Countess Dora
{{Infobox film
| name = Countess Dora
| image = Poster for Kontesa Dora.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Croatian poster for the film
| director = Zvonimir Berković
| producer =
| writer = Zvonimir Berković
| narrator =
| starring = Alma Prica
Rade Šerbedžija
| music = Dora Pejačević
Igor Kuljerić
| cinematography = Goran Trbuljak
| editing = Maja Rodica Virag
| studio = Croatia Film
Croatian Radiotelevision
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|1993}}
| runtime = 117 minutes
| country = Croatia
| language = Croatian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Countess Dora ({{langx|hr|Kontesa Dora}}) is a Croatian pseudo-biographical film about Croatian composer Dora Pejačević. Filmed in 1990, it was released in public in 1993. It was written and directed by Zvonimir Berković. It was Croatia's submission to the 66th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/66nominees.html |title=Nominees & Winners for the 66th Academy Awards |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |accessdate=19 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113133558/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/66nominees.html |archivedate=13 November 2013 }}
Plot
Karlo Armano, a cabaret entertainer and film aficionado, meets countess Dora Pejačević in Zagreb. The two become close, and after a while Armano visits her at her estate in Slavonia hoping to spur the countess' romantic interest in him, but also to find a well-to-do patron for his film endeavors...
Cast
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- Alma Prica as Countess Dora Pejačević
- Rade Šerbedžija as Karlo Armano
- Irina Alfyorova as Sidonija Nadherny
- Relja Bašić as Izidor Kršnjavi
- Božidar Boban as Hugo pl. Mihalović
- Helena Buljan as Didi
- Eliza Gerner as Landlady
- Ivo Gregurević as Maksimilijan Vanka
- Zdravka Krstulović as Lilla
- Tonko Lonza as Count Teodor Pejačević
- Jadranka Matković as Hysterical Woman
- Mustafa Nadarević as Tuna the Driver
- Dubravka Ostojić
- Ksenija Pajić as Stefi Geyer
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See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal | url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/72842 | title=Sami u svijetu nahvao: filmske biografije Dore Pejačević, Slave Raškaj i Marina Držića | trans-title=Alone in the nahvao world: film biographies of Dora Pejačević, Slava Raškaj and Marin Držić | journal=Dani Hvarskoga kazališta | volume=35 | issue=1 | date=May 2009 | last=Kragić | first=Bruno | pages=339–340 | language=hr | format=PDF | accessdate=2018-08-10}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0107339|title=Countess Dora}}
- [http://hrfilm.hr/baza_film.php?id=271 Countess Dora] at hrfilm.hr {{in lang|hr}}
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Category:Films shot in Croatia
Category:1990s Croatian-language films
Category:Films directed by Zvonimir Berković
Category:Films about classical music and musicians
Category:Croatian biographical films
Category:Cultural depictions of Croatian people
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