Dušica Žegarac

Acting

Dušica Žegarac

Born — Died

1944-04-15 — 2019-05-24

Place of birth

Beograd, Serbia

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Grey Home poster
8.7

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...

Grey Home

1986

Eneide poster
8.6

A 7 part adaptation of the epic tale of Aeneas, written by Virgil as the Roman sequel to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Eneide

1971

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

Impure Blood poster
10.0

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

Impure Blood

1996

July 13th poster
5.5

This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.

July 13th

1982

Ænigma poster
5.3

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

Ænigma

1987

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Impure Blood poster
10.0

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

Impure Blood

1996

From Every Man I Loved poster
NR

A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.

From Every Man I Loved

1999

A Night at My Mother's House poster
5.0

A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest for the meaning of life proves to be nothing but failure.

A Night at My Mother's House

1991

Vukovar Poste Restante poster
5.4

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

Be Damned, America poster
6.2

A three-part anthology film. Story 1: A released convict traces his girlfriend and other people who were responsible for his imprisonment. Story 2: A factory worker Pantic comes to Belgrade where he befriends a waiter. Having no overnight lodge, Pantic spends the night in the bar where his new acquaintance works, and becomes a victim of group of people who start picking on him. The initially protective waiter joins their harassment, and that's when Pantic pulls out a knife. Story 3: A female reporter gets back from the province without getting job done. On her way back, she meets an abused woman who lives with her husband in a trailer, making grill. The two will run away together, facing many hazards and trials.

Be Damned, America

1992

Black and White poster
NR

Reuben, an African student at Novi Sad University, returns from his visit to his parents.

Black and White

1990

Carmen poster
6.5

Goran is a literary student who writes erotic stories to support himself is introduced to Carmen, who was born in extramarital relationship of an opera singer. Goran tries to get rid her of drugs and prostitution. Deeply depressed Carmen blames his mother for her own misery, which gets even worse after her death. A sense of guilt because of her mother's death leads Carmen to insanity.

Carmen

1995

1980s · 21 titles

Variola Vera poster
7.3

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.

Variola Vera

1982

July 13th poster
5.5

This is a movie about the start of people's uprising in Montenegro in World War II. After the capitulation of the Yugoslav Royal Army in April 1941, the Italians managed to infiltrate their puppet regime in Montenegro. However, people dissatisfied with the new authorities, on July 13, 1941 decided that the Communists led start to fight for freedom.

July 13th

1982

Ænigma poster
5.3

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

Ænigma

1987

The Far Sky poster
6.7

A youth has a burning ambition to be a pilot, but this is met with opposition by his mother because his father, also a pilot, was killed in a jet-fighter crash in a storm. The youth goes ahead with his career but one day he encounters a bad storm.

The Far Sky

1982

Street Hero poster
NR

Back in 1982, a group of friends was celebrating the 10th anniversary of graduation. From their memory, through flashbacks, emerge the spirits of youth, the unrepentant sins of adults who instigated the anarchist rebellion of high school graduates and politics involved in their thoughts and plans.

Street Hero

1986

The Great Talent poster
NR

A group of factory workers is trying to make a theatrical play as amateur production, but political bigwigs want to supress them.

The Great Talent

1984

Rhiannon poster
8.0

A TV drama based on work by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas.

Rhiannon

1984

No artwork available
10.0

The story of a young writer who tries to save his personal identity while facing the corrupted environment and temptations of a love affair.

The Last Story

1987

The Last Lap at Monza poster
5.3

The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.

The Last Lap at Monza

1989

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

Azra poster
5.5

Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.

Azra

1988

Haloa - The Feast of the Whores poster
5.4

A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred. Nobody knows Meyra's secret, or her true reason for coming to Hvar.

Haloa - The Feast of the Whores

1988

Scenes from a Life poster
8.0

Rade is in love with Milica, but her father Marko, a village butcher, does not approve. He wants his son to finish school and leave the village. Marko buys a sick cow from Milica's father, puts a false stamp on it, and sells the meat as if it were healthy. Rade finds out that his father has been doing this for a long time, and so he comes into conflict with him.

Scenes from a Life

1980

Gazija poster
5.4

Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.

Gazija

1981

The Promising Boy poster
6.3

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to perform rebellious acts.

The Promising Boy

1981

Erogenous Zone poster
5.4

Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic has just finished his military service, and is faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and she's about to live with him. Having managed to employ himself in a chicken production factory, Moca becomes fascinated with modern technology, automatism and cybernetics in the plant. By putting 100% of himself into all phases of work and its risks, he exposes his erogenous zones to life and its temptations.

Erogenous Zone

1981

The House by the Railway Tracks poster
5.8

A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.

The House by the Railway Tracks

1988

Some Other Woman poster
6.8

The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.

Some Other Woman

1981

Sunflowers poster
5.7

A lonely old man neglected by his family stumbles upon a teenage girl who thinks he may need help. A warm friendship they develop makes his last days the best he ever had.

Sunflowers

1988

Milan - The Gift poster
9.0

The drama is about several prominent people of Serbian culture and art. Milan Savic, a well-known doctor from Novi Sad and writer from the turn of 20th century, feels a personal obligation to take care and deprive his friends of existential worries.

Milan - The Gift

1987

Fever of Love poster
4.9

Bane and Vesna are young and happy couple. Vesna gets pregnant, but soon she was told that Bane was not faithful to her, which was a lie made by their female acquintance. Vesna's parents decide to sell their little son to a German couple. After finding out what has happened, Bane kidnaps the baby and runs away with it on his motorcycle. With the help of his loyal friends, he seeks hideout from the police.

Fever of Love

1984

1970s · 16 titles

The Surgery poster
7.0

This TV movie is in the top TV movies filmed by TV Belgrade. Renowned doctor (surgeon), tired from daily work and meetings, in addition to high availability and problems, learned from a patient who is dying name of the murderer of his father and grandfather and that after 30 years since the end of World War II who was a Chetnik, learned the name the man who destroyed his childhood. Dilemma advanced to meet our doctor, that you do revenge or forgive the man who carries so many horrors. At a time when we have to decide what to do, chetnik who is now an old man comes with serious diseases in the hospital and on the operating table. This raises the issue now and in the consciousness comes Hippocratic oath, what to do now, kill and become animals or help relieve itself a considerable burden.

The Surgery

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

Rain poster
7.0

A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".

Rain

1972

The Man to Kill poster
5.8

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.

The Man to Kill

1979

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

Occupation in 26 Pictures poster
6.5

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

Occupation in 26 Pictures

1978

Life Is a Mass Phenomenon poster
5.9

Two friends dream of what they will do when they become adults. One friend dreams of travelling to far off places, but stays at home. The other one leaves and sends him postcards from exotic locations, with descriptions of impossible adventures. But, his friend at home engages in a passionate love affair with his beautiful young landlady. When his friend-the traveller returns he admits he may have exaggerated about some of his adventure stories.. The two friends continue on dreaming of new excitements.

Life Is a Mass Phenomenon

1970

Without a Word poster
6.5

The main protagonist is a young fellow who tries to live his life within 30 frames. He's a person suitable for any atmosphere, which makes him different from the rest. He's like a plant that differs from others, an informer who wants to escape out from his skin. This man loves, hates, eats, drinks, lies ill, laughs, cries, kisses, plays... These are agonies of a contemporary man.

Without a Word

1972

Pearl Barley poster
7.0

A TV drama about orphaned children.

Pearl Barley

1979

A Shot in the Plum Yard Across the River poster
9.0

A young enthusiastic teacher comes to the mountain village to open a school along the party lines. The head of the municipality helps him with that, for he believes that the lofty goals justify all the means to achieve them. But, on the field, things among the peasants are not going smoothly.

A Shot in the Plum Yard Across the River

1978

5 to 7 poster
10.0

A married couple from Belgrade comes on vacation as every other year. However, this summer will be different for Bora. One chance encounter on the beach will change his thinking about life. He falls in love with a beautiful librarian.

5 to 7

1976

The Security Service Closes the Circle poster
9.0

A foreign spy service sends Mitar Petrović, an engineer, to Belgrade. His mission is to contact an enemy group that for some time has been planning to sabotage a project of great significance to the Yugoslav economy. The enemy action also has a political dimension as it is planned to take place during an international symposium of scientist in Belgrade. Stopping at nothing, Mitar's group prepares the final coup. Gradually the security service uncovers this clever and well-planned plot…

The Security Service Closes the Circle

1974

The Bet poster
5.0

A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the life in suburbia, and gets back to her husband disappointed, disgraced and humiliated.

The Bet

1971

Bread poster
8.0

A small story of a small but happy man and his fight against poverty and drought. The story takes place in Kosovo in mid-seventies, and describes one family and her fight for survival.

Bread

1973

Ping without Pong poster
8.0

A chance meeting of old friends in the same train compartment. They go to the restaurant wagon for coffee. The lawyer and his wife are in the train restaurant. Apparently the looks of passion and longings of our friend from the compartment and the lawyer’s bring back thoughts from the past.

Ping without Pong

1974

Oxygen poster
5.7

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.

Oxygen

1970

1960s · 12 titles

Operation Belgrade poster
5.2

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.

Operation Belgrade

1968

Sasha poster
6.1

A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.

Sasha

1962

Noon poster
6.2

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Noon

1968

The Ninth Circle poster
7.0

In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.

The Ninth Circle

1960

Send a Man at Half Past One poster
6.5

A young slacker circumstantially gets involved in the smuggling of falsified English pounds via Trieste-Yugoslavia route. He helps the police to solve the case.

Send a Man at Half Past One

1967

No artwork available
6.3

While carrying the red flag and dynamite all the way up to the church tower, Niksha negligently draws the agents' attention. This prevents him and his female companion Vjeka to leave the tower. Until the morning of May 1st, which brings the highlight of a red flag flying over the occupied Split, Vjeka and Niksha spend the night of their long-awaited rapprochement.

Stairs of Bravery

1961

Some Far-Away Light poster
6.0

An ex-prosecutor comes to provincial hotel to commit suicide there. Prior to this act, he first calls persons who made him bring up such decision. Conversations over telephone reveal the causes and circumstances that led to tragedy.

Some Far-Away Light

1969

Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One poster
6.6

Five boys befriend a young loner who becomes their teacher of the adult world.

Frame for the Picture of My Beloved One

1968

The Rats Woke Up poster
5.8

An unsuccessful attempt of a lonely guy to change his pointless life. In search for a job and money he falls in love with a girl next door believing that she will change his life.

The Rats Woke Up

1967

The Restless Ones poster
5.7

One night, after a disastrous traffic accident, witnesses reported seeing a woman behind the wheel who fled the scene. In reality, it was four teenagers who stole a Peugeot 404 for a spin. Later, one of them got out and began hitchhiking, while the others were involved in a fatal accident after being chased by the police shortly afterward. The police continue their intensive search for the fourth teenager.

The Restless Ones

1967

The Feverish Years poster
7.2

A story of two people who fell in love and couldn't find their way in the big city: a man who came from the countryside to work in a steel factory and a woman who works in the factory restaurant.

The Feverish Years

1966

Unrelenting poster
8.0

The action takes place at the end of WWII. It is 1944 on the Yugoslav front, where the Bulgarian Army is fighting bloody battles against the retreating Nazi units. Several lorries loaded with Bulgarian soldiers make a detour so as to deliver ammunitions to an army unit. They are people with different convictions sharing a common goal - to come out victorious and to return to their peaceful everyday life. Among them are people who believe in the triumph of the new system and for whom the difficult crusade is a confirmation of their ideals. They are also uncertain people. For the youngest this is the first trial in life. A young Yugoslav woman helps them find the road through the dangerous front line. Her romance with the one of Bulgarian soldiers symbolizes solidarity in the struggle against the common enemy. After a series of difficulties and mishaps, the soldiers manage to deliver the ammunitions to their comrades.

Unrelenting

1964

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