Mira Furlan
Birthday: 1955-09-07
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia
Biography: Mira Furlan (September 7, 1955 – January 20, 2021) was a Croatian singer and actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia. She emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajić, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV-series "Babylon 5" (1994) as "Ambassador Delenn" (Sci-Fi Universe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Genre TV-series 1996 and 1997). Ms. Furlan's film credits include leading roles in over 25 films. She has appeared regularly on Yugoslav Television, playing leading roles in numerous series and TV-films. She has received all the highest awards in her former country, both for her stage and film work, including two Golden Arenas (Yugoslav Oscars) for Best Actress. In the former Yugoslavia, Mira was a member of the Croatian National Theatre and a frequent guest star at major theatres in the whole country.
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Sava
Mira Furlan plays the voice of Sava. Once the longest river in Yugoslavia she converses with her peo...
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The Beauty of Vice
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost ...
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then stra...
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, wh...
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of sp...
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When Father Was Away on Business
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very danger...
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Cirkus Columbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile...
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The Tour
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utte...
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Variables
In the middle of the Bosnian War, a 15-year-old math wiz is given a way out of the bloodshed when hi...
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Maternal Half-Brothers
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both l...
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Take a Deep Breath
Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are mov...
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Twice Born
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Saraje...
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Silent Gunpowder
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko...
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Way Back
Dunja and Jasna are traveling with their mother Jovana to visit their father who lives alone in the ...
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Poltroon
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO....
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and ar...
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For Ever
For Ever is an urban fairy tale, a kind of new Romeo & Julia story in Berlin. As German student Anna...
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Seaburners
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flo...
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Hi, Inspector
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delic...
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In the Jaws of Life
Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperat...
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Three for Happiness
A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon b...
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Golden Apple
In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile provin...
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Istrian Rhapsody
It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Ita...
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Surviving Me: The Nine Circles of Sophie
Writer/director Leah Yananton's modernization of "Dante's Inferno" tells the story of a complex, int...
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America, Here We Come!
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America...
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With Mom
While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries ...
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Horvat's Choice
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croa...
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Cyclops
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroac...
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America, Here We Come!
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America...
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Spy In High Heels
A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, ...
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The Abandoned
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about h...
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A Film with No Name
The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a mode...
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Space Command Redemption
When a rogue android commandeers a spaceship, it's up to a renegade captain and his crew to prevent ...
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Dear Video
Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugosl...
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The Convicted
Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more peop...
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Spadijer: One Life
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a...
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A Royal Christmas Ball
Dateless for the Christmas ball, 39-year-old bachelor, King Charles of Baltania, tracks down his Ame...
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Blanka Kolak's Love
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly af...
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Zadar's Memento
The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from Wo...
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The Way South
A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslav...
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Burning at Both Ends
The movie follows a group of resistance radio broadcasters in Nazi-occupied France as they evade cap...
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The Art of Murder
When art gallery assistant Kate Miller meets the heir to a run-down estate, she stumbles upon a prev...
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Early Maturation of Marko Kovac
Marko is a boy whose family finds himself in a difficult situation after his mother is severely ill....
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My Antonia
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, ...
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Black Kites
Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter t...
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Better Life
A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head ...
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