Filip Šovagović
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Biography: Filip Šovagović (born September 13, 1966 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian actor, playwright and journalist. At first known simply as the son of renowned Croatian actor Fabijan Šovagović borned in Ladimirevci, Filip Šovagović has appeared in many films and TV shows in the last decade and a half, gradually building a reputation of his own. His films include No Man's Land, Oscar winner, and in 2005 he made his directorial début with the film Pušća Bistra. Šovagović is author of five plays, one of them, "The Brick", won the most important European radio award, Grand Prix of Italia. He writes a column in the Croatian daily newspaper 24 sata. His sister Anja Šovagović-Despot is also a renowned actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Birthday: September 13, 1966
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Gender: Male
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No Man's Land
Overview: Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2001-05-12
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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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The Living and the Dead
Overview: In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History Horror Mystery War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2007-07-20
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The Last Will
Overview: After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Infection
Overview: In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city authorities are helpless when it comes to revealing the evil and culprits behind it. In the center of this story is the writer Ivan Gajski, whose friend died under sketchy circumstances. Gajski reveals that those who most advocate democracy are not only the same involved in these crimes, but they also did some of the murders as a part of TV production. Gajski meets all kinds of characters through this quest of his, including the woman of his wife Sara, and professor Bošković who discovers the origins of present Evil - the dark past of European continent.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-22
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Mor
Overview: Sue, the only daughter of a squire comes back from a fashionable European resort where she spent vacation. Arno, an impoverished nobleman wins her heart and they soon get engaged. But in the farm is the manager's son named Mor whom Sue spent her childhood with. Their reunion flare up old emotions, but soon strange things begin to happen. The stories about a werewolf start to circle around.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Celestial Body
Overview: When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.
Genres: Drama War Fantasy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Escort
Overview: For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2023-07-18
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Transatlantic
Overview: A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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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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Madonna
Overview: In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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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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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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Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
Overview: An old couple who live in a remote village lose touch with their children who live in the city and who are too busy to visit them. In order to get their attention, they get divorced...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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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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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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Transmania
Overview: One film made by 15 directors, Each one, after seeing the last minute of the previous one.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2016-08-16
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The Melon Route
Overview: The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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Hamburg Altona
Overview: Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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My Uncle's Legacy
Overview: In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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Love Life of a Gentle Coward
Overview: Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Sucks
Overview: A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Pont Neuf
Overview: A young Croatian painter Josip Račić in the solitude of a Parisian attic encounters unusual people and falls in love with a cabaret singer. The ambience of the cheap Parisian hotel mixes in the painter's mind with memories of his childhood and youth in the Slavonian plain, all these things finding their expression in his paintings that start to attract the attention of experts...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Eighth Commissioner
Overview: Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, where he is tasked with the organization of local elections. The previous seven commissioners haven't succeeded.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2018-01-11
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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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Below the Line
Overview: A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Slow Surrender
Overview: Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle, and on his way he will be accompanied by slightly mentally troubled Lukas and a vagabond girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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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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Christmas in Vienna
Overview: A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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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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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Overview: A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Each Time We Part Away
Overview: After his wife's murder and house burnt, a young soldier is in search for new home for his daughter. But coming to chaotic at the beginning of the war Zagreb is no place for hope...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-11-30
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A Rifle for Sleeping
Overview: Janko, a police officer/veteran of the war, who is suffering from insomnia caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, now works as a guard in front of the Russian embassy in Zagreb. Having abandoned his former paramour, the daughter of his police chief, he marries a kleptomaniacal hairdresser named Nana, whom he once caught in the act of picking pockets. He then embarks on an affair with the beautiful Marta, the widow of the war profiteer Dragutin Karlo Stajner, who has left behind him a bankrupted firm, a worthless limousine, several bastards, and at least one angry woman. While Janko and Marta persistently try to divvy up what loot remains before any number of others can claim it, Karlo unexpectedly turns up alive and jumps into the middle of a fray between Marta; Karlo's lover, Julija, a Czech bar-singer; and Julija's husband Vlado, a former henchman of Karlo's who is now trying to lay claim to Stajner's limo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Red and Black
Overview: A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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Life Is a Trumpet
Overview: Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Inspector Martin and the Gang of Snails
Overview: Famous inspector Martin looses his secret package in a strange plane accident over a small meadow. In his quest, he encounters many colorful characters.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Reality
Overview: The destiny unites two homeless men in the S.O.S. canteen. A failed actor and lost poet begin telling each other the key events from their lives. After an extraordinary twist we become aware that the two men are popular and will participate in a film experiment on the Moon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Good Children
Overview: After their mother's funeral, estranged siblings Nikola and Saša spend three days in their childhood home, clearing out their mother's belongings and preparing the house for sale. Trying to postpone the inevitable, they also try to clean up their relationship. Failing to communicate as adults, they regress into childhood…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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Trail of the Beast
Overview: An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Sandbag Dam
Overview: A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father’s funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman named Marko, his teenage love, and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against the family restraints.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2025-03-13
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