Acting
Majda Potokar
Born March 1, 1930 · Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
Died April 24, 2001 · aged 71
No biography available.
Known For
Times Devoid of Fairy Tales · 1986Times Devoid of Fairy Tales
★ 10.01986
MovieDrama
A coming-of-age story set in Slovenian town during WW2.
Red Wheat · 1970Red Wheat
★ 6.51970
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.
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.
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.
On Our Own Land · 1948On Our Own Land
★ 6.11948
MovieWar
Set in a Slovenian coastal town in WW2, the film tells a story about villagers who help partisans to get rid of Italian, and later German authorities that ruled the town in the last years of occupation.
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.
A Summer in a Sea Shell 2 · 1988A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
★ 8.11988
MovieFamilyRomance
Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the club is faced with close-down, the members decide to save it by setting up a dance show for the urban elite.
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.
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