Draga Potočnjak

Draga Potočnjak is an actress and writer, who works in Mladinsko theatre, where she co-created several cult performances. During her career she created some prominent roles in films and art programs of Radio Slovenia. She is engaged in pedagogical work, she has devoted a lot of time to work with exiles and she also writes drama, which was awarded several times.

Displaced Person (1982)

Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marjan Ciglič
CAST:  Matjaž Višnar  •  Draga Potočnjak  •  Ivo Ban  •  Volodja Peer

Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marjan Ciglič
CAST:  Matjaž Višnar  •  Draga Potočnjak  •  Ivo Ban  •  Volodja Peer

A Breath of Air (1983)

The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Božo Šprajc
CAST:  Ivo Ban  •  Faruk Begolli  •  Demeter Bitenc  •  Ranko Gučevac

The infant mortality rate in the maternity ward of a hospital increases suspiciously - allegedly due to an unknown pulmonary disease. When Doctor Barbara decides to inform the public of this tragic phenomenon, a number of the doctors, including the hospital ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Božo Šprajc
CAST:  Ivo Ban  •  Faruk Begolli  •  Demeter Bitenc  •  Ranko Gučevac

The Springtime Sleep (2014)

All of a sudden world have become very different for Jasna, or has it always been this way? She doesn't try to find out, she rather lives in now as it is. Doing so she meets a younger boy Pero which she finds a bit shady but cool and together they go on a journey ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominik Mencej
CAST:  Arja Novak  •  Gal Ambrožič  •  Draga Potočnjak  •  Lara Vouk

All of a sudden world have become very different for Jasna, or has it always been this way? She doesn't try to find out, she rather lives in now as it is. Doing so she meets a younger boy Pero which she finds a bit shady but cool and together they go on a journey ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominik Mencej
CAST:  Arja Novak  •  Gal Ambrožič  •  Draga Potočnjak  •  Lara Vouk

Otava (2021)

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lana Bregar
CAST:  Tara Krvina  •  Draga Potočnjak

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lana Bregar
CAST:  Tara Krvina  •  Draga Potočnjak

I Want It All (2004)

The film tells the story of the emptiness of time and interpersonal relationships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brane Bitenc
CAST:  Sebastian Cavazza  •  Polona Juh  •  Gojmir Lešnjak 'Gojc'  •  Gaber Trseglav

The film tells the story of the emptiness of time and interpersonal relationships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brane Bitenc
CAST:  Sebastian Cavazza  •  Polona Juh  •  Gojmir Lešnjak 'Gojc'  •  Gaber Trseglav