Aleksandra Pleskonjić Ilić

Acting

Aleksandra Pleskonjić Ilić

Born 1955-10-23 · Sombor, Serbia

Acting credits

Memo poster
4.3

The story of the film is set in the period from the 1940s until today in the Pannonian plain (the plain in the Central Europe), in an area of elusive boundaries, mysterious and unstable spiritual identity. The witness of the time is a Jewish boy Benya Cohn who, with his eye wide open, remembers the tragedy of his family, in the shadow of the Holocaust, concentration camps and new wars.

Memo

2004

Mammoth poster
NR

Nebojša comes to the countryside with his wife and son to celebrate his mother’s birthday. The family is trying to spend an idyllic weekend together, but the harmony is shaken up by Nebojša’s recent love affair. They are trying to cope, but as the day goes by, it’s getting harder for everyone to stand the situation.

Mammoth

2023

Apophenia poster
5.0

Relying on the work of Letonian scientist Constantine Raudive, Marko Mazibrada, a psychiatrist disappointed in his profession, performs experiments aimed to empirically determine whether there is life after death, by phenomenon of apophenia. Together with Simon Besedić, alcoholic and editor of Armageddon Monthly, the magazine that deals with the paranormal phenomena, Nikola Mrzopoljić, manual labourer and paterfamilias, and Eta, pharmacist and unusual prostitute which Besedić offers a relationship, he experiences a sequence of weird events...

Apophenia

2016

Grande Punto poster
NR

In a city owned by local television owner Dragan Zlokovic-Zli, books and culture are banned. The mysterious narrator - Senka, hires three private detectives to overthrow Zlokovic from the media.

Grande Punto

2018

The Haunting in Wicker Park poster
NR

The “terrifying true story” of the first televised exorcism on NBC in 1971. Millions around the country watched the program that was recorded in Chicago. The NBC news segment was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse for the Becker family who lived there. Much worse.

The Haunting in Wicker Park

Broad Are the Leaves poster
6.8

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.

Broad Are the Leaves

1981

No artwork available
3.8

Dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous Balašević song. The story of a man who didn't have the courage to stand for the one he loved.

An Early Frost

2010

The Optimists poster
6.7

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."

The Optimists

2006

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist poster
5.3

A portrait of a family and of Jovan (John), its youngest member and black sheep. The entire story takes place in just one day, in one apartment, during the celebration of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. Jovan’s parents are hiding the fact that they are getting divorced from their son and their guests, and Jovan is hiding from them that he is using drugs while hoping that aliens will save him from the hopeless and meaningless existence on Earth.

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

2023

Vukovar Poste Restante poster
5.8

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.

Vukovar Poste Restante

1994

No artwork available
9.0

In one Vojvodinian castle, the preparations for the play that will be performed by members of the Association of the blind are in the process. The play is dedicated to the Jews from America who are supposed to come and visit the place of their ancestor's massacre in 1942, during a raid in Novi Sad. The plot was to be carried out according to the original stories of witnesses who have gone through this tragic event. However, the initiators of the show manipulate the blind people in order to smuggle bombs for Albanian terrorists.

The Jews Are Coming

1992

The Disobedient poster
6.0

As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. When Lazar returns from extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soulmate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement.

The Disobedient

2014

Meeting Place poster
7.6

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Meeting Place

1989

The Last Dada Performance poster
2.5

An experimental work based on the writings of prominent Yugoslav Dadaists.

The Last Dada Performance

1992

Frau Einstein poster
NR

This film is a fascinating story about the life of Mileva Maric, a Serbian woman who was Albert Einstein’s first wife. It is an uplifting dramatic story about a woman who was a life companion during the most fruitful period of Einstein’s scientific work. Mileva intentionally carried to her grave one of the greatest secrets of modern science about her real contribution to the scientific work of Albert Einstein. Beside this eternal mystery, the film wishes to depict the love and dedication of Mileva to his husband’s fate, carrying herself a real Central European destiny of the first half of the XXth century.

Frau Einstein

2011

The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow poster
NR

A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.

The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow

2009

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