Eva Ras

Eva Marija Ras is a Serbian Jewish actress, writer and painter.

Biography

Ras was born on 1 January 1941 in Subotica, where she lived and went to school until she was 18, 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 for 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 the Communist regime. Their daughter was Kruna Ras, a Serbian writer, who died in 1993 in Paris at age 24.

Awards

She was hailed by the critics as actress of the year and in Hungary 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 ; The Kočić Book, Ascendancy of year as well as The International Man Booker Peoples' Prize in 2005 for her book Born Dead, in Timothy Byford’s translation.

Filmography

Source:

Films

Zemljaci
The Shoot
Čovek nije tica
Der Schatz der Azteken
Adam i Eva 66
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Ima ljubavi, nema ljubavi
Biće skoro propast sveta
Žarki
In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Majstor i Margarita
Kužiš stari moj
Álljon meg a menet!
Autó
Álmodó ifjúság
Ékezet
Beštije
Group Portrait with a Lady
Trofej
Minden szerdán
Kružna putovanja
Zalazak sunca
Mennyei seregek
Otac na službenom putu
Lepota poroka
Za sada bez dobrog naslova
Špijun na štiklama
El Camino del sur
Iskušavanje đavola
Granica
Čudna noć
Velika frka
Mi nismo anđeli
Gorilla bathes at noon
Dnevnik uvreda 1993.
Senka uspomena
Država mrtvih
Bolygótüz
Goose Feather
Šejtanov ratnik
Dosije pacov
Hitna pomoć
Oteta deca, Massimo Spano Italija
Komesar N..., Fabricio Kosta Italija
Moja zemlja najlepša na svetu Mihaela Kezele, Nemačka 2011
Parada, Srdjan Dragojević
General M, Bakur Bakuradze
9 dana, Strahinja Savic
Koža nam postaje siva, Ivan Bakrač
Odvajanje, Boris Hadzija
''Petak 13.''
TV
Ljubav na seoski način
Babino unuče
Otac ili samoća
Stan
Naše priče
Sivi dom
Vuk Karadžić
Bolji život
Drugarica ministarka
Holivud ili propast
Srećni ljudi
Policajac sa Petlovog brda
Najviše na svetu celom
Oriđinali
Nasleđe
Urgentni Centar
Gore-dole
Porodično blago
A sad adio
Stižu dolari
Seljaci, Dragoslav Lazic 2008
Bela ladja, Sinisa Pavic 2010
Zvezdara, Dragoslav Lazić 2013
Zvezdara, Dragoslav Lazić 2014
Urgentni centar Dejan Zecevic 2015
Books