Željko Königsknecht

Željko Königsknecht

Movies for Željko Königsknecht...

Extracurricular
Title: Extracurricular
Character: Gradonačelnik
Released: July 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The recently divorced father of a nine-year-old, furious his daughter can't spend her birthday with him, bursts into her classroom with a birthday cake and a rifle. A hostage crisis ensues, and the mayor of the town in which the events take place will try to use the situation to gain advantage ahead of the elections, stopping at nothing. The son of a young policeman is in the same class, and before the events unfold, he'll have to answer a question as well.
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The Constitution
Title: The Constitution
Character: Miroslav Pleše
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.
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National Hero Lily Vidic
Title: National Hero Lily Vidic
Character: Čika Momo
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.
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Walk the Dog
Title: Walk the Dog
Character: Pacijent
Released: July 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A persistent rain falls on Zagreb. That day Janko finally decides to take the threads of his life in his own hands. For him this means, before anything, an attempt to establish a relationship with Iva who he has wanted to approach for some time followed by dealing with his aging father Franjo, a miserable translator who needs an escort to an award ceremony where he will receive an award for lifetime achievement. Iva and Franjo have their own secrets that they don't want to keep to themselves and also ideas of how this rainy day should go. Someone should, in the end, walk the dog.
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Cowboys
Title: Cowboys
Character: Liječnik
Released: July 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun sets in the east. Led by Sasha, a director who has recently returned to his hometown, this group of socially neadaptiranih amateurs starting the fight to their demons and the prejudices that surround them in the society. For dramaturgical template selection western and riding on stereotypes of the genre of the struggle between good and evil, the conflict between civilization and wilderness, the protagonists develop their life stories inevitably influencing and changing each other. Although, as time passes, the show looks increasingly like a mission impossible, almost all of its stakeholders is increasingly seen as a metaphor for their fate and get caught for it as the opportunity of a lifetime .
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Forest Creatures
Title: Forest Creatures
Character: Sanjin
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The new Dutch owner of a Croatian marketing agency is organizing an action-style team building for his employees over weekend. After rafting which ends up with an incident, the employees divide in two paintball groups. While making their way through the forest full of surprises – a local family who is plotting against their lives, suspicious instructors, a random pair of hikers and bizarre accidents. As the day comes to its end, it is clear that, after this game, nothing will ever be the same.
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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Title: Sleep Sweet, My Darling
Character: Čovjek "Mrzla piva" #1
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
"Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
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Ante Returns Home
Title: Ante Returns Home
Character: Gazda
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.
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Go, Yellow
Title: Go, Yellow
Character: Tafra
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Charuga
Title: Charuga
Character: Bubnjar
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: Movie
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
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The Donator
Title: The Donator
Character: Untersturmführer, vojnik na mostu
Released: June 13, 1989
Type: Movie
A war drama about a German officer's search for a priceless art collection.
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Return of Katarina Kozul
Title: Return of Katarina Kozul
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Grigorij
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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The Ambassador
Title: The Ambassador
Character: Roni
Released: July 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...
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Title: You're Lying, Melita
Character: Susjed
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
"You're lying, Melita" is a Croatian television series from 1983. about a little girl who thinks there's nothing wrong with choosing not to tell the truth. Based on a short novel by Ivan Kušan.
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Title: Traps
Character: Zatvorski čuvar
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.