Fabijan Šovagović
Also Known As: Fabijan Sovagovic, Fabian Sovagovic, Fabijan Sovagovikj
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ladimirevci, Croatia
Birthday: January 04, 1932
Deathday: January 01, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-15
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Silent Gunpowder
Overview: Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-03-15
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Scalawag
Overview: A crew of land locked pirates, led by the aptly named Peg, go in search of buried treasure hidden by the treacherous Mudhook and his twin brother. They meet up with good natured landowner, Don Aragon, who goes along for the ride with his sister and a young boy, Jamie. Along the way, Peg and Jamie form a father son relationship that is put to the test due to Peg's naturally dishonest ways.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Overview: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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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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The Birch Tree
Overview: A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-06-27
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Kico
Overview: Documentary about Krunoslav ‘Kićo’ Slabinac, Croatian popular musician.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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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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Monday or Tuesday
Overview: A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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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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Crime at School
Overview: Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-06-22
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Misery
Overview: The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Accidental Life
Overview: Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-07-22
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Gravitation
Overview: After completing his military service, Boris Horvat finds himself at the crossroads. He thinks about enrolling at the faculty, but the job of a clerk at a bank where his father worked is already waiting for him. Boris falls in love with a female artist, but soon gets involved in another love affair, this time with his female colleague at work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-14
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I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers
Overview: The parents of a two boys remarried after divorce. The older one stayed with his father and his attractive young wife, while the younger one stayed with the mother and her new husband. On Sundays, the two boys visit the other family alternately, and the younger Djuro will soon realize that they have much more in common.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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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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Don't Lean Out the Window
Overview: Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-06-28
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Master of His Own Body
Overview: Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Lidija
Overview: Lidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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Two Halves of a Heart
Overview: A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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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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The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Overview: After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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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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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Overview: A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-05-31
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Whatever You Can Spare
Overview: Zoran is a graduate student of psychology and she gets a motorcycle as a present from his father. Being an unskilled driver, he stumbles upon a girl Biba and she breaks her leg. To prevent a possible lawsuit, he visits her in the hospital. They continue to see each other, and soon fall in love. Biba is a girl from suburban shanty, while Zoran comes from a well-to-do family, and his parents refuse to accept the girl. Young couple gets married and lives temporarily in Biba's home, where they drove out Biba's brother, a petty criminal. While looking for a new apartment, the marriage breaks down. Zoran shines at his exam with thesis on "People from socially broken families", while Biba gives birth to their child in the hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The House
Overview: The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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The Hunt
Overview: Through Šimun’s conflict with the head of the new agricultural cooperative, where he is forced to work in order to feed his family, the changes that land reclamation has brought to everyday life in the Neretva Valley are depicted, destroying the traditional way of life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-06-10
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Friends
Overview: An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-05-29
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A Journey
Overview: This film shows a surreal train ride by several passengers whose journey is not quite what they expect in this brilliant short film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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On the Road to Katanga
Overview: Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of the old and new love, the events in and around the mine, all put his obsession with Katanga on test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-05-03
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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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The Rat Savior
Overview: A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-10-26
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Hi-Fi
Overview: Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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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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The Macedonian Part of Hell
Overview: At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1971-08-02
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Horvat's Choice
Overview: It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-01-08
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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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The Key
Overview: Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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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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Dreaming the Rose
Overview: Valent is a night shift worker who can barely feed his family. To add the insult to injury, every night he must pass near the butcher's shop with meat products he can't afford. But one night the shop is a scene of a gangland shooting. Valent picks up the bag full of money and a gun, and his life changes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Black Birds
Overview: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1967-07-17
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To Live on Love
Overview: A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-08
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Burning
Overview: Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Deps
Overview: A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Death Diploma
Overview: Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-07-25
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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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The Deer Hunt
Overview: I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Djuka Begovic
Overview: After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives. Djuka's personal life was marked by constant conflicts with his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-07-01
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An Event
Overview: A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-07-14
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Double Circle
Overview: Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
Genres: Action War Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1963-04-15
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Shepherd
Overview: The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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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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The Shadow on the Wall
Overview: Ilija is a night guard in a factory. One night he oversleeps and is awoken in the morning by a radio report of his death. He tries to contact his employers to clear up this misunderstanding but the world around him starts breaking apart.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Handcuffs
Overview: Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-11-06
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The Rooster's Beak
Overview: The story of the Partisan, understated idealists… who happily lives in post-war society. The problem arises when his comrades Sylvia wants to declare war memoirs where your credit stands out in an attack on a particularly important strategic enemy position called “The Rooster’s Beak”.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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The Fed One
Overview: Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-07-09
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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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Honeymoon
Overview: The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebre for the participants and equally infamous for its innumerable shortcomings ranging from the lack of coherent plot-line to the most basic elements of film making. However, in time, it has gained a somewhat cult reputation. A priceless insight into an odd culture and its lax sexual mores and follies!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-05-30
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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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The Ambassador
Overview: Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-07-10
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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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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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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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Return of Katarina Kozul
Overview: After her husband's death in Germany, an attractive young widow leaves his native village in Herzegovina to work abroad. There she starts an affair with an Italian worker that proves to be unsuccessful, yet she gets pregnant. She does an abortion, which is followed by another blow - her godfather Luka steals her hard-earned money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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1st Split Detachment
Overview: A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown to the terrible torture and eventually murder.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Ninth Miracle on the East
Overview: Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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Four Days to Death
Overview: Between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia was ruled by a monarchy. This movie explores the difficulties faced by a Communist Party organizer under that regime when an order goes out to kill anyone threatening the current regime. At first he is willing to leave the country, but his experience of the situation of workers moves him to stay. Despite efforts of captors to help him escape, he refuses, and dies a martyr's death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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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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Back of the Medal
Overview: A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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And This Will Pass, Too...
Overview: Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-04-15
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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 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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The Red and the Black
Overview: This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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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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The Trojan Horse
Overview: During the WWII, the communist resistance, with the help of a few local anti-fascists, makes sabotage and obstructs the actions of the Yugoslav quislings.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Wet Skin
Overview: In a construction company faced with the suspension of production due to lack of profitability, an engineer still believes in the effectiveness of his work in the province, however it affects the relationship with the girlfriend.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-01-17
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The Scar
Overview: The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-04-21
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The Chicken Stealers
Overview: At the very end of the WW2, two Croatian Home Guard soldiers run home in German uniforms. They managed to save their lives and spent most of their time stealing chickens and eggs for their superior officer. Their uncertain journey ends with the last task: to escort the arrested partisan agent.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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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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Dubrovnik Summer Festival
Overview: Zvonimir Berković decided to present the Dubrovnik Summer Festival on film in an imaginative manner. He set scenes from the most popular plays of the Festival across various locations in Dubrovnik, so Pero Kvrgić acts Negromant's monologue from "Dundo Maroje" while interacting with vendors on the local marketplace, and in the dreamy atmosphere of Lokrum forest fairies are performing a scene from Držić's "Grižula".
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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