Biography
Fabijan Šovagović (4 January 1932 – 1 January 2001) was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer. Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He began acting in his youth and from the 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 television 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.
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.
His most unforgettable last role was of a Slavonian refugee man in the 1994 movie Vukovar se vraća kući ("Vukovar: The Way 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 the Slavonian town of Vukovar.
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 television series "Kuda idu divlje svinje?" (Where Do Wild Boars Go?).
Through the last years of his life, Šovagović struggled with the consequences of heart strokes. He died in Zagreb, on 1 January 2001, aged 68.
Filmography
all 89
Movies 81
TV Shows 8
self 1
Writer 1
Kico (2021)
Delusion (1998)
The Third Woman (1997)
The Price of Life (1994)
Vukovar: The Way Home (1994)
Djuka Begovic (1991)
Charuga (1991)
Eagle (1990)
Operation Barbarossa (1990)
Silent Gunpowder (1990)
A Summer to Remember (1990)
Death Diploma (1989)
A Man Who Liked Funerals (1989)
Return of Katarina Kozul (1989)
Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988)
The Life of Stipe Zvonarov (1988)
On the Road to Katanga (1987)
Hi-Fi (1987)
The Convicted (1987)
Journey to Vucjak (1986)
Dreaming the Rose (1986)
The Red and the Black (1985)
And This Will Pass, Too... (1985)
Horvat's Choice (1985)
Beggars and Sons (1984)
Small Train Robbery (1984)
The Ambassador (1984)
A Hole in the Windshield (1983)
Honeymoon (1983)
In the Camp (1983)
Crime at School (1982)
Two Halves of a Heart (1982)
Cervantes from the Small Town (1982)
I Want to Live (1982)
The Trojan Horse (1982)
The Rhythm of Crime (1981)
Lidija (1981)
Baby Deer (1981)
Liberanovi (1979)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
The Return (1979)
Journalist (1979)
Burning (1979)
Whatever You Can Spare (1979)
Snowstorm (1977)
Don't Lean Out the Window (1977)
A Shot (1977)
The Rat Savior (1976)
Four Days to Death (1976)
Anno Domini 1573 (1975)
The House (1975)
Misery (1975)
The Hunt (1974)
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
Deps (1974)
In the Registrar's Office (1974)
What Are We In This World... (1973)
Scalawag (1973)
To Live on Love (1973)
Ninth Miracle on the East (1972)
The Master and Margarita (1972)
Prijatelji (1972)
A Journey (1972)
The Deer Hunt (1972)
1st Split Detachment (1972)
Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
The Pine Tree in the Mountain (1971)
The Macedonian Part of Hell (1971)
Shepherd (1971)
Where the Wild Boars Go (1971)
Handcuffs (1970)
The Fed One (1970)
The Man Himself (1970)
The Battle of Neretva (1969)
An Event (1969)
When You Hear the Bells (1969)
Accidental Life (1969)
I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers (1968)
Gravitation (1968)
Black Birds (1967)
Illusion (1967)
The Birch Tree (1967)
Monday or Tuesday (1966)
The Key (1965)
Back of the Medal (1965)
Double Circle (1963)
H-8... (1958)
Master of His Own Body (1957)
I to će proći
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1932-01-04
Deathday2001-01-01 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceValpovo, Croatia
CitizenshipsCroatia
Also Known AsFabijan Sovagovic, Fabian Sovagovic, Fabijan Sovagovikj
AwardsSterija Award for Achievement in Acting
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