Mira Banjac

Acting

Mira Banjac

Born 1929-11-04 · Erdevik, Šid, Srbija

Acting credits

Stardust poster
7.7

A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.

Stardust

1976

Once Upon a Time in Serbia poster
6.0

This is a warm human story set between the two world wars in Leskovac, where a real miracle happens with an unusual set of circumstances and builds the history of that small place where great people live...

Once Upon a Time in Serbia

2022

Sixth Gear poster
6.6

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

Sixth Gear

1981

Cabaret Balkan poster
7.5

20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Cabaret Balkan

1998

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame poster
7.9

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

1996

Strawberries in the Throat poster
4.9

A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.

Strawberries in the Throat

1985

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

Yellow Ribbons poster
7.0

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.

Yellow Ribbons

1973

Ekran sneži poster
8.0

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind, thus finding out more about the ill children she cured and the secrets of this sleepy settlement.

Ekran sneži

1984

Rage poster
7.0

Overcome by an irrational rage, a 17 year-old hatchet man kidnaps his boss who had managed to cover up his true identity and become part of the establishment. The Kid takes this one time hero of his to a hideout in a huge, deserted steel mill where the two experience a kind of enlightenment after some twenty hours of infernal games and agony.

Rage

1997

Interests poster
10.0

A 1980 Serbo-Croatian language short film directed by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Ljiljana Krstic, Branislav Jerinić and Radmila Andrić.

Interests

1980

The World poster
7.0

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

The World

1990

Handymen, Handymen poster
7.6

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Handymen, Handymen

1980

Peasants poster
8.0

Comedy about the life of a modern village family and many neighbors of theirs, dealing with Serbian mentality at the turn of the XXI century. Based on TV series of the same title.

Peasants

2001

From Zero to Hero poster
4.9

Mladen (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Montenegrin Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, Sonja (40), who is married to Metod (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.

From Zero to Hero

2014

The Beauty of Vice poster
6.8

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.

The Beauty of Vice

1986

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? poster
7.4

Growing up in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man comes of age under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, but is attracted by the world of small-time criminals. He's hired to hide a young prostitute, whom he falls in love with.

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

1981

Lazar poster
6.0

A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.

Lazar

1984

Pipedreams poster
6.0

A tragicomic story of a department store seller.

Pipedreams

1968

Salting Tubs poster
8.0

Koka is a woman who does not find understanding for herself either in her daughter, or in her brother, or in her immediate surroundings. She left behind a bitter experience of a failed relationship with her ex-husband Jezdimir, but also the current disappointments.

Salting Tubs

1973

Grandma poster
6.0

Milica lives with her aging grandmother in the Serbian countryside. When Milica’s uncle arrives, he delivers the surprising news that they are departing for Germany and in order to cross the border, Milica must pretend to be his son. However, Milica is very resistant to the idea of leaving her grandmother.

Grandma

2016

Yellow poster
6.2

A girl with a nickname "Yelow one" lives in the whirlpool of modern metropola. Without experiencing childhood, naive and simpleminded, she becomes a wanderer, although she has a burning desire for home and quiet life. The big city life laws get her in troubles, sad and, at least for her, unintelligible...

Yellow

1973

Sorrow poster
10.0

Sorrows of an old man who drives horse-drawn carriage which was once owned by his dead son.

Sorrow

1981

Balkan Spy poster
7.7

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.

Balkan Spy

1984