Božidarka Frajt
Also Known As: Božidarka Frait
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Velika Žuljevica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Birthday: November 11, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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When Father Was Away on Business
Overview: Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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A Hole in the Windshield
Overview: A journalist meets a mysterious blonde. The meeting upsets his existence. Indeed, the man risks losing it completely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-03
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The Rhythm of Crime
Overview: Old houses in Zagreb are destroyed in order to build new, bigger blocks. A teacher who lives in one of these houses allows a stranger to share his home with him. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on statistical analyses. When a predicted murder did not occur, the stranger is adamant that the whole town will suffer unless a balance is achieved - and he leaves.
Genres: Horror Drama Crime Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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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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Landscape with a Woman
Overview: A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger is sleeping with their wives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-07-25
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Real Truth
Overview: Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures. Finally, she visits theatre manager Vjeran Zuppa in his office and asks for a job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Overview: Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2013-11-07
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Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day
Overview: It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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Washed Out
Overview: Jagoda is young woman who lives in poor section of Zagreb together with her disfunctional family. Mother is dying, father cares only about fishing, brother is an alcoholic and uncle is a war refugee. Her relationship with young soldier isn't any better because they can't find place to make love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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Days of Temptation
Overview: In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1965-07-30
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Red Dust
Overview: Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1999-10-14
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Illusion
Overview: The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-11
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Josef
Overview: It is a movie about survive in war time (WW1 East front). In dark colors, with interesting characters, mixture of ash and sand, puzzle of stories, cynic, precise, harsh, bitter, Rubick cube of times and events.
Genres: War History Drama Action
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2011-07-10
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A Man Who Liked Funerals
Overview: Filip lives in the small town of Samobor, which is near Zagreb. He works in the local library as a librarian. Even though he moved to the small town many years ago, he still misses the bustle of life in Zagreb. However, his boring routine is interrupted by the arrival of a new library manager, the pretty Elza. Soon, however, a series of strange deaths happen.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-02-21
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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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The Curse of a Faithful Wife
Overview: Comedy movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-25
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The Three Men of Melita Zganjer
Overview: Protagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Behind the Glass
Overview: Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2008-07-22
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The Republic of Užice
Overview: In 1941, a few months after German tanks forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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 Kitchen
Overview: The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-23
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Adam and Eve
Overview: A TV film based on single act drama written by Miroslav Krleza, that belongs to his expressionist phase. It was first published in 1922, and then regularly as a part of collection of plays called "Legends". By giving them this primordial biblical names, in this drama Krleza speaks about the intricate relation between two lovers, while interweaving reality and unreality, giving wider context of human relations to everything.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-04-06
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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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Ann and Eve
Overview: The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Operation Snafu
Overview: World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-03
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Step by Step
Overview: At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Sleeping Car
Overview: A man and a woman, each with a stable marriage of their own, meet in the wagon compartment. The short encounter of two strangers causes restlessness within their personal views about the world, implying possible romance. Once the train reaches its destination, they go apart without a single word spoken, and return to their world of security.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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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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Violet
Overview: Ljubica is a middle-aged woman who lives in Zagreb and works as an audio pedagogue with deaf-mute children. She herself has a small child, while her husband she hardly communicates to, works in Germany. Coincidentally, she starts an affair with Zlatko, a much younger yet a man from a wealthy background. Although Zlatko is not much concerned about bourgeois views of his parents and has sincere love for Ljubica, it seems that their relationship has no future...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-04-04
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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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Russian Meat
Overview: Determined to find her sister's killers, Ida Palamar decides to become a prostitute in an elite Zagreb brothel where the murder probably took place. The brothel is run by Vuk, violent and drug-crazed arms smuggler, protected by the police. Ida's only ally in her quest is a young bouncer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Elbow (As Such)
Overview: A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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The Third Woman
Overview: In the Autumn of 1991 Croatia is fighting for independence and the capital Zagreb is plagued by air raid alerts and blackouts. Hela Martinic is a reporter, who returns to her home town from Australia, called by her old friend Vera Kralj. Soon after arrival, she is told her friend was killed in a traffic accident. At the funeral she meets some people who Vera was involved in some sinister activities and she begins her own investigation.
Genres: Mystery War Thriller
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Passion According to Matthew
Overview: Split shipyard worker's Mate, lives with his elderly mother and wife Mara, and trying to prove himself as a boxer. At the same time, his younger brother Luka drunk sex and fantasize about trip in Germany, embarks on a passionate love relationship with a young girl Orom, which was a bit sexually satisfied only him, his step father who thought he was father. The tense atmosphere seasoned with sea waves,can only bring tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-07-10
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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Overview: Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-10-23
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