Branko Špoljar

Branko Špoljar

Born: January 4, 1914
Died: October 27, 1985
in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]

Movies for Branko Špoljar...

Lidija
Title: Lidija
Released: March 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Lidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Title: The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Released: February 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
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Slow Motion
Title: Slow Motion
Released: July 3, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Rat Savior
Title: The Rat Savior
Character: Rupčić
Released: October 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Mother
Title: Little Mother
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.
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Lone Wolf
Title: Lone Wolf
Character: Doktor
Released: July 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with the food.
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Shepherd
Title: Shepherd
Character: Drug iz općine
Released: July 14, 1971
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
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Handcuffs
Title: Handcuffs
Character: Učitelj
Released: November 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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, Visnja; 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.
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The Rage Within
Title: The Rage Within
Released: December 29, 1969
Type: Movie
A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.
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The Ravine
Title: The Ravine
Character: Thin Soldier
Released: November 7, 1969
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Accidental Life
Title: Accidental Life
Character: Direktor
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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When You Hear the Bells
Title: When You Hear the Bells
Character: Komandant bataljona
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 Valley of Death
Title: The Valley of Death
Character: Cranfield
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.
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Adriatic Sea of Fire
Title: Adriatic Sea of Fire
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a mutiny to keep fighting when the commander is ordered to surrender.
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Winnetou and the Crossbreed
Title: Winnetou and the Crossbreed
Character: Doc (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1966
Type: Movie
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Liječnik
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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The Real State of Affairs
Title: The Real State of Affairs
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.
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Apache Gold
Title: Apache Gold
Character: Bancroft
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.
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Treasure of Silver Lake
Title: Treasure of Silver Lake
Character: Doc Jefferson Hartley
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.
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Kozara
Title: Kozara
Character: Njemački kapetan
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
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Lum and Abner Abroad
Title: Lum and Abner Abroad
Character: Papa Passavetz
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.
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The Concert
Title: The Concert
Character: Edmund
Released: May 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on holding a cultural evening. They invite Ema, a reclusive piano teacher from the same building, to play for them. Ema declines, but starts reminscing back on her own life and the historical events that have seemingly overshadowed it.
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Lisinski
Title: Lisinski
Character: Vatroslav Lisinski
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Biography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.