Eva Ras
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Eva Ras (born January 1, 1941) is a Serbian actress, writer, and painter.
-Jewish origin. Ras was born on January 1, 1941 in Subotica
, where she lived and went to school until she was eighteen, when she started to study acting and dramaturgy in Belgrade
where she now lives. She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia
and Serbia
, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev
, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić
, Emir Kusturica
, and Ferenc Kardos among others.
She has published collections of poems: In the Good Old Days, When Mummy Buys Me Some Money and Bed of Silver, with which she took part in the Struga Poetry Evenings
in 2004; a collection of short stories: From the top of the Moon’s mountain I looked down on my round grave, the novels: Don’t crow after me on the stairs that I’m the most beautiful of all, The Grey Woman, ...Cock on the Block..., House for Sale and With Eve to Paradise, which is about how no nation should be reproached because of bad rulers who are always prepared to sacrifice their people, and which appeared in Narodna knjiga bookshops towards the end of December 2004 and was sold out in a matter of days.
Altogether Eva Ras has published 13 literary works, with “House on Sale”, “With Eve to Paradise”, “Silver Bed”, and “Born Dead” being best known. Her plot is characteristically on the verge of imagined and real.
She is the widow of Radomir Stević Ras
, painter
as well as founder and owner of a private theatre during the period of communist dictatorship when it was considered heresy; their daughter was Kruna Ras, a Serbian writer, whom Eva now survives, devastated after her tragic death in April 2010 at the age of only 24.
was awarded the Golden Butterfly on the occasion of the Celebration of 100 Years of Film, as well as the award for life’s work Aleksandar Lifka 2005. The Yugoslav National Film Theatre awarded her their Great Seal.
Eva Ras is the winner of Golden Ring 2007 for her creative opus, an award conferred by Feniks Publisher and Makedonija Prezent Foundation for Cultural and Scientific Affirmation. Eva Ras is an academic at Mediterranean Academy 'Brothers Miladinovci'
Ras has been awarded several important domestic literary awards: Woman’s Pen (for ...Cock on the Block..., 2001); The Kočić Book (for House for Sale, 2003), Ascendancy of year (for Bed of silver, 2006) as well as The International Man Booker Peoples' Prize in 2005 for her book Born Dead, in Timothy Byford
’s translation.
Divlji jaganjci 2007
Devojka koju nisu naučili da kaže ne 2009
Tito bez holivudizovanja 2010
Vad bárányok(timpkiado.hu)
Baderisani, Ekrem i Eva 2011
Biography
She is of HungarianHungarians in Vojvodina
Hungarians are the second largest ethnic group in the Vojvodina province in northern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, there are 290,207 ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina who compose 14.28% of the provincial population. The number of ethnic Hungarians in the whole of Serbia is 293,299, and their...
-Jewish origin. Ras was born on January 1, 1941 in Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
, where she lived and went to school until she was eighteen, when she started to study acting and dramaturgy in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
where she now lives. She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
and Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić
Živko Nikolic
Živko Nikolić was a famous Montenegrin film director.-Biography:Živko Nikolić was born in Ozrinići, Nikšić municipality, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, in 1941. He graduated the Art School in Herceg Novi where he was trained as a painter of ceramics which contributed to his specific perception of the film...
, Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica
Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
, and Ferenc Kardos among others.
She has published collections of poems: In the Good Old Days, When Mummy Buys Me Some Money and Bed of Silver, with which she took part in the Struga Poetry Evenings
Struga Poetry Evenings
Struga Poetry Evenings is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Republic of Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud...
in 2004; a collection of short stories: From the top of the Moon’s mountain I looked down on my round grave, the novels: Don’t crow after me on the stairs that I’m the most beautiful of all, The Grey Woman, ...Cock on the Block..., House for Sale and With Eve to Paradise, which is about how no nation should be reproached because of bad rulers who are always prepared to sacrifice their people, and which appeared in Narodna knjiga bookshops towards the end of December 2004 and was sold out in a matter of days.
Altogether Eva Ras has published 13 literary works, with “House on Sale”, “With Eve to Paradise”, “Silver Bed”, and “Born Dead” being best known. Her plot is characteristically on the verge of imagined and real.
She is the widow of Radomir Stević Ras
Radomir Stević Ras
Radomir Stević Ras was a Serbian painter and designer. He was also founder and owner of a private theatre in the former Yugoslavia that presented exclusively work of domestic authors.-Biography:...
, painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
as well as founder and owner of a private theatre during the period of communist dictatorship when it was considered heresy; their daughter was Kruna Ras, a Serbian writer, whom Eva now survives, devastated after her tragic death in April 2010 at the age of only 24.
Awards
She was hailed by the critics as actress of the year and in HungaryHungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
was awarded the Golden Butterfly on the occasion of the Celebration of 100 Years of Film, as well as the award for life’s work Aleksandar Lifka 2005. The Yugoslav National Film Theatre awarded her their Great Seal.
Eva Ras is the winner of Golden Ring 2007 for her creative opus, an award conferred by Feniks Publisher and Makedonija Prezent Foundation for Cultural and Scientific Affirmation. Eva Ras is an academic at Mediterranean Academy 'Brothers Miladinovci'
Ras has been awarded several important domestic literary awards: Woman’s Pen (for ...Cock on the Block..., 2001); The Kočić Book (for House for Sale, 2003), Ascendancy of year (for Bed of silver, 2006) as well as The International Man Booker Peoples' Prize in 2005 for her book Born Dead, in Timothy Byford
Timothy John Byford
Timothy John Byford is an author, actor, TV film-director, translator, and educator in Serbia....
’s translation.
Films
- Zemljaci (1963)
- Der schut (1964)
- Čovek nije ticaČovek nije ticaČovek nije tica is a European art film made in 1965. It was the first film from director Dušan Makavejev....
(1965) - Der schatz der AztekenDer Schatz der AztekenDer Schatz der Azteken is a 1965 West German, French and Italian western film adventure directed by Robert Siodmak.-Cast:*Lex Barker ... Dr. Karl Sternau*Gérard Barray ... Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla...
(1965) - Adam i Eva 66 (1966)
- Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
- Ima ljubavi, nema ljubavi (1968)
- Biće skoro propast svetaBice skoro propast svetaIt Rains in My Village is a 1968 Yugoslavian film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović.-Plot:A mentally challenged girl is defended by a young man who takes care of pigs. He gets into a fight with the local saloon keeper, prompting the man to get the boy drunk and bribe a priest into marrying...
(1968) - Žarki (1970)
- La betìa (1971)
- Majstor i Margarita (1972)
- Kužiš stari mojKužiš stari mojKužiš stari moj is a Croatian film directed by Vanča Kljaković. It was released in 1973. It is based on Zvonimir Majdak's 1970 novel of the same name....
(1973) - Álljon meg a menet! (1973)
- AutóAutoAuto, from Greek αὐτο- auto- "self, one's own", may refer to:*An automobile*An auto rickshaw*Auto, an Israeli car magazine*Short for automatic* Auto , a form of Portuguese dramatic play...
(1974) - Álmodó ifjúság (1974)
- Ékezet (1977)
- Beštije (1977)
- Group Portrait with LadyGroup Portrait with Lady (film)Group Portrait with Lady is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival...
(1977) - Trofej (1979)
- Minden szerdán (1979)
- Kružna putovanja (1980)
- Zalazak sunca (1982)
- Mennyei seregek (1983)
- Otac na službenom putu (1985)
- Lepota poroka (1986)
- Za sada bez dobrog naslova (1988)
- Špijun na štiklama (1988)
- El Camino del sur (1988)
- Iskušavanje đavola (1989)
- Granica (1990)
- Čudna noć (1990)
- Velika frka (1992)
- Mi nismo anđeli (1992)
- Gorilla bathes at noon (1993)
- Dnevnik uvreda 1993. (1994)
- Senka uspomena (2000)
- Država mrtvih (2002)
- Bolygótüz (2003)
- Goose FeatherGoose FeatherGoose Feather is a 2004 Serbian film directed by Ljubiša Samardžić. It was Serbia and Montenegro's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Serbia...
(2004) - Šejtanov ratnik (2005)
- Dosije pacov (2005)
- Hitna pomoć(2007)
TV
- Ljubav na seoski način (1970)
- Babino unuče (1976)
- Otac ili samoća (1978)
- Stan (1980)
- Naše priče (1980)
- Sivi dom (1984)
- Vuk KaradžićVuk Karadžic (TV series)Vuk Karadžić , is а Serbian and Slovenian historical drama television series which depicts the life and work of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.-Cast:*Miki Manojlović as Vuk Karadžić*Aleksandar Berček as Miloš Obrenović*Branimir...
(1987) - Bolji životBolji životBolji život is Yugoslav a TV soap opera that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radio Television of Belgrade it is considered to be the most successful show ever produced in Yugoslavia. The show was written by Siniša Pavić, most filmed Serbian screenwriter...
(1987) - Drugarica ministarka (1988)
- Holivud ili propast (1991)
- Srećni ljudi (1993)
- Policajac sa Petlovog brda (1994)
- Najviše na svetu celom (1994)
- Oriđinali (1995)
- Nasleđe (1995)
- Gore-dole (1996)
- Porodično blago (1998)
- A sad adio (2000)
- Stižu dolari (2004)
Books
- "Nemoj da grakćeš za mnom na stepeništu da sam najlepši" (Don’t Crow After Me on the Stairs that I’m the Most Beautiful (masculine form) of All)
- "Siva žena" (The Grey Woman)
- "U divna davna vremena" (In the Good Old Days)
- "Kad mi mama kupi pare" (When Mummy Buys Me Some Money)
- "Pričajte nam o Malarmeu"
- "Kuća na prodaju" (House on Sale)
- "Rođeni mrtvi" (Born Dead)
- "Sa vrha mesečeve planine gledala sam svoj okrugli grob" (From the top of the Moon’s mountain I Looked Down on My Round Grave)
- "Sa Evom u raj" (With Eva to Paradise)
- "Srebrna postelja" (Bed of Silver)
- "U areni"
- "...Petla na panj..." (...Rooster on the Block...)
Divlji jaganjci 2007
Devojka koju nisu naučili da kaže ne 2009
Tito bez holivudizovanja 2010
Vad bárányok(timpkiado.hu)
Baderisani, Ekrem i Eva 2011
External links
- Eva Ras profile at the Poznate Licnosti
- Eva Ras at the Leksikon Yu Mitologije Film