Olga Odanović

Acting

Olga Odanović

Born 1958-08-29 · Celje, Yugoslavia

Olga  ​Odanović Petrovic is a Serbian theater and film actress. She graduated acting 1985. at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, in class of professor Milenko Maricic. She was under contract with theater "Bosko Buha" for 18 years, and since 2006. she is employed at the National Theatre in Belgrade. She is married to actor Dragan Petrovic.

Acting credits

The Witch Hunters poster
5.7

Ten-year-old Jovan was born with partial cerebral palsy. Shy, self-conscious and without many friends, he often escapes in his imagination to a place where he is a crime-fighting superhero not limited by his own body. His world shifts when a new girl arrives in his class. Milica, not intimidated by much, chooses the seat next to Jovan and immediately enlists him to help her free her father from his girlfriend, whom she is convinced is a witch who has placed her father under a spell.

The Witch Hunters

2018

Home poster
7.8

In the hope of creating a better life, 6-year-old Maja and her parents leave Yugoslavia for Denmark, leaving behind Maja’s two older brothers with the promise they will join once the family is settled. But the new country proves difficult and unfamiliar, and the family struggles to adapt to a new language, culture, and way of life. As the years pass, Maja grows up and becomes a successful artist in Denmark, yet beneath her achievements, she carries a divide of joy, sorrow, and gratitude—torn between the life she has built and the painful sacrifices her parents made for their future.

Home

2026

Ice poster
3.5

An apotheosis of loyalty and love. A tale of lost happiness and dreams, fears and transience, supremacy of fate and laws of nature, gratitude and cruelty of nature, inability of man to change that and influence the course of his own life.

Ice

2012

Spring on the Last Lake poster
NR

The film follows the celebrated writer and Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during WWII, when diplomats and diplomatic staff from Yugoslav missions from countries occupied by the Third Reich, including Andrić, who was ambassador of the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Berlin, were deported to a hotel on Lake Constance.

Spring on the Last Lake

2020

No artwork available
10.0

What happened to guys and girls of Military academy since we last saw them? The first generation of cadets continue their adventures with the addition of some new blood. What one generation knows, and another is about to find out is that Military academy is not just a school, but way of life.

Military Academy 3: The New Beginning

2016

The Home Resort poster
NR

In a society where going on holiday is a matter of prestige, one family will do everything they can to maintain their social status, for which they have fought tirelessly for years, by spending ten days locked in their apartment, pretending to be on vacation.

The Home Resort

2026

Double Trouble poster
6.2

Radašin and Milašin are brothers but they don't talk with each other. Both of them got letters inviting them on mysterious journey from their village to Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Each one has an amusing path that leads to one place, but their family won't let them fulfill their destiny alone in the end.

Double Trouble

2016

Gucha! poster
7.0

Juliet, a white girl, falls in love with a dark-skinned romeo, a divine trumpet player from the Roma orchestra. But her father Satchmo doesn't accept Romeo. Romeo needs to fight for Juliet at the legendary Festival of the trumpeters in Gucha.

Gucha!

2006

Love and Marriage poster
8.0

A TV adaptation of comedy novel by Jovan Sterija Popovic. In the manner of an experienced analyst, Sterija portrays the topic of finding a life companion as an essential need to build a life with seductive illusions, in which banality and kitsch are important building blocks.

Love and Marriage

1997

How I Learned to Fly poster
8.2

12-year-old Sofija is seemingly facing a boring summer vacation with two grandmothers. However, new friendships, a first kiss, and long kept family secrets will turn this summer on the idyllic Adriatic island of Hvar into a priceless experience and an unforgettable adventure.

How I Learned to Fly

2022

The Trap poster
7.4

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

The Trap

2007

When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo poster
8.3

A young student Braca is trying to seduce a beautiful model Iris. Although they are from two different worlds, they both try not to show it. In another story, Šomi and Duje anxiously follow the football match between Manchester and Eastwich. They bet on Eastwich, because their childhood friend Kengur is their goalkeeper. The plot of the third story takes place on the roof of the solitaire, where Avaks and Hibrid are wasting time in anticipation of something happening.

When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo

2004

Orchestra of One Youthhood poster
4.7

True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.

Orchestra of One Youthhood

1985

First Class: Full Speed! poster
6.0

The plot follows rivals Beba and Nemac as they race iconic Yugos, chasing the national championship and their dreams of Formula 1. However, racing isn't their only source of adrenaline.

First Class: Full Speed!

2024

The Optimists poster
6.7

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."

The Optimists

2006

For the King and Fatherland poster
4.0

The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a member of the "Ravnogorski pokret". The storyline narrates his memories of the past and the war events in the spring of 1941 interwoven with the contemporary moments, the author features the attack of fascist Germany, the April war and the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the misfortune placed upon the Serbian people, loss of freedom, birth of the freedom movement in Serbia and one Serbian soldier, who after 70 years of expatriation in America returns to his homeland.

For the King and Fatherland

2015

Have You Seen This Woman? poster
6.3

In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.

Have You Seen This Woman?

2022

When Day Breaks poster
6.3

The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.

When Day Breaks

2012

Better Life poster
7.0

A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head of the Popadić family, organizes a Women's Day shopping trip to Thessaloniki, Greece, for his female coworkers.

Better Life

1989

Front Page Midgets poster
2.2

For 40 year old Nikola, everyday life is just about producing the worst, the most vulgar reality shows and hidden cameras for TV. His life begins to change when he starts to mentor young girl pushed to be star by her ambitious mother. In turn of the events, Nikola starts to wonder if it is he who is the target of some hidden camera show.

Front Page Midgets

2018

Celts poster
5.1

Belgrade in 1993. The pent-up tension of uncertain times is released at a children’s birthday party. While the kids celebrate in the living room dressed up as Ninja Turtles, the adults discuss, flirt, smoke and drink in the kitchen.

Celts

2022

The Funeral, the Bijouterie and an Occasional Coat poster
7.0

The story follows humorous moments around a seemingly ordinary funeral.After the mother's death, the sons return to their native village to prepare the funeral.Upon arrival,they learn that her wish was to be buried with a priceless locket.

The Funeral, the Bijouterie and an Occasional Coat

2023

Loveless Zoritsa poster
5.8

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her are dying in most bizarre ways. The plot thickens when stubborn policeman Maane who doesn't believe in 'village tales' tries to investigate whether Zorica is a serial killer or a girl looking for love.

Loveless Zoritsa

2012

Silk Thread poster
7.0

In a remote mountain village, young Miša lives with his father and grandmother, harboring a secret talent and dream of becoming a violinist despite the harsh realities around him. When he reconnects with childhood friend Ema, her encouragement helps him realize the power of perseverance and the importance of following one’s dreams against all odds.

Silk Thread

2023