Janez Hočevar

Janez Hočevar

Born: February 1, 1940

Movies for Janez Hočevar...

Title: Cases of Inspector Vrenko
Character: Boris Vrenko
Released: January 10, 2021
Type: TV
A series of stories about a chief inspector Martin Vrenko, who faces numbers of unusual cases, interesting characters, intelligent plots and surprising twists.
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Inseparable
Title: Inseparable
Character: Himself
Released: September 14, 2020
Type: Movie
March 2020. As the Covid-19 epidemic is declared, movement restrictions are put in place and social life is disrupted. Inseparable tells the story of a group of friends who still find a way to connect and share their thoughts with each other.
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Title: Fatal Wine
Character: Matteo Rugani
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: TV
The two competing wine-grower families, Dolinar and Rozman hate each other. Ivan Dolinar is convinced that Stane Rozman has betrayed him and caused a death of his wife Maria. Until the real dark truth comes out, their children who fall in love with each other will have to overcome the family hatred.
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There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Title: There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Character: Himself
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only allowed, but also desired. This period ends with a ten-day war, when the identity turns from peacefulness, modesty and diligence into courage and a fighting spirit. The film documents the changes in Slovenia and its inhabitants, which have in recent years brought us to a completely different understanding of national identity, different from the one which was true in Slovenia as well as abroad twenty years ago.
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Landscape No. 2
Title: Landscape No. 2
Character: Polde
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
The burglars Sergej and Polde steal a valuable painting, Landscape No.2. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ordered to recover the stolen painting and the document, which triggers a diabolic mechanism of the past.
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Vampire from Gorjanci
Title: Vampire from Gorjanci
Character: Nobelwin
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
An old legend of a vampire from Gorjanci forest, a dwelling place for creatures from folk legends and myths.
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One Day of Truth
Title: One Day of Truth
Character: Janez Kranjc
Released: December 31, 2006
Type: Movie
A scandal breaks out in a small town just big enough to have a local newspaper.
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Title: Our Little Clinic
Character: Leopold Krota
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: TV
Naša mala klinika were a Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian comedy series broadcast by POP TV and NOVA TV respectively, between 2004 and 2007. Seven seasons were broadcast. The series was written by Marko Pokorn, Rok Vilčnik and Branko Đurić - Đuro, who also directed the series. The show won four viktors for best played TV series. In Slovenia, it was the most watched TV series in 2007 season and some seasons before.
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Felix
Title: Felix
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
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The Queen of Hearts
Title: The Queen of Hearts
Character: Lojz
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
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The Jailers
Title: The Jailers
Character: Avgustin
Released: October 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A story about old people, the members of the secret society called Goethe, who feed on the energy of young men whose corpses are hidden in their laboratory. Even though police is on their trail, Goethe members manage to trick Pavle, the inspector-in-charge. However all of this energetic vampirism is busted when Kristina, one of the members, falls in love with the inspector.
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Sophie the Witch
Title: Sophie the Witch
Character: (voice)
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An educationalist - a 'thief of childhood' becomes alarmed over the inappropriateness of old, fairy tale stories for children. The old book like the one about witches and monsters in her hands suddenly springs to life. Out from it escape Sophie the Witch and her companions: Black Claw, Gray Nightmare and the Red Straw Monster, as well as the water-sprite Aquiline, the shy little dwarf Tiny Peat, and the enchantress Lady Spider. They scatter among the town and woods and performed all kinds of mischief. Sophie just can't get her broom to fly, because she became too fat. The monsters, disappointed over the century in which we live, return back into the book, the witch Sophie loses her magic power and becomes 'Aunt Sophie', and Tiny Peat has changed into a black cat.
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Café Astoria
Title: Café Astoria
Character: Oča
Released: May 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The city of Maribor before the Second World War, and Maribor after its liberation mark the period in which the film Cafe Astoria is set. The story relates with a gentle melancholy and a slight irony the lives of a middle-class family: the cafe owner, his wife and their son. Through their individual destinies we become acquainted with the social and historical background of a by-gone era; the social and national differences of pre-war Maribor, divisions among the wealthy and poor, and nationally minded Slovenes and fanatic Germanophils. The first year after the war introduced the absurd characteristic cruel measures of the so-called revolutionary social transformations in which calamity and coincidence intervene, resulting in events of comic nature, of course, as seen from a safe distance of fifty years.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Hugo Repar
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The life of a man who dared to unfold the corruption and mismanagement in his factory takes a wrong turn as his marriage ends, his lover leaves him and he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital. After completing his stay in this mental institution, the gates of the factory are now closed for him. Will he be forced to apologize, or blood must be shed?
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A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
Title: A Summer in a Sea Shell 2
Released: April 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the club is faced with close-down, the members decide to save it by setting up a dance show for the urban elite.
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Bumpstone
Title: Bumpstone
Character: Valentinčič
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Story of a small group of people who think there is going to be an attack by a group of rabid animals. They perceive this danger through a trance they invoke by hitting their heads against a stone. They decide to oppose their enemy, and a fierce clash takes place.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Character: Pec
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A TV journalist making a documentary in a factory finds out that the workers have been on strike and tries to analyze the strike in his film, but is thwarted by the TV company. His failure at his job is interwoven with his failed marriage.
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Spasm
Title: Spasm
Character: Rifle
Released: September 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Working class of a small town near Ljubljana hope that the authorities will choose their town to build a new factory there, which proves to be wrong. The film is a critical observation of the lack of prospect of young people who live in the province.
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Spring Wind
Title: Spring Wind
Character: Bobi
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A platonic romance between art student and nude model goes through many complications in which they both try to make one another jealous before revealing their true feelings.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Belogardist
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
WWII - Slovenia under Italian fascist occupation. Two friends separated by a woman they both loved, and then by war as well: one of them joins partisans, the other Italian occupying forces.
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Title: Decameron
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: TV
Dekameron is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) fictional TV Series.
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Passing Days
Title: Passing Days
Character: Tihi graditelj
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A confused young man seems like he's eternally waiting for something, but he never really lives up to see it.
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Hidden People
Title: Hidden People
Character: Stari Riba
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Guti (35, Slovenian) and Sig (50, Icelander) wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, while Guti recalls a fight with skinheads Sid drunkenly participated in and Guti tried peacefully to intervene in. Sig has no passport or any clue about his identity—the skinheads have taken everything he owned. Guti is trying to build a new home for himself on a river raft after losing his house to the bank and his life to his ex-wife. He introduces Sig to his friends—suburban misfits, who remind Sig of a legend of the hidden people.