Mate Ergović

Mate Ergović

Movies for Mate Ergović...

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Title: Here
Character: Umirovljenik
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Title: Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Character: Gostioničar (voice)
Released: October 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
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Sokol Did Not Love Him
Title: Sokol Did Not Love Him
Character: Čič Steva
Released: July 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Hadrović
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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Anticasanova
Title: Anticasanova
Character: Susjed u liftu
Released: June 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
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The Ambassador
Title: The Ambassador
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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Cervantes from the Small Town
Title: Cervantes from the Small Town
Character: Domeniko
Released: February 2, 1982
Type: Movie
'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.
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Find a Way, Comrade
Title: Find a Way, Comrade
Character: Velečasni
Released: July 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
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The Life and Times of August Šenoa
Title: The Life and Times of August Šenoa
Released: January 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Life and times of August Šenoa, popular Croatian novelist who was one of the most influential writers in 19th Century. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of his death.
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Title: The Big Town
Character: Šjor Pučanstvo
Released: December 7, 1980
Type: TV
This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Jure
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
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The Man to Kill
Title: The Man to Kill
Character: Stanko Palikarda
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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Title: Devil's Due
Released: February 19, 1979
Type: TV
During WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.
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Istrian Rhapsody
Title: Istrian Rhapsody
Character: Mate
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.
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Bombing Process
Title: Bombing Process
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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Snowstorm
Title: Snowstorm
Character: Marko
Released: July 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
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A Shot
Title: A Shot
Character: Mrđan
Released: June 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
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Daredevil Times
Title: Daredevil Times
Character: Knez Trtonja
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.
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Three Poplars
Title: Three Poplars
Character: Anin usvojitelj
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
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Anno Domini 1573
Title: Anno Domini 1573
Character: Dvorski
Released: November 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.
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Hitler from Our Street
Title: Hitler from Our Street
Character: Kafedžija Đuro
Released: July 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local Volksdeutschers (ethnic Germans) enlist with the Nazi occupiers. The village bum, Leksi, jumps at the opportunity to put on a uniform and parade around with a gun. Leksi gets into an argument with villagers Marko and Joca, who devise a plan to get rid of him. At the same time, Marko tries to seduce Leksi's wife, Anika.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
Character: Luka
Released: June 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Through Šimun’s conflict with the head of the new agricultural cooperative, where he is forced to work in order to feed his family, the changes that land reclamation has brought to everyday life in the Neretva Valley are depicted, destroying the traditional way of life.
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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Title: A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Character: Šimurina
Released: May 31, 1974
Type: Movie
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.
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The Organ and the Firemen
Title: The Organ and the Firemen
Character: Velečasni
Released: April 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.
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Deps
Title: Deps
Character: Policajac u stanici
Released: March 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.
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Title: In the Registrar's Office
Character: Kanonik
Released: February 17, 1974
Type: TV
Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. 9 episodes in total.
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You Get It, Man
Title: You Get It, Man
Character: Gazda
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Our hero is Glista - a young Zagreb punk whose (sub)urban adventures depict his world and philosophy.
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To Live on Love
Title: To Live on Love
Character: Podvornik
Released: January 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.
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The Accordion
Title: The Accordion
Character: Maćaš-bači
Released: December 10, 1972
Type: Movie
The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.
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The Deer Hunt
Title: The Deer Hunt
Character: Joza Vikulić
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.
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Afternoon of a Pheasant
Title: Afternoon of a Pheasant
Character: Blind Fisherman
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A love couple finds their secret place on a desolated river bank, without knowing about the fisherman and trio of pop musicians who found themselves there by accident, and who now use this opportunity for voyeurism.
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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Title: The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Character: Nikola zvani 'Miš'
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.
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Pero the Lump's Gang
Title: Pero the Lump's Gang
Character: Markan
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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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Title: Love and Sometimes a Curse
Character: Lukin
Released: November 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.
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Protest
Title: Protest
Character: Šofer
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
A man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.
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The Taste of Violence
Title: The Taste of Violence
Released: August 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
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The Lost Pencil
Title: The Lost Pencil
Character: Tomo
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
After one of the pupils lost his pencil in the classroom, the other children accuse Dika that he stole it. Dika decides to fight for the truth, and luckily his teacher is the only one who believes him.
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Train without a Timetable
Title: Train without a Timetable
Character: Markan
Released: March 14, 1959
Type: Movie
The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.
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Master of His Own Body
Title: Master of His Own Body
Character: Šumar
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.
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The Siege
Title: The Siege
Character: Mićo
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus of three intertwined stories.
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Title: The Foreigner
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.
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Title: Traps
Character: Subotičanec
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.