Personal Info
Birth date
1941-04-16 (84 Years)
Day of death
1981-07-16
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Also known as
-Neda Spasojević
Biography
Neda Spasojević (April 16, 1941 – July 16, 1981) was a notable Serbian actress best known for her performances in films such as When I Am Dead and Gone (1967), Traces of a Black Haired Girl (1972), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972). She was married to painter Bane Minić and had a daughter, Isidora Minić, who also became an actress. Throughout her career, Neda received several prestigious awards, including the Pula Film Festival Award for Best Debut in A Time of Love and the Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 1969. She passed away in 1981 in Belgrade at the age of 40.
Filmography
Walter Defends Sarajevo
7
Overview:
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.Backbone
6.2
Overview:
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.The Macedonian Part of Hell
5.4
Overview:
At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,The Morning
7.1
Overview:
In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.The Falcon
5
Overview:
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.When I Am Dead and White
7.3
Overview:
The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.Thirst
6.3
Overview:
The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...Luka's Jovana
6
Overview:
A young married couple live alone in the Montenegrian mountains and work hard to make ends meet. Their ordinary life is interrupted by various different characters who pass by their home, and serve as a temptation, both carnal and spiritual, which threatens to corrupt the woman's innocent soul. Each new visitor is a threat of sorts and gradually she becomes suspicious towards the world and the unknown.Traces of a Black Haired Girl
5.7
Overview:
A railway worker moves to another city and experiences a love affair with a suburban prostitute. Their encounter disturbs his solitude, and the two begin their life together.There's Love, There's Not
6
Overview:
Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.Fear
5.5
Overview:
The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.Certified: No Mines
6
Overview:
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.The Time of Love
5.7
Overview:
"The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A brother looks for a husband for his sickly sister, but during that search she finds her true love.An Event
6.3
Overview:
A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.Requiem for a Heavyweight
6.5
Overview:
The tragic story of a heavyweight prizefighter at the end of his career.Lost Homeland
4.8
Overview:
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.The Traitor
4.2
Overview:
A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation to him.The Scent of Earth
2
Overview:
The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructiveness of war.Miloje's Death
NYR
Overview:
An already convicted woman becomes a key witness for the unraveling of a very complex court process.The South Railway Battle
5
Overview:
Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators. A bloody battle ensues.The Death of Colonel Kuzmanovic
NYR
Overview:
The respectable Kuzmanovic family perceives the occupation as an attack on their previous privileges and status. Graduating student Stasa joins the young communist, and her cousin, the colonel, provides her with support. When the agent Sinisa arrives to their house, Kuzmanovic takes action.The Gifts of My Cousin Maria
NYR
Overview:
Following the death of his female cousin Marija, Moma sets out to her house where only her aunt lives. The old woman remembers Marija's awkward temper that left her unmarried and even led to a suicide of one of her courters. Based on a novel written by Momčilo Nastasijević.Acting
1983The Falcon as Mara
1981The Death of Colonel Kuzmanovic as Marija, ćerka Jelenina
1980Lost Homeland as Mada
1979Luka's Jovana as Unknown
1978The South Railway Battle as Monahinja
1978The Scent of Earth as Magda
1975Backbone as Unknown
1975Violets as Draginja
1974Walter Defends Sarajevo (1 Episode) as Mirna
1974Fear as Mulatto
1974Requiem for a Heavyweight as Keri
1973Miloje's Death as Marija
1972Traces of a Black Haired Girl as Slavica
1972Walter Defends Sarajevo as Mirna
1971The Macedonian Part of Hell as Neda
1971Thirst as Katerina
1969An Event as Lugareva žena
1969The Gifts of My Cousin Maria as Marija
1969Shameful Summer as Marta
1969Mister Seal as Samica
1968There's Love, There's Not as Unknown
1967When I Am Dead and White as Lilica
1967The Morning as Marklena
1966The Time of Love as (segment "Put")
1965Certified: No Mines as Devojka u koloni (uncredited)
1964The Traitor as Unknown