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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-08-18

Place of Birth

Črnomelj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Radko Polič

Biography

Radko Polič is an award-winning Slovenian theatre, television and film actor. Born in Črnomelj, Polič's family moved to Belgrade in 1945 and then to West Berlin in 1949 before returning to Slovenia and settling in Ljubljana in 1954. He started acting in the early 1960s and during his career spanning over four decades, he played in over 150 theatre and film productions. He starred in stage productions all around Slovenia and appeared in a number of Yugoslav feature films.Polič won numerous awards for his work, including the Golden Arena for Best Actor at the 1976 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslav national film awards) for his role in Igor Pretnar's film Idealist, and the Prešeren Award for Life Achievement in 2007.

Known for

Decameron

Decameron

Depicts many funny and satirical tales from Giovanni Boccaccio. Around 200 actors, among them almost all the greatest of the time, with Stane Sever at the helm. He played a mischievous writer who, in each episode, leads viewers into new intriguing stories of the human spirit. After the eighth part, he was replaced by Stevo Žigon due to his death. In 2013, the series was digitized and restored. After many years, it was then broadcast again, but not in the original order.

The Battle of the Eagles

The Battle of the Eagles

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

The File

The File

The four private episodes connect several people who keep appearing, such as Inspector Danilo and his assistants. The first case begins when the conductor of a night tram at dawn discovers the body of an unknown man under the underpass ...

Night Trip

Night Trip

A couple attends a decadent party where they become victims of salacious jokes. Furious boyfriend leaves, but she gets impression that he simply left her. She decides to join the fun, exposing her body to everyone. This bad move makes her regretful in the morning.

Death Ship

Death Ship

The holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. In this vision, the beloved accompanies her lover on an arduous and wearisome voyage by sea and when the situation seems most desperate, a mysterious ship suddenly appears on the horizon…

Balkan Express 2

Balkan Express 2

TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.

Flat Hill

Flat Hill

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

Lenin's Park

Lenin's Park

In the middle of a hot summer, a homeless woman is murdered in the centre of Ljubljana. At least as much as her death is troubled by the fact that the murder took place in a park right next to the General Police Administration. In addition to Taras's and Tina's relationship, resentment is being drawn from the events at Lake Bohinj over Taras' treatment of the spoiled son of an influential man, so the head of Drvarič assigns the management of the case to Tini instead of Taras. The start of the investigation is not the most promising, as none of the occupants of the park detected anything unusual, even though the windows look out of all the apartments. Yet a criminal investigation reveals that one of them wasn't the most honest.

Moment

Moment

A young man from the banks of the Ibar River goes to the revolutionary war. It turns out to be one of the key moments that will later leave marks on his life. The war conflict runs along with his intimate, internal conflicts of his own. He feels the need to think as a human being despite the horrors surrounding him. Such is the deeply embedded need of this man - the need for love, understanding and justice.

Sons

Sons

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

The Village Teacher

The Village Teacher

The protagonist is a young man, a former athlete, now a gym teacher. He is essentially a disappointed idealist who distances himself from the world and himself with irony and self-irony. His indifferent attitude towards life undergoes a slight change when he meets the headmistress of the rural school where he also teaches.

Open Space

Open Space

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.

The Poet of Revolution

The Poet of Revolution

A film made by Danilo Kis's poem "The Revolutionary Poet on the Presidential Ship" on the wreck of Tito's yacht “Seagull” in Rijeka's shipyard with two acting film legends, Radko Polic and Marko Nikolic. The film was edited by the late Marko Glusac.

Courtyard

Courtyard

In a block of flats at the edge of town the local children enjoy playing basketball in their courtyard. When their grumpy neighbor confiscates their basketball the children decide to go on an elaborate rescue mission to retrieve it.

Beef Trout

Beef Trout

It puts in front the character of the actor Andrej Nahtigal and a section of his life, shot in real time and among real people who can play their roles by heart, since they live them in real environment.