Asja Jovanović
Acting
Biography
Rođena 1956. godine. Nastupala u kazališnim predstavama i filmovima. Neki od filmova su: "Krvopijci" (1989) redatelja Dejana Šorka"; "Karneval, anđeo i prah" (1990) r: Antun Vrdoljak; "Đuka Begović" (1991) r: Branko Schmidt ;"Onaj koji će ostati neprimjećen" (2003) r: Zvonimir Jurić te "Duga mračna noć" (2004) redatelja Antuna Vrdoljaka.
Born: July 5, 1956
Known For
Restlessness
In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.
Stylish in the Guests
A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
Nun of Your Business
Two young nuns meet during a Catholic gathering in Croatia and fall in love. They live in two separate convents, but the spaces they once considered havens of solace and spiritual fulfillment turn out to be more earthly than expected. Disillusioned by the Church and the sexual and psychological abuse within, yet driven by blossoming love, they make the most difficult decision of their life - to leave the convent.
Deep Cuts
The thematic framework of the anthology feature film DEEP CUTS is violence in all of its forms: as a destruction of intimacy, family, integrity, trust.
The Glembays
The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.
Carbide
Antonio and Nikola are inseparable friends who live across the road from each other, and share a love of pyrotechnics and mobile phones. Their families have been in dispute for years over an easily resolvable problem: the water that flows from the top house to the bottom house. The boys’ friendship, as they are about to enter puberty, is put to the test at Christmas time when their families uncover much more dangerous secrets and interests, and the water just carries the hate of the adults to the children.
Donkey
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
Zagreb Stories
Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
Djuka Begovic
After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives. Djuka's personal life was marked by constant conflicts with his father.
The Trampoline
The Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.
Filmography
as Ankica
as Ivka
as Opatica
as Baka
as Slavka
as Baka Marta
as Tetka
as mama Asja (segment "Film Gorana Odvorčića i Matije Klukovića za Asju Jovanović i Andreu Rumenjak")
as Sašina mama
as Vesna
as Anita
as Željka
as Ljubica
as Nepoznata žena
as Leoneova majka Daniellijeva
as Mirkova tajnica
as Marija