Danko Ljuština
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karlovac, Croatia
Birthday: February 24, 1952
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Gender: Other
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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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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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The Horseman
Overview: The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Case of Felix Langus or How to Seize Freedom
Overview: Felix Langus is increasingly obsessed with the idea of communicating with supernatural forces, which warn him of the great peril of danger. Attacks of obsession are triggered by aggressive media, which are constantly challenged by dangerous information in a graduated rhythm. At his job as a driver, he has more and more problems. He's moved to an undemanding workplace, but his obsession proves to be dangerous even there, which leads him to unpredictable and grotesquely funny complications. Together with his psychotherapist, he can not escape a common fate...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Overview: "Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-07-22
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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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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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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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One Shot
Overview: One accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2013-07-25
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The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Overview: Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2013-11-07
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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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Go, Yellow
Overview: Ivek and Kruno are best friends, both passionate supporters of a suburban Zagreb football club. When a nouveau riche businessman Čabraja enters the club's managing board with ambitious plans, and soon becomes the club's president, the two friends are divided. While Kruno is enthusiastic over the club's newly found success, Ivek is distrustful towards Čabraja and does not approve of his shady methods. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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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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S.P.U.K.
Overview: A commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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Pusca Bistra
Overview: After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge. People he holds responsible are randomly chosen citizens of the Pusca Bistra village. After he accidently finds out certain facts, Pero finds irrefutable evidence about unhonorable acts of Pusca's citizens and accidently blackmails the entire village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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The President
Overview: The government, led by Vladimir Mercin, is being dangerously shaken by the “horse affair”. The opposition has already managed to win over some government officials to its side. Mercin’s men decide on a redemptive move: to stage his own fake kidnapping.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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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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First Class Thieves
Overview: A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Manifesto
Overview: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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The Lika Cinema
Overview: A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2008-07-20
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A Cormoran
Overview: A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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Zagreb Stories
Overview: Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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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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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Overview: A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Carnival, Angel and Dust
Overview: Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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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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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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Blanka Kolak's Love
Overview: In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1987-05-29
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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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In the Midst of My Days
Overview: A famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via intercessory from Mother of God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-03-15
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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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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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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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Resting Room
Overview: By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
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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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