Nada Gaćešić-Livaković
Also Known As: Nada Gaćešić, Nada Gacesic
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Department: Acting
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Virgina
Overview: "Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Bombing Process
Overview: In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Queen of the Night
Overview: The story takes place in Osijek in 1968. Seventeen-year-old Tomo is the greatest hope the town of Osijek has for winning the Junior Cup of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito himself is expected to come to Osijek to open the competition. Nevertheless, Tomo is more interested in girls than in rowing. The beautiful prostitute Betika and a lovely girl named Jasna have captured his heart. Unfortunately, he has impotence issues of which even his doctors are unaware. Therefore, is unable to realize his sexual fantasies. Finally, he ends up in a hospital where local members of the political elite persuade him to compete in the cup. These pressures come to a head when his father is taken to prison as a political suspect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-11-15
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Infection
Overview: In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city authorities are helpless when it comes to revealing the evil and culprits behind it. In the center of this story is the writer Ivan Gajski, whose friend died under sketchy circumstances. Gajski reveals that those who most advocate democracy are not only the same involved in these crimes, but they also did some of the murders as a part of TV production. Gajski meets all kinds of characters through this quest of his, including the woman of his wife Sara, and professor Bošković who discovers the origins of present Evil - the dark past of European continent.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-22
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Devil's Island
Overview: After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Eye
Overview: When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-07-07
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100 Minutes of Glory
Overview: True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raškaj.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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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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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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Story from Croatia
Overview: After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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High Voltage
Overview: After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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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 Ghost in the Swamp
Overview: After Liptus arrives in a small village from the city, he calls his best friends, Miron and Melita, on winter holidays in Kopacevo. That same night, while they are all sleeping cozily, from their deep sleep Miron and Melita are woken by the disturbing sounds of villagers, carrying flares and disappearing into the darkness at the end of the street. At the docks, they find Halasz, a boy known for his bravery. He is cold, pale from shock, and babbling a white ghost. While most of the villagers don't believe Halasz's story, older citizens recall a long time ago when a forgotten spirit would scare people at night in dark and foggy swamps. Everyone locks themselves in their houses and Halasz ends up in a hospital where the doctors can't help him. Miron, Liptus, and Melita, now alone, take matters into their own hands, revealing the secret of the ghost and saving their friend.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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The Lika Cinema
Overview: A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2008-07-20
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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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Restlessness
Overview: In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Charuga
Overview: This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-04-11
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Below the Line
Overview: A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Christmas in Vienna
Overview: A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son
Overview: Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-07-22
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Red and Black
Overview: A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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The Best
Overview: A young officer, after finishing the Military Academy as the best in his class, suddenly and with no visible reason, leaves his home town, girl, parents, safety and eventual career and leaves to a remote provincial town to find and create his life and destiny. The story of a lonely man without illusions and bitterness, who collects simple pieces of sense, humanity and love through his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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The Horseman
Overview: The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Recollection Thief
Overview: Approximately a month before the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported missing. He is a doctor of French literature who returned from Canada in 1991. Gawain Skok, who took part in the War for Independence and defended Vukovar, starts a search.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2007-07-18
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