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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-12-22

Place of Birth

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zijah Sokolović

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zijah Sokolović (born 1950, Sarajevo) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director who lives, acts and directs in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. Currently, he is a director of Theaterland in Salzburg, professor in Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, artistic director of theater festival Dežela gledališča in Ljubljana and artistic project leader for Dramatic society, Dramatično društvo, but also directs plays in Zagreb. His famous monodrama “Glumac je... glumac... je glumac” has been played in twenty different countries around the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zijah Sokolović, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Bella Block

Bella Block

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

The Finest Story

The Finest Story

The story takes place in the Goriska region, on an estate worth several million euros, which is also a tourist facility outside the series. The Spacapans have owned this estate since 1715. The current owner of the estate is Berto Spacapan, whose wife Tonka died in an accident.

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails

A village fella tries to make it big in the city.

The Abandoned

The Abandoned

The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, the children.

Motel Nana

Motel Nana

Ivan teaches history in a Belgrade high school. In his class, Ivan is provoked by a student and ends up slapping him on the face. In Serbia, in the heat of transitional changes, Ivan’s presence in school is no longer welcomed. He finds a temporary job opportunity in a war-scarred mountain village in Bosnia. On his way there, he meets Yasmina, a young Muslim woman, back from Germany to her homeland after the war and after being invited by an old friend – Hazim - who now runs a motel. A lone kiss in a stormy night, in a village still lying in ruins, will bring Yasmina and Ivan closer together in a joint escape from reality and to a ride on a dusty bus, where neither one of them wants to sit next to the window.

Buffet Titanic

Buffet Titanic

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Deserved Morning

Deserved Morning

The main hero is a broke, unkempt pickpocket with certain moral values. He meets an old acquaintance in a bar, now successful man, who brings him over to his table in order to amuse his friends by doing humiliating acts for money. Once full of cash, he asks them to do the same and throws it back.

Tale

Tale

Based on the novel "Tale" by Dervis Susic. Tale is a former partisan, an honest man and a rogue. His return to hometown immediately creates a bunch of new problems.

Scent of Quinces

Scent of Quinces

Set in Sarajevo during the 1941 Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, a local businessman rapidly amasses wealth by collaborating and maintaining close friendships with the Nazis. However, his financial success is complicated when he becomes deeply infatuated with a Jewish girl.

Spite

Spite

Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a bond of unbreakable friendship. To realize the plan to leave hated Army, Jozo are pretending to be deaf and dumb. But his firm determination comes into question when his friend's life comes into mortal peril.

The Father

The Father

TV drama.

Endeavor

Endeavor

A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.

The Horseman

The Horseman

In the mid-18th century, the modern day border between Bosnia and Croatia, wasn't just a border between two countries. It was a border between two political powers,The Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, and their respective religions, Christianity and Islam. But, in the midst of that passionate conflict between the East and the West, a romance blossoms between Ivan Revač, a young Croatian assasin working for a local aristocrat, and Leyla, the daughter of an Ottoman bey.

Obituary for Escobar

Obituary for Escobar

Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.

The Forgotten Ones

The Forgotten Ones

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.