Jasna Žalica

Jasna Žalica

Jasna Žalica is a Bosnian actress. She is married for Bosnian film director Pjer Žalica.

Movies for Jasna Žalica...

Title: I Know Your Soul
Character: Amra
Released: August 30, 2023
Type: TV
A single mother of a teenager in the midst of a divorce, Nevena Murtezic struggles to balance her life between her 17-year-old son, Dino, and a job constantly under pressure from politics and the public.
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May Labor Day
Title: May Labor Day
Character: Muma
Released: August 19, 2022
Type: Movie
After ten years in Germany, Armin returns to Bosnia. He just got married and wants to surprise his father, but he is not home. Neighbours say that he has been arrested, nobody knows why. The papers say that he is a suspect for the war crime back in the 90s. Armin wants to learn the truth and the neighbourhood to celebrate May Labor Day.
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A Ballad
Title: A Ballad
Character: Zafira
Released: August 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Merjem-Meri, an unambitious, 30-year-old homemaker and mother to 8-year-old girl Mila, moves back to her parental home after 10 years of marriage. Soon after, Meri realizes she is stuck in a circle of provincial rules and expectations and a complex relationship with her ambitious mother and spoiled younger brother. Her hope to get the custody of her daughter wanes from day to day because she has no chance of finding a permanent job. The only thing that makes her happy, but also makes everyone else look down on her, is participation in an audition for a film role in her neighborhood.
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Once Were Humans
Title: Once Were Humans
Character: Aida
Released: August 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of his ex-wife Tanja and his son Luka, hoping that they can become a family again. When the bank refuses to grant a loan Leo and Vučko would need to renovate their restaurant, they have no choice but to accept an offer from Gianni, a swindler. They are tasked with stealing Gianni’s truck so that he can collect the insurance money. However, instead of stealing Gianni’s truck, Leo and Vučko mistakenly steal a truck full of refugees. Vučko the refugee and Leo the migrant themselves thus inadvertently become responsible for destinies of people similarly unfortunate as they had once been. In order to solve their financial problems, they decide to sell the refugees. At first it seems that they are not indifferent towards these people, but with each passing day there is less and less humanity left in Leo and Vučko.
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What's This Country Called Now?
Title: What's This Country Called Now?
Character: Aida's Mother
Released: October 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A Bosnian woman, working as a reporter during the Siege of Sarajevo, interviews a living witness to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and his wisdom gives her a deeper understanding of the Bosnian War, and her role in it.
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Focus, Grandma
Title: Focus, Grandma
Character: Kika
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: Movie
April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days. Relatives start bickering, playing tricks and arguing over the inheritance to be left by the old woman, especially over her large family house in Sarajevo. Despite her deteriorating health, Grandma happily joins the fray. It appears as if that might be what is keeping her alive. Family feuds and intrigues directed against one of the sisters are more important to the family than the clear, terrifying signs of an approaching cataclysm. When the scheming is finally revealed, it is too late. A war has begun in Sarajevo.
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Good Day's Work
Title: Good Day's Work
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Armin has been unemployed for a long time, and in desperately need of a job. His wife Jasmina is pregnant, and his son Edin has behavioral problems at school.
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Pink Elephant
Title: Pink Elephant
Character: Zlata
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The coming-back of a Bosnian studying-abroad girl leads to an unexpected discovery that will slowly erode family relationships.
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These Are the Rules
Title: These Are the Rules
Character: Maja
Released: March 30, 2014
Type: Movie
After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
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The Woman with a Broken Nose
Title: The Woman with a Broken Nose
Character: Jadranka
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The act of a woman with a broken nose, who suddenly jumps out of a taxi and throws herself off the bridge in Belgrade, connects the lives of three witnesses.
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On the Path
Title: On the Path
Character: Čuvarka
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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Mother
Title: Mother
Released: March 5, 2009
Type: Movie
A mother mourns the loss of her family in the Srebrenica massacre.
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The Lika Cinema
Title: The Lika Cinema
Character: Josina žena
Released: July 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
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It's Hard to Be Nice
Title: It's Hard to Be Nice
Character: Medicinska sestra
Released: October 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Story about a forty-something Sarajevo taxi driver named Fudo (Saša Petrović) who decides to take control of his own destiny. Fudo doesn't earn much, so he supplements his income by offering tips to the local criminal syndicate and turning a blind eye to their nefarious dealings. One day, after offering a particularly bad bit of advice to a violent gangster, Fudo is badly beaten. When Fudo's wife Azra (Daria Lorenci) discovers what has happened, she decides to take the couple's infant son and move out. Now determined to win his wife back and restore peace in the home, Fudo decides to go straight. But cleaning up his act isn't going to be easy, because after borrowing enough cash from black market dealer Sejo (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) to purchase a van and then refusing to aid him in any underhanded dealings, the only person willing to cut him any slack is the sympathetic Azra.
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Hourglass
Title: Hourglass
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.
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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Title: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Character: Plema
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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Paycheck
Title: Paycheck
Released: August 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A man earns his first paycheck by driving his motorcycle, for the pleasure of rich people, through a mine field in Bosnia.
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Midwinter Night's Dream
Title: Midwinter Night's Dream
Character: Marija
Released: October 28, 2004
Type: Movie
A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna and Jovana, he changes his mind after seeing the squalid conditions of the shelter they are to move into. It is an allegory of the Balkan wars. When first released in Serbia, it caused some public outrage because of the sharp criticism of Serbia's role in the war.
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Days and Hours
Title: Days and Hours
Character: Buba
Released: August 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.
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Fuse
Title: Fuse
Character: Hitka
Released: August 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.
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42 1/2
Title: 42 1/2
Character: Prodavačica
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: Movie
After the war, two friends are together again. Every year they buy one pair of new shoes.
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10 Minutes
Title: 10 Minutes
Character: Majka
Released: November 8, 2002
Type: Movie
10 minutes doesn't seem long to a Japanese tourist waiting for some photos in Rome, but a lot can happen in the same 10 minutes for a family in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
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First Death Experience
Title: First Death Experience
Released: May 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Dado Bratovic is comic-strip artist from Sarajevo. In 1996, after the war, he goes to get his ID card issued and finds out that he was reported dead just after the war started in 1992. Now he has to prove that he is alive.
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Mother Mara
Title: Mother Mara
Character: Vesna
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.