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Fabijan Šovagović is a Actor and Scriptwriter Croate born on 4 january 1932 at Valpovo (Croatie)

Fabijan Šovagović

Fabijan Šovagović
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Nationality Croatie
Birth 4 january 1932 at Valpovo (Croatie)
Death 1 january 2001 (at 68 years) at Zagreb (Croatie)
Awards Sterija Award for Achievement in Acting

Fabijan Šovagović (January 4, 1932 – January 1, 2001) was a Croatian actor.

Fabijan Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia. He began acting in his youth and from late 1950s he appeared in many films, becoming one of the most recognisable faces of Croatian (and former Yugoslav) cinema. He never became a star, but he built a reputation as one of the greatest character actors with memorable roles in many classic films and popular TV series. Matija Gubec, whom he played in 1975 film Seljačka buna is one of his rare starring roles.

In 1979 he played the role of a Dervish in Meetings with Remarkable Men, directed by Peter Brook.

Fabijan Šovagović was also active in theatre and those experiences led him to begin writing plays of his own. The best known of them all is Sokol ga nije volio (Sokol Did Not Love Him), later adapted in 1988 film. It was his movie about his birthplace Ladimirevci

Through the last years of his life Fabijan Šovagović struggled with the consequences of heart strokes. He died in Zagreb January 1, 2001.

His most unforgettable last role (if not the best in his career) was of a Slavonian refugee man in the 1994 movie Vukovar se vraca kuci (English: Vukovar shall return home). A man lost everything in war except his loving companion dog, and shares destiny of many of his fellow citizens who are exiled from Vukovar, a Slavonian city completely destroyed by Serbian militants. He together with entire families of those who survived one of the most unforgettable horrors of Croatian (and modern European) history, are temporarily housed inside old train wagons. Not only struggling with heavy conditions to survive, but every new day, the return to their home also starts looking less possible... a dream in which they all once lived is slowly turning into a bitter-sweet memories of happiness that may be stolen forever, yet hope always dies last...

Many believe his brilliant reflection of this tragic Slavonian character was due to a fact that Šovagović being a native Slavonian Croat, have known this feeling firsthand himself.
Šovagović played brilliant role of policeman ( Žandar )in TV series " Kuda idu divlje svinje ? ".

Biography

He had a wife and two children - his son Filip Šovagović was a leading character in No Man's Land, a 2001 Oscar winning Bosnian movie and his daughter Anja Šovagović-Despot, both followed his footsteps and became well accredited movie and theater actors.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Fabijan Šovagović (61 films)

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Actor

Delusion
Delusion (1998)

Directed by Željko Senečić
Genres Drama
Actors Slobodan Dimitrijević, Božidar Orešković, Filip Šovagović, Suzana Nikolić, Fabijan Šovagović
Rating73% 3.6833253.6833253.6833253.6833253.683325
Joža (Božidar Orešković), a middle-aged professional driver, offers Stella (Sandra Lončarić), a young and attractive prostitute, a ride from Zadar to Zagreb. Joža remembers his traumatic war experiences and his son who returned from combat with a severe disability. Underneath her seemingly cold and calculated demeanor, Stella is also a grieving parent. During the ride, the two develop a special relationship.
Eagle
Eagle (1990)
, 1h30
Genres Thriller
Actors Vlatko Dulić, Fabijan Šovagović, Zdenko Jelčić, Božidar Orešković, Gordana Gadžić, Ksenija Pajic
Roles Krištofić
Rating75% 3.766663.766663.766663.766663.76666
Radovan Orlak, known to his friends as Orao (Eagle), fell off a skyscraper on his birthday. After Orlak's death, his friends begin to investigate in the hopes of uncovering what really happened.
Silent Gunpowder, 1h56
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Mustafa Nadarević, Branislav Lečić, Fabijan Šovagović, Mira Furlan, Boro Stjepanović, Josip Pejaković
Roles Pop Novak
Rating74% 3.7192653.7192653.7192653.7192653.719265
Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac (Mustafa Nadarević) and a former Royal Army officer Radekić (Branislav Lečić). Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them.
Hamburg Altona
Genres Drama
Actors Filip Šovagović, Predrag Laković, Fabijan Šovagović, Aleksandar Berček, Zdenko Jelčić, Ivo Gregurević
Rating71% 3.553233.553233.553233.553233.55323
Three inmates, Čombe (Željko Vukmirica), Menso (Mirsad Zulić) and Bogart (Filip Šovagović), escape from prison in order to go to Hamburg, their dream destination. Before they temporarily split and go to their respective towns, they agree to meet in Zagreb and board the train to Hamburg together.