Mirjana Joković

Mirjana Joković

Born: November 24, 1967
in Belgrade, Serbia
Mirjana Joković (born November 24, 1967) is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995). She currently is Director of Performance for Acting and an acting teacher in the Theater Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.

Movies for Mirjana Joković...

Title: Call
Character: Anica Reljić
Released: November 17, 2023
Type: TV
Anica Reljic, a former police inspector who now works in a call center, receives a call from Sonja Tosic, a rich single mother who wants to know the identity of the person who is threatening her on the phone. As Anica investigates the threatening calls, she realizes that they are connected to a criminal group from her past life. She tries to warn Sonja, but Sonja disappears, prompting Anica and Tiana, Sonja's rebellious daughter, to go in search of her. They soon discover that Sonja may be the key to uncovering the truth behind an environmental scandal rocking the country: the mysterious poisoning of three boys.
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Forever Hold Your Peace
Title: Forever Hold Your Peace
Character: Zorica
Released: November 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.
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Easy Land
Title: Easy Land
Character: Jasna
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
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Name: Dobrica, Last Name: Unknown
Title: Name: Dobrica, Last Name: Unknown
Character: Emanuela
Released: November 2, 2016
Type: Movie
This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would get out of its own way and enjoy it for a change.
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At Middleton
Title: At Middleton
Character: Professor Riley
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their kids at the small, idyllic Middleton University, they decide to ditch the group. Though adversaries at first, they soon discover that the only thing better than the college tour, is the detour.
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Storks in the Fog
Title: Storks in the Fog
Character: Sanja
Released: January 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Švaba, Marina, Ekser and Dule live and work peacefully in Baranda. However, a few days before the New Year, Špricer, Ekser and Dule's friend from early youth, arrives, who is in trouble and asks for their help. This TV film was made as a continuation of a popular Serbian TV series "The Storks Will Return".
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Title: The Storks Will Return
Character: Sanja
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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Private Property
Title: Private Property
Character: Tess
Released: March 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman living alone on an island must fight for her life in the directorial debut of filmmaker Elizabeth Dimon. Although reluctant to do so, island recluse Tess (Mirjana Jokovic) offers her home to Sam (David Thornton) and Nigel (Tomas Arana), a pair of tuxedo-suited (and blood-soaked) strangers who arrive via motorboat with an exotic animal in tow. Allowing them to heal their wounds but desperate to get them out of her home, Tess immediately hides her valuables and frequently makes for the cellar where she appears to speak with an unseen housemate.
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Maid in Manhattan
Title: Maid in Manhattan
Character: Maid
Released: December 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
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A Better Way to Die
Title: A Better Way to Die
Character: Salvi
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Boomer is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death of Carlos, his mentor and father figure, Boomer becomes disillusioned with the brutal and inhumane nature of his job. Consequently, he decides to hand in his resignation to the Chicago Police Department and return to his home town of Joliet, where his fiancé, Kelly, awaits. While en route back to Joliet, however, Boomer makes a grievous error in judgment when he stops for, and assists, an unfortunate motorist whose vehicle appears to have broken down; the naive ex-cop is swiftly attacked and rendered unconscious. Boomer awakes to find that his car and wallet have been stolen, and that he has become involved in a dangerous game of mistaken identity.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Elena Iscovescu
Released: September 5, 1998
Type: Movie
In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.
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Cabaret Balkan
Title: Cabaret Balkan
Character: Ana
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.
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The Hornet
Title: The Hornet
Character: Adrijana
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: Movie
A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
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Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
Title: Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
Character: Herself
Released: November 30, 1996
Type: Movie
While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his film crew to overcome this reality. A new world, which carries the signs of the old, comes to life.
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Three Summer Days
Title: Three Summer Days
Character: Sonja
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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Liability Crisis
Title: Liability Crisis
Character: Dunja
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul (Jim Helsinger) is a morose young advertising executive and aspiring film maker whose obsession with the Holocaust has gone way out of control. Paul has been compiling interviews with World War II survivors for a documentary film, and the project has propelled him to a state of paranoia. Listening to Beethoven, Paul worries that the composer wrote "Nazi music" and imagines that the plush sound on a Furtwangler recording owes to the violins' strings having been made out of "Jewish intestines." When his Yugoslav-born fiancee Dunia (Mirjana Jokovic) returns from China, where she has been studying, the two enter into an agonizing debate about whether to marry. She bluntly questions Paul's religious convictions, since he doesn't observe Orthodox Jewish traditions.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Natalija Zovkov
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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Vukovar Poste Restante
Title: Vukovar Poste Restante
Character: Ana
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor.
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The Little One
Title: The Little One
Character: Milica
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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The Serbian Girl
Title: The Serbian Girl
Character: Dobrila
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
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The Border
Title: The Border
Character: Etel
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
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Eversmile New Jersey
Title: Eversmile New Jersey
Character: Estela
Released: September 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against cavities, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian dentists. During a stop at a lonesome garage he meets Estella, who is supposed to marry a few days later. However she'd rather come with him - to meet a former boyfriend in another town, she says. Expecting problems, he refuses to take her, but she tricks him into it and then tries hard to convince him of her qualities and let her stay with him.
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Time of Miracles
Title: Time of Miracles
Character: Marija
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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The Forgotten
Title: The Forgotten
Character: Dina
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
The story about two boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend. TV series (11 episodes) with the same name and same story was released 1988.
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The Way South
Title: The Way South
Character: Jana / Anita
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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Stories from the End of the Corridor
Title: Stories from the End of the Corridor
Character: Mlada trudnica
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The action takes place over one weekend and shows women who are being treated for infertility at a gynecology clinic, but also face hypocrisy and alienation from society.
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Title: Grey Home
Character: Kalifornija
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
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Truckers Ride Again
Title: Truckers Ride Again
Character: Jaretova unuka
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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The Last Race
Title: The Last Race
Character: Zrna
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Twelve-year-old son of a divorced parents live in a skyscraper, but the drab of urban living is somewhat improved by the proximity of hippodrome and horse farm. Boy's favorite is a former champion named Evergreen, a stud whom the administration decides to sell to the slaughterhouse. After an unsuccessful attempt to change their mind, children steal the horse and disappear. After realizing what this horse mean to them, they give it as a present to the boy's class.
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Alphaville: For a Million
Title: Alphaville: For a Million
Character: Mirjana Jokovic
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Music video
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Title: The Forgotten Ones
Character: Dina
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.