Kruno Valentić

Kruno Valentić

Born: February 9, 1932
Died: March 17, 2000
in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Movies for Kruno Valentić...

Recognition
Title: Recognition
Character: Gospodin Knežević
Released: November 5, 1996
Type: Movie
During the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Laborant Mitar
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
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The Trojan Horse
Title: The Trojan Horse
Character: Domobran
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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The Tamburitza Players
Title: The Tamburitza Players
Character: Zarobljeni švercer
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.
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Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Martin puškomitraljezac
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: TV
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
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Karmine
Title: Karmine
Released: January 23, 1978
Type: Movie
In the twenties of the last century, after funeral of the bank advisor, relatives gathered in a tavern near the Mirogoj cemetery, an opportunity to solve some old and uncleared bills .
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Bombing Process
Title: Bombing Process
Character: Štefulj
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.
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Court Martial
Title: Court Martial
Character: Mijo
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Snowstorm
Title: Snowstorm
Character: Lukeša
Released: July 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
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A Shot
Title: A Shot
Character: Mato Škorić
Released: June 27, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Either We Are or Aren't
Title: Either We Are or Aren't
Character: Gazda Marko
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Luka Šušmek, a servant, daily laborer and a bit of a vagabond, makes his way through life with his favorite phrase – “either we are, or we are not”, but it causes nothing but troubles to him.
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The Rabbit
Title: The Rabbit
Character: Desetnik domobran Hircel
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Nocturno
Title: Nocturno
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear in his presence and he starts to believe that she's alive.
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Timon
Title: Timon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
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Dramolett by Chiribilli
Title: Dramolett by Chiribilli
Character: Trapola
Released: October 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.
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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Title: The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Character: Domobran Štef
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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Pero the Lump's Gang
Title: Pero the Lump's Gang
Character: Šumar
Released: November 26, 1970
Type: Movie
A group of village boys found a gang under the leadership of the most intelligent amongst them - Pero the Lump. They decide to renovate an old and abandoned watermill on the outskirts of their village. A discord amongst the villages has caused the mill to remain unused. To make sure it stays closed, the corrupted steam mill owner is ready to bribe customers. Pero's gang does not want to give in under the pressure of corrupt villagers...
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The Fed One
Title: The Fed One
Character: Dugi
Released: July 9, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Title: Love and Sometimes a Curse
Character: Jozo
Released: November 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.
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Accidental Life
Title: Accidental Life
Character: TV snimatelj
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Kaya
Title: Kaya
Character: Crnokošuljaš
Released: July 11, 1967
Type: Movie
An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
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The Birch Tree
Title: The Birch Tree
Character: Žandar
Released: June 27, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Milicajac
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Nikoletina Bursac
Title: Nikoletina Bursac
Character: Jankelja
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The mother of a national hero Nikoletina Bursac leads an imaginary conversation with the statue of her deceased son. We follow events from Nikoletina's life and war: his joining of the partisans together with his neighbor Jovica Jez, meeting with the small Jewish girl Erna who survived the slaughter of her village, constant quarrels and friendship with commander Pirgo and commissar Zlatko, meeting with Curetak and their unsuccessful love relationship.
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Train without a Timetable
Title: Train without a Timetable
Character: Policajac
Released: March 14, 1959
Type: Movie
The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.
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H-8...
Title: H-8...
Character: Prodavac 'Večernjeg lista'
Released: July 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A bus and a truck are moving towards each other along a two-way traffic highway on a rainy day. At the very beginning we learn that a reckless driver of another car will cause them to collide while trying to pass the bus; we even learn what seats will spell doom for their occupants. The rest of the movie follows two streams of events on the bus and on the truck, getting us to know and like a wide variety of characters, wondering which ones will end up being casualties and holding breath for our favourites. The epilogue brings some more surprises...
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Title: The Foreigner
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.