Mirjana Karanović

Mirjana Karanović

1957-01-28 Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia] 65 Credits

Biography

Mirjana Karanović (born 28 January 1957) is a Serbian actress, film director and screenwriter.

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The Pavilion

The Pavilion

2025

Acting

After years of worsening life conditions, a group of nursing home residents decide to start an uprising against doctors and the administration.

Mother Mara

Mother Mara

2025

as Mara Gvozdenović

Acting

Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing ...

Mother Mara

Mother Mara

2025

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Mara, a successful businesswoman and single mother, is heartbroken after her son Nemanja’s untimely death. She becomes emotionally detached, refusing ...

Toma

Toma

2021

as Kosana Zdravković

7.2
Acting

Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a b...

Life of a Mutt

Life of a Mutt

2021

as Dona (voice)

10.0
Acting

Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude tow...

Mare

Mare

2020

as Marina majka

5.4
Acting

Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing...

The Diary of Diana B.

The Diary of Diana B.

2019

as Mira

7.5
Acting

Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embark...

The Right One

The Right One

2019

as Majka

Acting

A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.

The Factory

The Factory

2019

5.0
Acting

Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set ...

Second Chance

Second Chance

2019

as Angelina

Acting

Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the e...

Catalina

Catalina

2017

as Mother

3.2
Acting

Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself...

The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

2017

as Herself

8.0
Acting

For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history an...

Heart with No Cure

Heart with No Cure

2017

as Nata

Acting

An older but still attractive widow falls in love with a younger man, which becomes the main gossip of her village and family.

Requiem for Mrs. J

Requiem for Mrs. J

2017

as Gospođa J

6.0
Acting

After she lost her husband and her job, Mrs. J is sitting in her living room with a gun in her hand.

Train Driver's Diary

Train Driver's Diary

2016

as Jagoda

6.6
Acting

Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a sto...

A Good Wife

A Good Wife

2016

as Milena

6.2
Acting

When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, s...

A Good Wife

A Good Wife

2016

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

When 50-year-old Milena finds out about the terrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, while simultaneously learning of her own cancer diagnosis, s...

Next to Me

Next to Me

2015

as Direktorka škole

6.4
Acting

After being attacked by a group of masked hooligans, Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She decides to teach them a lesson by ...

Monument to Michael Jackson

Monument to Michael Jackson

2014

as Darinka

5.1
Acting

In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is remov...

Three Windows and a Hanging

Three Windows and a Hanging

2014

as The journalist

8.0
Acting

In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by h...

Cure: The Life of Another

Cure: The Life of Another

2014

as Grandmother

5.8
Acting

Teens Linda and Eta are inseparable friends, though they have plenty of disagreements, but one horrific argument has unexpected consequences.

The Reaper

The Reaper

2014

as Mirjana

5.2
Acting

Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.

Equals

Equals

2014

as (segment "Katarina")

8.0
Acting

An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and h...

The Tree and the Swing

The Tree and the Swing

2013

as Nina

6.2
Acting

Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.

Death of a Man in the Balkans

Death of a Man in the Balkans

2012

as Mušterija

6.8
Acting

A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inapp...

The Whirl

The Whirl

2012

as Inspektorka

7.6
Acting

Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s.

Loveless Zoritsa

Loveless Zoritsa

2012

as Majka

5.1
Acting

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who...

On the Path

On the Path

2010

as Nađa

6.5
Acting

Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a ...

Have I Told You I've Been Abused?

Have I Told You I've Been Abused?

2010

as Herself

Acting

This docudrama is based on the genuine testimonies of eight women who survived sexual violence in childhood and in the past years addressed the servic...

Here and There

Here and There

2009

as Olga

5.7
Acting

Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awr...

Wait for Me and I Will Not Come

Wait for Me and I Will Not Come

2009

as Anđa

5.7
Acting

Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic...

Someone Is Still Waiting

Someone Is Still Waiting

2009

as Majka

Acting

1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital,...

Jar Full of Air

Jar Full of Air

2007

as Ljubica

Acting

In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak futur...

Mirush

Mirush

2007

as Hava

6.5
Acting

Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Osl...

Fraulein

Fraulein

2006

as Ruža

5.7
Acting

Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on ...

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

2006

as Esma

6.9
Acting

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Go West

Go West

2005

as Ranka

6.4
Acting

In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim ...

Life Is a Miracle

Life Is a Miracle

2004

as Nada

7.3
Acting

Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the...

Witnesses

Witnesses

2003

as Majka

6.5
Acting

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about ...

Strawberry in the Supermarket

Strawberry in the Supermarket

2003

as Chefin

6.7
Acting

An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.

Cabaret Balkan

Cabaret Balkan

1998

as Natalija

7.6
Acting

20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe

Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe

1998

as Direktorka

6.8
Acting

The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painte...

Three Summer Days

Three Summer Days

1997

as Gazdarica

5.0
Acting

Serbian film about the life of refugees from Bosnia is Serbia during the war years.

Underground

Underground

1995

as Vera

7.7
Acting

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Better Than Escape

Better Than Escape

1993

as Radmila

6.4
Acting

A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a ...

The Little One

The Little One

1991

as Božidarka

6.7
Acting

In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ide...

Migrations II

Migrations II

1989

as Evdokija Božić

8.0
Acting

Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lota...

Time of Miracles

Time of Miracles

1989

as Marta

5.7
Acting

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the fresco...

Meeting Place

Meeting Place

1989

as Jelena Katić

7.4
Acting

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Mrs. Stremnicka

Mrs. Stremnicka

1989

as Isidora Sekulić

Acting

Oppressed by the great sadness of the life, in her mid-30s Isidora agrees to marry the Polish doctor Emil Stremnicki without love. She lives with him ...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

Acting

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...

Heart and Her Children

Heart and Her Children

1988

as Srce

5.7
Acting

Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teac...

Marjuca or Death

Marjuca or Death

1987

as Marjuča

5.0
Acting

The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearb...

On the Road to Katanga

On the Road to Katanga

1987

as Pevačica Žana

5.4
Acting

Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to t...

Ever-Ready Women

Ever-Ready Women

1987

as Majstor

4.6
Acting

Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.

Promised Land

Promised Land

1986

as Marta

6.3
Acting

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by ...

A Swanky Pumpkin

A Swanky Pumpkin

1986

as Fema

Acting

The first TV adaptation of Jovan Sterija Popovic's comic novel about a woman who doesn't want to be known as a craftsman's wife but to become noble, a...

When Father Was Away on Business

When Father Was Away on Business

1985

as Senija 'Sena' Zolj, majka

7.3
Acting

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....

The Tombola

The Tombola

1985

as Olga, Dušanova žena

Acting

Two factory workers with gambling addictions invest all their wages in a sweepstakes that will take place in the factory's bar without realizing that ...

Truckers Ride Again

Truckers Ride Again

1984

as Alapača

6.5
Acting

New adventures of truck drivers Jare and Paja, long-time fellow associates and close friends. Jare is forced to pay off his debt for the loans he was ...

Two Halves of a Heart

Two Halves of a Heart

1982

as Majka

5.7
Acting

A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.

The Fall of Italy

The Fall of Italy

1981

as Mare

6.0
Acting

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resisten...

Handymen, Handymen

Handymen, Handymen

1980

as Dunja

7.2
Acting

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the s...

Petria's Wreath

Petria's Wreath

1980

as Petrija

7.1
Acting

This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of ...

The Absurd Scam

The Absurd Scam

N/A

5.0
Acting

The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud...