Milena Dravić
Acting
Born 1940-10-05
Died 2018-10-16
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
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Milena Dravić (1940–2018) was a Serbian actress. Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet. In 1959, while in high school, director František Čap saw her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers group photo and decided on the spot to approach her about being in his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. After appearing in few more films she decided to pursue acting full-time and successfully enrolled in Belgrade's Dramatic Arts Academy. Her big break came in 1962 when she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress award (which was the Yugoslav equivalent of Academy Award) for her role in Branko Bauer's film Prekobrojna. This was the moment that sent her on the way to becoming Yugoslavia's first and arguably the biggest female movie star. Milena Dravić continued with long and prolific career during which she showed great talent and versatility. She was equally memorable and believable as the tragic heroine in state-sponsored World War II epics, eccentric protagonist of experimental arthouse films like WR: Mysteries of the Organism and romantic comedies. She especially excelled in the latter during 1970s and 1980s. She won the Cannes Best Supporting Actress Award in 1980 for Special Treatment. For her roles and contributions to domestic cinematography, she received the prestigious "Pavle Vujisić" award in August 1994.
Milena Dravić was married three times. Her third husband was the prominent Serbian actor Dragan Nikolić, with whom she had co-hosted the popular 1970s television program Obraz uz obraz. She died on 14 October 2018, after a long battle with illness.
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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
Funeral Feast
Journey to Vucjak
Battle of Kosovo
Superfluous
The Battle of Neretva
Thy Neighbors
The German Girl
Sixth Gear
The Camp Followers
Theater at Home
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
The Dark Side of the Sun
Cabaret Balkan
The Battle of Sutjeska
Zamfir's Zona
The Morning
The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Destination Death
Ancika Dumas
The Dreams Came by Coach
Stories from the Workshop
Hassan-Aga's Wife
The First Murder
Fear
Thirty Horses
Rondo
The Coach
The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater
Room 405
Horoscope
Cross Country
Smoke
Sky Hook
Mortal Spring
Man Is Not a Bird
The Return
Normal People
The Girl
On the Run
Duel for Three
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
The Role of My Family in the World Revolution
Love and Marriage
The Restless Ones
Summer Is to Blame for Everything
The Policeman from Cock's Hill
A Great Guy at Heart
Part-Time Divorce
Boomerang
St. George Shoots the Dragon
Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
Group Portrait with a Lady
Pavle Pavlovic
My Part-Time Dad
Part-Time Work
Boom Town
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