Oja Kodar

Oja Kodar (originally Olga Palinkas , * 1941 in Dubrava near Zagreb ) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director.

Kodar was Orson Welles ' partner for more than twenty years until his death , although the latter always remained married to his third wife, Paola Mori . They met in Zagreb in 1961 when Welles was in town for the filming of The Trial . She assisted him as screenwriter on several of the mostly unfinished projects in Welles' late phase . Oja Kodar worked, among other things, on the script of the film project The Other Side of the Wind, which was not completed during Welles' lifetime, and also played an important role in this film. Furthermore, she was at his side in the unfinished film The Deep (1966-69) and The Secret of Nikola Tesla to see (1980).

After Welles' death, she worked as a filmmaker herself and directed two feature films and the documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band .

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

• 1961: Business trip in a sleeping car (Sudar na paralelama)
• 1965: The Eerie Murderer (Sursis pour un espion)
• 1966–1969: The Deep (unfinished Welles project)
• 1972: Don Quixote (unfinished Welles project)
• 1973: F for fake ( F for fake , documentary, Kodar also screenwriter)
• 1980: The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Tajna Nikole Tesle)
• 1980–1982: The Dreamers (unfinished Welles project, Kodar also screenwriter)
• 1987: Someone to Love (Someone to Love)
• 2018: The Other Side of the Wind (filmed in the early 1970s, Kodar also screenwriter)

Exclusively behind the camera

• 1989: Jaded (as a director, screenwriter and producer)
• 1992: Don Quixote de Orson Welles (co-producer and supervisor of the Jess-Franco version of the unfinished Don Quixote )
• 1993: Vrijeme za ... (as director and producer)
• 1995: Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (documentary)
• 1999: The Romero Files ( The Big Brass Ring , as a screenwriter - based on an old screenplay by Kodar and Welles)

Web links

• Oja Kodar in the Internet Movie Database (English)