Boris Dvornik
Also Known As: Борис Дворник
Biography: Boris Dvornik was born to the family of a carpenter. His acting experience started at the age of 8 when he took parts in plays for children. In his high school days he was learning to be electrician, but soon decided to pursue full-time acting career instead. After finishing National Acting School in Novi Sad he enrolled in Drama Academy in Zagreb. While on the first academic year, he began his movie career in Deveti krug (1960). His film debut was instant success, and in his second movie, Martin u oblacima (1961), he proved his abilities in comic roles. Dvornik soon became on of the movie icons of former Yugoslavia, together with 'Bata Zivojinovic', Milena Dravic and Ljubisa Samardzic. However, the zenith of popularity was reached by his role in humorous cult series "Malo misto" (mini) and some other light pieces that followed in the 1970s. However, although still being one of the most prolific actors in history of former Yugoslav and Croatian cinema and TV, Boris Dvornik in 1980s mostly used to work in the Croatian National Theatre in Split. In 1992, due to the friendship with Antun Vrdoljak, he flirted with politics for a couple of months. Dvornik is married, has a daughter and four granchildren, while two of his sons - Dean Dvornik and 'Dino Dvornik', who used to cameo as children in his movies - are now major pop stars in Croatia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Split, Croatia
Birthday: April 16, 1939
Deathday: March 23, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Zagrebians
Overview: Luigi and Bepina, the stars of TV show "Our Little Town", pay visit to Zagreb.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Man Is Not a Bird
Overview: A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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Traces of a Black Haired Girl
Overview: A railway worker moves to another city and experiences a love affair with a suburban prostitute. Their encounter disturbs his solitude, and the two begin their life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-06-07
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Pero the Lump's Gang
Overview: A group of village boys found a gang under the leadership of the most intelligent amongst them - Pero the Lump. They decide to renovate an old and abandoned watermill on the outskirts of their village. A discord amongst the villages has caused the mill to remain unused. To make sure it stays closed, the corrupted steam mill owner is ready to bribe customers. Pero's gang does not want to give in under the pressure of corrupt villagers...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1970-11-26
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Long Dark Night
Overview: "Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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The Last Will
Overview: After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Trace into Infinity
Overview: Documentary about the life and work of Oliver Dragojević, famous Croatian singer.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Superfluous
Overview: Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Cervantes from the Small Town
Overview: 'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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My Part-Time Dad
Overview: The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Face to Face
Overview: One of the first movies who spoke of Yugoslav socio-political system with some criticism, set in a company. On the routine workers' council meeting a few brave workers stand against a corrupted manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-07-14
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Martin in the Clouds
Overview: Martin and his girlfriend Zorica are two students who live as subtenants in separate flats. Since that situation has devastating effect on their love life, they yearn after the place of their own. When Martin's landlords go to the hollidays, it seems that their prayers, at least temporarily, had been listened to. However, the idilla is very short one, because other people also want to use the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-03-25
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The Dervish and Death
Overview: Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Kaya
Overview: An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
Genres: Drama Crime War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-11
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The Bridge
Overview: In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Hitler from Our Street
Overview: Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local Volksdeutschers (ethnic Germans) enlist with the Nazi occupiers. The village bum, Leksi, jumps at the opportunity to put on a uniform and parade around with a gun. Leksi gets into an argument with villagers Marko and Joca, who devise a plan to get rid of him. At the same time, Marko tries to seduce Leksi's wife, Anika.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-07-06
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The Bet
Overview: A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the life in suburbia, and gets back to her husband disappointed, disgraced and humiliated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Roko and Cicibela
Overview: A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Shadow of Glory
Overview: An ex-motorcycle racing champion who gave up the sport after a serious crash meets a charming girl who came to watch one of the races. A new romance between them ratchets up his desire to compete again and apply for the race, whilst girl's boyfriend tries to win her heart back.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Man and Architecture
Overview: The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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Countrymen
Overview: A girl from passive area comes to work in Vojvodina's fertile lowlands, along with a group of peasants for a seasonal work. After visiting a city nearby, she finds more about modern life and starts romance with a local fella. Her furious fiancée she had left behind comes to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Wartime
Overview: Somewhere in Eastern Europe during WW II. The Nazis have captured a Swedish scientist, whom they want to create weapons of mass-destruction for them, and then a group of local rebels will have to free him from the Nazis before they run out of time. To help them with this task, they have sought the aid of a couple of American pilots
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-08-26
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Transatlantic
Overview: A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Suburb
Overview: One summer afternoon, three old desperadoes violently shatter a pure and innocent love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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The Sunrise
Overview: Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found themselves in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Times, Waters
Overview: A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a watermill. Such an enterprise gets two villages in conflict over water rights, threatening to permanently turn people against each other. In the past, the territory had been occupied by the Italian armies, and a flashback shows a massacre in one village, a revelation that disaster has been a part of their history, in one way or another. No matter how he argues, the young man who advocated the watermill loses out to the builders of a dam - something that does not bode well for the low-lying village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Cyclops
Overview: Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Heads or Tails
Overview: A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Overview: Two groups of men from neighboring villages get into a clash after both of them shot one wolf for the upcoming local festivity called "vucarenje" (wolf assembly), a rural custom typical for Dalmatian Zagora. Their rivalry ends in a tragic way.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Canyon of Dangerous Games
Overview: A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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To Live on Love
Overview: A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-08
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When You Hear the Bells
Overview: Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Deer Hunt
Overview: I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Man of the World
Overview: A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-06-15
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Mad Summer
Overview: A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-11
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The Secret of an Old Attic
Overview: During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
Genres: Family Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-10-18
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An Event
Overview: A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-07-14
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Double Circle
Overview: Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Genres: Action War Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-04-15
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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Overview: Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-11-03
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The Ninth Circle
Overview: In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-04-21
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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From One Friday to the Next
Overview: Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Red Blow
Overview: At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-16
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Overview: Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-06-07
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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Overview: Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Tight Skin 2
Overview: At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-11-02
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Spy In High Heels
Overview: A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets because of her good looks, the manager will finally spend a few years in prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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The Return
Overview: Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Radopolje
Overview: German retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When first men appear in the village after the war, Kata Plecas believes they will renew the village. But these men die as well and the question if Radopolje will be the "village of black scarves" again remains.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Did a Good Man Die?
Overview: Peter is a pensioner who works for a bank - a department store, more precisely - and his job is to collect debts from the citizens. While conducting his work, he finds the young man Miki to be his reliable assistant, and he inadvertently connects him with the girl named Maja.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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On the Mountain of Konjuh
Overview: An exciting story of Husine coalminers who formed a partisan batch and put up an armed resistance during WW2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Indian Summer
Overview: Two married couples cruise from town to town along the Adriatic coast. While men are occupied with booze and sea, their wives are more interested in the young "skipper", who seems to be a virgin. Frivolous flirting evolves into drama when one of the wives and the skipper start feeling something that appears to be love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Carnival, Angel and Dust
Overview: Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Doctor of Craziness
Overview: All kinds of patients roam through waiting room of a psychiatrist whose life motto is: everybody are crazy until is proved the other way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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Life Is a Mass Phenomenon
Overview: Two friends dream of what they will do when they become adults. One friend dreams of travelling to far off places, but stays at home. The other one leaves and sends him postcards from exotic locations, with descriptions of impossible adventures. But, his friend at home engages in a passionate love affair with his beautiful young landlady. When his friend-the traveller returns he admits he may have exaggerated about some of his adventure stories.. The two friends continue on dreaming of new excitements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Fliers of the Open Skies
Overview: Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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Daredevil Times
Overview: Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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Three-Hearts Locket
Overview: A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-03-23
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Nausicaa
Overview: Matija Remetin is young man who is studying drama in Zagreb just before the outbreak of WW2. He rents the room at Marija Slajner, widow who's three previous tennants had commited suicide. Remetin begins to notice beautiful and mysterious girl on the other side of street and begins calling her Nausikaja.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Marjuca or Death
Overview: The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-06-30
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Thunder at the Border
Overview: Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.
Genres: Adventure Western Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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Trace
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Two Coffins of Dynamite
Overview: After getting into conflict with the head of the construction company, the party secretary and even majority of his fellow workers who took the management’s side, Perisa writes a letter to the Central Committee asking for his labor rights. Just before the arrival of the press, an accident occurs.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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