Filip Šovagović

Acting

Filip Šovagović

Born 1966-09-13 · Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)

Filip Šovagović (born September 13, 1966 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian actor, playwright and journalist. At first known simply as the son of renowned Croatian actor Fabijan Šovagović borned in Ladimirevci, Filip Šovagović has appeared in many films and TV shows in the last decade and a half, gradually building a reputation of his own. His films include No Man's Land, Oscar winner, and in 2005 he made his directorial début with the film Pušća Bistra. Šovagović is author of five plays, one of them, "The Brick", won the most important European radio award, Grand Prix of Italia. He writes a column in the Croatian daily newspaper 24 sata. His sister Anja Šovagović-Despot is also a renowned actress.

Acting credits

No Man's Land poster
7.5

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

No Man's Land

2001

Reality poster
NR

The destiny unites two homeless men in the S.O.S. canteen. A failed actor and lost poet begin telling each other the key events from their lives. After an extraordinary twist we become aware that the two men are popular and will participate in a film experiment on the Moon.

Reality

2008

In Four Rows poster
6.9

The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.

In Four Rows

1999

Sucks poster
NR

A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.

Sucks

2012

Sandbag Dam poster
6.2

A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father’s funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman named Marko, his teenage love, and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against the family restraints.

Sandbag Dam

2025

Wind Beneath the Wings poster
NR

Anica (60) resists her ongoing chemotherapy while perceiving her daughter’s care as an assault on her dignity. Vlatko (60) is an alcoholic and a loner, completely written off by his work colleagues. Filled with mutual contempt, Anica and Vlatko separated long ago and seemingly no longer communicate. On their drawn-out paths toward oblivion, they search for an ally who will hear their desperate cry for the will to live.

Wind Beneath the Wings

2026

The Last Will poster
4.6

After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.

The Last Will

2001

Good Children poster
NR

After their mother's funeral, estranged siblings Nikola and Saša spend three days in their childhood home, clearing out their mother's belongings and preparing the house for sale. Trying to postpone the inevitable, they also try to clean up their relationship. Failing to communicate as adults, they regress into childhood…

Good Children

2025

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer poster
5.5

Protagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer

1998

No artwork available
NR

Goran's everyday life alternates between taking care of his mother and watching over his two maturing sons. Whilst having a few chaotic moments, its rather cyclical and calm in its own right. However, when his stubborn and eccentric older brother Marijan is forced by circumstances to move in with the already disfunctional family, the chaos they all found themselves in already becomes all the more apparent.

Rams

Trail of the Beast poster
NR

An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.

Trail of the Beast

2022

No artwork available
NR

Franjo's mid-life crisis isn't made any easier by the recent passing of his best friend and a terrible divorce. Being unable to cope with this in a mature way, he slips into alcoholism, trapping himself in an endless loop of his own making.

Looping

No artwork available
NR

Daša, a succsesful entrepeneur, returns to Croatia to take care of her dying mother after years of working abroad, learning to value her family and take the wheel as the new head of the household.

Mum, Dad and I

Slow Surrender poster
7.0

Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle, and on his way he will be accompanied by slightly mentally troubled Lukas and a vagabond girl.

Slow Surrender

2001

Grandma Bijela poster
8.0

Old woman was taken by her son to live in the big city. She finds adapting difficult and longs for return home.

Grandma Bijela

1992

Escort poster
3.2

For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.

Escort

2023

Every Time We Part poster
10.0

In Autumn of 1991, a Croatian soldier looses his wife and home to Serbian forces. Panicked, he grabs his daughter and, with nowhere else left to go, they leave for Zagreb, hoping to find shelter there. But, it turns out the streets of the war torn capitol are not much more safe nor pleasant than the village they had to leave behind.

Every Time We Part

1997

Life Is a Trumpet poster
5.7

Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.

Life Is a Trumpet

2015

Love Life of a Gentle Coward poster
3.8

Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.

Love Life of a Gentle Coward

2009

Sokol Did Not Love Him poster
6.5

The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.

Sokol Did Not Love Him

1988

The Living and the Dead poster
6.0

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.

The Living and the Dead

2007

A Shokac Woman poster
10.0

A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard Galić, starring Vlasta Knezović, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.

A Shokac Woman

1996

Metastases poster
7.2

Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.

Metastases

2009

Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing poster
5.8

In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather, who had been labled as an enemy of the state and sentenced to a prison camp, was actually been innocent all along.

Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing

1991

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