Boris Buzančić
Also Known As: Boris Buzancic, B. Buzancic , Борис Бузанчић, Борис Бузанчич
Biography: Boris Buzančić was a Croatian actor and politician. From 1990 to 1992 he was mayor of Zagreb, and from 1992 to 1995 member of the Croatian Parliament.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bjelovar, Croatia
Birthday: March 13, 1929
Deathday: October 09, 2014
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Gender: Male
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Nobody Will Laugh
Overview: A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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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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Marshal Tito's Spirit
Overview: Stipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1999-01-05
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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Overview: A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-04-17
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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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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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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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The Emperor's New Clothes
Overview: The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-05-28
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Roko and Cicibela
Overview: A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Holiday in St. Tropez
Overview: Prospective hotel owner Carlos is having problems with the completion of his hotel on the Adriatic. He quickly asks his niece Vivi in Germany to cancel the bookings he has made so far. Unfortunately, his telegram reaches her too late and a motley group of guests arrives. They promptly pitch tents in the garden of the half-finished building.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Old Fellas
Overview: Stories about middle-aged Zagreb men, their merry adventures and those one should forget. Based on a theater play.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Men and Not
Overview: Adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s novel.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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The Life and Times of August Šenoa
Overview: Life and times of August Šenoa, popular Croatian novelist who was one of the most influential writers in 19th Century. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of his death.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-01-26
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Summer in the South
Overview: The story describes a staid and apparently very ordinary Austrian teacher on holiday on the Southern Adriatic coast. The sensation of renewal and refreshment from the sea, sun and salt air is described in physical terms.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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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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Small Train Robbery
Overview: Lika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by sergeant Cokula. The area is controlled by a group of outlaws led by Todor nicknamed "The Terrible". Sergeant Cokula and Todor did not bother each other, until bandits robbed the emperor's inspector.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-07-11
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Tzi-goo-lee Mee-goo-lee
Overview: Ivan Ivanović, a party functionary, arrives in a provincial town as a temporary replacement for a cultural official. The newcomer is fanatically eager to reform the town's cultural life in accordance with socialist ideals. He abolishes all five music societies and orders a monument of the town's most revered native, late composer Ciguli Miguli, removed from the main square. Ivanović's actions, however, meet stiff resistance from the townspeople, especially the youth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Adventure at the Door
Overview: Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-07-10
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In Four Rows
Overview: The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1999-12-07
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When You Hear the Bells
Overview: Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Slow Motion
Overview: A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his school friends he graduated with, only to find out that things are more complicated than he first thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-03
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Kotlovina
Overview: A big family reunion at the weekend cottage around traditional food preparation "kotlovina" (pig on a spit and lots of drinking) with quaintly amusing and earnest situations revealing what is stronger: ties of blood and background or culture and the way of living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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The Siege
Overview: A group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus of three intertwined stories.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Overview: Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-11-03
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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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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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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Overview: Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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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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The Return
Overview: Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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We'll Meet Tonight
Overview: A student of music education comes to the music festival where organizers mix him up with the conductor. He accepts the role which creates lots of comic situations.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-02-08
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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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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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The Way to Paradise
Overview: A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Timon
Overview: A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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In Conflict
Overview: The conflict between a reactionary surgeon and his progressive son over new methods of surgery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Forget Me Not
Overview: Diana McGowin is a successful middle-aged legal secretary. Upon her realization that she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Diana courageously attempts to hide her affliction from her husband, Jack, and her children, but it isn't long before the truth becomes painfully obvious.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Motel Moonlight
Overview: Middle-aged couple is going back from shopping in Trieste. They decide to spend the night in a romantic motel “Moonlight”, but there, their trouble will begin…
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-26
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Partisan Stories
Overview: The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1960-07-26
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The Tamburitza Players
Overview: It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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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