Milena Dravić

Born: 1940-10-05

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Milena Dravić (1940–2018) was a Serbian actress. Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet. In 1959, while in high school, director František Čap saw her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers group photo and decided on the spot to approach her about being in his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. After appearing in few more films she decided to pursue acting full-time and successfully enrolled in Belgrade's Dramatic Arts Academy. Her big break came in 1962 when she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress award (which was the Yugoslav equivalent of Academy Award) for her role in Branko Bauer's film Prekobrojna. This was the moment that sent her on the way to becoming Yugoslavia's first and arguably the biggest female movie star. Milena Dravić continued with long and prolific career during which she showed great talent and versatility. She was equally memorable and believable as the tragic heroine in state-sponsored World War II epics, eccentric protagonist of experimental arthouse films like WR: Mysteries of the Organism and romantic comedies. She especially excelled in the latter during 1970s and 1980s. She won the Cannes Best Supporting Actress Award in 1980 for Special Treatment. For her roles and contributions to domestic cinematography, she received the prestigious "Pavle Vujisić" award in August 1994. Milena Dravić was married three times. Her third husband was the prominent Serbian actor Dragan Nikolić, with whom she had co-hosted the popular 1970s television program Obraz uz obraz. She died on 14 October 2018, after a long battle with illness.


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WR: Mysteries of the Organism

as Milena
Released: 1971-05-10

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia...

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The Battle of Neretva

as Nada
Released: 1969-10-07

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great...

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The Camp Followers

as Aspasia
Released: 1965-07-17

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the...

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The Dark Side of the Sun

as Mother
Released: 1988-12-21

Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom and love along the way.

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The Battle of Sutjeska

as Vera
Released: 1973-07-03

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The...

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Kozara

as Milja
Released: 1962-07-25

In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their...

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The Ambush

as Milica
Released: 1969-06-30

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets...

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Sky Hook

as Danka
Released: 2000-02-10

Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction...

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The Restless Ones

as Zorica
Released: 1967-03-16

One night, after disastrous road accident, the eyewitnesses were claiming that they saw a woman...

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The Dreams Came by Coach

as Evica
Released: 1960-01-01

Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down....

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Boomerang

as Gospođa Jeftić
Released: 2001-09-20

Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of...

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The Policeman from Cock's Hill

as Natalija
Released: 1992-03-01

The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring...

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Revenge

as Nada Pekar
Released: 1986-03-27

After 15 years spent working in Germany, forty-something-year-old Nada is getting divorced. Her...

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The Morning

as Aleksandra
Released: 1967-07-05

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former...

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Normal People

as Tomina tetka
Released: 2001-02-22

Film "Normalni ljudi" is based on the motives of various writings by Srdjan Valjarevic. Srdjan...

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Rondo

as Neda
Released: 1966-06-15

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend,...

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Hassan-Aga's Wife

as Hasanaginica
Released: 1967-01-01

Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war;...

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The Cabinet Minister's Wife

as Živka Popović
Released: 1989-01-01

Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However,...

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Loving Glances

as Vlasnica agencije
Released: 2003-09-19

Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost...

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The Girl

as Devojka
Released: 1965-05-07

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town...

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Blackbird

as Profesorka
Released: 1988-01-01

A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the...

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Sugar Water

as Ana
Released: 1983-12-18

Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to...

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The Return

as Roza
Released: 1979-07-05

Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything...

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It Happened on This Very Day

as Nastavnica
Released: 1987-06-28

Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different...

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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja

as Anđa / Ofelija
Released: 1974-05-31

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local...

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The First Murder

as Devojka
Released: 1972-01-01

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a...

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Cabaret Balkan

as Gospođa u autobusu
Released: 1998-08-01

20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

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Deps

as Depsova djevojka Janja
Released: 1974-03-26

A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.

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The Best

as Ninkova majka
Released: 1989-01-19

A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and...

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Horvat's Choice

as Marijana Margetić
Released: 1985-01-08

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around...

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Group Portrait with a Lady

as Schwester Klementine
Released: 1977-05-25

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the...

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Radopolje

as Mrvica
Released: 1963-07-13

German retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When...

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St. George Shoots the Dragon

as Tetka
Released: 2009-03-11

Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled...

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Sixth Gear

as Gospođica Gvozdenka
Released: 1981-07-03

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many...

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Belgrade Kids

as uncredited
Released: 1976-06-02

Two faces of an upper-class, urban family, centered around young married couple.

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Pula Confidential

as Herself
Released: 2003-01-01

A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in...

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Man of the World

as Višnja
Released: 1965-06-15

A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.

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Sunday Lunch

as Sofija Aranđelović
Released: 1982-01-01

A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from...

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Una

as Babić's Wife
Released: 1984-11-19

A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of...

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Anticasanova

as Asja
Released: 1985-06-27

Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is...

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Strange Night

as Klara, Tanjina majka
Released: 1990-06-01

A student of veterinary and his girlfriend meet Sanja in the park, the wife of his friend. The...

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Battle of Kosovo

as Velislava
Released: 1989-06-12

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat,...

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Zamfir's Zona

as Tašana
Released: 2002-10-31

Zona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows...

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Destination Death

as Seja
Released: 1964-03-14

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village...

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Love and Other Crimes

as Majka
Released: 2008-09-17

Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress...

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The Coach

as Petrova bivša žena
Released: 1978-01-01

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back...

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Boom Town

as Hajra
Released: 1961-07-19

Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on...

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Three Summer Days

as Kaja
Released: 1996-05-23

Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.

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Poor Maria

as Marija
Released: 1968-01-01

A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.

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Smoke

as Devojka
Released: 1967-07-13

The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had...

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A Great Guy at Heart

as Savina žena
Released: 1981-01-01

After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing...

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Official Position

as Zora
Released: 1964-07-12

The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits,...

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The Tear and Her Sisters

as uncredited
Released: 1993-01-01

A teenager girl who studies medicine meets young but wounded war volunteer at the city hospital...

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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

as Lepa Trajković
Released: 1977-01-01

Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges...

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It Is Better to Know How

as Jola
Released: 1960-01-01

Mane Karakas comes to a small coastal town to dig a hole for watering system. He tries to...

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Funeral Feast

as Filomena
Released: 1969-03-03

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent...

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Pretty Women Walking Through the City

as Rahela
Released: 1986-06-04

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a...

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Spy In High Heels

as Livadinka Kukurić
Released: 1988-10-06

A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning...

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Thy Neighbors

as Stanislava
Released: 2008-01-01

One day in the lives of the Belgrade tower’s tenants, whose destiny is never going to be same...

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A Sand Castle

as Milena
Released: 1962-01-01

Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini...

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Mad Summer

as Mare
Released: 1964-07-11

A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.

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Bare Ground

as Zorica
Released: 2003-03-09

The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants...

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Third Time Lucky

as Proročica Antilopa
Released: 1995-09-30

Older but wealthiest man in the village Života waits for his Russian bride, but when his freshly...

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Man Is Not a Bird

as Rajka
Released: 1965-03-06

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

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Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1966-03-28

Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.

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Cross Country

as Jovana
Released: 1969-07-13

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She...

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Klaxon

as Jana
Released: 1965-07-15

A group of people go on a picnic in the mountains. Longing for some love and understanding, they...

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Agi and Ema

as Ema
Released: 2007-07-06

A warm tale of friendship forged between a lonely boy Agi and an elderly lady Ema. Abandoned by...

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The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

as Devojka
Released: 1971-07-09

After WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and...

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Breakdown

as Sašina ljubavnica
Released: 1978-12-04

A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But,...

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The Macedonian Part of Hell

as Velika
Released: 1971-08-02

At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of...

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Shared Apartment

as Ljubica
Released: 1960-12-09

A group of people move to a half-finished building, but soon a Cold War occurs between some of...

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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

as Self
Released: 2021-01-02

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and...

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Sekula Innocent Accused

as Sojka
Released: 1992-01-01

This time Sekula does not have any problems with women but is accused of stealing electricity.

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The Istrian Way

as uncredited
Released: 1985-09-19

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula...

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Pavle Pavlovic

as Adela
Released: 1975-07-14

Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a...

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Part-Time Work

as Svetlana
Released: 1980-06-23

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life....

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Adrift

as Zuzka
Released: 1971-02-12

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects...

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The Man with Four Legs

as Nada Jovanović
Released: 1983-11-10

On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by...

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Part-Time Divorce

as Svetlana
Released: 1986-01-01

While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at...

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Freckled Girl

as Keti
Released: 1973-11-08

Keti runs through her life, cheating on everybody who she encounters. She joins the company of...

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Superfluous

as Ranka
Released: 1962-01-01

Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and...

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Sekula Is Getting Married Again

as Sojka iz Mezgraje
Released: 1991-01-01

After so much unrequited love and so many failed marriages, yet with the heaps of children he's...

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Aller retour

as Rada Jovanović
Released: 1978-03-24

The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings,...

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Duel for Three

as Igorova majka
Released: 1996-01-29

Divorced couple receives a farewell VHS cassette from their son who voluntarily joined military...

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Horoscope

as Milka
Released: 1969-10-21

A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend...

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My Part-Time Dad

as Svetlana
Released: 1982-01-01

The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time...

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Mortal Spring

as Veronika Đaković
Released: 1973-01-01

An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.

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The Cyclists

as Sara
Released: 1970-03-12

A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor...

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Special Treatment

as Kaća
Released: 1980-03-08

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own...

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Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović

as Draga Filipović
Released: 1980-01-01

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native...

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Before and After the Victory

as Momata
Released: 1967-03-30

A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal...

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Eight Kilos of Happiness

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-01

A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a...

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Lost and Found

as Vera (segment "Fabulous Vera")
Released: 2005-02-10

Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of "generation".

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On the Run

as Učiteljica
Released: 1967-01-01

The feeling of being incapable of controlling your own life and general uselessness make people...

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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men

as Gordana Diklić
Released: 1985-03-18

A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they...

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Summer Is to Blame for Everything

as Natalija
Released: 1961-11-12

Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Višnja has to travel to the seaside before...

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The Door Remains Open

as Marija, Petrova sestra
Released: 1959-01-01

A juvenile delinquent escapes the hall and responses to ad of the parents who lost their son in...

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The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater

as Herself
Released: 2018-02-25

The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater explores the position of an artist in the...

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The Lion Is Coming

as Mihaela
Released: 1972-07-10

Lion, a boy of lion's heart, can't make decision which one of the two girls to chose - tender...

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People's Deputy

as Danica
Released: 1964-01-01

Film adaptation of “People’s Deputy” by Branislav Nusic, one of the most frequently staged plays...

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Journey to Vucjak

as Marijana Margitić
First aired: 1986-09-28

With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his...

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Theater at Home

as Vukosava Petrović
First aired: 2007-04-14

An updated version of a legendary Yugoslavian 1970s sitcom “Theater at Home”.

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Stories from the Workshop

as Gospođica Gvozdenka
First aired: 1982-01-06

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many...

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Policajac sa Petlovog brda

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-10-30

The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring...

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Aliş ile Zeynep

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-04-20

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Room 405

as Sestra Vida
First aired:

A children's TV series set in a hospital.

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