Vera Zima
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Metković, Croatia
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Gender: Female
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The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh
Overview: Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Metastases
Overview: Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-03-30
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Devil's Island
Overview: After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Sorry for Kung Fu
Overview: Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-07-22
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Long Dark Night
Overview: "Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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I Have to Sleep, My Angel
Overview: Goran remembers his childhood: in the early 70s, he was only 9 years old, adoring football and awaiting a prestigious basketball game between Yugoslavia and the US. But then his parents, Ante and Gordana, decided to divorce, leaving him in turmoil and sadness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Snowstorm
Overview: A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-07-05
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Kvit posla
Overview: After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-03-28
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The Drinking Bout
Overview: A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into order are unsuccessful, so they hatch a conspiracy. But their revenge will have serious consequences...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-12-07
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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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The Silk, the Shears
Overview: Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Overview: After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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Vukovar: The Way Home
Overview: The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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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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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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I Want to Live
Overview: Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Man Under the Table
Overview: The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost souls, each with their own unique ideas, passion or mania. We follow the tragicomic, mutually intertwined mini dramas of each character, as they fight to save the marketplace itself, when city planners threaten to raze it to the ground and replace it with a skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Overview: The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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The Murmur of the Shell
Overview: A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Fuck Off I Love You
Overview: Alvin signed a book deal for a book depicting love in modern age based on his own experiences. But he did not count on the fact that return to those experiences hurts.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2017-10-26
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Premeditated Love Letters
Overview: Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-06-27
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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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Restlessness
Overview: In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Winter in Rio
Overview: A homeless man who lives in abandoned bus finds out that his daughter comes from Germany to meet him for the first time in twelve years. Ashamed of his present situation and unable to cope with it, he breaks into apartment of his rich ex-friend who is involved in criminal activities.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-07-21
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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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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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Matriarch
Overview: The story of Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat who, due to her mother Anka's declining health, is forced to return to a place she has been avoiding most of her life - her home. The two haven't been in touch for years, but the proximity of death forces them to confront the ghosts of their past. It is also a portrait of life in a typical small town in the midst of Mediterranean hinterland. Plunging into the anxieties of the community, MATER subtly uncovers class, status, and gender issues that shape Anka's and Jasna's personalities - their stubbornness, strength, and tragic flaws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Cyclops
Overview: Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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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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A Visit
Overview: After serving the prison time, a man turns for help to his friend who is in a high position. But the friendship that once bound them becomes a burden for the high-positioned man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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