Žarko Potočnjak

Žarko Potočnjak

Born: February 3, 1946
Died: October 21, 2021
in Pakrac, Croatia
Žarko Potočnjak was a Croatian and Yugoslavian actor, known for The Rat Savior (1976), The Glembays (1988) and Crime at School (1982). He was married to Asja Jovanović. He died on October 21, 2021 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Movies for Žarko Potočnjak...

Sixth Bus
Title: Sixth Bus
Character: Edo
Released: July 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.
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Keep Calm and Snap
Title: Keep Calm and Snap
Released: April 4, 2019
Type: Movie
The Prišt brothers are at a crossroads, preparing for their acting studies. Krešo, the older brother, has a hump and too much confidence. The other brother, Kruno, who can’t properly pronounce some words, finds out he has failed his entrance exam at the Faculty of Forestry and his girlfriend has left him. They chose their neighbour Črček, who lives in the same building, to supervise their preparations for studying acting. Črček is one of those characters who can’t do anything right, but at the same time he is likeable, chatty and ready to help.
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Title: Tito
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: TV
Tito is a 2010 Croatian documentary television miniseries about Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The first episode aired March 19, 2010. The series is a co-production by Croatian Radiotelevision and Mediteran film. The two first collaborated on the series Long Dark Night, which at a top audience of 1.8 million viewers was one of the most-watched domestic productions in history. After the announcement of the documentary, Broz's granddaughter Saša announced that she and her family would use all means possible to obstruct filming. Tito cost a reported 1 million euros to make.
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Play Me a Love Song
Title: Play Me a Love Song
Character: Strujin otac
Released: July 14, 2007
Type: Movie
The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
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Red and Black
Title: Red and Black
Character: Charli
Released: October 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
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Libertas
Title: Libertas
Character: Lukarević
Released: July 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy maritime republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) managing to maintain its independence through diplomatic agreements.
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Tressette: A Story of an Island
Title: Tressette: A Story of an Island
Character: Šime
Released: April 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Alojz
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: Ignjac Dobrohotić
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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The Horseman
Title: The Horseman
Character: Fratar
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
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Go, Yellow
Title: Go, Yellow
Character: Kruno
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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Vukovar: The Way Home
Title: Vukovar: The Way Home
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.
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A Summer to Remember
Title: A Summer to Remember
Character: Zubar
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
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The Glembays
Title: The Glembays
Character: Puba Fabriczy
Released: June 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
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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Evening Bells
Title: Evening Bells
Character: Kruno
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.
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In the Camp
Title: In the Camp
Character: Feldkaplan Anton Boltek
Released: March 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...
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Title: You're Lying, Melita
Character: Slikar Sjekira
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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Visitors from the Galaxy
Title: Visitors from the Galaxy
Character: Robert
Released: July 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
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Crime at School
Title: Crime at School
Character: Profesor likovnog
Released: June 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.
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Slow Motion
Title: Slow Motion
Character: Svećenik
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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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Title: That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Character: Maks
Released: April 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.
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Court Martial
Title: Court Martial
Character: Mario
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.
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Bombing Process
Title: Bombing Process
Character: Božičković
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.
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Friends
Title: Friends
Released: May 29, 1972
Type: Movie
An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.
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Title: Traps
Character: Križar
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.