Jadranka Selec

Acting

Jadranka Selec

Born 1954-10-09 · Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]

Jadranka Selec (born October 9, 1954) is a Yugoslav and Serbian actress. She graduated in acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1977. A permanent member of the ensemble of the Belgrade Drama Theater since 1978, Selec also occasionally appeared as an actress in feature films and series, and voiced characters in multiple animated features.

Acting credits

Love Comes After poster
NR

In this romantic tragedy, love drama, three stories are interwoven with characters that are trying to solve their emotional problems and unresolved relationships from the past during one night. Each of the characters survive their loneliness with others.

Love Comes After

2013

The Touch to Pain poster
7.0

Love story about old man struggling with wife's Alzheimer's disease.

The Touch to Pain

2017

The Spanish Request poster
NR

The docu-drama plays out just before the decision on financing Magellan's travels, which will reveal "the Western passage". Portugal cannot help, so he travels to Spain, where he is opposed by the Church.

The Spanish Request

1978

Humidity poster
4.1

The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.

Humidity

2016

Rooted poster
NR

A young man visits his grandmother in Belgrade, as he thinks she’s not well. A summer day spent in her vibrant neighborhood among food, beverages, and old acquaintances triggers in him a sense of not belonging.

Rooted

2023

Mother Mara poster
4.0

Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing to communicate with friends and family. However, when she meets Milan, Nemanja’s close friend, she finds solace and comfort in their relationship.

Mother Mara

2025

The Awkward Age poster
6.5

Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.

The Awkward Age

1994

No artwork available
10.0

A 1979 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Stevo Žigon, starring Jelena Zigon, Marko Todorović and Olga Spiridonovic.

Chains

1979

Endeavor poster
10.0

A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.

Endeavor

1982

The Timok Rebellion poster
6.3

In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he disbanded militia. However, people of Timok Valley decide not to surrender their arms to the regular troops. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of the event.

The Timok Rebellion

1983

A Cross in the Desert poster
NR

Pious girl Paraskeva became Saint after spending 40 years of her life in Jordan desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.

A Cross in the Desert

2022

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

Stitches poster
7.0

The story of a woman who firmly believes that her newborn baby was stolen from her more than 20 years ago, while she was told that her baby died.

Stitches

2019

Stay the Same poster
NR

Miroslav moves to a city and begins to study hard. He was very actively involved in the 1968 student riots. He meets Dragana, also a student activist, and they get married soon. While increasingly turning the attention to career prospects, he starts forgetting his former revolutionary slogans.

Stay the Same

1985

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

Emergency Exit poster
NR

Mr. Stojanovic got his first aid kit stolen... Petar is smoking out the window of his rented room... Mr. Ivanovic has a hearing problem... Luka and Marko are getting into a fight over a football game... Mr. Filipovic is sent by his wife to buy groceries...

Emergency Exit

2014