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Lazar Ristovski is a Actor, Director, Writer, Co-Producer and Original Music Composer born on 26 october 1952

Lazar Ristovski

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Birth name Lazar Ristovski
Birth 26 october 1952 (72 years)

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Ристовски, born on 26 October 1952) is a famous Serbian actor, director, producer and writer of Macedonian descent. He has appeared on stage about 4000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly in lead roles.

Biography

He was born on 26 October 1952, in Ravno Selo village, part of Vrbas, SR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia (modern Serbia), into a family of Yugoslav colonists, his father being born in Macedonia and his mother in Montenegro. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Belgrade as an actor.

In 1999-“The White Suit” an auteur film by Ristovski (director, writer, lead actor, and producer)
Opening night of “The White Suit” was at the Cannes Film Festival in the Critics Week program.
“The White Suit” was the Yugoslav entry for the Oscar Awards in the U.S.
Lazar Ristovski is the sole owner of Zillion Film Company - www.zillionfilm.com.

In 2006, he made a cameo appearance in the James Bond film Casino Royale. He played Caruso in the 2004 movie King of Thieves. He starred as Đorđe in the award winning 2009 film St. George Shoots the Dragon".
Lazar has achieved his "Hollywood dream" by acting in the acclaimed indie movie Along the Roadside.

Usually with

Goran Paskaljević
Goran Paskaljević
(4 films)
Dragan Marinković
Dragan Marinković
(3 films)
Dragan Nikolić
Dragan Nikolić
(6 films)
Srđan Dragojević
Srđan Dragojević
(2 films)
Nikola Kojo
Nikola Kojo
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lazar Ristovski (24 films)

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Actor

The November Man
The November Man (2014)
, 1h48
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich, Luke Bracey, Will Patton, Eliza Taylor Morley
Roles Arkady Federov
Rating62% 3.1481153.1481153.1481153.1481153.148115
Veteran CIA officer Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) supervises a young operative David Mason (Luke Bracey), and chides him for becoming intimate with a local woman. Relationships can be used against an agent, he says laying out a scenario forcing an agent to choose between the job and someone they love. Subsequently, in a mission to protect a US Ambassador in Montenegro. Devereaux, wearing Kevlar, impersonates the ambassador in a public square, drawing the fire of an assassin. Mason disobeys Devereaux's orders not to fire as the crowd is too close, and in shooting the assassin, Mason accidentally kills a child.
The Priest's Children
The Priest's Children (2013)
, 1h36
Directed by Vinko Brešan
Origin Croatie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Krešimir Mikić, Krešimir Mikić, Marija Škaričić, Dražen Kühn, Jadranka Đokić, Goran Bogdan
Roles Biskup
Rating67% 3.395663.395663.395663.395663.39566
Don Fabijan (Krešimir Mikić) is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic.
St. George Shoots the Dragon
St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009)
, 2h30
Directed by Srđan Dragojević
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Nataša Janjić, Bora Todorović, Dragan Nikolić, Milena Dravić, Branislav Lečić
Roles Đorđe
Rating63% 3.198443.198443.198443.198443.19844
The movie starts with the Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary.
Honeymoons
Honeymoons (2009)

Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Mira Banjac, Ljuma Penov
Roles Verin ujak
Rating66% 3.3371553.3371553.3371553.3371553.337155
Dans l'espoir d'une vie meilleure, deux jeunes couples quittent leurs pays respectifs. Melinda et Nik quittent l'Albanie en bateau pour l'Italie, afin de vivre leur amour interdit. Vera et Marko, quant à eux, quittent la Serbie, en train, pour l'Autriche, via la Hongrie. Marko, violoncelliste talentueux, a la chance d'entrer dans le fameux orchestre philarmonique de Vienne. Mais, à leur arrivée à la frontière, bien qu'ils aient des visas en règle, pour eux, les problèmes commencent... En dépit du fait qu'ils n'ont rien à voir avec un grave incident qui s'est déroulé la veille au Kosovo, et à cause de coïncidences malheureuses, ils sont arrêtés. Leur espoir de réaliser leurs rêves dans cette Europe, synonyme de Terre Promise, s'évanouit. Comme c'est souvent le cas avec les jeunes des Balkans, ils payent les erreurs des générations précédentes.
Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006)
, 2h24
Directed by Martin Campbell, Michael G. Wilson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Spy films, Jeu, Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Poker
Actors Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
Roles Kaminofsky
Rating79% 3.9973.9973.9973.9973.997
After killing Dryden, a traitorous MI6 section chief—who has been selling classified information—and the chief's contact, James Bond receives his double-0 status and is designated 007. He then travels to Madagascar in pursuit of Mollaka, a globe-trotting bombmaker-for-hire. After a parkour chase to an unnamed African embassy, Bond kills Mollaka against orders and escapes by setting off an explosion which immobilizes the embassy's security forces. Searching through Mollaka's mobile phone, Bond discovers a text message, which he traces to Alex Dimitrios, an associate of the banker and terrorist financier Le Chiffre. Aided by Mr. White, who is a representative of a terrorist organization later revealed to be Quantum, Le Chiffre is introduced to Steven Obanno, a high ranking member of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, and arranges to bank several briefcases full of cash for Obanno. Le Chiffre, however, decides to invest the money into stock in a successful company called SkyFleet and then engineers a terrorist attack to sink its share prices, creating huge profits for himself.
The Optimists
The Optimists (2006)
, 1h38
Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Genres Drama
Actors Bojana Novakovic, Lazar Ristovski, Nebojša Glogovac, Tihomir Arsić, Slavko Stimac, Mira Banjac
Roles Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić
Rating63% 3.195363.195363.195363.195363.19536
A large flood has almost destroyed a village. A hypnotist (Ristovski) comes to the village and speaks to the destitute inhabitants. Free of charge, the hypnotist offers to lift the villagers' spirits through hypnosis. The villagers doubt the hypnotist's noble motive and accuse him of an apparent theft. The police arrest, beat, and interrogate him.
Midwinter Night's Dream
Midwinter Night's Dream (2004)
, 1h30
Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Nenad Jezdić, Dušan Janićijević, Ljiljana Jovanović
Roles Lazar
Rating67% 3.378653.378653.378653.378653.37865
Serbie, hiver 2004. Lazare rentre chez lui après dix années d'absence. Aujourd'hui, c'est un homme différent qui retrouve la liberté, un homme décidé à se libérer du lourd fardeau du passé et prêt à commencer une nouvelle vie dans un pays sorti de la guerre des Balkans.
King of Thieves
King of Thieves (2003)
, 1h41
Directed by Ivan Fíla
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Katharina Thalbach, Oktay Özdemir, Paulus Manker, Birol Ünel, Anna Thalbach
Roles Caruso
Rating70% 3.530243.530243.530243.530243.53024
Barbu (Jakov Kultiasov) is a young boy growing up in a remote area of Ukraine. He and his older sister Mimma (Julia Khanverdieva) perform circus acts for their village. Barbu and Mimma are sold by their parents to Caruso (Lazar Ristovski), a German circus master to supposedly become part of his circus act in Berlin.
Absolute Hundred
Absolute Hundred (2001)

Directed by Srdan Golubović, Oleg Novković
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Crime
Actors Vuk Kostić, Srđan Todorović, Bogdan Diklić, Nebojša Glogovac, Milorad Mandić, Lazar Ristovski
Rating67% 3.3908453.3908453.3908453.3908453.390845
Après douze ans passés à l'étranger, Nele, le personnage principal, revient dans sa ville natale, où il retrouve son ancien amour, ses amis et ses parents. Ils passent quatre jours ensemble. Il s'agit de rattraper le temps perdu.