Countess Dora

In the early 1920s, filmmaker and cabaret director Karlo Armano meets a mysterious woman who only calls herself Dora. After a night of passionate romance, he wakes up to find her missing and goes on a quest to find her, soon realizing that the woman he had fallen in love with is none other than famed composer and autonomist Dora Pejačević.

Cast

Alma Prica

as Dora Pejačević

Rade Šerbedžija

as Karlo Armano

Irina Alfyorova

as Sidonija Nadherny

Relja Bašić

as Kršnjavi

Božidar Boban

as Hugo pl. Mihalovich

Helena Buljan

as Didi

Eliza Gerner

as Gazdarica

Ivo Gregurević

as Maxo Vanka

Zdravka Krstulović

as Lilla

Tonko Lonza

as Teodor Pejačević

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