Majda Potokar

Majda Potokar

Born: March 1, 1930
Died: April 24, 2001
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]

Movies for Majda Potokar...

Triangle
Title: Triangle
Character: Tajnica
Released: December 30, 1991
Type: Movie
The story is told through different points of view. A woman loves everything green, her husband loves his car, a magician knows the secrets of the stars, a professor knows everything about sound and a cyclist solves a difficult problem. A surreal travel through time and space.
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The Queen of Hearts
Title: The Queen of Hearts
Character: Mrs. Kmecel
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
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The Cartier Operation
Title: The Cartier Operation
Character: Biljeterka
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.
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The Case of Felix Langus or How to Seize Freedom
Title: The Case of Felix Langus or How to Seize Freedom
Character: Mama
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Felix Langus is increasingly obsessed with the idea of communicating with supernatural forces, which warn him of the great peril of danger. Attacks of obsession are triggered by aggressive media, which are constantly challenged by dangerous information in a graduated rhythm. At his job as a driver, he has more and more problems. He's moved to an undemanding workplace, but his obsession proves to be dangerous even there, which leads him to unpredictable and grotesquely funny complications. Together with his psychotherapist, he can not escape a common fate...
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Artificial Paradise
Title: Artificial Paradise
Character: Micka
Released: May 29, 1990
Type: Movie
Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.
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To the Limit and Beyond
Title: To the Limit and Beyond
Character: Kmetica
Released: May 29, 1990
Type: Movie
A thief commits daring robberies (a la Raffles) in Slovenia during the 1920s. While he romances the ladies a persistent detective tries to hunt him down and bring him to justice.
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A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
Title: A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
Released: April 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the club is faced with close-down, the members decide to save it by setting up a dance show for the urban elite.
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Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Title: Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Released: October 27, 1987
Type: Movie
At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, were killing time with storytelling. The first story is about Jernac that had a fight with Tomas because of Rezika. Another story tells about Tincek, limp foundling, who spent his youth with the Komar family, where he fell in love with their Lencka. The third is the story of a rich Miholac whose attention was grabbed by poor Polonca, a romance that was opposed by his father. The central theme of all stories is love that eventually everybody die of.
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Blanka Kolak's Love
Title: Blanka Kolak's Love
Character: Teta
Released: May 29, 1987
Type: Movie
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
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Times Devoid of Fairy Tales
Title: Times Devoid of Fairy Tales
Released: May 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story set in Slovenian town during WW2.
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Our Man
Title: Our Man
Character: Brigita
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Milan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.
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A Summer in a Sea Shell
Title: A Summer in a Sea Shell
Character: zdravnica
Released: March 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Young Tomaž has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father's new job. In these difficult times, his only help is his computer Vedi. Even disputes between local gangs can not solve any problems, at least not until both gangs get a common enemy - motorcyclists who steal shells.
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Three Contributions to the Slovenian Madness
Title: Three Contributions to the Slovenian Madness
Character: Štefanova mama (segment "Kronica otpora")
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Omnibus consisting of three segments. The first story is about a fight between the boy's parents, after which he ends up in a correctional hall, and then in jail. The second story is about a mental patient who leaves the hospital to find his wife, a fashion model. The third story is about two factory employees who go for a few drinks after work, only to end up later at one of his mother's house where they all get drunk.
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Strawberry Time
Title: Strawberry Time
Character: Medvedka
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Jagoda Kopriva is a typical teenage girl who hangs out with her friends from school, flirting with boys, quarreling with her parents, and discovering her own sexuality.
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Real Pests!
Title: Real Pests!
Character: Rozi
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In Ljubljana lives a bus driver Stebe. He's a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid Rozi. The boys are very naughty and keep annoying Rozi and, in fact all neighbourhood. One day Rozi in desperation declares that she is leaving them, because she cant stand it no more. And she does leave, although she is fond of the boys. Soon afterwards Rozi's niece Meri comes by, asking if she might stay because she wants to find herself a job in town. Meri is good girl but cannot cope with the kitchen work as successfully as her aunt. But the whole Steb family seems to be charmed by her. Even one of Stebe's own colleagues, Tone, begins to take interest in the girl. Meri likes him too. Stebe's boys feel quite disappointed because of it. But all's well that ends well: in full conspiracy Meri qualifies as bus driver while Rozi returns to the Stebe family.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Prednica
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
WWII - Slovenia under Italian fascist occupation. Two friends separated by a woman they both loved, and then by war as well: one of them joins partisans, the other Italian occupying forces.
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The Last Stop
Title: The Last Stop
Character: Magda
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A former partisan Tone, who once believed in the idea of a new, just society, now barely living as a municipal employee. Has an ex-wife and daughter, who live in his apartment, and he lodger. Even his relationship with a waitress, Magda is not without problems.
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Red Wheat
Title: Red Wheat
Character: Zefa
Released: December 28, 1970
Type: Movie
An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
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The Sarajevo Assassination
Title: The Sarajevo Assassination
Character: Gospođica Hera
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
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Liar
Title: Liar
Character: Branka
Released: July 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A thirty-year-old girl is nearly taken in by a confidence trickster, who likes her enough to return her money, but not enough to marry her.
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Don't Cry, Peter
Title: Don't Cry, Peter
Character: Magda
Released: October 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Two partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.
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Wild Growth
Title: Wild Growth
Character: Meta
Released: July 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Slovenian countryside in the 18th century. The future lord of the manor, Ožbej, falls in love with the new maid, Meta. His family, however, is opposed to the match and successfully plots to keep the young couple apart. Although Meta must endure scorn and degradation at the hands of the villagers, Ožbej still cannot tear himself away from her. Five children are born of their union, all of whom are looked upon as bastards by the manor folk. Although driven by desperation to return to the manor, Ožbej still harbours the hope that he will one day be able to live together with his love. Can he survive without the woman he loves and without his children? Will he be able to survive at all?
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Three Stories
Title: Three Stories
Character: Meta
Released: February 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Three stories connected by the motifs of water and death told in neorealist style.
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On Our Own Land
Title: On Our Own Land
Character: Nancika
Released: June 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the town in the last years of occupation.