Ivan Brkić
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Birthday: January 15, 1960
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How the War Started on My Island
1997-08-31
How the War Started on My Island
Overview: At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-08-31
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Metastases
2009-03-30
Metastases
Overview: Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-03-30
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The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
2001-11-13
The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Overview: After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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Vukovar: The Way Home
1994-01-01
Vukovar: The Way Home
Overview: The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Madonna
1999-01-01
Madonna
Overview: In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
1988-06-22
The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Overview: After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Time for...
1993-01-01
Time for...
Overview: Maria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that is attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. They manage to escape and hide in a nearby town, where Maria takes a job at the laundry and Darko joins the Croatian Defenders, leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Time for...
1993-01-01
Time for...
Overview: Maria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that is attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. They manage to escape and hide in a nearby town, where Maria takes a job at the laundry and Darko joins the Croatian Defenders, leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Price of Life
1994-01-01
The Price of Life
Overview: At the end of 1991, a prisoner Ivan escapes from Serbian camp. He finds a hideout in the property of a wealthy Serbian landowner Stevan, who eventually finds him and offers him two choices - to submit him to the authorities, or to make Ivan work for him. Ivan accepts the latter and while staying on the farm he gradually introduces the landowner's deranged family. He also meets his daughter-in-law Anica, a beautiful Croatian woman married to landowner's bloodthirsty son who fights in Croatia. A secret love affair is being developed between the two Croats.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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On the Other Side
2016-03-04
On the Other Side
Overview: 20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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Here
2003-01-01
Here
Overview: A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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A Perfect Day
2015-08-28
A Perfect Day
Overview: Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-28
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Two Players from the Bench
2005-07-22
Two Players from the Bench
Overview: Ante and Dusko are two Dream Team players. Besides being a Croat and a Serb who fought on opposite sides in the war, both used to be volleyball players. Today, they live normal lives, one in a remote craggy region, the other in Banja Luka. There is little chance of them ever meeting again. The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has indicted Colonel Skoko, a hero to some, a criminal to the others. The two main witnesses to his defense, Mato and Joso, have disappeared without a trace. Skoko's sponsor from the intelligence circles, Antisa, wants to find two men resembling Mato and Joso, to impersonate them before the Hague investigators, and hopefully bring down the indictments. Naturally, the two men he finds are none other than our heroes, Ante and Dusko.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-07-22
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Sorry for Kung Fu
2004-07-22
Sorry for Kung Fu
Overview: Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-07-22
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The Bridge at the End of the World
2014-07-23
The Bridge at the End of the World
Overview: The war has ended. Villages of Bosnian Croats have been destroyed, and they are living in the homes of the Croatian Serbs. An old man, a Bosnian Croat, disappears. A policeman Filip, himself living in a Serbian home, investigates the case uninterestedly. Through the relationship with his father, Filip tries to understand the motives of the missing old man. As the film moves towards the end, Filip’s investigation becomes more and more personal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2014-07-23
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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
2002-02-20
God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Overview: The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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Is It Clear, My Friend?
2000-11-11
Is It Clear, My Friend?
Overview: A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Virgin Mary
1995-10-12
Virgin Mary
Overview: In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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The Priest's Children
2013-01-03
The Priest's Children
Overview: Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2013-01-03
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Comanche Territory
1997-03-07
Comanche Territory
Overview: Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-03-07
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