Acting
Oct 25, 1952
Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Lazar Ristovski
Acting
Biography
Lazar Ristovski (born October 26, 1952, Ravno Selo, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor, director, producer, and writer of Macedonian descent, who has appeared on stage approximately 4,000 times and starred in over 90 films and 30 TV series, mostly in lead roles. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Belgrade and is best known for his role as Petar "Blacky" Popara in Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or-winning Underground (1995). As a producer, he founded Zillion Film, which has produced or co-produced over 27 feature films, and directed The White Suit (1999) and White Lions (2011). He briefly served as a member of the Serbian National Assembly in 2022 and was awarded the Order of the Karađorđe's Star in 2023. He was married to actress Danica Ristovski from 1980 until their divorce in 2022; they have two sons, Jovan and Petar. His most notable film credits include Underground (1995) (Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Joković), Casino Royale (2006) (Daniel Craig, Eva Green), The November Man (2014) (Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey), and Train Driver's Diary (2016) (Petar Korać, Mirjana Karanović), the latter of which he produced and which won the Grand Prix, Best Actor, and Best Feature Film at the 2017 Prague Independent Film Festival. He also starred in Tito i ja (1992), King of Thieves (2004), St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009), Along the Roadside (2013), King Peter of Serbia (2018), Dream Team (2021), and Saligia (2024).
Feature Films (62)
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Underground
At his school, 10-year-old Zoran wins the competition for the best essay about Tito. His reward is participation in the march "Revolutionary trails" to Tito's hometown of Kumrovec.
Tito and Me
Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.
St. George Shoots the Dragon
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
King of Thieves
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
Goodbye, 20th Century
'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.
Honeymoons
Television & Series (7)
Dream team is a 12 episode humorous TV Series intended for broadcasting on Sunday evenings. It's partly created based on the unverified biography of Maradona from Zvezdara, the famous Inge, the TV Series Dream team, is the story of not that successful football player Ilija Ika Srdic and his team made of his 11 sons. Each episode will tell one funny story from the life of this numerous football family, this unusual football team. At the very beginning of the TV Series " BULBUDERAC " (the name of this fraternal team) performs in the zone competition but with great ambition to enter one day to the Second League then the First League and even to the Champions League.
Dream Team
Ravna Gora tells story of events after April War 1941. Serbia with accent on the Chetnic-Partisan conflict, at the beginning of World War II
Flat Hill
Selo gori, a baba se češlja is a television series in Serbia. First aired in 2007, the show quickly gained national fame with episodes in its third season averaging approximately 2.9 million viewers. The show was aired on RTS1.
The Village Is Burning, and the Grandmother Is Combing Her Hair
A tense psychological drama based on police reports depicts the work and lives of members of the negotiating group of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Serbia, whose work takes place on the border between life and death
Tunnel
Belgrade's Srdić family faces trouble again on Bulbulder in the second season of this hilarious comedy. Ilija, his wife Ciga and eleven sons must find a way to preserve their unconventional way of life after losing everything in the last soccer game.
