Acting
Neda Spasojević
Born — Died
1941-04-16 — 1981-07-16
Place of birth
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Known for
Acting
Credits
38 titles
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.
Known for
7.0Sarajevo 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
10.0Samci is a Yugoslav black-and-white television anthology produced by RTV Belgrade and broadcast in 1968. It consists of seven episodes, which are short romantic comedies. It was directed by Aleksandar Đorđević and written by Gordan Mihić.
Singles
1968
NRAn extended version of the eponymous feature film.
Walter Defends Sarajevo
1974
NRThe eighth story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. An eternally undervalued and ridiculed clerk tries to change his attitude and life.
The Tail-Guy
1969
7.0Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.
The Misunderstanding
1972
5.0Banović 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
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
5.0Banović 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
10.0The respectable Kuzmanovic family perceives the occupation as an attack on their previous privileges and status. Graduating student Stasa joins the young communist, and her cousin, the colonel, provides her with support. When the agent Sinisa arrives to their house, Kuzmanovic takes action.
The Death of Colonel Kuzmanovic
1981
4.6The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
Lost Homeland
1980
1970s · 17 titles
7.0Sarajevo 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
7.0Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.
The Misunderstanding
1972
NRThe 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
5.7At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.
The Macedonian Part of Hell
1971
NRA 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
7.2The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...
Thirst
1971
6.0Autumn, 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
8.0Set 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
10.0While searching for the “right” subject, the journalist decides to interview his former professor, who is a school friend of a famous Spanish fighter. During the conversation, the young journalist reveals the shocking story of a professor who fundamentally changed her life.
Violets
1975
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
9.0A 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
6.5An 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
6.7The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1974
5.9A 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
6.0A young married couple live alone in the Montenegrian mountains and work hard to make ends meet. Their ordinary life is interrupted by various different characters who pass by their home, and serve as a temptation, both carnal and spiritual, which threatens to corrupt the woman's innocent soul. Each new visitor is a threat of sorts and gradually she becomes suspicious towards the world and the unknown.
Luka's Jovana
1979
8.0An already convicted woman becomes a key witness for the unraveling of a very complex court process.
Miloje's Death
1973
4.7The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructiveness of war.
The Scent of Earth
1978
1960s · 16 titles
NRThe eighth story in the "Singles" comedy anthology. An eternally undervalued and ridiculed clerk tries to change his attitude and life.
The Tail-Guy
1969
7.5In 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
6.7A 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
A Serbian TV adaptation of the famous play by D. H. Lawrence.
The Daughter-in-Law
1969
10.0A 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
10.0The 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
6.5Everything 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
5.7October 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
6.6A returnee finds disapproval in his hometown he once left.
Shameful Summer
1969
7.0A 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
7.0TV 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
7.0Following the death of his female cousin Marija, Moma sets out to her house where only her aunt lives. The old woman remembers Marija's awkward temper that left her unmarried and even led to a suicide of one of her courters. Based on a novel written by Momčilo Nastasijević.
The Gifts of My Cousin Maria
1969
7.4The 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
6.0"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.
The Time of Love
1966
7.0The courtship of a female subtenant to the reluctant male householder is told in a humorous way.
Mister Seal
1969
A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation to him.
The Traitor
1964
Series credits
10.0Samci is a Yugoslav black-and-white television anthology produced by RTV Belgrade and broadcast in 1968. It consists of seven episodes, which are short romantic comedies. It was directed by Aleksandar Đorđević and written by Gordan Mihić.
Singles
1968
NRAn extended version of the eponymous feature film.
Walter Defends Sarajevo
1974
