Milena Zupančič

Milena Zupančič

Born: December 18, 1946
in Jesenice, Slovenia

Movies for Milena Zupančič...

Title: Inhumanum: The Inhumanity of Man
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: TV
The aim of the series is to objectively present all the aspects and consequences resulting from the act of murder, thereby contributing to the culture of non-violence in the society.
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Title: The Last Socialist Artefact
Character: Alisa
Released: December 27, 2021
Type: TV
A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.
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Every Good Story Is a Love Story
Title: Every Good Story Is a Love Story
Character: Herself
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A film about a theatre performance and four very notable people behind it: writer and director D. Jovanović, actress M. Zupančič and actors R. Polič and B. Cavazza. This is a story of a love triangle and of a multi-layered, entirely overt intertwining of protagonists’ public artistic personas and their personal lives. The film documents a 4-month process of the making of a theatre piece from the first rehearsal to the opening night, at the same time uncovering the intimate lives of the artists and telling a universal story of the relationship between the real and the imagined, a story of personal and public perceptions of art.
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Mama
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman in her thirties who wanted more of life jumps into an extramarital affair, only to lose her husband, her job, and finally her lover as well. However, she thinks she should start anew and have fun no matter the consequences.
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Good to Go
Title: Good to Go
Character: Melita
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Ivan is a retired music teacher in his late 70s, and has grown weary of life. His estranged son never matched up to his expectations anyway, he is still eaten up with jealousy of his brother, who always enjoys life to the full, and - above all - he cannot keep up with the changes around him. He buys himself a plot in a graveyard with an beautiful view of the Alps and checks into a retirement home so he can wait for his death in peace. However, the exact opposite happens: for the first time in his life Ivan starts to actually live.
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Christmas Dinner
Title: Christmas Dinner
Character: Mama
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Jure and Julija live in a relationship that is largely maintained by clichés and formalities.
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1/2
Title: 1/2
Character: Klara
Released: May 25, 2007
Type: Movie
The film "1/2" is a story about two neighbors separated by a thin wall. Klara’s daily life begins at 4:30 a.m. with the lifting of a creaking shutter, too loud radio news, and the vacuuming of an apartment. Nikša is losing his temper because of this. The human mind is sometimes capable of producing anything but reasonable verbal communication.
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Warchild
Title: Warchild
Character: Munira
Released: November 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.
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In the Mountains
Title: In the Mountains
Character: Majda
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Sani, a boy in puberty, and his elder brother Amir spend their summer holidays as usual in Slovenia to visit his uncle and his wife. The summer is beautiful, long and hot. Sani enjoys meeting new people, he likes the girls and the carefree fun. However, he does not realize that this is more than a vacation, namely, that he would stay in Slovenia. When he finds out about these plans that his relatives made for his life Sani is distressed and shocked. Under the pressure of these new and unexpected circumstances, his puberty turns into a wild chase.
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Pula Confidential
Title: Pula Confidential
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
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On Our Own Vesna
Title: On Our Own Vesna
Character: Marjeta Turnograjska
Released: April 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Several centuries ago, a castle servant girl acquires a great fortune. Presently, a simple peasant woman Manka gets this fortune back, because of denationalization. Mehmed Gigio the Superman with his associates, the leader of a criminal organization, wants this property for himself. Policemen Janez and Franci get involved into the game. In the end, Mother Manka righteously gives everything away to Sir Roger Moore for all the children that need help in this world.
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Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Title: Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as well as historical background of his time. How our tragic hero became a symbol of Slovenian culture.
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Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Title: Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Character: The Woman
Released: September 3, 1997
Type: Movie
After the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial, post structural society, that can be perhaps summarized in the concept of post socialism? The disintegration of the concept of ideology means that notions are no longer clear. Because we think that we are outside an ideological context, but perhaps we ourselves are the centre of the ideology. It is this idea that corresponds with the thoughts about post socialism in the nineties, and probably the post ideological society of late capitalism as well. The end of the ideological period then perhaps seems imminent. These thoughts are considered in this philosophical media reflection, based on documentary fragments, statements by Peter Weibel and Slavoj Zizek and the works of three artists: Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb), "Kasimir Malevich" (pseudonym, Belgrade) and IRWIN (Ljubljana).
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Felix
Title: Felix
Character: Učiteljica Jasna
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
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Ilona & Kurti
Title: Ilona & Kurti
Character: Mizzi
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Kurt Schneider is a superficial and funloving character. Instigated by his mother he swindles his way into the legacy of a house and some money. Both Kurti and his mother are certain there are no legal heirs to the property. Great is their surprise when Ilona appears, who is the legal heiress coming from a remote part of Yugoslavia. Several attempts to get rid of that "Tschusch" prove unsuccessful. Once Mama Schneider gets to know that Ilona is also the beneficiary of a sizable life assurance contract, she destines her son to marry Ilona. While trying to double-cross Ilona, Kurti actually falls in love with her. Now it is Ilona's turn to take vengeance on mother Schneider and to prompt Kurti to take a clear-cut decision...
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Love, Kranj Style
Title: Love, Kranj Style
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Bevant is a freak who wanted to remain faithful to himself, and therefore, in contrast to most, he remained a farmer.
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Maya and the Starboy
Title: Maya and the Starboy
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The story about a class of star-boys who travel with their research spaceship to "Outdoor School" to see life on Earth. Since they wear "snurke" - a kind of shiny badges, they are invisible to Earthlings. But the star-boy Gubang's desire to meet the Earthlings in personal is so strong that he can not resist. He befriends a girl named Maya and gives her "snurko" so that she could see him. This causes severe complications both on Earth and in spaceship. Of course, everything finishes with a happy end.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Sašina žena
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
One night in a hotel room spent with unknown woman throws young man into hard nightmare, from which he wakes up only to fall asleep again and fall back to it. He dreams about escaped soldier who breaks in the mountain cottage on New Year's Eve where he meets two couples in orgy. Soldier's fear and despair grow, just like madness of drunken couples. The soldier suddenly sees his picture on the TV's monitor, and terrified realizes that he's the prosecuted one. A severe impact on the door frightens him, and he starts shooting. Only one of them he leaves alive. And then he kills himself. He wakes up distraught in a hotel room, in horror he looks at the woman next to him - a woman from his dream, gets dressed and leaves.
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The Magic Snowman
Title: The Magic Snowman
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: December 4, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of a snowman that talks to the boy who built him and helps his family when a fishing drought threatens their livelihood...
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My Dad, the Socialist Kulak
Title: My Dad, the Socialist Kulak
Character: Mimika Malek, mama
Released: October 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek.
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Christophoros
Title: Christophoros
Character: Lenka
Released: October 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Two men who have been fighting on enemy sides in WWII, find themselves as neighbors many years later in peace. A woman whose husband was killed under shady circumstances back then, tries to calm the passions of these old people, last residents in their village.
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Heritage
Title: Heritage
Character: Malka, his wife
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
"Heritage" - This three-part historical epic of the lives and misfortunes of the Vrhunc family in the former Yugoslavia is divided into the years of 1914, 1924, and 1944. In 1914, the wealthy Vrhunc patriarch owns valuable land and operates a lucrative mine. He is conservative and wants to hold on to the status quo, and so when the region breaks away from Hapsburg rule, he loses out. His wife, in the meantime, is a tragic figure who has an unhappy solution to her stifling existence with her husband and children. In part II, set in 1924, the fascists and communists are fighting for footholds among the population and in the government, and the Vrhunc family is torn apart because their own allegiances are divided between the two opposing extremes. In part III, the family suffers the most, as Nazi collaborators are rounded up and shot by Partisans, and chaos reigns.
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Landscapes in the Mist
Title: Landscapes in the Mist
Character: Lelina majka
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Naturalistic and almost documentary account of the heroin addicts in Belgrade, in the form of a sad life story of young girl and her wasted life.
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Watch Your Step
Title: Watch Your Step
Character: Profesorka
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty, hope, plans, wild love "for the rest of the life", and parents with their ambitions, and it would be all incomplete, if not for professors who are slowly losing their authority. Senior prom is the central place for serious and funny events in which parents, professors and pupils are involved.
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A Breath of Air
Title: A Breath of Air
Released: July 5, 1983
Type: Movie
The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital management, try to prevent her.
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The Igman March
Title: The Igman March
Character: Anočka
Released: June 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II.
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The Promising Boy
Title: The Promising Boy
Character: Mašina majka
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.
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Spasm
Title: Spasm
Character: Kristina
Released: September 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Working class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong. The film is a critical observation of the lack of prospect of young people who live in the province.
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Temptations
Title: Temptations
Character: Karla
Released: July 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.
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Journalist
Title: Journalist
Character: Kovačeva supruga
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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The Widowhood of Karolina Žašler
Title: The Widowhood of Karolina Žašler
Character: Karolina Žašler
Released: November 16, 1976
Type: Movie
As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernization, the Widow Karolina wishes she had become a mother. As difficult as things are for her, they are nonetheless much more difficult for her more-conservative and less-thoughtful neighbors.
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The Idealist
Title: The Idealist
Character: Tončka
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's strictures become somewhat milder, Martin is transferred to a more friendly environment, but all the injustices he has experienced have already bitten too deep. Unlike his wife, Martin finds it very difficult to accept changes. When his son dies, it seems as though he has lost all his elan and the will to live. Will he be able to go on bringing the light of knowledge to the ignorant masses, or will his ideals be buried forever like a man in a snowdrift?
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Fear
Title: Fear
Character: Ana
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.
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Blossoms in Autumn
Title: Blossoms in Autumn
Character: Meta
Released: June 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week's visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik's daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work. But he cannot forget Meta and he makes his mind to buy a property not far from the Presecnik home and and to become a farmer. He does indeed buy a farm and sets out again to the Presecnik home to ask Meta to be his wife.
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Title: Decameron
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: TV
Dekameron is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) fictional TV Series.
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Death Ship
Title: Death Ship
Character: Marijana
Released: November 24, 1971
Type: Movie
The holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. In this vision, the beloved accompanies her lover on an arduous and wearisome voyage by sea and when the situation seems most desperate, a mysterious ship suddenly appears on the horizon…
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Beyond
Title: Beyond
Released: July 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Two stories - two truths are confronting. Former Partisan Miha is trying to tell a shocking story from the war times in the modern day disco club, where young people are having fun in a crazy rhythm of music with alcohol and drugs... Amongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?
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Oxygen
Title: Oxygen
Released: June 25, 1970
Type: Movie
In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.