Ivan Brkić

Ivan Brkić

Born: January 15, 1960
in Vinkovci, Croatia

Movies for Ivan Brkić...

On the Other Side
Title: On the Other Side
Character: Mato
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
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A Perfect Day
Title: A Perfect Day
Character: Store Owner
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
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The Bridge at the End of the World
Title: The Bridge at the End of the World
Character: Ustaša
Released: July 23, 2014
Type: Movie
The war has ended. Villages of Bosnian Croats have been destroyed, and they are living in the homes of the Croatian Serbs. An old man, a Bosnian Croat, disappears. A policeman Filip, himself living in a Serbian home, investigates the case uninterestedly. Through the relationship with his father, Filip tries to understand the motives of the missing old man. As the film moves towards the end, Filip’s investigation becomes more and more personal.
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The Priest's Children
Title: The Priest's Children
Character: Luka
Released: January 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
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Metastases
Title: Metastases
Character: Tetak Brane
Released: March 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.
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Two Players from the Bench
Title: Two Players from the Bench
Character: Švercer ljudima
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Ante and Dusko are two Dream Team players. Besides being a Croat and a Serb who fought on opposite sides in the war, both used to be volleyball players. Today, they live normal lives, one in a remote craggy region, the other in Banja Luka. There is little chance of them ever meeting again. The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has indicted Colonel Skoko, a hero to some, a criminal to the others. The two main witnesses to his defense, Mato and Joso, have disappeared without a trace. Skoko's sponsor from the intelligence circles, Antisa, wants to find two men resembling Mato and Joso, to impersonate them before the Hague investigators, and hopefully bring down the indictments. Naturally, the two men he finds are none other than our heroes, Ante and Dusko.
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Sorry for Kung Fu
Title: Sorry for Kung Fu
Character: Ljubo
Released: July 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
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Here
Title: Here
Character: Recepcionar
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Title: God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Character: Kartaš #1
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
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The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Title: The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
Character: Miljenko
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Title: Is It Clear, My Friend?
Character: Ahmet
Released: November 11, 2000
Type: Movie
A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
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Madonna
Title: Madonna
Character: Obrad
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
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How the War Started on My Island
Title: How the War Started on My Island
Character: Roko Papak
Released: August 31, 1997
Type: Movie
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
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Comanche Territory
Title: Comanche Territory
Character: Francotirador
Released: March 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.
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Virgin Mary
Title: Virgin Mary
Character: 1st Jail Guard
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
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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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The Price of Life
Title: The Price of Life
Character: Vaso
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
At the end of 1991, a prisoner Ivan escapes from Serbian camp. He finds a hideout in the property of a wealthy Serbian landowner Stevan, who eventually finds him and offers him two choices - to submit him to the authorities, or to make Ivan work for him. Ivan accepts the latter and while staying on the farm he gradually introduces the landowner's deranged family. He also meets his daughter-in-law Anica, a beautiful Croatian woman married to landowner's bloodthirsty son who fights in Croatia. A secret love affair is being developed between the two Croats.
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Time for...
Title: Time for...
Character: Srbin
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Maria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that was attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. Them two manage to escape, and find hideout in the nearby town. Maria takes up job in the laundry, while Darko joins Croatian Defendors, much to his mother's opposition. After discovering that her son was killed, Maria sets off to the front so she could bury his body if nothing else.
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Time for...
Title: Time for...
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Maria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that was attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. Them two manage to escape, and find hideout in the nearby town. Maria takes up job in the laundry, while Darko joins Croatian Defendors, much to his mother's opposition. After discovering that her son was killed, Maria sets off to the front so she could bury his body if nothing else.
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The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Title: The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Character: Lugar
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.
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Title: Stylish in the Guests
Character: Marko
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
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Title: Balkan Inc.
Character: Momo Desnica
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.