Neda Spasojević

Acting

Neda Spasojević

Born 1941-04-16 · Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Neda Spasojević (April 16, 1941 – July 16, 1981) was a notable Serbian actress best known for her performances in films such as When I Am Dead and Gone (1967), Traces of a Black Haired Girl (1972), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972). She was married to painter Bane Minić and had a daughter, Isidora Minić, who also became an actress. Throughout her career, Neda received several prestigious awards, including the Pula Film Festival Award for Best Debut in A Time of Love and the Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 1969. She passed away in 1981 in Belgrade at the age of 40.

Acting credits

Walter Defends Sarajevo poster
7.1

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Walter Defends Sarajevo

1972

The Tail-Guy poster
NR

The eighth story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. An eternally undervalued and ridiculed clerk tries to change his attitude and life.

The Tail-Guy

1969

The Farm poster
NR

The adaptation of a play and a story of an ordinary family. The father is an alcoholic and a tyrant; the three daughters are long past the marriage age; the son is a poet and a wanderer; and the mother trying to bring them all together. The son's decision to marry and change his ways will shake the little peace left in the house.

The Farm

1975

A Collier's Friday poster
9.0

A Yugoslavian TV adaptation of the three-act by D.H. Lawrence, the very first play he wrote. The mother, Mrs. Lambert, loves her son Ernest with a deep possessive love against which he is beginning to strain, though he loves her deeply. Mother and children all reject and despise the father.

A Collier's Friday

1972

The Morning poster
7.5

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.

The Morning

1967

The Flight poster
10.0

The TV movie "Escape" shows the agony of "white" officers, soldiers and citizens who fled before the October Revolution, pursued by the power of the Red Army, but also by the blood of their own crimes. Composed in several "pictures", it is a kind of ballad about madness and despair, the battle for bare life, but also an elegy about exile, crime and punishment.

The Flight

1968

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5.8

The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.

Fear

1974

Merits poster
NR

A pre-war communist, who did not participate in the war, is included in the post-war society as a printing company manager. Haunted by the feeling of guilt, and needing to prove himself, he makes one mistake after another...

Merits

1973

One Summer at Spa poster
8.0

Set in a spa motel during summer, this is a story about the fancy lifestyle which gives these personalities a chance to imitate better, fashionable world of Europe. Hence they become the victims of one such fashion, the victims of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and its influence on generations of young people.

One Summer at Spa

1977

The Misunderstanding poster
7.0

Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.

The Misunderstanding

1972

The Daughter-in-Law poster
9.0

A Serbian TV adaptation of the famous play by D. H. Lawrence.

The Daughter-in-Law

1969

There's Love, There's Not poster
6.5

Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.

There's Love, There's Not

1968

An Event poster
6.7

A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.

An Event

1969

Backbone poster
6.5

An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.

Backbone

1975

The Falcon poster
5.0

Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.

The Falcon

1983

The Little Cafe poster
7.0

TV adaptation of the French comedy play "The Little Cafe", first performed in 1911. Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne.

The Little Cafe

1968

Certified: No Mines poster
5.7

October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.

Certified: No Mines

1965

Riders to the Sea poster
10.0

A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge’s plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal.

Riders to the Sea

1969

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

The South Railway Battle poster
6.0

Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.

The South Railway Battle

1978

The Square poster
7.0

A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confidences.

The Square

1967

Traces of a Black Haired Girl poster
5.9

A railway worker moves to another city and experiences a love affair with a suburban prostitute. Their encounter disturbs his solitude, and the two begin their life together.

Traces of a Black Haired Girl

1972

Requiem for a Heavyweight poster
6.7

The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1974

Shameful Summer poster
6.6

A returnee finds disapproval in his hometown he once left.

Shameful Summer

1969