Antun Nalis

Antun Nalis

Born: February 3, 1911
Died: February 14, 2000
in Zadar, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]

Movies for Antun Nalis...

Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Prodavac rakije
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 Red and the Black
Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Profašista
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
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The Secret of an Old Attic
Title: The Secret of an Old Attic
Character: Tonči
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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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Konobar
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
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The Man to Kill
Title: The Man to Kill
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Title: Occupation in 26 Pictures
Character: Paolo
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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Train in the Snow
Title: Train in the Snow
Character: Urednik novina
Released: June 10, 1976
Type: Movie
One class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. One of the boys gets sick and the class is forced to go home. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
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Red Blow
Title: Red Blow
Character: Ustaša
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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Title: What Are We In This World...
Character: Frane Coto
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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Ninth Miracle on the East
Title: Ninth Miracle on the East
Character: Talijan sa povezom preko oka
Released: July 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
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1st Split Detachment
Title: 1st Split Detachment
Character: Policajac
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown to the terrible torture and eventually murder.
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Pero the Lump's Gang
Title: Pero the Lump's Gang
Character: Velečasni
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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Togetherness
Title: Togetherness
Character: Papalopolous
Released: September 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Nina, a gorgeous blonde communist, attracts the attention of two wealthy bon vivants. Prince Solomon and Jack attempt to impress the young woman and win out over their rival, surrounded by the stunning scenery of Greece.
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Title: Our Little Town
Character: Postolar Flocun sada Sekretar
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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The Way to Paradise
Title: The Way to Paradise
Character: Liječnik, kirurg
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there.
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Sunday
Title: Sunday
Character: Imbecil
Released: July 21, 1969
Type: Movie
A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.
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When You Hear the Bells
Title: When You Hear the Bells
Character: Charles / Topnik
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 Naked Man
Title: The Naked Man
Character: Toni
Released: July 18, 1968
Type: Movie
The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".
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Almost a Hero
Title: Almost a Hero
Released: August 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Towards the end of World War II, the fictitious French mountain village of Molinette is occupied by German troops. Because of sleep aid, served by his French girlfriend Hélène, the German corporal Karl Küppers misses the departure of his company to Russia. With the help of the purposeful Frenchwoman he becomes Ortskommandant.
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Kaya
Title: Kaya
Character: Gradski uglednik Tonko
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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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Title: Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy.
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Clay Pigeon
Title: Clay Pigeon
Character: Željezničar Martić
Released: July 17, 1966
Type: Movie
The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.
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The Seventh Continent
Title: The Seventh Continent
Character: Otac djece
Released: July 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
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Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun
Title: Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun
Character: Vemić
Released: March 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
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Days of Temptation
Title: Days of Temptation
Character: Oficer predavnik
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.
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Man of the World
Title: Man of the World
Character: Krčmar Grgo
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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Pyramid of the Sun God
Title: Pyramid of the Sun God
Character: Cortejo
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Title: Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Character: Pablo Cortejo
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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A Star Travels South
Title: A Star Travels South
Character: Festival director
Released: May 15, 1964
Type: Movie
The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she managed to buy a ticket to Belgrade at the air-terminal from Mrs Navrátilová, who couldn't make the trip. In the meantime, the orchestra conductor is beside himself with despair. He phoned to Prague from the border, and when he realized that Sona had left her house in a taxi, he thought that she would catch up with them by the road. The orchestra delayed the train's departure with an improvised concert for the custom officers and the passengers.
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Apache Gold
Title: Apache Gold
Character: Barman Hicks
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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Double Circle
Title: Double Circle
Character: Kuhar
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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Treasure of Silver Lake
Title: Treasure of Silver Lake
Character: Bruns (uncredited)
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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Whistle at Eight
Title: Whistle at Eight
Character: Filmski reditelj
Released: August 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A film crew wants to make a serious drama, but the investors agree to fund the movie only if they make something funny. Hence the drama becomes a comedy with famous singer Đorđe Marjanović in star role.
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We'll Meet Tonight
Title: We'll Meet Tonight
Character: Građanin
Released: February 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A student of music education comes to the music festival where organizers mix him up with the conductor. He accepts the role which creates lots of comic situations.
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Happiness Comes at Nine o'Clock
Title: Happiness Comes at Nine o'Clock
Character: Građanin
Released: July 16, 1961
Type: Movie
One day, Happiness and Sorrow come to town. Happiness leaves her magical cloak in the local inn, saying that it fulfills every wish to those who wear it. However, Sorrow knows that Happiness doesn't come alone, but brings worries with herself, too. The magical cloak changes its owner and fulfills the most unusual wishes of timid professor of violin, old night guard, naive student and blonde girl. When all their wishes are fulfilled, they find out that they did not achieve happiness.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Kapetan straže
Released: May 28, 1961
Type: Movie
The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.
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Martin in the Clouds
Title: Martin in the Clouds
Character: Karmine
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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Viva l'Italia!
Title: Viva l'Italia!
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
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The Great Tour
Title: The Great Tour
Character: Vođa dramske grupe Tonči
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Musical comedy set in show-biz milieu.
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Caroline of Rijeka
Title: Caroline of Rijeka
Character: Andra
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.
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Mamula Camp
Title: Mamula Camp
Character: Italijanski oficir Manipolo
Released: July 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Story of people in a camp, situated on a small island and ruled by Nazis.
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The White Warrior
Title: The White Warrior
Character: Melders, Murad's Lieutenant
Released: June 21, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
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H-8...
Title: H-8...
Character: Lupež Ivica
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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Cursed Money
Title: Cursed Money
Character: Konte
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
On the Eve of WW2, the royal government of Yugoslavia hid the national money inside the cave around village of Ozrinići in Montenegro. The locals discovered the heaps of money by accident, and soon begun to build new houses and buy the land. Unfortunately, the Italians occupied the country and burned their properties to ashes. Based on a true story.
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The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
Title: The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
Character: Teodor Ikl
Released: May 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
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The Blood Road
Title: The Blood Road
Character: Švare
Released: February 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Yugoslav Partizans, captured by Nazis, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population help some Partizans survive or flee to neutral Sweden.
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Little Jole
Title: Little Jole
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An unfinished comedy about a beauty and sailors set in an island in the Adriatic Sea.
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The Concert
Title: The Concert
Character: Ustaški natporučnik
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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The Grey Seagull
Title: The Grey Seagull
Character: Lorenco
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A young boy, Ive, and his friends set sail on the sea in order to try and repay his father's debts. They name their boat "Sinji galeb". Soon, the pirate Lorenco and his gang notice the children on their boat.
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Stone Horizons
Title: Stone Horizons
Character: Martin
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The year is 1940, Croatian coast, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Jakov, a poor peasant from hinterland, and his daughter Mala, go to the city, trying to find a job to repay a debt...
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In the Storm
Title: In the Storm
Character: Vinćenco
Released: December 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Rose is a young woman who lost her husband in WW2, leaving her and their daughter behind. She gets close with his good-natured brother Drago. However, an unscrupulous smuggler Vincenzo is always around him, and things get tough for the couple.
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Blue 9
Title: Blue 9
Character: Fabris
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Fabris, a center-forward and the key player of the harbour town's football team, is a selfish individualist who is believed that he's irreplaceable in the first squad. He's also a womanizer who tries to seduce pretty Nena, a member of the working's committee and successful swimmer. However, she's emotionally close to Zdravko, who is, same like Fabris, a worthy center-forward himself.
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The Flag
Title: The Flag
Character: Ustaški satnik Vuksan
Released: August 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Story about famous ballet dancer Marija who was horrified by the terror of Ustasha regime, and joined the partisans.