PESMA SA KUMBARE. Kontinuiranu filmsku karijeru, zbog koje napusta pozoriste, po broju uloga u SFRJ nedostignutu za sada, zapocinje epizodama u VLAKU BEZ VOZNOG REDA 1959.godine i RATU 1960. godine. Oba navedena ostvarenja su autorska dela V. Bulajica. Kasnije igra glavne i vaznije uloge u skoro svim njegovim projektima: UZAVRELOM GRADU (1961), KOZARI (1962), gde je za lik kozarackog seljaka nagradjen u Puli, POGLEDU U ZENICU SUNCA (1966), BITKI NA NERETVI (1969), VISOKOM NAPONU (1981), VELIKOM TRANSPORTU (1983) i u OBECANOJ ZEMLJI (1986). Posebno uspesno saradjuje jos sa S. Jankovicem (RADOPOLJE, 1963.; NARODNI POSLANIK, 1964; VISNJA NA TASMAJDANU, 1968; PARTIZANI, 1974; TREN, 1978. Po njemu poslednje navedeno ostvarenje predstavlja krunu u njegovom dotadasnjem radu jer mu donosi nagradu u Moskvi. Uspesnu saradnju ostvaruje i sa rediteljem A. Petrovicem u delima: TRI, 1965. - za ulogu u ovom filmu dobija Zlatnu arenu u Puli kao i za ulogu u filmu NEPRIJATELJ,1967. godine, inace veliko ostvarenje naseg poznatog reditelja Z. Pavlovica. Tada najcenjenija nagrada za filmska i pozorisna ostvarenja je bila pomenuta Zlatna arena koja se dodeljivala na filmskom i pozorisnom festivalu u Puli, Velimiru Zivojinovicu je dospela u ruke jos mnogo puta i to za uloge u filmovima SKUPLJACI PERJA (1967); BREZA (1967), PRAZNIK (1967); MAJSTOR I MARGARITA (1972); TRAGOVI CRNE DEVOJKE (1972). Oktobarsku nagradu grada Beograda prima za poslednje pomenuta prethodna dva filma. Glavne i vaznije uloge ostvaruje u filmovima najistknutijih reditelja svih generacija i iz svih sredina: R. Novakovica (PESMA, 1961; BEKSTVA. 1968; ), Z. Pavlovica ( POVRATAK, 1966; HAJKA, 1977), Z. Velimirovica (DERVIS I SMRT, 1974; VRHOVI ZELENGORE, 1976; DOROTEJ, 1981.), V.Mimice (SELJACKA BUNA 1573, 1975.), G. Paskaljevica ( CUVAR PLAZE U ZIMSKOM PERIODU,1976.; PAS KOJI JE VOLEO VOZOVE, 1977.), Z. Nikolica ( BESTIJE, 1977, CUDO NEVIDJENO, 1984.), B. Draskovica ( USIJANJE, 1979; ZIVOT JE LEP, 1985.), L. Zafranovica (PAD ITALIJE, 1981.) i drugi. Na samom vrhu, najapartnija licnost filmske glume u bivsoj SFRJ, kroz vise od cetiri decenije sa po pet do sest filmova godisnje, a ponekad i deset, autentican je "izdanak tla", glumac plemenitog kova, simbol je vremena i svedok domacih lica, naravi i mentaliteta naroda kojem pripada i to sve bez folklora i rustikalne retorike. Cak i kada ne igra, a uloge je odbijao samo kada je bio prezauzet, njegova se popularnost - koju je stekao prvenstveno u akcionim filmovima ( npr. DIVERZANTI, 1967; MOST, 1969; VALTER BRANI SARAJEVO, 1972; PARTIZANSKA ESKADRILA, 1979.) - koristi kao "magnet" za finansiranje projekata. Vrlo agilan i sistematican, izrazenog menadzerskog dara, u odbranu staleskih interesa bio je inicijator i osnivac (neko vreme i predsednik) Udruzenja filmskih glumaca Srbije, takodje i direktor filmskog programa Slobidarskih svecanosti u Sopotu. Povremeno je glumio i na televiziji (npr. u televizijskoj seriji RADOVAN TRECI). Za svoj rad dobio je brojne nagrade i priznanja (npr. Sedmojulsku nagradu SR Srbije1981. godine, te vise puta na festivalu u Nisu).