Mirjana Karanović

Mirjana Karanović

Born: January 28, 1957
in Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

Movies for Mirjana Karanović...

Title: Toma
Character: Kosana Zdravković
Released: December 23, 2023
Type: TV
The tumultuous life, fantastic career, and volatile relationships of the legendary Yugoslav singer Toma Zdravkovic. The series follows the highs and lows of the famous bohemian and 'king of sorrow' that inspired his unique, timeless music.
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Toma
Title: Toma
Character: Kosana Zdravković
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.
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Title: Advocado
Character: Majka Lahorka
Released: November 15, 2021
Type: TV
The series "Advokado" follows the ups and downs of the main character Brane and his faithful companion Beli. At the center of the plot are their friendly and family relations as they try to find the meaning and peace in life.
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Life of a Mutt
Title: Life of a Mutt
Character: Dona (voice)
Released: May 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.
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Title: The Family
Character: Mira Marković
Released: March 29, 2021
Type: TV
The story takes place around 2001, which follows the last 48 hours of Slobodan Milošević's life together with his family at large until his arrest and subsequent extradition to The Hague.
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Mare
Title: Mare
Character: Marina majka
Released: February 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing. When a chance encounter rekindles her libido, she does not hold back for long.
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Title: Sweet Struggles
Character: Dubravka
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: TV
In the new hit series Slatke muke (Sweet struggles), Andrija Milošević is Andrija Milošević – a fictitious character and TV star, a well-known comedian, privately manipulative and impatient, infantile and often arrogant, but with a hidden, soft heart in his chest.
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The Diary of Diana B.
Title: The Diary of Diana B.
Character: Mira
Released: July 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia.
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The Right One
Title: The Right One
Character: Majka
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.
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The Factory
Title: The Factory
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set in Sarajevo.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Angelina
Released: April 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the experience of being a mother and the self-sacrifice involved in bringing another life into this world. At a time of absurdities as Macedonia teeters on the brink of civil war, each of these women struggle to find meaning in their existence, each facing their own demons while trying to preserve their humanity.
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Catalina
Title: Catalina
Character: Mother
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
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The Other Side of Everything
Title: The Other Side of Everything
Character: Herself
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: Movie
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
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Heart with No Cure
Title: Heart with No Cure
Character: Nata
Released: June 28, 2017
Type: Movie
An older but still attractive widow falls in love with a younger man, which becomes the main gossip of her village and family.
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Requiem for Mrs. J
Title: Requiem for Mrs. J
Character: Gospođa J
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: Movie
After she lost her husband and her job, Mrs. J is sitting in her living room with a gun in her hand.
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Train Driver's Diary
Title: Train Driver's Diary
Character: Jagoda
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
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A Good Wife
Title: A Good Wife
Character: Milena
Released: April 21, 2016
Type: Movie
When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she has been living in.
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Next to Me
Title: Next to Me
Character: Direktorka škole
Released: July 20, 2015
Type: Movie
After being attacked by a group of masked hooligans, Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She decides to teach them a lesson by locking them in the school building and confronts them.
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Monument to Michael Jackson
Title: Monument to Michael Jackson
Character: Darinka
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is removed from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.
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Three Windows and a Hanging
Title: Three Windows and a Hanging
Character: The journalist
Released: August 19, 2014
Type: Movie
In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.
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Cure: The Life of Another
Title: Cure: The Life of Another
Character: Grandmother
Released: August 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Teens Linda and Eta are inseparable friends, though they have plenty of disagreements, but one horrific argument has unexpected consequences.
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The Reaper
Title: The Reaper
Character: Mirjana
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.
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Equals
Title: Equals
Character: (segment "Katarina")
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and has its own hero.
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The Tree and the Swing
Title: The Tree and the Swing
Character: Nina
Released: November 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.
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Death of a Man in the Balkans
Title: Death of a Man in the Balkans
Character: Mušterija
Released: November 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior.
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The Whirl
Title: The Whirl
Character: Inspektorka
Released: November 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s.
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Loveless Zoritsa
Title: Loveless Zoritsa
Character: Majka
Released: February 8, 2012
Type: Movie
The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her are dying in most bizarre ways. The plot thickens when stubborn policeman Maane who doesn't believe in 'village tales' tries to investigate whether Zorica is a serial killer or a girl looking for love.
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On the Path
Title: On the Path
Character: Nađa
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...
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Have I Told You I've Been Abused?
Title: Have I Told You I've Been Abused?
Character: Herself
Released: July 19, 2010
Type: Movie
This docudrama is based on the genuine testimonies of eight women who survived sexual violence in childhood and in the past years addressed the service of the “Incest Trauma Center”.
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Here and There
Title: Here and There
Character: Olga
Released: September 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the money never arrives, leaving Robert stuck in Serbia. Meanwhile in New York, Banko, the young Serb whose girlfriend Robert is to marry, fights to come up with the cash.
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Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
Title: Wait for Me and I Will Not Come
Character: Anđa
Released: June 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic and is mentioning suicide constantly, he simply doesn't want to accept that the relationship is over. He has self-pitying sessions with his friend Bane (Milos Samolov) everyday. Despite Bane's advice, Alek keeps calling Teodora who has fallen in love with Nemanja (Branislav Trifunovic) in the meantime. However decisive and tough Teodora is when she is with Alek, she is as indulgent and helpless when she is spending time with Nemanja. The problem is that Nemanja is not in love with her but with Marina (Vanja Ejdus), a girl by a few years younger. Unfortunately, Marina is not in love with him, she is very attracted to Alek's "Slavic depression". She doesn't know that reason for his "charm of a desperate" is his failure with Teodora, she thinks Alek was born like that.
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Someone Is Still Waiting
Title: Someone Is Still Waiting
Character: Majka
Released: June 9, 2009
Type: Movie
1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital, waiting to be called to prepare for abortion. This unexpected meeting will start a lot of questions in their mind, and make them reconsider their decision. 2nd STORY: The Road. A country, somewhere in Serbia: mother is taking her daughter, along the road, to the doctor who lives alone in a wagon, in which he makes illegal abortions. All over that journey there is collision between mother's traditional attitude against pregnancy before marriage and daughter's youthful wish for a birth of a new life from love. 3rd STORY: Water. Nada, a young woman in late twenties, remembered in a prison cell, the tragical events which made her kill her husband. In the hospital, where she was taken by a police car, for making abortion of his child, she met a person, who she didn't expect to meet.
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Jar Full of Air
Title: Jar Full of Air
Character: Ljubica
Released: November 18, 2007
Type: Movie
In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.
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Title: The Storks Will Return
Character: Radmila Švabić
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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Mirush
Title: Mirush
Character: Hava
Released: March 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
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Title: White Ship
Character: Lula Pantić
Released: December 17, 2006
Type: TV
The story is about funny experiences of a politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Gutović.
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Fraulein
Title: Fraulein
Character: Ruža
Released: August 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women.
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Title: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Character: Esma
Released: March 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Ranka
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a gay couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred.
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Life Is a Miracle
Title: Life Is a Miracle
Character: Nada
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.
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Witnesses
Title: Witnesses
Character: Majka
Released: July 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities.
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Strawberry in the Supermarket
Title: Strawberry in the Supermarket
Character: Chefin
Released: February 6, 2003
Type: Movie
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.
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Cabaret Balkan
Title: Cabaret Balkan
Character: Natalija
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
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Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe
Title: Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe
Character: Direktorka
Released: April 2, 1998
Type: Movie
The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painter, and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone sex hot line and the two eventually fall in love. An another friend so his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple is planning to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.
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Three Summer Days
Title: Three Summer Days
Character: Gazdarica
Released: May 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Vera
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
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Better Than Escape
Title: Better Than Escape
Character: Radmila
Released: July 15, 1993
Type: Movie
A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
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The Little One
Title: The Little One
Character: Božidarka
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
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Migrations II
Title: Migrations II
Character: Evdokija Božić
Released: November 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
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Time of Miracles
Title: Time of Miracles
Character: Marta
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
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Meeting Place
Title: Meeting Place
Character: Jelena Katić
Released: February 26, 1989
Type: Movie
During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.
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Mrs. Stremnicka
Title: Mrs. Stremnicka
Character: Isidora Sekulić
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Oppressed by the great sadness of the life, in her mid-30s Isidora agrees to marry the Polish doctor Emil Stremnicki without love. She lives with him for a short time in Norway. The writer reveals the complexity of the relationships that existed in her marriage, as well as inability to escape grief.
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Title: The Fortunate Pilgrim
Character: Clara
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: TV
The saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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Heart and Her Children
Title: Heart and Her Children
Character: Srce
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teachers.
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On the Road to Katanga
Title: On the Road to Katanga
Character: Pevačica Žana
Released: May 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of the old and new love, the events in and around the mine, all put his obsession with Katanga on test.
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Ever-Ready Women
Title: Ever-Ready Women
Character: Majstor
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
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Promised Land
Title: Promised Land
Character: Marta
Released: March 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
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A Swanky Pumpkin
Title: A Swanky Pumpkin
Character: Fema
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The first TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popovic's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble, aiming to climb up the social ladder. However, it isn't easy for her to stick up with the manners.
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When Father Was Away on Business
Title: When Father Was Away on Business
Character: Senija 'Sena' Zolj, majka
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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Truckers Ride Again
Title: Truckers Ride Again
Character: Alapača
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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Two Halves of a Heart
Title: Two Halves of a Heart
Character: Majka
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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The Fall of Italy
Title: The Fall of Italy
Character: Mare
Released: July 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
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Handymen, Handymen
Title: Handymen, Handymen
Character: Dunja
Released: October 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
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Petria's Wreath
Title: Petria's Wreath
Character: Petrija
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: Movie
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
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Title: Witnesses
Character: Majka
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
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Mother Mara
Title: Mother Mara
Character: Mara Gvozdenović
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack. Instead of breaking down she buries the trauma deep inside. But when Mara meets 25-year-old gigolo Milan, the walls come down. She embarks on a physical relationship with him, then a friendship develops.
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The Absurd Scam
Title: The Absurd Scam
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud, not knowing who cheats, and who is deceived.