Acting

Neda Spasojević

Born April 16, 1941 · Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Died July 16, 1981 · aged 40

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…

Known For

Walter Defends Sarajevo

Walter Defends Sarajevo · 1972

Walter Defends Sarajevo

MovieThrillerWar

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.

The Tail-Guy

The Tail-Guy · 1969

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

The Farm

The Farm · 1975

MovieTV MovieDrama

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 Flight

The Flight · 1968

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Merits

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...

The Little Cafe

The Little Cafe · 1968

The Little Cafe

MovieTV MovieComedy

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 Morning

The Morning · 1967

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.

A Collier's Friday

A Collier's Friday · 1972

A Collier's Friday

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

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Walter Defends Sarajevo

Walter Defends Sarajevo · 1972

Walter Defends Sarajevo

MovieThrillerWar

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.

Mirna

The Tail-Guy

The Tail-Guy · 1969

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

Vitina žena

The Farm

The Farm · 1975

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Vendi

The Flight

The Flight · 1968

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Serafima

Merits

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...

Olga

The Little Cafe

The Little Cafe · 1968

The Little Cafe

MovieTV MovieComedy

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.

Kasirka

The Morning

The Morning · 1967

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.

Marklena

A Collier's Friday

A Collier's Friday · 1972

A Collier's Friday

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Neli Lambert

The Daughter-in-Law

The Daughter-in-Law · 1969

The Daughter-in-Law

MovieTV MovieDrama

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

Mini

One Summer at Spa

One Summer at Spa · 1977

One Summer at Spa

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Marija

Backbone

Backbone · 1975

MovieHorrorDrama

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.

When I Am Dead and White

When I Am Dead and White · 1967

When I Am Dead and White

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Lilica

Certified: No Mines

Certified: No Mines · 1965

Certified: No Mines

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.

Devojka u koloni (uncredited)

The Falcon

The Falcon · 1983

MovieHistoryDrama

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.

Mara

The Misunderstanding

The Misunderstanding · 1972

The Misunderstanding

MovieTV MovieDrama

Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.

Marija

The South Railway Battle

The South Railway Battle · 1978

The South Railway Battle

MovieRomanceWar

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.

Monahinja

There's Love, There's Not

There's Love, There's Not · 1968

There's Love, There's Not

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.

The Time of Love

The Time of Love · 1966

The Time of Love

"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.

(segment "Put")

Traces of a Black Haired Girl

Traces of a Black Haired Girl · 1972

Traces of a Black Haired Girl

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.

Slavica

An Event

An Event · 1969

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.

Lugareva žena

Riders to the Sea

Riders to the Sea · 1969

Riders to the Sea

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Cathleen

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight · 1974

Requiem for a Heavyweight

MovieTV MovieDrama

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

Keri

The Square

The Square · 1967

MovieTV MovieDrama

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.

Negovateljica

The Scent of Earth

The Scent of Earth · 1978

The Scent of Earth

The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructiveness of war.

Magda

Walter Defends Sarajevo

Walter Defends Sarajevo · 1974

Walter Defends Sarajevo

SeriesWar & Politics

An extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Mirna

Loners

SeriesComedyDrama

Samci 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.

Samica