Antun Vrdoljak
Also Known As: Антун Врдоляк
Biography: Antun Vrdoljak is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he became involved in politics and became a prominent member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which led to his appointment to a series of offices. He was director general of Croatian Radiotelevision (1991–95), and the president of the Croatian Olympic Committee (1991–2000).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 05, 1931
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Gender: Male
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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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It Was Not Useless
Overview: Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent Buzančić's new-fangled methods. Gradually, he proves his worth and wins their confidence. The clincher comes when Buzančić rids the community of a despotic villain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-02-02
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Happiness Comes at Nine o'Clock
Overview: One day, Happiness and Sorrow come to town. Happiness leaves her magical cloak in the local inn, saying that it fulfills every wish to those who wear it. However, Sorrow knows that Happiness doesn't come alone, but brings worries with herself, too. The magical cloak changes its owner and fulfills the most unusual wishes of timid professor of violin, old night guard, naive student and blonde girl. When all their wishes are fulfilled, they find out that they did not achieve happiness.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-07-16
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H-8...
Overview: A bus traveling from Belgrade to Zagreb is involved in a tragic accident when a reckless driver causes a catastrophic collision on a rainy night, leading to the tragic deaths of several passengers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-07-14
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Heaven without Love
Overview: With a single, basic plot theme, this well-wrought drama of ultimate tragedy engages the viewer and gives pause for reflection. The tale focuses on the marriage of a man who is dominated and controlled by his own egoistic needs and illusions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-22
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Atomic War Bride
Overview: At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria seek to be reunited.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-07-23
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The Wind Dropped Before Dawn
Overview: Members of Jasna's group are suspicious because of her firing from occupation Special police squad and they start avoiding her. She finds out the members of the group have been betrayed but they become even more suspicious. At the moment when they were ready to liquidate her the true traitor is revealed. Thanks to Jasna's courage an action becomes success and she regains their trust.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Black Birds
Overview: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-17
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The Year Long Road
Overview: Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road; accordingly, the plot concerns a joint, voluntary effort between Italy and Yugoslavia to construct a highway along the countries' Naturally, this animosity wreaks havoc on the various Romeo-Juliet romances in the region. All is resolved when oil is discovered on one of the islands. An American oil company is finally able to establish détente between the warring factions, smoothing the path for the long-delayed marriages of three young couples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-11
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Protest
Overview: A man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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Nights and Days
Overview: A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-14
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Three Quarters of the Sun
Overview: A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1959-07-18
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The Other Side of Welles
Overview: Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Pula Confidential
Overview: A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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