Mira Furlan

Mira Furlan

Born: September 7, 1955
Died: January 20, 2021
in Zagreb, Croatia
Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 - 20 January 2021) was a Croatian singer and actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia.

She emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajić, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV-series "Babylon 5" (1994) as "Ambassador Delenn" (Sci-Fi Universe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Genre TV-series 1996 and 1997).

Ms. Furlan's film credits include leading roles in over 25 films. She has appeared regularly on Yugoslav Television, playing leading roles in numerous series and TV-films. She has received all the highest awards in her former country, both for her stage and film work, including two Golden Arenas (Yugoslav Oscars) for Best Actress.

In the former Yugoslavia, Mira was a member of the Croatian National Theatre and a frequent guest star at major theatres in the whole country.

Movies for Mira Furlan...

Way Back
Title: Way Back
Character: Jovana
Released: November 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Dunja and Jasna are traveling with their mother Jovana to visit their father who lives alone in the cottage. DUNJA and JASNA are convinced that he had abandoned their mother because of the affair with another woman. By exchanging impressions of his action, they remember the past and reveal the expectations of a meeting. DUNJA treats this affair as a product of the father's crisis and hopes the visit could reunite family, while JASNA has accepted the parent's divorce as a final. Under the pressure, the mother reveals there was no adultery. She simply never loved their father.
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Title: Arcane
Character: Babette (voice)
Released: November 6, 2021
Type: TV
Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
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Burning at Both Ends
Title: Burning at Both Ends
Character: Agnes
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.
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Sava
Title: Sava
Character: Sava (Voice)
Released: September 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Mira Furlan plays the voice of Sava. Once the longest river in Yugoslavia she converses with her people on a 990km odyssey downstream through divided lands she seeks to understand.
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Title: Space Command
Character: Evelyn 'Vonn' Odara
Released: February 15, 2020
Type: TV
An indy sci-fi show developed, written and directed by Mark Scott Zircree and Elaine Zicree. While not having the budget of a major studio, the cast of regular and recurring characters is comprised of well known and famous sci fi actors.
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Variables
Title: Variables
Character: Mrs. Medić
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
In the middle of the Bosnian War, a 15-year-old math wiz is given a way out of the bloodshed when his math club gets an invitation to compete at the International Math Olympiad in Canada.
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The Art of Murder
Title: The Art of Murder
Character: Hely Frank
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
When art gallery assistant Kate Miller meets the heir to a run-down estate, she stumbles upon a previously undiscovered masterpiece, and finds herself thrust into the high-stakes auction world of priceless art. But those high-stakes turn deadly when the painting's integrity and authenticity come into question. Kate and the gallery soon discover they're caught in the middle of a million-dollar conspiracy. As the auction date closes in Kate finds herself in mortal danger when a desperate stalker will stop at nothing to keep the truth from coming to light.
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A Royal Christmas Ball
Title: A Royal Christmas Ball
Character: Rosa
Released: December 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Dateless for the Christmas ball, 39-year-old bachelor, King Charles of Baltania, tracks down his American college sweetheart, only to discover Allison has never been married, yet raised a 17-year-old daughter, Lily, who mathematically might be Charles' biological princess.
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Surviving Me: The Nine Circles of Sophie
Title: Surviving Me: The Nine Circles of Sophie
Character: Jacqueline Slateman
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Writer/director Leah Yananton's modernization of "Dante's Inferno" tells the story of a complex, intelligent and flawed young woman's coming-of-age.
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America, Here We Come!
Title: America, Here We Come!
Character: Maia
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.
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America, Here We Come!
Title: America, Here We Come!
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.
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For Ever
Title: For Ever
Character: Vesna
Released: July 1, 2014
Type: Movie
For Ever is an urban fairy tale, a kind of new Romeo & Julia story in Berlin. As German student Anna meets Serbian trumpet player David in the underground, he fells in love at once. Her friends and family keep warning her, but the danger comes from another side and David is the one who has to fight for their love.
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Seaburners
Title: Seaburners
Character: Denise
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her home country soon, one final trafficking job takes a dark outcome.
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With Mom
Title: With Mom
Character: Jasna
Released: August 21, 2013
Type: Movie
While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries to cope both with her awakening sexuality and her mother Jasna's imminent death. Her father cannot accept the fact that life is already happening without his wife. Her younger sister Luna cannot or does not want to grow up. For everybody's sake, Berina wants to save her mother's life and her family the only way she can - through art, and through magic.
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Twice Born
Title: Twice Born
Character: Velida
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Title: Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
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Title: Law & Order: LA
Character: Maria Olsen
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: TV
From the tony Beverly Hills to the seedy side of Hollywood, LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division is on the case. Fusing classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the backdrop of LA, the series delves into the high profile crimes of the west coast.
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Cirkus Columbia
Title: Cirkus Columbia
Character: Lucija
Released: July 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercedes and accompanied by his young bride; by Bonny, his lucky black cat; and with pockets full of money.
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The Abandoned
Title: The Abandoned
Character: Cica
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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The Tour
Title: The Tour
Character: Sonja
Released: August 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
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Title: The Storks Will Return
Character: Jagoda Miletin
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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Title: The Storks Will Return
Character: Jagoda
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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Title: Night Stalker
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: TV
Carl Kolchak and his partner Perri investigate the mysterious death of Kolchak's wife and the paranormal phenomena plaguing their city.
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Take a Deep Breath
Title: Take a Deep Breath
Character: Lila
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are moving to Canada. That same night Saša and Stefan suffer a car accident. Saša wakes up in hospital and meets Stefan's charming and clever sister Lana, a photographer living in Paris. Stefan remains in hospital to recover. Saša finds out that her mother Lila is having an affair. Her father, a well-known judge, desperately tries to keep the family together. Lana becomes Saša's closest friend - a person able to prove that life is sometimes a mere game. In the midst of historical and family chaos, Saša gets involved in a love relationship with her boyfriend's sister.
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Title: Lost
Character: Danielle Rousseau
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Title: NCIS
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Title: Sheena
Character: Yoka Laneesh
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: TV
Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Title: Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Character: Delenn
Released: July 17, 1998
Type: Movie
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Title: Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Character: Delenn
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
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Black Kites
Title: Black Kites
Character: Narrator
Released: July 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, Black Kites skillfully merges the reality-based content of her journal with interpretive visual material to reveal the simple, sometimes beautiful, yet brutal truth of her existence. Non-linear, dreamlike and spectral, Black Kites is a testament to artistry, imagination and the resiliency of the human psyche. Features sensitive performances by Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese and Mira Furlan, a prominent actress from the former Yugoslavia, as the narrator.
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My Antonia
Title: My Antonia
Character: Mrs. Shimerda
Released: March 29, 1995
Type: Movie
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
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Title: Spider-Man
Character: Silver Sable (voice)
Released: November 19, 1994
Type: TV
Bitten by a neogenetic spider, Peter Parker develops spider-like superpowers. He uses these to fight crime while trying to balance it with the struggles of his personal life.
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Title: Babylon 5
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Title: Babylon 5
Character: Delenn
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Title: Babylon 5: The Gathering
Character: Delenn
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
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Dear Video
Title: Dear Video
Character: Jovanka
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugoslavia. The film is constructed around the video 'correspondence' between two branches of a family, one living in Germany and pursuing 'modern' life and the other one living in a little village in Yugoslavia clinging to tradition. Through the home video 'letters' sent back and forth, petty jealousies, love liaisons and financial squabbles drive the family to the brink of war, a situation that reflects the collapsing state of affairs in what was then Yugoslavia.
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Silent Gunpowder
Title: Silent Gunpowder
Character: Janja
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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Stela
Title: Stela
Character: Lucija
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.
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Poltroon
Title: Poltroon
Character: Milena Krtalić
Released: July 17, 1989
Type: Movie
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
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Spy In High Heels
Title: Spy In High Heels
Character: Vesna Logan
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets because of her good looks, the manager will finally spend a few years in prison.
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Title: Maternal Half-Brothers
Character: Vranka
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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A Film with No Name
Title: A Film with No Name
Character: Glumica
Released: May 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
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The Way South
Title: The Way South
Character: Bessi
Released: May 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
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Blanka Kolak's Love
Title: Blanka Kolak's Love
Character: Blanka Kolak
Released: May 29, 1987
Type: Movie
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
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The Convicted
Title: The Convicted
Character: Javni tužilac
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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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Eva Horvatek
Released: September 28, 1986
Type: TV
With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
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Spadijer: One Life
Title: Spadijer: One Life
Character: Zdravka
Released: June 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
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The Beauty of Vice
Title: The Beauty of Vice
Character: Jaglika
Released: January 6, 1986
Type: Movie
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
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Golden Apple
Title: Golden Apple
Character: Mirjana
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.
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Three for Happiness
Title: Three for Happiness
Character: Zdenka Robić
Released: November 7, 1985
Type: Movie
A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.
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Hi, Inspector
Title: Hi, Inspector
Character: Ruža
Released: March 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
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When Father Was Away on Business
Title: When Father Was Away on Business
Character: Ankica Vidmar
Released: January 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
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Horvat's Choice
Title: Horvat's Choice
Character: Eva Horvatek
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
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Zadar's Memento
Title: Zadar's Memento
Character: Karmela
Released: May 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.
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In the Jaws of Life
Title: In the Jaws of Life
Character: Marijana
Released: April 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.
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Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Character: Finka
Released: July 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Enka
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
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Title: Smoggies
Character: Mira
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: TV
The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
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Title: Unconquered City
Character: Zdenka
Released: February 21, 1982
Type: TV
In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.
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Early Maturation of Marko Kovac
Title: Early Maturation of Marko Kovac
Character: Markova majka
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Marko is a boy whose family finds himself in a difficult situation after his mother is severely ill. Although doctors perform a successful operation, the father abandons wife and son. In such a situation, Marko must be too early to grow up.
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Title: The Big Town
Character: Kate
Released: December 7, 1980
Type: TV
This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.
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Journalist
Title: Journalist
Character: Vera
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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Istrian Rhapsody
Title: Istrian Rhapsody
Character: Kate
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.
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Knez
Title: Knez
Character: Seoska djevojka
Released: February 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Ivan Slamnig.
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Title: Lantern City
Character: Martha Grey
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: The Foreigner
Character: Anđelija
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.