Darinka 'Dara' Čalenić

Acting

Darinka 'Dara' Čalenić

Born 1934-07-18 · Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Acting credits

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

The German Girl poster
10.0

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

The German Girl

1969

The Elusive Summer of '68 poster
7.6

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

A popular folk singer is found murdered. Two police detectives are investigating his past in order to catch the killer.

The Knife

1967

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

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

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

The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic poster
7.2

Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").

The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic

1980

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

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

When I Am Dead and White poster
7.3

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

Foolish Years poster
6.8

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

Cognac poster
5.3

A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.

Cognac

1988

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

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 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

Happy Family poster
5.5

Lively, modern comedy around the escapades and relationships of a well-to-do family.

Happy Family

1980

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

The Cabinet Minister's Wife poster
9.2

After becoming a minister's wife, Živka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after being involved in a scandal. Based on highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nušić.

The Cabinet Minister's Wife

1958

The Wind Dropped Before Dawn poster
6.6

Members of Jasna's group are suspicious because of her firing from occupation Special police squad and they start avoiding her. She finds out the members of the group have been betrayed but they become even more suspicious. At the moment when they were ready to liquidate her the true traitor is revealed. Thanks to Jasna's courage an action becomes success and she regains their trust.

The Wind Dropped Before Dawn

1959

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

Father by Force poster
6.3

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

Kiss, Kiss, But Don't Lose Your Head poster
6.5

Mary and Bob continuing his love spend the summer in the voluntary youth but their parents affect the foolish. The peak occurs when the life Zika, after a brief flirtation with Marys mother implicate two German girls Elza and Giza.

Kiss, Kiss, But Don't Lose Your Head

1981

Priest Cira and Priest Spira poster
7.0

Life of the village elite, the two priest families, goes quietly in mutual understanding and friendship. The discord is inserted when a young teacher is able to marry the daughter of only one of the priests. Based on a popular novel by Stevan Sremac.

Priest Cira and Priest Spira

1957