Countess Dora

Countess Dora
Croatian poster for the film
Directed by	Zvonimir Berković
Written by	Zvonimir Berković
Starring	Alma Prica Rade Šerbedžija
Cinematography	Goran Trbuljak
Edited by	Maja Rodica Virag
Music by	Dora Pejačević Igor Kuljerić
Production companies	Croatia Film Croatian Radiotelevision
Release date	1993 (1993)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	Croatia
Language	Croatian

Countess Dora (Croatian: 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.^[1]

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

• 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

See also

• Cinema of Croatia
• List of submissions to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. "Nominees & Winners for the 66th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2010.

Further reading

• Kragić, Bruno (May 2009). "Sami u svijetu nahvao: filmske biografije Dore Pejačević, Slave Raškaj i Marina Držića" [Alone in the nahvao world: film biographies of Dora Pejačević, Slava Raškaj and Marin Držić] (PDF). Dani Hvarskoga kazališta (in Croatian). 35 (1): 339–340. Retrieved 2018-08-10.

External links

• Countess Dora at IMDb
• Countess Dora at hrfilm.hr (in Croatian)