Danilo Stojković

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Bata Stojković
Бата Стојковић
FR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
OccupationActor
Years active1964–2002
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Danilo Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Стојковић; 11 August 1934 – 16 March 2002), commonly nicknamed Bata (Бата), was a Serbian theatre, television and film actor.

Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of state officials and working-class characters made him popular with Serbian and

ex-Yugoslav audiences. Most of his roles came in collaborations with either director Slobodan Šijan or scriptwriter Dušan Kovačević
, or both.

Career

Early career

Stojković was born in Belgrade in 1934.[1] By the mid-1960s, he became a well-known theatre actor. He started his film career with the 1964 feature Izdajnik (lit. "The Traitor").[1]

A string of TV and minor film roles ensued, with the most important ones coming in guise of being a father figure to the main protagonist – Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu (Beach Guard in Winter, 1976), Pas koji je voleo vozove (The Dog Who Loved Trains, 1977) being the most recognizable ones – as well as the part in critically well-received Majstor i Margarita (Il Maestro e Margherita), 1972.[2][3]

He also fulfilled the fatherly role in an immensely popular

Goran Marković's urban classic Nacionalna klasa do 750 cm3 (National Class Category Up to 750 ccm), 1979.[3][4]

Breakthrough

Stojković worked with the director Slobodan Šijan, who was in turn most successful when working with Dušan Kovačević scripts. Kovačević, a talented playwright with a special gift for biting satire, had a knack for writing characters which Stojković could perfectly translate to screen. The combination of those three creative talents yielded some of Yugoslavia's most memorable cinematic efforts to date.

Šijan, who previously worked with Stojković on several

Axis Powers marking Yugoslavia's entry into the war.[5][6]

Ko to tamo peva was released to great critical and commercial success, earning the special jury award at the

dark comedy about rehab from alcoholism, Poseban tretman (Special Treatment), 1980.[7]

He reunited with Šijan for another high-water mark of Serbian film, the

Stromboli in the Serbian-language version of Pinocchio
.

Marxists, spies and revolutionaries

After a couple minor roles, from which his turn as the school principal in comedy Idemo dalje (lit. Moving On, 1982) deserved some mention, Stojković delivered a trio of performances which would ultimately cement his place in the Yugoslavian acting hall of fame. Oddly enough, all three of those roles would involve him portraying a character closely related to the

marxist
revolutionaries".

First was his portrait of a

Varljivo leto '68 (The Elusive Summer of '68, 1984).[3][8]

Again uniting his talents with those of Dušan Kovačević, Stojković delivered his ultimate film performance – that of the staunch

Balkanski špijun (Balkan Spy, 1984), which was jointly directed by Božidar Nikolić and Kovačević himself. With Kovačević at his sharpest, Stojković made the role of ex-political prisoner Ilija Čvorović completely his own. Critics often single out this role as Stojković's most notable.[1]

Late years and death

His role in Balkanski špijun was one of the last major theatrical roles for Stojković. After his major successes of the early 1980s, Stojković concentrated mainly on television and theatre, with an odd supporting role here and there. He was effective in both Vreme čuda (lit. Time of the Miracles, 1989) and

Profesionalac
(lit. "The Professional"). He played the role until a few days before his death. In an interview in 2007 his wife told that she drove him from the hospital to his last plays and returned him to the hospital bed after the play.

In the 1990s, Stojković cameoed in

Crni bombarder (The Black Bomber, 1992), and had minor roles in movies such as Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995) and Darko Bajić
's Balkanska pravila (The Rules of Balkan, 1997).

Ironically enough, one of his final theatrical roles was one of an orthodox priest – a character who Babi Pupuška and Ilija Čvorović would probably despise – in Lazar Ristovski's 1999 effort Belo odelo ("The White Suit"). After that, he appeared in an omnibus feature called Proputovanje (Traveling, 1999) and starred in a TV adaptation of the August Strindberg's play The Father for Radio-televizija Srbije – RTS (Otac, 2001).

Stojković died in Belgrade on 16 March 2002, after a bout with lung cancer.[9]

Awards and legacy

Throughout his lifetime, Stojković was the recipient of the Serbian

Pavle Vujisić, 1998) efforts. He remains as popular in death as he was in life, as his characters have entertained numerous generations of Serbo-Croatian speakers. His numerous comedic portrayals of state officials and working-class characters made him popular with Yugoslav audiences.[9]

Selected filmography

Selected television

Year Title Role Notes
1966 Večeras improvizujemo Rajkina TV movie
Mladi Duhovi General Rozdenstvenski TV movie
Rodjendan Otac TV movie
1967 Probisvet TV series; 1 episode
Krug dvojkom TV series; 2 episodes
Ovo zene posle rata TV movie
Stara koka, dobra juha TV movie
1968 Gorski car TV series; 3 episodes
Bekstvo Tihi TV movie
Jednog dana, jednom čoveku TV movie
1969 Samci 2 Vita Sukletic TV series; 1 episode
Rađanje radnog naroda Bangela Kukuljevic TV series; 2 episodes
1971 Ceo život za godinu dana Steva Bajic TV series; 3 episodes
1972 Cela pevacica Vatrogasni kapetan TV movie
1973 Beograd ili tramvaj a na prednja vrata TV movie
1976 Grlom u jagode TV series; 10 episodes
1977 Nikola Tesla George Westinghouse TV series; 3 episodes
1979 Djetinstvo mladosti TV series; 3 episodes
1980 Pripovedanja Radoja Domanovica TV series; 10 episodes
1982 Sijamci Djura Mitrovic TV mini-series; 5 episodes
1983 Ucitelj Bozur TV mini-series; 7 episodes
1985 Srebrena lisica Cavce TV movie
1986 Svecana obaveza Stevan TV movie
1996-1997 Gore dole Avram Jaksic TV series; 32 episodes

Selected film

Year Title Role Notes
1964 Čovek iz hrastove šume Stevan
Izdajnik
1965
Čovek nije tica
1966 Roj Nikola
1968 U raskoru Postar
1970 Burduš Roditelj
1971 Young and Healthy as a Rose
1972
Majstor i Margarita
 		Bobov
1976
Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu
 		Milovan Pasanović - Draganov otac
1977 Pas koji je voleo vozove Otac
1979 Nacionalna klasa do 750 cm3 Cabor
1980
Special Treatment
 		Steva
Who's Singin' Over There? Brka
1982
Maratonci trče počasni krug
 		Laki Topalovic
1983 Kako sam sistematski uništen od idiota Babi Papuska
1984
Varljivo leto '68
 		Veselin Cvetkovic
Balkanski špijun
 		Ilija Cvorovic
1989
Sabirni centar
 		Simeun
Balkan Express 2 Mida
Time of Miracles
 		Jovan
1992
Crni bombarder
 		Presednik
1995 Underground Deda
1997 Balkan Rules Sajdzija
1999
Belo odelo
 		Svestenik

References

  1. ^ a b c Stanković, J. (11 August 2020). "Danilo Bata Stojković – ljubav prema glumi veća od života". danas.rs.
  2. ^ Kinematografija u SR Srbiji: Biblioteka dokumentacije. Institut za film (Belgrade, Serbia). 1972. p. 34.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9783319474823
    .
  4. ISBN 9780313262395
    .
  5. ISBN 9780893562434
    .
  6. ^
    ISBN 9780786400058
    .
  7. ^ Time Out Film Guide, Volume 15. Penguin Books. 2007. p. 1084.
  8. ISBN 9780984406234
    .
  9. ^ a b "Obituaries". The Washington Post. 18 March 2002.

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