Mirjana Karanović

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Mirjana Karanović (2017)

Mirjana Karanović ( Cyrillic Мирјана Карановић; born January 28, 1957 in Belgrade ) is a Yugoslav or Serbian actress , director and screenwriter.

Karanović made her debut in 1980 in the film Petrijin venac , in which she played an illiterate Serbian woman . She became internationally known in 1985 through the portrayal of her mother in Emir Kusturica's film Otac na službenom putu ( Dad is on a business trip ).

In 2003 she took on a role in the Croatian film Svjedoci and was the first Serbian actress to film in Croatia again after the war in Yugoslavia.

In 2005 she starred in the Bosnian film Esma's Secret - Grbavica , directed by Jasmila Žbanić , which won the Golden Bear in 2006 at the Berlinale . Here she portrayed a Bosniak girl who was raped by Serbs during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In 2016 Karanović made her debut as a director and screenwriter with Dobra žena (A Good Wife) . The film, in which she also starred, centers on a wife and mother from an upscale Belgrade suburb who is confronted with a breast cancer diagnosis and a shocking video of her husband. Dobra žena won prizes at several international film festivals.

Mirjana Karanović is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croatians , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Filmography (a selection)

Mirjana Karanović in April 2017 at the GoEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2015 in Wiesbaden

actress

Direction and script

  • 2016: Dobra žena

Web links

Commons : Mirjana Karanović  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Dobra žena / A Good Wife" Favorites Film Festival ". Accessed September 21, 2017. http://www.favouritesfilmfestival.de/2017/08/24/dobra-zena-a-good-wife/ .
  2. ^ "Dobra zena - Awards - IMDb". Accessed September 21, 2017. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3521306/awards?ref_=tt_awd .
  3. ↑ Derk, Denis: Declaration on the common language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is adopted . In: Večernji list . March 28, 2017, ISSN  0350-5006 , p. 6–7 ( vecernji.hr [accessed on May 9, 2019] Serbo-Croatian: Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca .). (Archived on WebCite ( Memento from May 23, 2017 on WebCite ))
personal data
SURNAME Karanović, Mirjana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мирјана Карановић
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian actress and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade