Jasmina Tešanović

Jasmina Tešanović (Serbian: Јасмина Тешановић) (born March 7, 1954) is an author, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her mother, Vera Stefanović Tešanović was a pediatrician, and her father Gojko Tesanovic was an engineer and an economist. Both were active members of Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Communist Party.

As a child she went to Cairo, Egypt with her parents where she attended the primary Port Said School in English. In Cairo she took piano lessons with Croatian pianist Melita Lorkovic. In 1966 her parents transferred to Milan, Italy where she attended the international School of Milan (British School). In 1971 she enrolled at University of Milan and studied Law School for two years which she abandoned to study Art and Cinema.

In 1975 she went to live in Rome after assisting Miklós Jancsó's movie Private Vices, Public Pleasures, shot in Ormož, Slovenia. She lived with actress Laura Betti where she met and befriended director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

In 1976 she graduated Lettere Moderne at the University of Milan with a thesis on Andrei Tarkovsky with Prof. Adelio Ferrero. In 1977, she collaborated with Umberto Silva on the movie Difficile morire.

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