Ivica Vidović
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia
Adult: No
Birthday: May 10, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 18, 2011
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Fine Dead Girls
Overview: Iva and Marija, a young lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb, in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more threatening. The elder landlady Olga dominates the building. Other tenants include her calm husband, her grown-up son Daniel who has a crush on Iva, the prostitute Lidija, an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist performing abortions in one flat of the house, and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates .
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2002-07-24
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How the War Started on My Island
Overview: At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-08-31
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Vesna Goes Fast
Overview: Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Romance with a Double Bass
Overview: Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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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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When the Dead Start Singing
Overview: At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1998-07-29
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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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The Ambush
Overview: Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-06-30
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Prometheus from the Island of Viševica
Overview: A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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The Bewitched Jacket
Overview: A man discovers huge amounts of money popping up in the pockets of his jacket.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-04-09
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Court Martial
Overview: Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Rabbit
Overview: Written in 1932 between the two world wars, this TV drama brings a critique of militarism and speaks of the meaninglessness of warfare and the tragedy of human lives and the tragedy of human lives in such an environment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Visions of Europe
Overview: Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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The Organ and the Firemen
Overview: A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-04-21
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Passing Days
Overview: A confused young man seems like he's eternally waiting for something, but he never really lives up to see it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Man and Architecture
Overview: The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Overview: What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-05-10
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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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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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The Hole
Overview: Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Overview: Two groups of men from neighboring villages get into a clash after both of them shot one wolf for the upcoming local festivity called "vucarenje" (wolf assembly), a rural custom typical for Dalmatian Zagora. Their rivalry ends in a tragic way.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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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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You Get It, Man
Overview: Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-17
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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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So Hot Was the Cannon
Overview: A grenade fired from a nearby hill kills the parents of a ten year old boy during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. The Boy looses his ability to speak. A lady neighbor adopts and takes care of him. The Boy is thrown out from his destroyed apartment and begins to prowl around the city with a schoolmate. Too early and too soon, he goes through the process of growing up. He learns the meanings of such words as force, death, sex. He learns how to achieve. He learns about the values. He learns what matters the most. The Lady neighbor that takes care of him tries to shelter him and protect him. Unsuccessfully. The Boy rides to fall. Death and suffering become more frequent, and more severe. When the Lady neighbor's teenage son is killed by a sniper as a collateral damage, she then rejects the Boy. The Boy escapes the siege, and shoots from a cannon at the city.Fifteen years later, the Boy - now twenty five - and the Lady neighbor meet again. They are united in pain and suffering.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-02-28
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The Society of Jesus
Overview: It is the mid 17th century. The Jesuits spread their influence in Central Europe. Maria, a young Countess lives in the castle. Father Had is a honest and ardent servant of the Society of Jesus. He is dedicated to his life's mission, and as such he is an ideal tool in the hands of his superiors, who have their own plans. Had becomes Maria's confessor. Her woman's charm, intelligence and energy, as well as her beauty, are a constant temptation to him. Jesuits are making pressure on Had to finally realize their plans. Will the Jesuits, at last, achieve their goals and take the castle?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2017-09-16
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Beyond
Overview: Two stories - two truths are confronting. Former Partisan Miha is trying to tell a shocking story from the war times in the modern day disco club, where young people are having fun in a crazy rhythm of music with alcohol and drugs... Amongst the many issues this film explores are the following questions: Does the desire for pleasure and amusement always gain the upper hand against moral convictions and man's sense of responsibility and guilt? What things are worth sacrificing your life for? Are moral second thoughts and the search for the truth stronger than man's endless search for instant pleasure? Is the experience of war truly that which turns a boy into a man? And does love truly redeem death?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1970-07-14
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Where the Penguins Fly
Overview: On the same day several interrelated characters try to change their own lives and, in the process, change the lives of others.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2008-07-12
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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, Višnja; 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 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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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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Ivica Vidović
Overview: A short documentary about one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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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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Early Fall
Overview: A young daughter resents another man coming into the life of her divorced mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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The World's Greatest Monster
Overview: Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As soon as she was born, Stana had both hands bit off by a pig, but she still grows to be good embroiderer. Her beloved brother Toma went into the city, where he's trying to make money by working in the circus. Toma comes to take Stana, promising her a better life in the city. However, she find herself left to the fate of circus act, and her brother eventually sells her to a doctor working on prostheses for disabled. At the same time, with the help of his uncle from the States, Toma tries to pull his cousin Ilija out from jail, a miner imprisoned for his leftist inclinations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2003-07-20
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The Seventh Cronicle
Overview: In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Tressette: A Story of an Island
Overview: Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2006-04-25
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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Overview: Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-10-23
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Whole World Is Silly!
Overview: During the days of carnival festivities, two gentlemen from Split become victims of their own ambitions. While looking for a husband for the widow Redja, Piero gets entangled in his own webs, while his friend Niko does everything he can to avoid getting a mother-in-law along with his future wife.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Kaspar
Overview: Related to the well-known story of how a young man, who came to be called Kaspar Hauser, appeared in a German town in 1828, apparently not able to speak more than a single sentence; A söchener Reiter möcht i wärn wie mei Voter aner gween is ( I want to become a horseman like my father once was).
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-08-31
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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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The Case of Filip Franjic
Overview: Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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