Wilhemina Mina Karadžić – Vukomanović, played by Vesna Kostić
I saw the light of day for the first time in the year 1828 in Vienna (Austria). I died in the year 1894, the death found me in Vienna (Austria). I was a Serbian painter and writer, daughter of famous Serb Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Viennese Anna Maria Kraus. I grew up in a house where many famous persons, important for the Serbian culture of that time, came to visit, mostly friends and associates of my father: Branko Radičević, Đura Daničić, Prota Mateja Nenadović, Njegoš, Prince Mihailo Obrenović, Patriarch Josif Rajačić, Montenegrin Prince Danilo, etc. as well as Jacob Grimm, historian Leopold Ranke, a Russian scientist Sreznjevski, and many others. I learned German, French, Italian and English language. I went to the piano lessons and painting. Gustav Grossman was my music teacher. I studied drawing with Chaplain Joseph Pfeiffer. My artistic work consists of some fifty works, mostly portraits in oil, aquarelles and chalk drawings. I translated the book “Serbian folk stories” in German, and my father devoted that translation to Jacob Grimm, who wrote the foreword. I wrote poems and prose. I died on 12 June in 1894 in Vienna from uremia.
Milan Janić, played by Ljiljana Ćumura
I saw the light of day for the first time in the year 1957 in Backa Palanka (Serbia). I died in the year 2003, in tragical car accident. The death found me in Belgrade. I was a famous Serbian and worldwide sportsmen – sprint canoeist (kayak). I competed from the late 1970s to the mid of 1980s for Yugoslavia. I was participated and competing in two Summer Olympics, and won a silver medal in the K-1 1000 m event at Los Angeles in 1984. I also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 10000 m: 1978, 1979, 1982) and three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1978, K-1 1000 m: 1981, 1983). I was trainer in Kayak club in Backa Palanka. My wife Stefica and three of my children are also accomplished canoeists: Nataša Janić, Mićo Janić and Stjepan Janić.
Franz Eisenhut, played by Svetlana Panin
I saw the light of day for the first time in the year 1857 in Backa Palanka (Serbia), in a German family. I died in the year 1903, the death found me in Munich (Germany). I was a prominent Danube Swabian Realist and Orientalist painter. I am considered one of Austria-Hungary‘s greatest academic painters in the second half of the 19th century. My most famous and recognizable paintings include Death of Gül Baba, Battle of Zenta, Slave trade and Cock fighting and many other, depicting mostly motifs from the Orient. My works can be found in many European museums across the continent. I studied at Hungarian Royal Drawing School in Budapest. Afterwards, I became a student of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. After finishing the Academy, I went on a trip to the Orient. The Orient became my main source of inspiration. In 1897, I returned to Palanka, where I married Adriana Reichl, daughter of Friedrich Reichl. I was died and buried in the Ostfriedhof cemetery in Munich.