Minja Vojvodić

Acting

Minja Vojvodić

Known for

Acting

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47 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

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

Balkan Express 2 poster
5.5

TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.

Balkan Express 2

1989

The Forgotten Ones poster
7.7

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

The Forgotten Ones

1992

The Black Bomber poster
6.3

In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.

The Black Bomber

1992

Doctor in the Village poster
9.0

A village hospital employs pretty female doctor. Now even those who do not need any medical help start coming, just to see their beautiful and young doctor.

Doctor in the Village

1983

Film credits

1990s · 20 titles

The Black Bomber poster
6.3

In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.

The Black Bomber

1992

Under the Grindstone poster
9.0

Based on a play, it consists of three one-acts: "Merry Home", "At the Break" and "Before a New Life". The author depicts the grim world of the Belgrade outskirts, and the people who are bound by a common yard and common destiny, those faced with a wall of hopelessness.

Under the Grindstone

1991

The Serbian Girl poster
10.0

The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.

The Serbian Girl

1991

Flashback poster
4.0

A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war.

Flashback

1997

Balkan Rules poster
5.7

Movie about secret relations between Yugoslavian, Serbian and Croatian secret police during last 50 years. Here in Balkans truth and lies are so much mixed and it lasts so long that no one knows the difference. That is why this fictitious story looks so true.

Balkan Rules

1997

A Holy Place poster
5.4

Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row.

A Holy Place

1990

A House to Be Demolished poster
NR

Spomenka is “neither a child nor an adult” and she, after the breakup of her family, lives at her aunt’s. Her mother announces return from abroad after a long period, which awakes hope with Spomenka that everbody would be together again.

A House to Be Demolished

1991

Deserter poster
4.8

During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.

Deserter

1992

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

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret poster
4.2

Two friends who work in a detective agency rob their boss in order to be hired by him to find the thieves. Their plan goes wrong after the man with a white hat steals their money. The investigation leads them to a casino cabaret club run by notorious Cornelone.

Gunfight at Casino Cabaret

1993

Eighth Day in a Week poster
9.0

A middle-aged businessman is left by his wife, who was dissatisfied with their marital routine. For the first time, he is left alone and without obligations. He meets a young gypsy girl, a singer in a pub orchestra, and begins to wander the city with her, discovering a completely different world.

Eighth Day in a Week

1990

Sugar Loaf poster
5.8

It describes the social process of stratification in the Serbian countryside during late 19th century, which occurs with the penetration of the commodity-money in the countryside. Under new conditions, peasants and farmers are unable to adapt, and rot under the burden of debts.

Sugar Loaf

1991

The Burglar poster
10.0

The backbone of the story is the beating of the main heroine, an old and lonely woman, who is trying to draw the attention of her daughter and her family.

The Burglar

1995

Sekula Innocent Accused poster
4.5

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

Sekula Innocent Accused

1992

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

See You in Chicago poster
5.1

In this spoof of gangster and crime films, two veteran detectives get involved in mafia world. One of them is hired by a kingpin to follow his wife who seems suspicious.

See You in Chicago

1996

Boulevard of the Revolution poster
6.3

A love story between a teenager girl and a small time mob set in Belgrade during the times of great political turmoil.

Boulevard of the Revolution

1992

Tsubok poster
9.0

A butcher and his associate befriend a group of workers from construction site. Escape from family problems only makes new ones for the duo.

Tsubok

1990

A Diary of Insults poster
3.6

Middle-aged couple try to preserve at least some of their dignified life in times of war, poverty and sanctions.

A Diary of Insults

1994

No artwork available
5.0

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

1980s · 10 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

Mister Dollar poster
7.0

Based on the work of the same name by Branislav Nušić. The film satirizes societal obsession with money through eccentric characters vying for wealth in a lighthearted setting.

Mister Dollar

1989

Sekula and His Women poster
4.1

A village blacksmith Sekula, hard-muscled but soft-hearted, has terrible luck when it comes to love. Many women pass through his house - a local spinster of ill health, a belly dancer, a veterinarian experienced in the castration of bulls a singing star-to-be - but stay just long enough to give birth to another child, only to then run away.

Sekula and His Women

1986

A Sentimental Story poster
NR

A man devoted to his marriage and long-time partner is shaken by an encounter with the pretty young lady who was secretly infatuated with him while she was still a girl.

A Sentimental Story

1989

The Death of Black George poster
9.0

The story about the death of Karadjordje, the elected leader of the First Serbian Uprising that aimed at liberating Serbia from the Ottoman Empire.

The Death of Black George

1984

Six Days in June poster
4.2

A young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.

Six Days in June

1985

This Time Only poster
6.7

A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody knows that the old man is mortally ill.

This Time Only

1983

The Damned Yard poster
8.0

Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.

The Damned Yard

1984

A Man Who Ate a Wolf poster
8.5

After being ridiculed by his surrounding, a man who makes the wooden sculptures leaves the village with his best man to live high up in the mountain and devote to his hobby.

A Man Who Ate a Wolf

1981

Savamala poster
6.0

In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and there are hints that the bloody strikes are a prelude to a major battle. The young man tries to escape from the slums and live in a better society. He falls in love and draws comics, while Savamala offers him the misery of everyday life, the world of criminals, gamblers, anarchists, singers and failed poets.

Savamala

1982

1970s · 12 titles

Thief's Comeback poster
7.0

The plot follows two elderly convicts who return home after serving a multi-year sentence and face the challenges of life at large.

Thief's Comeback

1975

Zarki poster
5.7

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.

Zarki

1970

The Servant poster
7.2

Film is based on a folk tale and tells about how you cannot run away from your destiny. Events take place in unknown place a few centuries ago. Rich landlord cannot have children despite the fact he has a young wife. He hires an unknown drifter who is roaming trough their area with intentions to give him an heir.

The Servant

1973

The Dervish and Death poster
6.3

Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.

The Dervish and Death

1974

Das Wirtshaus der sündigen Töchter poster
4.1

Lilli and Christl, blonde twins, live in the Upper Bavarian countryside. While Lilli is the prettier of the two and attracts a lot of male attention, Christl is a real country girl.

Das Wirtshaus der sündigen Töchter

1978

Tecumseh poster
5.0

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has made and broke no less than fifteen such treaties, driving increasing numbers of Indians out to the infertile West. To put a stop to this criminal practice, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh tries to unite the Native Americans.

Tecumseh

1972

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels poster
10.0

The title protagonist is Aleksandar Ignjatovic, a modest young man who spoke against the occupiers during the German occupation in the Second World War. In addition to the acted part, it also contains documentary segments, i.e. contemporary interviews with his friends, acquaintances and relatives.

Ignjatovic vs. Goebbels

1975

The Tiger poster
7.2

Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.

The Tiger

1978

The Boy and the Violin poster
7.0

The war is over. Children without mothers and fathers, children of fighters who fell for freedom...This is the story about such boys who placed in the homes for children of fallen soldiers. One of these homes was especially for boys with gift for music. One of them was a boy named Goran. he and his best friend exchanged violins. The difference in violins was only in color, but this one reminded him strangely of the past he past. All his boyish feelings and is tender memories of his mother killed in war, Goran put into his music, producing wonderful sounds on the dark violin. But it was this violin that caused many misunderstanding in the Home.

The Boy and the Violin

1975

The Colonel's Wife poster
6.0

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience the true Empire's decline through the meeting with disillusioned army.

The Colonel's Wife

1972

Love and Rage poster
6.8

The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.

Love and Rage

1978

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

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