
Acting
Rahela Ferari
Born — Died
1911-08-27 — 1994-02-12
Place of birth
Zemun, Serbia
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
Rahela Ferari was a Serbian actress. She was born as the White Rohel Frajnd. Since 1930. to 1940. she worked in the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, since 1940. to 1941. the Art Theatre in Belgrade. During the World War II she did not play. Since 1945. to 1947. was again performed in Novi Sad. Since the establishment of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, 1947., she was the star of the theater. In Novi Sad played a major role in a variety of domestic and international repertoire. She was married to actor Aleksandar Stojkovic.
Known for
8.6The 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
5.5TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.
Balkan Express 2
1989
8.7A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
Grey Home
1986
6.6Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.
The Unpicked Strawberries
1976
7.0Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.
Paradise
1993
10.0Trieste in 1807. Dositej Obradovic, founder of modern Serbian literature and the minister of education, goes through a creative and spiritual decline because of love of a young woman. Despite his old age, he can't resist this strong emotional flame, and subsequently travels to Belgrade following his agreement to be the leader of the Serbian uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
The Pillow of My Grave
1991
Film credits
1990s · 5 titles
7.0Milos Crnjanski, the great Serbian writer, returns home after the turmoil and chaos of the First World War. Tired and disappointed, he decides to spend night at the local brothel.
Paradise
1993
5.8The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
Say Why Have You Left Me?
1993
5.2Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
Let's Make Love 3
1990
4.5A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Tango Argentino
1992
5.4A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
Better Than Escape
1993
1980s · 10 titles
4.3In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Manifesto
1988
6.9When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
Strangler vs Strangler
1984
6.4At 56 years of age Mita Pantic is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Tight Skin
1982
6.3Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced by the Soviet authorities.
The Harms Case
1987
6.5TV movie by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Rahela Ferari.
Five o'clock Tea
1984
4.9Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.
Pretty Women Walking Through the City
1986
5.8After car crash with some Turk, Pantic gets the idea to build a motel for all Turks who traveling through Yugoslavia. Sojic wants to thwart the plan, and tells the Turk in confidence that Pantic is gay. However, the Turk is also gay.
Tight Skin 2
1987
6.5Dimitrije Pantic loses his suitcase with business projects in an overcrowded bus, only to find a similar one - yet full of foreign currencies. This money turns his life upside down, but it also influences other people's ambitions.
Tight Skin 3
1988
6.0A graduated architect, looking for work, leaves for small border town of Subotica full of fresh ideas. He comes back depressed and disillusioned still looking for job. He tries to join his old friends, hoping they would help him to find happiness he wants. He spends one night with his highschool friends, but memories come back to haunt him, old wounds open again... That night, he sees his generation in true colors and he's trying to salvage at least some of good memories. At dawn, one girl commits suicide, one of his friends is taken by military police, the rest are seriously shook up by events. Coming back from police station, he finds a message from Subotica asking him to come back for work...
Stairway to Heaven
1983
6.8The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.
Some Other Woman
1981
1970s · 9 titles
6.6One week in life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
National Class Category Up to 785ccm
1979
6.8The adventures of a truck driver and his fellow associate, who both leave their company refusing to meet the newly introduced criteria of having elementary school degree. Being in their 40s and totally talentless for education, they decide to leave the company and go private. However, the world outside their company has been completely changed over the years, and after the series of bad lucks, they will summarize their position and go back to school.
Truckers
1973
A satirical look at the prewar Serbian elite and their petty bourgeoisie way of life.
Sweet Life, Serbian Style
1971
7.0The script is inspired by a true event from the Second World War: an appeal to the Serbian people to collaborate with the occupier. Each of the characters decides according to the appeal inherent in his being and his personality. In this case, the basic conflict is between father and son.
The Departure of Damjan Radovanovic
1974
4.9A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
This Crazy World of Ours
1970
7.7A 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
10.0This comedy shows the events before the Second World War. Master Toza, a rich and prominent merchant, hires judge Andra to teach his daughter Ljubica. Andra is a poor student and SKOJ member, in which he organizes courses on class struggle and other activities with other youths.
Andra and Ljubica
1975
7.2Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.
The Tiger
1978
8.5A retired professor returns to his estate with his beautiful young wife Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his now-deceased first wife; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. The professor's daughter Sonya, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable, and calls Dr. Astrov to treat his gout, then sends him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Yelena's presence introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household: Astrov and Uncle Vanya fall in love with her and she spurns them both.
Uncle Vanya
1970
1960s · 10 titles
7.1The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
1967
10.0A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.
The German Girl
1969
6.2A story about several people who share the same yard within their block, and a piece of blue sky above 'em.
A Piece of Blue Sky
1961
9.0Tragi-comedy about a man who, overnight, becomes rich by winning a lottery.
The Great Day
1969
Anika, the daughter of the Greek partisan refugee and the Hungarian medical student, Zoltán fall in passionate love. But Anika's mother wants her to marry a Greek, for she is very homesick and wants to go home. The under-age girl cannot protest.
Before God and Man
1968
10.0A group of children build a loft in an abandoned yard, but instead of pigeons, a man and his two sons move into it. At first, boys try to get rid of the unwanted intruders, but eventually they befriend with them. However, the municipality sends their men to tear down the illegal housing, but the children decide to stop them at all costs.
When the Pigeons Arrive
1968
8.0The main protagonist is a modest teacher who is getting involved in the clash of two criminal gangs.
No Dead Allowed
1965
6.5The citizens of a small town find it difficult to depart from its center, which is to be demolished to build a new, a more functional one. The chairman of the municipality, the first citizen of this small town, supports the plan of female architect-designer, a pretty girl he fell for. But to make locals sure that he didn't approve the old center's demolition under her influence, the president begins to avoid the girl, who then marries another man. By carrying out the ritual wedding, the first citizen of a small town is left with his city all alone.
The First Citizen of a Small Town
1961
6.5The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.
Fourteenth Day
1960
A 1969 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Predrag Bajčetić, starring Sima Janicijevic, Rahela Ferari and Ljuba Tadić.
Over the Dead
1969
1950s · 4 titles
5.5Down under the constant attacks of the German and Bulgarian forces, headquarters one of the partisan detachment in the midst of a severe winter and snow and difficult terrain, with many wounded, he decided to leave the mountain Jastrebac. Gvozden, a peasant from that area, brave warrior, opposes such a decision, was gets ready to leave the unit before detachment. In the interests of discipline, however, Gvozden was convicted and executed on the spot, although it regrets the whole squad.
The Sun Is Far Away
1953
6.8A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
Perfidy
1953
6.5A woman comes to Sarajevo to find out more about her brother's death. The only source she has is a message on a piece of paper she got from him: "Look for Vanda Kos".
Look for Vanda Kos
1957
6.2A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.
Ivo, the Monk
1951
Series credits
8.6The 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
5.5TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.
Balkan Express 2
1989
8.7A moving story about the residents of correctional facility, rejected by parents and environment. Going through a strict regimen of life in the home, they are constantly trying to reverse the fate in their favor. Although they were given a chance to change, their actions always return to the beginning. Constantly on the border between personal whims and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become humans, they remain as wolves who find hard to change their mood. What finally remains is a perpetual dilemma whether their fate is innate, or is it forced by the communities in which they grew up...
Grey Home
1986
6.6Grlom u jagode is a 1975 Yugoslavian TV miniseries directed by Srđan Karanović and co-written by Karanović and Rajko Grlić. Depicting the life and times of a young man nicknamed Bane Bumbar, the series achieved huge popularity throughout SFR Yugoslavia. Revolving around Bane, his family, and his circle of friends, the series also portrays 1960s Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia.
The Unpicked Strawberries
1976
10.0Trieste in 1807. Dositej Obradovic, founder of modern Serbian literature and the minister of education, goes through a creative and spiritual decline because of love of a young woman. Despite his old age, he can't resist this strong emotional flame, and subsequently travels to Belgrade following his agreement to be the leader of the Serbian uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
The Pillow of My Grave
1991
9.0Funny peasant granny moves from her village to Belgrade with her grandson so he can finish elementary school in the city. The clash between the human, rural, and honest and the depraved, false, and petty-bourgeois is inevitable.
Granny's Grandchild
1977
