Darinka 'Dara' Čalenić

Acting

Darinka 'Dara' Čalenić

Born — Died

1934-07-18 — 2021-03-12

Place of birth

Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Truckers poster
8.6

The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.

Truckers

1973

Hot Wind poster
8.9

Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.

Hot Wind

1980

The Elusive Summer of '68 poster
7.4

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

The Elusive Summer of '68

1984

The Knife poster
6.4

In 1960s Belgrade, a young and much-loved singer Aleksandar Kiš is murdered in his flat. His body is discovered by Ana, his model lover. For Inspector Marko and his team, the case seems unsolvable. The subsequent investigation pieces together the victim’s past and reveals the price of his success: ambition, cynicism and many enemies.

The Knife

1967

The Beach Guard in Winter poster
5.5

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

The Beach Guard in Winter

1976

Mister Dimkovic poster
8.0

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.

Mister Dimkovic

1979

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 10 titles

The Beach Guard in Winter poster
5.5

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

The Beach Guard in Winter

1976

Mister Dimkovic poster
8.0

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.

Mister Dimkovic

1979

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

I'm Poor But Angry poster
7.0

A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the locals and farmers, makes friends with them and even tries to organize the plans, activities and schedules of the village. He also runs a parallel, intimate life with the several village girls. When the locals realize that these plans will not come true, they blame him for the failure.

I'm Poor But Angry

1970

The Time of Horses poster
9.5

After his uncle returned from the WW2 on a white horse, the boy Danko immediately falls for the animal and they become inseparable. Danko rides it on his way to school, gallops by the river… Yet this causes envy of Danko’s friends, but also of hungry locals who only see the horse as a food source.

The Time of Horses

1972

Foolish Years poster
6.6

Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a plan to help the young couple out.

Foolish Years

1977

The Farce of Master Pathelin poster
10.0

Farsa o Patlenu is a Yugoslav TV movie from 1970, produced by RTV Belgrade. It is an adaptation of the famous 15th-century French medieval farce, 'La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'. The story follows a crafty, bankrupt lawyer who resorts to trickery to obtain fine cloth from a greedy draper. The film was directed by Jovan Konjović and the screenplay was written by Miroslav Karaulac.

The Farce of Master Pathelin

1970

What a Day! poster
10.0

Zoran leads a quiet family life with his wife, a primary school teacher Ana, their son, and Ana’s brother. Zoran works as a clerk and has a great desire to attend a symposium in Dubrovnik, but the manager will not sign the travel order.

What a Day!

1979

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 Jukebox poster
9.0

The plot is focused around three women in an old tavern, famous for its jukebox that was left over to the landlady by her husband when he went on a trip from which he never returned. There is also a spinster-turned-alcoholic because her fiance left her, as well as a young waitress who is waiting for her own fiance but has the impression that she will remain alone like these two. Various new men enter their lives, and in many different ways they destroy the memory of those who left them or contributed to their situation.

The Jukebox

1971

1960s · 9 titles

The Knife poster
6.4

In 1960s Belgrade, a young and much-loved singer Aleksandar Kiš is murdered in his flat. His body is discovered by Ana, his model lover. For Inspector Marko and his team, the case seems unsolvable. The subsequent investigation pieces together the victim’s past and reveals the price of his success: ambition, cynicism and many enemies.

The Knife

1967

The German Girl poster
10.0

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

The German Girl

1969

Cat Under a Helmet poster
5.9

A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.

Cat Under a Helmet

1962

Don't Meddle Into Fortune poster
9.5

Farcical comedy about an apartment which is shared by a couple of families plus their relations.

Don't Meddle Into Fortune

1961

When I Am Dead and White poster
7.4

The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.

When I Am Dead and White

1967

No artwork available
7.0

A 1969 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Predrag Bajčetić, starring Sima Janicijevic, Rahela Ferari and Ljuba Tadić.

Over the Dead

1969

A Trip Around the World poster
5.8

A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.

A Trip Around the World

1964

Father by Force poster
6.2

The story is inspired by the comedy of the most famous Yugoslav playwriter Branislav Nušić. Žarko, a young poet is being chased by police for publishing an anti-regime poem. He hides in his friend Dušan's house, who introduced him to his parents and sister Zorica under the name of his old school mate, Vlajko Mićić. Love will develop between the false “Veljko” and Zorica, who admires Žarko’s poems. However, the poet does not reveal his true identity. Zorica’s parents notice the love between the two young people, and on the advise of their family friend secretly invite Vlajko’s father to come to their home.

Father by Force

1969

No artwork available
8.0

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

The Canterville Ghost

1962

1950s · 4 titles

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