Mira Furlan
Also Known As: میرا فورلان
Biography: Mira Furlan (September 7, 1955 – January 20, 2021) was a Croatian singer and actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia. She emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajić, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV-series "Babylon 5" (1994) as "Ambassador Delenn" (Sci-Fi Universe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Genre TV-series 1996 and 1997). Ms. Furlan's film credits include leading roles in over 25 films. She has appeared regularly on Yugoslav Television, playing leading roles in numerous series and TV-films. She has received all the highest awards in her former country, both for her stage and film work, including two Golden Arenas (Yugoslav Oscars) for Best Actress. In the former Yugoslavia, Mira was a member of the Croatian National Theatre and a frequent guest star at major theatres in the whole country.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia
Birthday: September 07, 1955
Deathday: January 20, 2021
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Gender: Female
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Sava
Overview: Mira Furlan plays the voice of Sava. Once the longest river in Yugoslavia she converses with her people on a 990km odyssey downstream through divided lands she seeks to understand.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-09-11
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The Beauty of Vice
Overview: In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-06
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Overview: Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-04
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Overview: Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-17
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Overview: The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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When Father Was Away on Business
Overview: Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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Cirkus Columbia
Overview: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercedes and accompanied by his young bride; by Bonny, his lucky black cat; and with pockets full of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2010-07-23
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The Tour
Overview: Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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Variables
Overview: In the middle of the Bosnian War, a 15-year-old math wiz is given a way out of the bloodshed when his math club gets an invitation to compete at the International Math Olympiad in Canada.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Overview: This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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Take a Deep Breath
Overview: Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are moving to Canada. That same night Saša and Stefan suffer a car accident. Saša wakes up in hospital and meets Stefan's charming and clever sister Lana, a photographer living in Paris. Stefan remains in hospital to recover. Saša finds out that her mother Lila is having an affair. Her father, a well-known judge, desperately tries to keep the family together. Lana becomes Saša's closest friend - a person able to prove that life is sometimes a mere game. In the midst of historical and family chaos, Saša gets involved in a love relationship with her boyfriend's sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-11-08
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Twice Born
Overview: Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Silent Gunpowder
Overview: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-03-15
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Way Back
Overview: Dunja and Jasna are traveling with their mother Jovana to visit their father who lives alone in the cottage. DUNJA and JASNA are convinced that he had abandoned their mother because of the affair with another woman. By exchanging impressions of his action, they remember the past and reveal the expectations of a meeting. DUNJA treats this affair as a product of the father's crisis and hopes the visit could reunite family, while JASNA has accepted the parent's divorce as a final. Under the pressure, the mother reveals there was no adultery. She simply never loved their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-11-23
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Poltroon
Overview: In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-07-17
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Overview: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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For Ever
Overview: For Ever is an urban fairy tale, a kind of new Romeo & Julia story in Berlin. As German student Anna meets Serbian trumpet player David in the underground, he fells in love at once. Her friends and family keep warning her, but the danger comes from another side and David is the one who has to fight for their love.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-01
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Seaburners
Overview: Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her home country soon, one final trafficking job takes a dark outcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Hi, Inspector
Overview: A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-03-02
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In the Jaws of Life
Overview: Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-04
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Three for Happiness
Overview: A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-11-07
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Golden Apple
Overview: In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Istrian Rhapsody
Overview: It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Surviving Me: The Nine Circles of Sophie
Overview: Writer/director Leah Yananton's modernization of "Dante's Inferno" tells the story of a complex, intelligent and flawed young woman's coming-of-age.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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America, Here We Come!
Overview: Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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With Mom
Overview: While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries to cope both with her awakening sexuality and her mother Jasna's imminent death. Her father cannot accept the fact that life is already happening without his wife. Her younger sister Luna cannot or does not want to grow up. For everybody's sake, Berina wants to save her mother's life and her family the only way she can - through art, and through magic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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Horvat's Choice
Overview: It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-08
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Cyclops
Overview: Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Heads or Tails
Overview: A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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America, Here We Come!
Overview: Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Spy In High Heels
Overview: A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets because of her good looks, the manager will finally spend a few years in prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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Journalist
Overview: Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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The Abandoned
Overview: The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2010-07-19
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A Film with No Name
Overview: The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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Space Command Redemption
Overview: When a rogue android commandeers a spaceship, it's up to a renegade captain and his crew to prevent the robot from accomplishing a mysterious mission.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-09
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Dear Video
Overview: Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugoslavia. The film is constructed around the video 'correspondence' between two branches of a family, one living in Germany and pursuing 'modern' life and the other one living in a little village in Yugoslavia clinging to tradition. Through the home video 'letters' sent back and forth, petty jealousies, love liaisons and financial squabbles drive the family to the brink of war, a situation that reflects the collapsing state of affairs in what was then Yugoslavia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Convicted
Overview: Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm in an abandoned village. The duo has different plans of what to do with the captives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Spadijer: One Life
Overview: A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-06-20
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Stela
Overview: Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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A Royal Christmas Ball
Overview: Dateless for the Christmas ball, 39-year-old bachelor, King Charles of Baltania, tracks down his American college sweetheart, only to discover Allison has never been married, yet raised a 17-year-old daughter, Lily, who mathematically might be Charles' biological princess.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-10
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Blanka Kolak's Love
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1987-05-29
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Zadar's Memento
Overview: The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-05-20
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The Way South
Overview: A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Burning at Both Ends
Overview: The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade capture alongside a Jewish family.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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The Art of Murder
Overview: When art gallery assistant Kate Miller meets the heir to a run-down estate, she stumbles upon a previously undiscovered masterpiece, and finds herself thrust into the high-stakes auction world of priceless art. But those high-stakes turn deadly when the painting's integrity and authenticity come into question. Kate and the gallery soon discover they're caught in the middle of a million-dollar conspiracy. As the auction date closes in Kate finds herself in mortal danger when a desperate stalker will stop at nothing to keep the truth from coming to light.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Early Maturation of Marko Kovac
Overview: Marko is a boy whose family finds himself in a difficult situation after his mother is severely ill. Although doctors perform a successful operation, the father abandons wife and son. In such a situation, Marko must be too early to grow up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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My Antonia
Overview: After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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Black Kites
Overview: Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, Black Kites skillfully merges the reality-based content of her journal with interpretive visual material to reveal the simple, sometimes beautiful, yet brutal truth of her existence. Non-linear, dreamlike and spectral, Black Kites is a testament to artistry, imagination and the resiliency of the human psyche. Features sensitive performances by Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese and Mira Furlan, a prominent actress from the former Yugoslavia, as the narrator.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-18
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Knez
Overview: Based on a novel by Ivan Slamnig.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-02-03
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