Zijah Sokolović

Zijah Sokolović

Born: December 22, 1950
in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Zijah Sokolović (born 1950, Sarajevo) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director who lives, acts and directs in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. Currently, he is a director of Theaterland in Salzburg, professor in Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, artistic director of theater festival Dežela gledališča in Ljubljana and artistic project leader for Dramatic society, Dramatično društvo, but also directs plays in Zagreb. His famous monodrama “Glumac je... glumac... je glumac” has been played in twenty different countries around the world.

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Title: The Finest Story
Character: Kemo
Released: March 11, 2015
Type: TV
The story takes place in the Goriska region, on an estate worth several million euros, which is also a tourist facility outside the series. The Spacapans have owned this estate since 1715. The current owner of the estate is Berto Spacapan, whose wife Tonka died in an accident.
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Generation of 71
Title: Generation of 71
Character: Major
Released: September 28, 2011
Type: Movie
In the start of the breakup of Yugoslavia, in spring 1991, there is a group of young conscripted soldiers in a remote military outpost. Their army and country are falling apart and the war is starting nearby. Friends are facing a decision of their lives: should they stay or run?
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Motel Nana
Title: Motel Nana
Character: Hazim
Released: February 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Ivan teaches history in a Belgrade high school. In his class, Ivan is provoked by a student and ends up slapping him on the face. In Serbia, in the heat of transitional changes, Ivan’s presence in school is no longer welcomed. He finds a temporary job opportunity in a war-scarred mountain village in Bosnia. On his way there, he meets Yasmina, a young Muslim woman, back from Germany to her homeland after the war and after being invited by an old friend – Hazim - who now runs a motel. A lone kiss in a stormy night, in a village still lying in ruins, will bring Yasmina and Ivan closer together in a joint escape from reality and to a ride on a dusty bus, where neither one of them wants to sit next to the window.
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Jasmina
Title: Jasmina
Character: Stipe
Released: July 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Asthmatic grandmother named Safa and her six-month baby granddaughter Jasmina, are transferred in a humanitarian convoy from the besieged Sarajevo to a peaceful small city at the Adriatic coast. By a combination of circumstances, their first neighbour is an alcoholic named Stipe. He is constantly causing troubles and making their lives complicated. During one of her asthma attacks, having no other choices, Safa rings Stipe's bell and hands him the baby. Stipe starts to temporarily take care about baby Jasmina. Safa dies at the hospital and now Stipe is left alone with the baby. He's clumsy, even funny. She becomes his only mission in life. He is not ready to give Jasmina away to anyone. He loved her as if his own granddaughter even daughter. Suddenly someone is at the door. Stipe recognises Jasmina's mother. In spite of all his internal struggles, he returns Jasmina to her mother. Stipe stays alone, again.
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Muamer
Released: July 19, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.
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An Early Frost
Title: An Early Frost
Character: Dr. Vladimir
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: Movie
An Early Frost (Serbian: Kao Rani Mraz) is a Serbian movie. Movie is dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous Balašević song.
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Obituary for Escobar
Title: Obituary for Escobar
Character: Anđeo
Released: March 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.
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The Melon Route
Title: The Melon Route
Character: Pauk
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: Movie
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
TV drama.
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Bare Ground
Title: Bare Ground
Character: Ostoja
Released: March 9, 2003
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In the same building lives a quiet and young married couple, who are completely different from their environment.
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Remake
Title: Remake
Character: Mirsad Alihodžić
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo.
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The Horseman
Title: The Horseman
Character: Luda
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
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Outsider
Title: Outsider
Character: Haris Mulahasanović
Released: February 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he'll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.
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Title: Bella Block
Character: Glado Fishta
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: TV
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
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Silent Gunpowder
Title: Silent Gunpowder
Character: Mlinar Gojko
Released: March 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
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Carnival, Angel and Dust
Title: Carnival, Angel and Dust
Character: Žandar (segment "Karneval")
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
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The Man Who Could Tell North from the South
Title: The Man Who Could Tell North from the South
Character: Trgovac
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The plot takes place in pre-war Yugoslavia, and the protagonist, interpreted by Zvonko Lepetic, is Jefto, a prison guard who lives with his family as a tenant in a basement. The plot shows how, convinced that he is destined for great things, he betrays his family, a friend and subordinates everything to his vanity.
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Forces in the Air
Title: Forces in the Air
Character: Čovek u taksiju
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying her, and on the other he has a wife and an adult son with whom he constantly comes into conflict. When Mile's wife realizes what life is like, things take another direction.
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The Forgotten
Title: The Forgotten
Character: Mladoženja
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
The story about two boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend. TV series (11 episodes) with the same name and same story was released 1988.
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The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway
Title: The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway
Character: Srećko Zec
Released: June 30, 1986
Type: Movie
The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
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The Damned Yard
Title: The Damned Yard
Character: Haim
Released: December 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
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Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Character: Kokan
Released: July 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
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The Igman March
Title: The Igman March
Character: Mustafa
Released: June 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
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Body Scent
Title: Body Scent
Character: Pančov brat
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
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Endeavor
Title: Endeavor
Character: Sekretar Balta
Released: June 30, 1982
Type: Movie
A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.
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Two Halves of a Heart
Title: Two Halves of a Heart
Character: Sudija
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
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A Day, Days... of Nedzad K.
Title: A Day, Days... of Nedzad K.
Character: Konobar
Released: January 11, 1982
Type: Movie
It depicts a night out of a young man from Sarajevo.
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Scent of Quinces
Title: Scent of Quinces
Character: Huso Mujagin
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
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You Love Only Once
Title: You Love Only Once
Character: Mirko
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
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Buffet Titanic
Title: Buffet Titanic
Character: Zike
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
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Title: Tale
Character: Đerzelez
Released: June 15, 1977
Type: TV
Based on the novel "Tale" by Dervis Susic. Tale is a former partisan, an honest man and a rogue. His return to hometown immediately creates a bunch of new problems.
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Title: The Forgotten Ones
Character: Mladoženja
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.