--- name: "Lazar Ristovski" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lazar-ristovski" fi1m_id: "lazar-ristovski" imdb_id: "nm0728476" tmdb_id: 70874 wikidata_id: "Q176668" roles: ["Actor"] born: "26 October 1952" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T22:06:25.286982+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Lazar Ristovski ## Identity Lazar Ristovski - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lazar-ristovski - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** lazar-ristovski - **IMDb ID:** nm0728476 - **TMDB ID:** 70874 - **Wikidata ID:** Q176668 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Ristovski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176668, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728476/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70874 Actor. Born 26 October 1952 in Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 26 October 1952, Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia - **Active:** 1995–2006 - **Also known as:** Лазар Ристовски - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (1), 2000s 86 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Ristovski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176668, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728476/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70874 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Underground*](https://film.one/film/underground.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Lazar Ristovski is a Serbian actor, director, producer and writer. Born on 26 October 1952 in Ravno Selo near Vrbas, he graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Belgrade. He is known for his stage work, having given more than 4,000 performances, and for film roles including Petar 'Crni' Popara in *Underground* (1995), Raja in *Tito and Me* (1992), and appearances in *Casino Royale* (2006) and *The November Man* (2014). As a filmmaker, he wrote, directed, produced and starred in *The White Suit* (1999), which screened in the Critics' Week section at Cannes. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Casino Royale* (2006), Fi1m 86, as Kaminofsky — [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale.md) - *Underground* (1995), Fi1m 66, as Petar 'Crni' Popara — [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md) ## Complete filmography (72) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Saligia* (2026), as Choirmaster - *The Name Is Varvara* (2026), series, Producer - *Crown Street 11* (2024), series, Writer - *Tunnel* (2023), series, as Malić · Creator - *Dream Team* (2021), series, as Ika - *The Name of the People* (2020), Producer - *Neverending Past* (2019), as Čovjek koji traži mrtvog sina (segment "III priča") - *Leeches* (2019), as Stjepan Stroh - *What a Country!* (2018), as Karlo - *King Petar the First* (2018), as Kralj Petar I Karađorđević - *The Man Who Bought The Moon* (2018), as Taneddu - *Train Driver's Diary* (2016), as Ilija · Producer - *On the Other Side* (2016), as Zarko · Co-Producer - *Point Blank* (2016), as Aco Gorić - *For the King and Fatherland* (2015), Actor - *We Will Be the World Champions* (2015), as Tito - *The November Man* (2014), as Arkady Federov - *Flat Hill* (2013), series, as Đeneral Borivoje Mirković - *Who Is This Kusturica?* (2013), Actor - *Along the Roadside* (2013), as Milutin - *The Priest's Children* (2013), as Biskup - *White Lions* (2011), as Dile · Producer, Director, Writer - *Honeymoons* (2009), as Verin ujak - *St. George Shoots the Dragon* (2009), as Đorđe · Producer - *Devil's Town* (2009), as Rajko Zorić - *Sonetàula* (2008), as Egidio Malune - *Save Our Souls* (2007), as Gvozden - *The Village Is Burning, and the Grandmother Is Combing Her Hair* (2007), series, as Jovan - *Casino Royale* (2006), as Kaminofsky — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale.md) - *The Optimists* (2006), as Profesor Gavrilo / Simon / Pokojni Ratomir / Gazda Pera / Aleksa Pantić - *Tomorrow Morning* (2006), as Zdravko - *Tailor's Secret* (2006), as Pukovnik - *Well Tempered Corpses* (2005), as Ruždija Kučuk - *Midwinter Night's Dream* (2004), as Lazar · Producer - *Falling in the Paradise* (2004), as Ljubiša Kundačina · Producer - *King of Thieves* (2003), as Caruso - *Small World* (2003), as Ras - *A Little Night Music* (2002), Producer - *Boomerang* (2001), as Bobi · Producer, Writer - *The White Suit* (1999), as Savo / Vuko Tiodorović · Director, Writer - *Goodbye, 20th Century* (1998), as Santa Claus - *The Second Wife* (1998), as Fosco - *Cabaret Balkan* (1998), as Svetin kum - *My Country* (1997), Actor - *Balkan Rules* (1997), as Matori - *Rage* (1997), as Kovač - *Once Upon a Time There Was a Country* (1996), series, as Petar "Crni" Popara - *Underground* (1995), as Petar 'Crni' Popara — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md) - *Byzantine Blue* (1993), as Aranđel - *A Little Joke* (1992), as Svetislav - *Tito and Me* (1992), as Raja - *The Original of the Forgery* (1991), as Pavle - *Let's Make Love 3* (1990), as Miloje - *The Border* (1990), as Topić - *The Bizarre Country* (1988), as Putnik - *The Way Steel Was Tempered* (1988), as Leo - *Miss Julie* (1985), as Žan, sluga - *The Killer* (1985), as Stojan Stanojević, inženjer - *Knot* (1985), as Nikola - *The Damned Yard* (1984), as Ljubitelj žena - *Zadar's Memento* (1984), as Krševan Stipčević - *The Igman March* (1983), as Josip Broz Tito - *The Petty Bourgeois* (1983), as Nil, posinak - *The Terrace* (1983), as Vladan - *Wild Flesh* (1982), as Steva Andrejević, sin - *Svetozar Markovic* (1980), as Svetozar Marković - *Breakdown* (1978), as Psihijatar Savić - *Manhunt* (1977), as Ivan - *Dream Team*, series, Actor - *Svetozar Markovic*, series, as Svetozar Marković - *Block 62*, Co-Producer - *War with the Salamanders*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Lazar Ristovski](https://film.one/media/person/86317/gallery-23eac33e09f4.jpg) Lazar Ristovski — Masterdizajn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Lazar_Ristovski_Portret.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor and producer Lazar Ristovski at the presentation of "Train Driver's Diary" (Dnevnik mašinovođe) at the Prague Independent Film Festival in August, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/86317/gallery-ca45339724db.jpg) Actor and producer Lazar Ristovski at the presentation of "Train Driver's Diary" (Dnevnik mašinovođe) at the Prague Independent Film Festival in August, 2017. — Elena Ringo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Lazar_Ristovski_at_the_Prague_Independent_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Lazar_Ristovski_at_the_Prague_Independent_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Actor Lazar Ristovski presenting the film "Train Driver's Diary" (Dnevnik mašinovođe) at the Prague Independent Film Festival in August, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/86317/gallery-a106e2f7de52.jpg) Actor Lazar Ristovski presenting the film "Train Driver's Diary" (Dnevnik mašinovođe) at the Prague Independent Film Festival in August, 2017. — Elena Ringo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lazar_Ristovski_at_the_Prague_Independent_Film_Festival_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Lazar_Ristovski_at_the_Prague_Independent_Film_Festival_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Banja Luka Film Festival: Irena Taskovski, director of the festival; Anton Kasipovic, minister of culture; Lazar Ristovski, actor, president of jury. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/86317/gallery-2c5245dbf0b9.jpg) Banja Luka Film Festival: Irena Taskovski, director of the festival; Anton Kasipovic, minister of culture; Lazar Ristovski, actor, president of jury. (2008) — https://www.flickr.com/photos/1974caca/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Taskovski_Kasipovic_Ristovski.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Lazar Ristovski](https://film.one/media/person/86317/gallery-9e9e669603f8.jpg) Lazar Ristovski — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/lazar-ristovski