Museum of Slovenian Film Actors
Ita Rina
Born in the village of Divača, Ita Rina (1907–1979) was the first Slovene actress to achieve international star status – her heyday was in the late 1920s when she starred in the film Erotikon (1929) by Czech director Gustav Machaty, which enjoyed major box-office success both in Europe and in the USA.
The young Slovene actress Ita Rina first lived in Berlin, at that time the centre of the European film industry. Her debut was in the role of a chambermaid in Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen. After Erotikon she performed in the first Czech sound film Gallows Toni in 1930. She declined an invitation from Hollywood and instead got married, changed her name to Tamara Djordjević, and moved to Belgrade. After World War II she starred in in several Yugoslav theatre productions and the Yugoslav film production War (1960), however she never managed to regain her earlier fame. In 1979 Ita Rina died in Budva, and was buried in Belgrade.
Venue
The Museum of Slovenian Film Actors was renovated in 2008–2011 with the help of the EEA and Norway Grants and co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Divača. The Škratelj Homestead incorporates 325 m² of the exhibition space and the 300 m² large auditorium for the open air screenings and the cinema hall with 60 seats.
See also
- Škratelj Homestead
- Slovenian Cinematheque Museum Department
- Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Nova Gorica Regional Office
External links
- Divača Museum website – Museum of Slovenian Film Actors
- Ita Rina on Wikipedia
- An article at the EEA Grants page – Bringing Slovenian film history into the light
- Review of Eroticon
- Opening of Divača Museum on the Norwegian Financial Mechanism website