Božidar Orešković
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia
Birthday: August 31, 1942
Deathday: July 10, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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I Love You
Overview: A successful but also hedonist young man gets afflicted with HIV by accident, eventually being abandoned by everybody around him. He becomes a problem for society until meeting another unfortunate person like him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Three Poplars
Overview: The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-11-29
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The Parting Song
Overview: The story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of the final downfall of the Republic of Dubrovnik thus also becomes the story of the agony of an ancient aristocratic family.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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Wild Angels
Overview: A group of juvenile delinquents go to a coastal resort town after successful robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-11-03
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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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Eagle
Overview: Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. Faced with the fact that they actually knew very little about their friend’s recent life, they start meeting more regularly and try to find out the circumstances that led to Orao’s suicide or possibly even murder…
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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Sucks
Overview: A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Delusion
Overview: Joza, a middle-aged professional driver, offers Stella, a young and attractive prostitute, a ride from Zadar to Zagreb. Joza remembers his traumatic war experiences and his son who returned from combat with a severe disability. Underneath her seemingly cold and calculated demeanor, Stella is also a grieving parent. During the ride, the two develop a special relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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A Shot
Overview: In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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Find a Way, Comrade
Overview: Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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Accidental Co-Traveller
Overview: The story of a girl who works in a foundry and leaves the job due to difficult working conditions and decides to go away from home. On this quest for happiness she meets a rich football manager whom she robs, as well as number of other people who all mostly have sexual or other intentions about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-07-20
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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Overview: A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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 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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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Overview: "Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-07-22
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Night for Listening
Overview: Classical music program on one Zagreb radio station is suddenly interrupted when disturbed war veteran, armed with hadngrenade and explosives, breaks in with strange demands and convincing threats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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New Year's Eve Robbery
Overview: Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-12-29
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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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Syndrome Halla, the Inception of Croatian Professional Film – Born to Die
Overview: One hundred years after the invention of film, Croatian film icon Mr. Fulir, who serves as the author’s alter-ego, comes up with the Faustian idea to bring back his youth. With a group of famous actors, he enthusiastically attempts to remake lost Croatian films from the silent era.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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