Mira Furlan Movies

Maximo Brockman (Adrian Ghio) is an Argentine immigrant who marries Jana (Mira Jokovic), a young Jewish girl from Yugoslavia. After the wedding, they bid goodbye to her parents and board an ocean liner bound for South America. The naive Jana soon discovers her husband is a notorious white slave trader. Although he keeps her as his wife, Maximo forces Jana to work as a prostitute in a Buenos Aires brothel. When she falls in love with an honest local, Maximo resorts to blackmail to keep her. Later, Jara's brother comes over from Yugoslavia to save his sister and restore the family's good name. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

The extremes of somber, uncompromising Puritanism and a free-living, liberated view of sex form the polar opposites that pull the heroine Jaglika (Mira Furlan) in different directions. In an opening scene, an adulterous woman places a loaf of bread on her head and declares she is not worthy of the bread her husband provided her. He then shoots her. After that attention-getting device, Luka (Miodrag Karadzic) and Jaglika are married and need to find work. They approach their wealthy godfather who runs a nudist colony and Jaglika, much to her chagrin, is hired as a maid. Her puritan ethic is so strong that she can't make love to her husband unless she kept her clothes on and her face covered. Now, she gears up her courage and starts off valiantly to do her maid's job -- and the struggle between her past and the influence of the liberated couples in the nudist colony begins. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this romantic drama, two parallel stories about a pair of professional, middle-aged women looking for romance with different degrees of motivation eventually converge at the end -- the twist is that one of the women is fictional. Dunja is a filmmaker writing a television series called "Stephie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" -- about an office clerk and her romantic problems. Stephie is lonely, slightly overweight, and while waiting for Mr. Right, is perfectly willing to have a brief fling with any Mr. Almost Right who is interested -- whether a tough Serb or a wine-loving poet. As Dunja is writing out these scenarios, she herself is turning down offer after offer from the Mr. Almost Rights in her life, a leftist critic among them. Just as Stephie is reaching the conclusion that the man she has always dreamed of was right there all along, Dunja is facing the consequences of her own decisions. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

As the horror of World War II is about to descend on Yugoslavia, a young intellectual in Zagreb is struggling with the meaning of life, his life in particular. He has a tendency to fall in love with women who are not likely to stay with one man for long, but his romantic interludes are cut short when the military calls him up for induction into the army. Completely against the whole idea of military service and a possible early death, he feigns insanity and it works -- he is released from serving his stint. Once back in a relationship with one woman, he takes a closer look at the crisis building around him -- and experiences an awakening, spawned, in part, by the suicide of a friend. With the realization that pending disaster is at hand, he turns around to enlist in the army again -- if he can convince them that he is "recovered" from his mental condition. Mira Furlan won "Best Supporting Actress" at the 1982 Pula Film Festival for her role as one of the lovers in this film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide