Marija Kohn

Marija Kohn

Born: August 7, 1934
Died: July 16, 2018
in Lopud, Croatia
Marija Kohn was a Croatian stage and screen actress. She appeared in more than eighty films from 1957 to 2018.

Movies for Marija Kohn...

Year of The Monkey
Title: Year of The Monkey
Character: Vilma Lukić
Released: January 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A mild political satire about a peculiar friendship between a lonesome monkey and an (impoverished) zoo warden, and about an upside-down world in transition as seen by a chimpanzee.
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Into the Blue
Title: Into the Blue
Character: Grandmother
Released: February 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. But Ana is in love with a boy and Julija is no longer a priority.
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A Murder to Go
Title: A Murder to Go
Character: Baka Grabovac
Released: February 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The plot takes place in Zagreb and follows the clumsy and clueless geography teacher Kazimir through tumultuous changes in his life. After being fired from school, his wife dumps him for the school principal, leaving him to deal with debts. Kazimir hits an existential low and conceives a sinister plan.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Nada
Released: November 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A hundred year old woman called Nada and her 75-year old daughter Vera have a tense but familiar relationship. The childlike Vera takes care of her frail, mute though at times cruel, mother until one evening a bat flies into Nada's room and starts hibernating underneath her bed. The animal's presence gradually reinvigorates the old woman, eternally and fatally changing the relationship between mother and daughter.
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The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Title: The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Character: Miškova majka
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
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Title: Lara's Choice
Character: Anđela Zlatar
Released: September 4, 2011
Type: TV
Larin izbor is a Croatian telenovela created by Jelena Popović Volarić and written by Tomislav Hrpka. The series premiered on September 4, 2011 on Nova TV. It has been sold to over seventeen countries worldwide.
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On the Path
Title: On the Path
Character: Baka
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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I Believe in Angels
Title: I Believe in Angels
Character: Slijepa Petra
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The mailmen, Šime, is one of the favorite people of a small town, on an island in the middle of the sea. Šime is very intelligent and the locals have high regards for him because he is unusually well versed in all the events and destinies in the small town. He knows the weather forecast, what winds will blow, what the sermon on the Sunday mass will be. For all the locals Šime is an untouchable genius. However, unlike the locals, the viewers soon find out that the Sime's ingenuity is based on his reading of the mail. Fascinated by other people's destinies, Šime has perfected a way for opening letters and keeping complete records on the people living on the island. He keeps a precise track of who gets what kinds of letters, and that gives him insight into discrete and private affairs of people. One day a beautiful woman named Dea moves into town, and all the men try and court her...
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Zagreb Stories
Title: Zagreb Stories
Character: Klara (segment "Inkasator")
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
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Waste
Title: Waste
Character: Starica
Released: March 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Kralj, an energetic businessman, unexpectedly gets into trouble: at the same moment both his wife and his mistress start seeing through his carefully constructed lies. It is one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is a story in which people don’t meet or talk, but try to solve their accumulated problems via text messages.
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Red and Black
Title: Red and Black
Character: Felix's grandmother
Released: October 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
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Slow Days
Title: Slow Days
Character: Grandma
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Arthouse drama collage on people who have plenty of time.
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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Title: Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Character: Neda Glazar
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
"Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Marijana
Released: March 7, 2004
Type: Movie
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
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Witnesses
Title: Witnesses
Character: Starica
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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Winter in Rio
Title: Winter in Rio
Character: Bakica
Released: July 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A homeless man who lives in abandoned bus finds out that his daughter comes from Germany to meet him for the first time in twelve years. Ashamed of his present situation and unable to cope with it, he breaks into apartment of his rich ex-friend who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Title: The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Character: Starica kradljivica
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
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Madonna
Title: Madonna
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
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Christmas in Vienna
Title: Christmas in Vienna
Character: Teta Ana
Released: July 24, 1997
Type: Movie
A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.
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The Harbor
Title: The Harbor
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Next to a small Dalmatian town of Murvice oil was found, and politicians make a hasty decision to build a tanker port, although there is no oil in the quantities required for exploitation. Urged by his ambitious wife, the engineer Slobodan Despot becomes director of the port construction, which his wife's lover skillfully exploits to use Despot as scapegoat. The construction of unprofitable airport gradually destroys the patriarchal structure of Murvice, as well as Despot's personal life and ideals, which he tried to restore by having affair with the young and unspoiled girl.
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When Birds Sing
Title: When Birds Sing
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: Movie
In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.
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Marjuca or Death
Title: Marjuca or Death
Character: Vinka
Released: June 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.
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Title: Inspector Vinko
Character: Elza Cavlek
Released: December 2, 1984
Type: TV
Inspector Vinko is a 60-minute comedy series starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević.
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The Ambassador
Title: The Ambassador
Character: Štefica
Released: July 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...
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Cervantes from the Small Town
Title: Cervantes from the Small Town
Character: Keka
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.
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Lost Homeland
Title: Lost Homeland
Character: Stara Ines
Released: June 12, 1980
Type: Movie
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Title: Occupation in 26 Pictures
Character: Luce
Released: June 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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Bravo Maestro
Title: Bravo Maestro
Character: Čistačica
Released: June 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man who long ago gave over the hard work of being a composer for the easy life of a rich man's son is bamboozled into slapping together a musical production. Having borrowed right and left, and plagiarized the works of a friend, he feels cheap, very cheap. He feels even worse when the awful thing is a success.
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Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Title: Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Two groups of men from neighboring villages get into a clash after both of them shot one wolf for the upcoming local festivity called "vucarenje" (wolf assembly), a rural custom typical for Dalmatian Zagora. Their rivalry ends in a tragic way.
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The House
Title: The House
Character: Sekina majka
Released: July 9, 1975
Type: Movie
The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
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Title: In the Registrar's Office
Released: February 17, 1974
Type: TV
Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. 9 episodes in total.
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You Get It, Man
Title: You Get It, Man
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
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To Come and Stay
Title: To Come and Stay
Character: Đorđeva žena
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
In search for the better life, three peasants Radovan, Jeremija and Gaša leave for a big city. Despite their expectations, there are many trials and temptations. Radovan manages to fit in by going to the evening school. The oldest of them, Jeremija, goes back to the village, while Gaša, after unreturned love, leaves to look for happiness somewhere else.
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Atomic War Bride
Title: Atomic War Bride
Released: July 23, 1960
Type: Movie
This conventional post-nuclear holocaust drama from Yugoslav director Veljko Bulajic seems to be at cross purposes. On the one hand, its anti-war sentiments are clear, as well as its realistic scenarios of destruction, and on the other hand, the director and scripter Cesar Zavatini have turned the story into a satire. At the center of focus is a young couple who were getting married when the atomic bombs changed the face of the planet, and through the couple's own dilemma the greater picture is glimpsed. Assisting Eva Krizevska, Anton Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunic, and other actors is President Marshal Tito's army.
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Piko
Title: Piko
Character: Tetka
Released: December 31, 1959
Type: Movie
A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.
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Three Girls Named Ana
Title: Three Girls Named Ana
Character: Ana 2 - Kućanica
Released: November 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A retired tram driver tries to find his daughter named Ana whom he lost in the Second World War.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Vera
Released: July 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
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H-8...
Title: H-8...
Character: Gospođa Jakupec
Released: July 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A bus and a truck are moving towards each other along a two-way traffic highway on a rainy day. At the very beginning we learn that a reckless driver of another car will cause them to collide while trying to pass the bus; we even learn what seats will spell doom for their occupants. The rest of the movie follows two streams of events on the bus and on the truck, getting us to know and like a wide variety of characters, wondering which ones will end up being casualties and holding breath for our favourites. The epilogue brings some more surprises...
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Master of His Own Body
Title: Master of His Own Body
Character: Roza
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.
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Title: The Foreigner
Character: Ciganka
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.
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Title: Witnesses
Character: Starica
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.