Zvonimir Torjanac
Also Known As: Zvonko Torjanac
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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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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Overview: Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-19
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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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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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Bloodsuckers
Overview: The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century, and tells Franz that the members of his family, Glogovac, were famous vampire hunters. Naturally, Franz does not take him seriously but his wife, Barbara, likes the stranger a lot and even believes his story. In the meantime, Franz's two relatives, Jambrek and Jurek, arrive and get caught up in the mess.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Officer with a Rose
Overview: It is 1945 in Zagreb, and everyone is settling into the new regime following the disturbances of the war. Matilda is a wealthy widow of a war hero and has an apartment so spacious that she is required to take a boarder. Fortunately for her, the handsome young Lt. Horvat, the communist housing officer, has taken a fancy to her and has assigned his fiancee to be Matilda's new roommate. Where Matilda is soft and rounded, Lilijana is hard, skinny, and given to revolutionary pronouncements rather than tender endearments. The lieutenant loves them both, though he naturally finds Matilda more attractive. His situation is simplified when Lilijana, though pregnant, is transferred to another post. However, his commander is horrified that he has a lover in addition to his fiancee and demands that he choose whether to continue his career or continue his affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-05-30
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King of Endings
Overview: Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half empty train. Kralj goes to a far away compartment for a game of chess, and leaves Visnja alone. Three men take advantage of the lone woman in her compartment and rape her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Turopolje Cannon
Overview: Originally published in 1865, the novel's plot was inspired by Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, and is set in Turopolje after the recent abolition of Bach's absolutism, i.e. when the Croats in the Habsburg Monarchy began to exercise political rights that long had been denied to them.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-03
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In the Camp
Overview: Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-03-01
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Guardian of the Frontier
Overview: A canoe trip down the river Kolpa becomes a journey of discovery for three female students.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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Journalist
Overview: Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Journalist
Overview: Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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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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Tomo Bakran
Overview: A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-07-10
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Sokol Did Not Love Him
Overview: The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-07-20
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Night Boats
Overview: Seventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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The Convicted
Overview: Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm in an abandoned village. The duo has different plans of what to do with the captives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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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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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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The Four Seasons
Overview: The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-06-25
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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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The Sunken Cemetery
Overview: Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia. His roaming through Europe left him in a rather distraught state and he is now in search for his identity and peace of mind. As a child of five, he was, literary taken from his birth-place and now - bereft of his parents and family, he will try to solve the puzzling event of his childhood. Thus, in this place where so many unusual things have happened which may have had an influence on the dramatic destiny his family has suffered, he turns attention to himself by to his personal investigation. The town is, however, threatened by the river which already has sunk a good part of the cemetery. Along this threat an unexpected plot, in the genre of a film noir, thriller and horror - a certain «fantasy of soul», develops.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-12-19
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Ante Returns Home
Overview: Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Don't Give in, Flockey!
Overview: A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Liberanos
Overview: The father dreams that at least his son Grga will return from Germany to his homeland because his second son is an employed Party member, lives in the city, and tries to push through some new projects in his village which traditional environment is opposed to.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-10-22
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A Summer to Remember
Overview: Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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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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Ether
Overview: The story follows two journalists from Zagreb who go to a Pannonian town to report on wild radio stations. There they discover an unusual radio station that broadcasts news that is not usually released to the public. As they are collecting information about it, they get drawn into local affairs more than they hoped and wanted.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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The Loner
Overview: In this intriguing, bittersweet picture of the factory atmosphere from the era of socialist self-management, we follow the story of the factory porter Djuro who, unlike his colleagues, has been unable to get an apartment within “social ownership” for years.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Canary's Lover
Overview: The story retrospectively returns to the past of the noble Lenić Remetinski family through the stories of the last descendant, old woman Amalija. The novella talks about a frequent subject of 19th century prose, which is the decline of the nobility during the industrial revolution.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-10-30
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Anno Domini 1573
Overview: Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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Pomor tuljana
Overview: The film is about a conflict between two men.
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Original Language: hr
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The Case of Filip Franjic
Overview: Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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