Boris Dvornik

Boris Dvornik

Born: April 16, 1939
Died: March 23, 2008
in Split, Croatia
Boris Dvornik was born to the family of a carpenter. His acting experience started at the age of 8 when he took parts in plays for children. In his high school days he was learning to be electrician, but soon decided to pursue full-time acting career instead. After finishing National Acting School in Novi Sad he enrolled in Drama Academy in Zagreb. While on the first academic year, he began his movie career in Deveti krug (1960). His film debut was instant success, and in his second movie, Martin u oblacima (1961), he proved his abilities in comic roles. Dvornik soon became on of the movie icons of former Yugoslavia, together with 'Bata Zivojinovic', Milena Dravic and Ljubisa Samardzic. However, the zenith of popularity was reached by his role in humorous cult series "Malo misto" (mini) and some other light pieces that followed in the 1970s. However, although still being one of the most prolific actors in history of former Yugoslav and Croatian cinema and TV, Boris Dvornik in 1980s mostly used to work in the Croatian National Theatre in Split. In 1992, due to the friendship with Antun Vrdoljak, he flirted with politics for a couple of months. Dvornik is married, has a daughter and four granchildren, while two of his sons - Dean Dvornik and 'Dino Dvornik', who used to cameo as children in his movies - are now major pop stars in Croatia.

Movies for Boris Dvornik...

Trace into Infinity
Title: Trace into Infinity
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and work of Oliver Dragojević, famous Croatian singer.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Luka Kolar
Released: March 7, 2004
Type: Movie
"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.
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The Doctor of Craziness
Title: The Doctor of Craziness
Character: Prolaznik
Released: November 5, 2003
Type: Movie
All kinds of patients roam through waiting room of a psychiatrist whose life motto is: everybody are crazy until is proved the other way.
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Title: Visa for the Future
Character: Vinko Uskok
Released: September 22, 2002
Type: TV
One of the first post-Independence Bosnian sitcoms. Production started on June 22, 2001 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The final episode was filmed in Sarajevo on August 25, 2008 and aired in October. It eventually became one of the region's most popular sitcoms.
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The Last Will
Title: The Last Will
Character: Jure
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
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The Canyon of Dangerous Games
Title: The Canyon of Dangerous Games
Character: Frane
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.
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Nausicaa
Title: Nausicaa
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Matija Remetin is young man who is studying drama in Zagreb just before the outbreak of WW2. He rents the room at Marija Slajner, widow who's three previous tennants had commited suicide. Remetin begins to notice beautiful and mysterious girl on the other side of street and begins calling her Nausikaja.
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Carnival, Angel and Dust
Title: Carnival, Angel and Dust
Character: Visko (segment "Karneval")
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
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Spy In High Heels
Title: Spy In High Heels
Character: Božur
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A lady manager of newly formed record house places his administrator, disguised as a cleaning lady, in competing record house. She needs to get the records of some world-famous star, and to provide in that way banking credits for building of studio. After many troubles and comic situations, in which the alleged cleaning lady gets because of her good looks, the manager will finally spend a few years in prison.
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Tight Skin 2
Title: Tight Skin 2
Character: Vujo
Released: November 2, 1987
Type: Movie
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
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Wartime
Title: Wartime
Character: Bronco
Released: August 26, 1987
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Eastern Europe during WW II. The Nazis have captured a Swedish scientist, whom they want to create weapons of mass-destruction for them, and then a group of local rebels will have to free him from the Nazis before they run out of time. To help them with this task, they have sought the aid of a couple of American pilots
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Marjuca or Death
Title: Marjuca or Death
Character: Ivanko
Released: June 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.
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Title: Better Life
Character: Lujo Lukšić
Released: January 10, 1987
Type: TV
Bolji život is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade it is considered to be the most successful TV show ever produced in Yugoslavia. Written by Siniša Pavić, most prolific Serbian screenwriter, the series helped jump start cinematic careers for many of its protagonists, most notably Dragan Bjelogrlić who went on to become successful actor, director, and producer.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Đula Boroš
Released: September 28, 1986
Type: TV
With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
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From One Friday to the Next
Title: From One Friday to the Next
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.
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The Secret of an Old Attic
Title: The Secret of an Old Attic
Character: Šime
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Character: Bajin brat
Released: July 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Starojugoslavenski oficir
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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Cervantes from the Small Town
Title: Cervantes from the Small Town
Character: Roko Prč
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
'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.
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My Part-Time Dad
Title: My Part-Time Dad
Character: Bora
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
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Title: The Big Town
Character: Meštar
Released: December 7, 1980
Type: TV
This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.
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Times, Waters
Title: Times, Waters
Character: Narednik Žika
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a watermill. Such an enterprise gets two villages in conflict over water rights, threatening to permanently turn people against each other. In the past, the territory had been occupied by the Italian armies, and a flashback shows a massacre in one village, a revelation that disaster has been a part of their history, in one way or another. No matter how he argues, the young man who advocated the watermill loses out to the builders of a dam - something that does not bode well for the low-lying village.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Barba Frane
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Title: Occupation in 26 Pictures
Character: Vlaho
Released: June 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Title: Wolf Hunters of Upper and Lower Polacha
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Roko and Cicibela
Title: Roko and Cicibela
Character: Roko
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.
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Man and Architecture
Title: Man and Architecture
Character: Špiro
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Fliers of the Open Skies
Title: Fliers of the Open Skies
Character: Tomo
Released: June 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
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Daredevil Times
Title: Daredevil Times
Character: Dane Desnica
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
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Title: The Bonfires of Kapela
Character: Dimnjacar
Released: November 30, 1975
Type: TV
Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
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Hitler from Our Street
Title: Hitler from Our Street
Character: Marko
Released: July 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local Volksdeutschers (ethnic Germans) enlist with the Nazi occupiers. The village bum, Leksi, jumps at the opportunity to put on a uniform and parade around with a gun. Leksi gets into an argument with villagers Marko and Joca, who devise a plan to get rid of him. At the same time, Marko tries to seduce Leksi's wife, Anika.
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Title: Covik I po
Released: October 13, 1974
Type: TV
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Red Blow
Title: Red Blow
Character: Kapetan avijacije
Released: July 16, 1974
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
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The Dervish and Death
Title: The Dervish and Death
Character: Hasan Dželevdžija
Released: July 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.
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Title: What Are We In This World...
Character: Marko Uvodic
Released: October 7, 1973
Type: TV
The tragic characters of losers from the beginning of the 20th century are a precious record of the era.
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Title: The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: Dalmatinac
Released: July 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
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To Live on Love
Title: To Live on Love
Character: Medan
Released: January 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.
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Traces of a Black Haired Girl
Title: Traces of a Black Haired Girl
Character: Jova
Released: June 7, 1972
Type: Movie
A railway worker moves to another city and experiences a love affair with a suburban prostitute. Their encounter disturbs his solitude, and the two begin their life together.
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The Suburb
Title: The Suburb
Released: February 22, 1972
Type: Movie
One summer afternoon, three old desperadoes violently shatter a pure and innocent love.
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The Deer Hunt
Title: The Deer Hunt
Character: Konobar Zeljo
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Title: The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Character: Dikan
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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The Bet
Title: The Bet
Character: Vozač kamiona
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the life in suburbia, and gets back to her husband disappointed, disgraced and humiliated.
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Zagrebians
Title: Zagrebians
Character: Roko Prč
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Luigi and Bepina, the stars of TV show "Our Little Town", pay visit to Zagreb.
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Pero the Lump's Gang
Title: Pero the Lump's Gang
Character: Policajac Jozo
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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Title: Our Little Town
Character: Roko Prc
Released: February 22, 1970
Type: TV
A life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.
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Life Is a Mass Phenomenon
Title: Life Is a Mass Phenomenon
Character: Adio
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two friends dream of what they will do when they become adults. One friend dreams of travelling to far off places, but stays at home. The other one leaves and sends him postcards from exotic locations, with descriptions of impossible adventures. But, his friend at home engages in a passionate love affair with his beautiful young landlady. When his friend-the traveller returns he admits he may have exaggerated about some of his adventure stories.. The two friends continue on dreaming of new excitements.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Kapetan
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two married couples cruise from town to town along the Adriatic coast. While men are occupied with booze and sea, their wives are more interested in the young "skipper", who seems to be a virgin. Frivolous flirting evolves into drama when one of the wives and the skipper start feeling something that appears to be love.
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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Title: Love and Sometimes a Curse
Character: Mate Pivac
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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The Battle of Neretva
Title: The Battle of Neretva
Character: Stipe
Released: October 7, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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An Event
Title: An Event
Character: Lugar
Released: July 14, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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When You Hear the Bells
Title: When You Hear the Bells
Character: Kubura
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
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The Bridge
Title: The Bridge
Character: Zavatoni
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
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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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Thunder at the Border
Title: Thunder at the Border
Character: Pater
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.
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On the Mountain of Konjuh
Title: On the Mountain of Konjuh
Character: Mešo
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An exciting story of Husine coalminers who formed a partisan batch and put up an armed resistance during WW2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Man of the World
Title: Man of the World
Character: Ive
Released: June 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.
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Man Is Not a Bird
Title: Man Is Not a Bird
Character: Boško, vozač kamiona
Released: March 6, 1965
Type: Movie
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
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Mad Summer
Title: Mad Summer
Character: Ive
Released: July 11, 1964
Type: Movie
A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.
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The Sunrise
Title: The Sunrise
Character: Pomoćni šofer Stevo
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found themselves in.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Andrija Mačkić
Released: July 14, 1963
Type: Movie
One of the first movies who spoke of Yugoslav socio-political system with some criticism, set in a company. On the routine workers' council meeting a few brave workers stand against a corrupted manager.
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Radopolje
Title: Radopolje
Character: Čovek bez čavala
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
German retaliation expedition burned down the village of Radopolje and killed all the men. When first men appear in the village after the war, Kata Plecas believes they will renew the village. But these men die as well and the question if Radopolje will be the "village of black scarves" again remains.
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Double Circle
Title: Double Circle
Character: Krile
Released: April 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Treachery and escape from agents provocateurs of underground workers among the early days of national rising in Croatia.
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Countrymen
Title: Countrymen
Character: Nikola, traktorista
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A girl from passive area comes to work in Vojvodina's fertile lowlands, along with a group of peasants for a seasonal work. After visiting a city nearby, she finds more about modern life and starts romance with a local fella. Her furious fiancée she had left behind comes to find her.
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Did a Good Man Die?
Title: Did a Good Man Die?
Character: Miki
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Peter is a pensioner who works for a bank - a department store, more precisely - and his job is to collect debts from the citizens. While conducting his work, he finds the young man Miki to be his reliable assistant, and he inadvertently connects him with the girl named Maja.
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Three-Hearts Locket
Title: Three-Hearts Locket
Character: (segment "Priča 3")
Released: March 23, 1962
Type: Movie
A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
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Superfluous
Title: Superfluous
Character: Dane
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
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The Shadow of Glory
Title: The Shadow of Glory
Character: Bazi
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
An ex-motorcycle racing champion who gave up the sport after a serious crash meets a charming girl who came to watch one of the races. A new romance between them ratchets up his desire to compete again and apply for the race, whilst girl's boyfriend tries to win her heart back.
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Martin in the Clouds
Title: Martin in the Clouds
Character: Martin Barić
Released: March 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Martin and his girlfriend Zorica are two students who live as subtenants in separate flats. Since that situation has devastating effect on their love life, they yearn after the place of their own. When Martin's landlords go to the hollidays, it seems that their prayers, at least temporarily, had been listened to. However, the idilla is very short one, because other people also want to use the situation.
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The Ninth Circle
Title: The Ninth Circle
Character: Ivo Vojnović
Released: April 21, 1960
Type: Movie
In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.
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Title: 67 Days: The Republic of Uzhitze
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
TV series which serves as an extended version of the film of the same title.
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Title: A Hell of a Guy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The television humorous series is based on the screenplay by renowned Croatian writer Mirko Bozic. In ten episodes, we look at the various ups and downs of socialist leaders, which authors use to talk about what really interests them, and that is the mentality of the people in the Sinj region in Croatia. Original title: ČOVIK I PO