Acting
Majda Potokar
Born March 1, 1930 · Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
Died April 24, 2001 · aged 71
No biography available.
Known For
Red Wheat · 1970Red Wheat
★ 6.41970
MovieDrama
An ex-partisan and current political activist sets out to Styria region in Slovenia to buy out the wheat from peasants and convince them to form the farming collective. His ostensible success (based on blackmailing rather than convincing), as well as his love defeat, make him disturbed and he kills an innocent man while performing a social mission.
Don't Cry, Peter · 1964Don't Cry, Peter
★ 6.91964
MovieComedyWar
Two partisan miners are entrusted with the task of honor to transfer safely three orphan children from a dangerous zone of fighting to the safe liberated territory. In the beginning the two miners feel humiliated because they would like to engage in more important action, but later they become big friends with the children, especially with Peter, the youngest one.
Love Is the Ruin of Us All · 1987Love Is the Ruin of Us All
★ 7.01987
MovieTV MovieDrama
At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, were killing time with storytelling. The first story is about Jernac that had a fight with Tomas because of Rezika. Another story tells about Tincek, limp foundling, who spent his youth with the Komar family, where he fell in love with their Lencka. The third is the story of a rich Miholac whose attention was grabbed by poor Polonca, a romance that was opposed by his father. The central theme of all stories is love that eventually everybody die of.
Strawberry Time · 1978Strawberry Time
★ 5.51978
MovieDramaRomance
Jagoda Kopriva is a typical teenage girl who hangs out with her friends from school, flirting with boys, quarreling with her parents, and discovering her own sexuality.
The Sarajevo Assassination · 1968The Sarajevo Assassination
★ 7.31968
Movie
A resistance fighter in WW2 Sarajevo is running from the Gestapo and finds shelter in the home of the old man. The old man is a former member of the Mlada Bosna organization and tells the young man about his youth and events that which led to assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Blanka Kolak's Love · 1987Blanka Kolak's Love
★ 9.01987
MovieDrama
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
Artificial Paradise · 1990Artificial Paradise
★ 7.81990
MovieDrama
Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.
Times Devoid of Fairy Tales · 1986Times Devoid of Fairy Tales
★ 10.01986
MovieDrama
A coming-of-age story set in Slovenian town during WW2.
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