Milena Dravić

Acting

Milena Dravić

Born — Died

1940-10-05 — 2018-10-16

Place of birth

Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

​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…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Sky Hook poster
7.2

Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.

Sky Hook

2000

Love and Other Crimes poster
5.7

Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solarium and runs a protection racket. Anica is determined not to grow old in this dump where neither love nor life seems to offer her a decent future. One grey winter’s day Anica has an idea to steal money from Milutin’s safe, get on a plane and leave the country forever.

Love and Other Crimes

2008

Boomerang poster
6.2

Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.

Boomerang

2001

Lost and Found poster
6.3

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

Lost and Found

2005

Zamfir's Zona poster
6.1

Zona Zamfirova is set in the eastern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova, a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane, an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.

Zamfir's Zona

2002

Loving Glances poster
5.2

Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.

Loving Glances

2003

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 15 titles

The Dark Side of the Sun poster
5.0

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

The Dark Side of the Sun

1988

Sighting of the Holy Mother in the Village of Grabovica poster
9.0

Between myth and reality, between peace and disaster, between politics and religion. In a small place called Grabovica, everything runs quietly and slowly, everything is functioning properly until one day in the city appears a man who poses as a journalist and who brings the news that we should close the only school in the whole region due to lack of students. The news disrupts the inhabitants of the whole town and the whole situation will lead to a boiling point when you expose the that the man or the husband of a local teacher and the father of her newborn child.

Sighting of the Holy Mother in the Village of Grabovica

1985

Thirty Horses poster
NR

An ambitious carpenter from Dalmatian village puts an old mill back in function in order to prove himself worthy among the locals.

Thirty Horses

1988

My Part-Time Dad poster
6.8

The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.

My Part-Time Dad

1982

The Man with Four Legs poster
6.0

On a New Year's Eve, an aged man who filed a lawsuit against himself gets an unexpected visit by his sexy neighbor, a half-naked lady that had to face the power-cut in the middle of her shower..

The Man with Four Legs

1983

Part-Time Work poster
6.4

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.

Part-Time Work

1980

Part-Time Divorce poster
5.7

While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at Montenegrin coast due to mistake made by travel agency. They get back disappointed to Belgrade, where new problems expect them: Svetlana applied for an apartment, but divorced mothers with children are those who have advantage. Svetlana and Siniša decide to divorce for a part-time period so they could trick the housing board and get an apartment.

Part-Time Divorce

1986

Revenge poster
8.0

After 15 years spent working in Germany, forty-something-year-old Nada is getting divorced. Her husband is returning to the home country, opens the mechanic shop and starts a new life with his new young wife. To prevent Nada from returning home, he starts spreading the word about her misconducts. But Nada also knows the ways of the old community, therefore she comes back in a brand new Mercedes, accompanied by a young German.

Revenge

1986

Pretty Women Walking Through the City poster
4.9

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.

Pretty Women Walking Through the City

1986

The Best poster
7.5

A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and with no visible reason, leaves his home town, girl, parents, safety and eventual career and leaves to a remote provincial town to find and create his life and destiny. The story of a lonely man without illusions and bitterness, who collects simple pieces of sense, humanity and love through his actions.

The Best

1989

Sixth Gear poster
6.3

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

Sixth Gear

1981

Sunday Lunch poster
4.8

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

Sunday Lunch

1982

Una poster
5.6

A romantically conceived interview intended for a student paper completely changed the lives of two people: student Una and a respected professor. She is pretty and intelligent, but unable to cope with complicated relationships in which she became involved, while the professor is a person whose lectures on mass media are most visited by students at the Faculty. However, his views are not met with approval by the bureaucratic circles at the University. Vice Dean of the Faculty by means of intrigue manages to lure Una into a game with the professor. Thus, an innocent interview turns into a record of life, philosophical and ideological views of the controversial professor, and then into a malicious report about his life, behaviour, action and movement ... The Film is based on the novel Una written by Momo Kapor.

Una

1984

It Happened on This Very Day poster
6.3

Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.

It Happened on This Very Day

1987

Special Treatment poster
5.2

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.

Special Treatment

1980

1970s · 14 titles

The Battle of Sutjeska poster
6.6

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

WR: Mysteries of the Organism poster
6.2

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

1971

Group Portrait with a Lady poster
5.0

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

Group Portrait with a Lady

1977

Breakdown poster
4.8

A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend resting in nature and self-examination. In the mountains, in a lonely house near the lake, he meets a woman, also unadjusted and lonely. The consequences of this encounter are beneficial. Capable to love again, he gets his moral strength, and disease retreats. He breaks off his contacts with his wife's family and with "petit bourgeois" of his former life, confronts his boss and wins, realizing that this is only a first victory which has straightened him up.

Breakdown

1978

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković poster
5.6

Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.

The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

1977

Ancika Dumas poster
10.0

A married woman falls head-over-heels in love with her husband’s friend, and she throws herself instantly into an affair, with plans of eloping. But not everything is as it seems.

Ancika Dumas

1977

The Return poster
5.2

Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.

The Return

1979

The First Murder poster
5.4

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is afraid of being turned down by a girl.

The First Murder

1972

Mortal Spring poster
6.4

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

Mortal Spring

1973

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution poster
6.2

An absurd depiction of the communist revolution in Yugoslavia after World War II, the film primarily follows a group of young partisans who are placed in the home of a pre-war bourgeois family. The family then tries to adapt to the new ideology and values, often leading to various absurd situations.

The Role of My Family in the World Revolution

1971

The Coach poster
7.0

A man from a small place has become a coach of the biggest club in the country. He's coming back to his home town to buy a talented striker from a local club. A new striker immediately becomes a star in the big club. But a conflict between coach on one side and striker and manager of the club on the other occurs and results in coach leaving the club. He then becomes a coach of a big German club and in international competition has a match against his former club. In first game in Munich his former club wins which puts him in danger of losing position of coach in new club. But in the second game his team wins in Belgrade and goes trough. He once again goes to his home town and in the graveyard, at the tomb of his father, who died in war fighting Germans, asks himself what happened so he's now fighting for the Germans against a club from his own country.

The Coach

1978

How the Two Fools Loved Each Other poster
7.0

A short film based on Dusko Radovic writings.

How the Two Fools Loved Each Other

1972

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja poster
6.8

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja

1974

We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry poster
5.6

A story about prizewinning agriculturist, whose dream is to find his soul mate who would agree to marry him and live in the countryside. In one of his trips to symposium, he's about to share the compartment on a train with nice-looking but hardly approachable girl.

We Are Sorry, We Are Very Sorry

1976

1960s · 18 titles

The Battle of Neretva poster
6.7

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

The Battle of Neretva

1969

Destination Death poster
8.0

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

Destination Death

1964

The Camp Followers poster
6.7

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

The Camp Followers

1965

Man Is Not a Bird poster
6.1

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

Man Is Not a Bird

1965

The Girl poster
6.8

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

The Girl

1965

The Morning poster
7.5

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

The Morning

1967

The Dreams Came by Coach poster
6.6

Comedy concerning an impostor who comes into a little town and turns everything upside down. Based on three comedies by Jovan Sterija Popovic.

The Dreams Came by Coach

1960

Boom Town poster
6.9

Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.

Boom Town

1961

Funeral Feast poster
9.2

The first days of war in Ljubljana. The young hero Niko experiences the bloody and violent transition from childhood to manhood. Based on the novel by Beno Zupancic.

Funeral Feast

1969

Rondo poster
6.3

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.

Rondo

1966

On the Run poster
6.8

The feeling of being incapable of controlling your own life and general uselessness make people want to escape the world around them. In spite of the feeling that they possess some creative force, they still feel they waste their time and lives.

On the Run

1967

The German Girl poster
10.0

A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.

The German Girl

1969

Hassan-Aga's Wife poster
6.0

Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war; but she refuses to go to him when summoned, because of a warning dream. On Hassan’s return, he throws her out of his house.

Hassan-Aga's Wife

1967

Smoke poster
6.5

Driven by the trauma of the Holocaust, a young Jewish man arrives in a small town to hunt down the former commandant of the concentration camp where his family was exterminated. Upon discovering that the man has been released after serving only a minimal sentence, he prepares to exact his own brand of justice.

Smoke

1967

Cross Country poster
6.0

A priest’s daughter from a small town falls in love with cross country running over TV. She starts to train. She runs, meets a local boy and falls in love. She runs again, meets a black man and starts flirting. The local boy kills a black man out of jealousy and the police kills him.

Cross Country

1969

Kozara poster
6.3

In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.

Kozara

1962

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun poster
7.2

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

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

1966

Superfluous poster
6.2

Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.

Superfluous

1962

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