Sonja Savić

Sonja Savić

Born: September 15, 1961
Died: September 23, 2008
in Čačak, Serbia
Sonja Savic (September 15, 1961 – September 23, 2008) was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. She was born in Cacak, Serbia. She died in Belgrade, Serbia; the cause of death was initially reported to be a drug overdose.

Movies for Sonja Savić...

Sonja
Title: Sonja
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: March 30, 2012
Type: Movie
This documentary was inspired by the artistic life of Serbian actress Sonja Savić. Being a wonder child, a star of Yugoslavian cinematography, a sex symbol, and urban legend of the eighties generation, a fighter against establishment, Sonja Savić had always attracted attention. Simply put, she always looked, spoke and thought differently from others, she was entirely autonomous, an authentic phenomenon of Serbian culture. In the documentary SONJA, friends and colleagues of Sonja Savić testify on many aspects of her life and work, and a special emphasis is put on Sonja’s libertarian, rebellious, Don Quixote type of nature.
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The Forbidden Love
Title: The Forbidden Love
Character: Rile
Released: January 31, 2009
Type: Movie
A med student gets a job at the mortuary where he discovers his penchant for necrophilia.
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Title: The Storks Will Return
Character: Darinka
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: TV
A story of two friends and petty thieves trying to make a living, but failing in every possible way.
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Paper Prince
Title: Paper Prince
Character: Eva
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
When seven-year-old Julia's parents go out and leave her at home alone, she opens the door to a suspicious stranger. Six months later, the consequences of this launch Julia and her friends on a breakneck quest to save her family. In the course of this she becomes aware of how the world works and the place she and her family occupy in it.
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Motion Report
Title: Motion Report
Released: August 22, 2005
Type: Movie
It concerns a young woman from Belgrade who finds the people she cares about disappearing. The fractured storytelling allows the director to use the girl's personal situation to comment on society.
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South by Southeast
Title: South by Southeast
Character: Sonja / Mama Mikaina
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Sonja, once a popular Serbian actress settled in Slovenia is on a short visit to Belgrade. She panics claiming that her daughter Sofia has been kidnapped, then disappears. Inspector Despotovic is assigned to the case and when he finds Sonja, she admits that she made everything up, that she never had a child, and therefore there was no kidnapping. But a Secret Service veteran approaches Despotovic and tells him that the story about kidnapping is true. It is highly classified information. The father of the child is Foreign Affairs Minister. On the other hand, Minister claims that the Secret Service has made everything up trying to compromise him. Despotovic is puzzled... Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? Who is insane? Who is about to die?
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Desperado Tonic
Title: Desperado Tonic
Character: Fatalna ženska - vampir
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
L.V. Strocki is a traveling film projectionist in the best years. He is a representative of the first generation who watched partisan films, lived to see the invasion of the television and ended up among vampires. In the coastal region town he is preparing a film projection on the town square and a television team is making a documentary about this event. During the film projection about the heroines and heroes of an occupied town, a Heroine in a seductive outfit comes to see Strocki in his projection booth.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Džina
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1991 the war broke out in Croatia. In a holiday house in Fruška Gora hills in Serbia, near the border with Croatia, a group of young people are having a birthday party. They try to have some fun and act like nothing is going on. The party is shattered by the war. They can hear the artillery, but something is also happening between them. Inevitably, some of the boys end up on the frontline and everyone of them is effected by the war that is starting to rage. "The Party" is about individual destinies of the characters trapped in isolated house in hills and surrounded by growing paranoia of the officially not yet declared war.
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The Danube
Title: The Danube
Character: Tamara
Released: October 27, 2003
Type: Movie
As the ship Donau makes its final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, a young man sworn to fulfill a dying woman's wish lures a reluctant captain into a new adventure.
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Charlot Watches You
Title: Charlot Watches You
Character: Herself
Released: February 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Having cult Serbian new wave band Šarlo Akrobata (Charlot the Acrobat) and their members as a central point, this film shows cultural milieu of the 1980s in Yugoslavia, and subsequent downfall of alternative culture in it.
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Virtual Reality
Title: Virtual Reality
Character: Nina
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl who, unwittingly, in his new world, the world of drug addiction and pulled his best friend.
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Bread and Milk
Title: Bread and Milk
Character: Sonja
Released: March 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Ivan is released a day early from a treatment programme for alcoholics due to a doctors' strike. He returns to his wife Sonja and his sixteen year old son Robi. The first afternoon he spends at home is very pleasant. The next morning Sonja sends Ivan to a shop to get bread and milk. On the way back Ivan runs into Armando, his high school classmate, and through their conversation at a bar, Ivan finds out that long before Sonja became his wife, Armando spent a night with her. Ivan has his first drop of the hard stuff...Kruh in mleko is a bitter-sweet tale of loneliness, estrangement and the glowing embers of love, where there once used to be a fire.
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The Road of Fraternity and Unity
Title: The Road of Fraternity and Unity
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
This first-person documentary provides an inside look into the terrifying and bloody events that shook Central Europe in the 1990s, as the filmmaker takes a trip along the road that once united the disparate states of Yugoslavia, from Slovenia to Macedonia. A film about memory, hatred, love and hope.
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Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced
Title: Tango Is a Sad Thought to Be Danced
Character: Veronika
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
A famous fashion designer returns to his birthplace in a tiny Serb town, in the wake of the recent war. Although the inhabitants still love to dance the tango and live life's pleasures to the full, the Mafia have gained a foothold.
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Ivan
Title: Ivan
Character: Evina prijateljica
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
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The Tragic Burlesque
Title: The Tragic Burlesque
Character: Violeta
Released: May 10, 1995
Type: Movie
In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.
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In the Middle of Nowhere
Title: In the Middle of Nowhere
Character: Crvenokosa
Released: July 2, 1994
Type: Movie
The exploits of a depressed architect in Belgrade as he wanders about searching for the future in a land where the future no longer exists. Handsome Nikola is in his mid-thirties. He earned the nickname Champ because he used to race speedboats. He makes a decent living as a free-lance architect and his apartment is spacious and comfortable. Ana is attracted by the Champ's good looks and apparent prosperity. He is always pensive though; even when he is out drinking at the local clubs with his companions he cannot help but brood about the state of Belgrade. Though the city appears fairly normal on the outside, the presence of the war is signalled when a reluctant conscript in the army is dragged away.
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Shock Is Spreading
Title: Shock Is Spreading
Character: Herself
Released: March 30, 1994
Type: Movie
Belgrade destiny brings together people with different kind of lives, people from various generations and backgrounds. What they have in common is rock music, the last anger at what has happened to us all.
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Introduction to Another Life
Title: Introduction to Another Life
Character: Petra Sakra / Olja Rodin / Tatjana
Released: July 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and talks to him about his writing and her father. After she leaves, her father, an ex officer of the military and ex communist party member, rings the doorbell. After a tense introduction, the father starts to retell his life in order to try to explain why he did things that his daughter hates him for. It is not clear if writer's girlfriend and her father are part of writer's fiction, memories or reality.
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We Are Not Angels
Title: We Are Not Angels
Character: Marta
Released: May 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
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Balkan Perestroika
Title: Balkan Perestroika
Character: Slavka
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A modernized comedy of Branislav Nusic's novel, about the life and work of a "small manufacturer", his professional and familial relations.
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The Fall of Rock and Roll
Title: The Fall of Rock and Roll
Character: Bojana
Released: May 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them.
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The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Title: The Balkan Mass-Media Sciences
Character: Slavka
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An eminent communist wants to make his son a respected person so he could live without much trouble. He fails to accomplish that due to his son's different vision of success.
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The Dark Side of the Sun
Title: The Dark Side of the Sun
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom and love along the way.
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Title: Maternal Half-Brothers
Character: Anica
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
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Blackbird
Title: Blackbird
Character: Psiholog
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.
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The Convicted
Title: The Convicted
Character: Sučeva kćer
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm in an abandoned village. The duo has different plans of what to do with the captives.
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Telephonomania
Title: Telephonomania
Character: Dragana
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A slang-filled urban comedy involving a group of youths who call their friends over the telephone to chit-chat and spread gossip.
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Majstor i Šampita
Title: Majstor i Šampita
Character: Sofija Marković 'Šampita'
Released: October 16, 1986
Type: Movie
A young reporter girl nicknamed Cream Pie writes an article on money-making in small businesses. She meets a married shoemaker who falls for her and steals his wife's money for their love nest, but Cream Pie discovers it by accident and takes it to the newspapers' office. Shoemaker's wife interferes into this whole confusion and the whole fuss resolves at a hospital.
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Black Marija
Title: Black Marija
Character: Anja
Released: June 25, 1986
Type: Movie
After the death of their sponsor, rock band Zenit falls into a crisis. They need to make new arrangements of old songs in only 6 days. There comes to disagreement between band members because of different opinions.
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Sekula and His Women
Title: Sekula and His Women
Character: Spasenija
Released: May 3, 1986
Type: Movie
A village blacksmith Sekula, hard-muscled but soft-hearted, has terrible luck when it comes to love. Many women pass through his house - a local spinster of ill health, a belly dancer, a veterinarian experienced in the castration of bulls a singing star-to-be - but stay just long enough to give birth to another child, only to then run away.
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Life Is Beautiful
Title: Life Is Beautiful
Character: Pevačica
Released: June 3, 1985
Type: Movie
After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.
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Una
Title: Una
Character: Una
Released: November 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of two people: student Una and a respected professor. She is pretty and intelligent, but unable to cope with complicated relationships in which she became involved, while the professor is a person whose lectures on mass media are most visited by students at the Faculty. However, his views are not met with approval by the bureaucratic circles at the University. Vice Dean of the Faculty by means of intrigue manages to lure Una into a game with the professor. Thus, an innocent interview turns into a record of life, philosophical and ideological views of the controversial professor, and then into a malicious report about his life, behaviour, action and movement ... The Film is based on the novel Una written by Momo Kapor.
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Strangler vs Strangler
Title: Strangler vs Strangler
Character: Sofija Mačkić
Released: June 18, 1984
Type: Movie
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
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In the Heart of My Blonde
Title: In the Heart of My Blonde
Character: Mlekarka
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a milkmaid. Later one of them dies in the battle, leaving the milkmaid in sorrow…
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Truckers Ride Again
Title: Truckers Ride Again
Character: Anđelija
Released: April 5, 1984
Type: Movie
New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was raising to build a house for his numerous family. He must find heaps of money as soon as possible, or let tax gatherers to take everything. Paja tries to help him in this impossible task, but on their way they face bunch of obstacles, losses and misfortunes, encountering all sorts of people, only to end up in serious problems.
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Balkan Spy
Title: Balkan Spy
Character: Sonja Čvorović
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
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Sugar Water
Title: Sugar Water
Character: Dečka
Released: December 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.
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Something in Between
Title: Something in Between
Character: Tvigica
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
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The Karlovci Experience of 1889
Title: The Karlovci Experience of 1889
Character: Milica
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
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Title: Skins
Character: Safija
Released: November 14, 1982
Type: TV
Very popular TV series describing life in the Bosnian small town called Stavnik at the time of World War I until the end of World War II. The main character is Adem Cabric, disbanded soldier who gets a job in Stavnik as a worker in the tanner store of old master Arif Zejnilovic. Adem has proven himself a skillful trader, eventually getting married master Zejnilovic's deaf-mute heiress daughter Safija. Original title: KOŽE
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Living Like the Rest of Us
Title: Living Like the Rest of Us
Released: July 16, 1982
Type: Movie
A young non-conformist enrolls at the music academy in Belgrade. There he faces a lot of existential, as well as emotional problems.
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Title: Red Zora and Her Gang
Character: Zlata, Tochter des Bürgermeisters
Released: August 27, 1979
Type: TV
In the Croatian coastal town of Senj , orphans living on the fringes of society come together under the leadership of a girl who, because of her red hair , is called Rote Zora . The citizens of the city treat the destitute children like outcasts. Wild pranks are the reactions of the troops. In order to survive, the children become criminals, but within their community they adhere to fixed rules. Your top priority is solidarity. They call themselves Uskoks . The only one who feels connected to them is the old fisherman Gorian. The children help him to assert himself against the big fishing companies.
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Personal Affairs
Title: Personal Affairs
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The story follows five months in the life of Belgrade student Maja Sabljic, an actress-to-be, from her high school graduation day (at the end of May) until mid September when she tries to enroll at the Film Academy (FDU). The story is presented in the documentary style, involving the real-life persons of the late seventies' Belgrade scene.
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Butterfly Cloud
Title: Butterfly Cloud
Character: Lila
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
End of childhood, first love and misunderstandings that seem unsolvable. Comic story of sixteen years old boy who seems to be all against his dreams - and the families and friends, and the world from the supermarket where he works.