Zvonimir Torjanac

Zvonimir Torjanac

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Night Boats
Title: Night Boats
Character: Vlado
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Seventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
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The Sunken Cemetery
Title: The Sunken Cemetery
Character: Dr. Vrtovec
Released: December 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia. His roaming through Europe left him in a rather distraught state and he is now in search for his identity and peace of mind. As a child of five, he was, literary taken from his birth-place and now - bereft of his parents and family, he will try to solve the puzzling event of his childhood. Thus, in this place where so many unusual things have happened which may have had an influence on the dramatic destiny his family has suffered, he turns attention to himself by to his personal investigation. The town is, however, threatened by the river which already has sunk a good part of the cemetery. Along this threat an unexpected plot, in the genre of a film noir, thriller and horror - a certain «fantasy of soul», develops.
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The Sunken Cemetery
Title: The Sunken Cemetery
Character: Doktor Vrtovec
Released: December 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia. His roaming through Europe left him in a rather distraught state and he is now in search for his identity and peace of mind. As a child of five, he was, literary taken from his birth-place and now - bereft of his parents and family, he will try to solve the puzzling event of his childhood. Thus, in this place where so many unusual things have happened which may have had an influence on the dramatic destiny his family has suffered, he turns attention to himself by to his personal investigation. The town is, however, threatened by the river which already has sunk a good part of the cemetery. Along this threat an unexpected plot, in the genre of a film noir, thriller and horror - a certain «fantasy of soul», develops.
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Guardian of the Frontier
Title: Guardian of the Frontier
Released: February 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A canoe trip down the river Kolpa becomes a journey of discovery for three female students.
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Ante Returns Home
Title: Ante Returns Home
Character: Stariji Pilar
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.
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Charuga
Title: Charuga
Character: Veselinović
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: Movie
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
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Title: Operation Barbarossa
Character: Profesor matematike
Released: June 3, 1990
Type: TV
Operation Barbarossa is a kids TV show, based on the novel The Mysterious Boy by Ivan Kušan. It is a story about a boy who for some time lives in the belief that he is to blame for the death of a friend, a peer, who drowned in the Sava river. In order to cover up his death, the boy takes his name (because he had just come to Zagreb when he disappeared) also goes to another school. Thus, in two shifts (before noon - afternoon), he tries to be a student in two schools and gets into many dramatic situations. The riddle is, of course, solved by Kušan's main character Koko.
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A Man Who Liked Funerals
Title: A Man Who Liked Funerals
Character: Dragec
Released: February 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Filip lives in the small town of Samobor, which is near Zagreb. He works in the local library as a librarian. Even though he moved to the small town many years ago, he still misses the bustle of life in Zagreb. However, his boring routine is interrupted by the arrival of a new library manager, the pretty Elza. Soon, however, a series of strange deaths happen.
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Bloodsuckers
Title: Bloodsuckers
Character: Jambrek
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century, and tells Franz that the members of his family, Glogovac, were famous vampire hunters. Naturally, Franz does not take him seriously but his wife, Barbara, likes the stranger a lot and even believes his story. In the meantime, Franz's two relatives, Jambrek and Jurek, arrive and get caught up in the mess.
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Sokol Did Not Love Him
Title: Sokol Did Not Love Him
Character: Hanzika
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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Officer with a Rose
Title: Officer with a Rose
Character: Seljak
Released: May 30, 1987
Type: Movie
It is 1945 in Zagreb, and everyone is settling into the new regime following the disturbances of the war. Matilda is a wealthy widow of a war hero and has an apartment so spacious that she is required to take a boarder. Fortunately for her, the handsome young Lt. Horvat, the communist housing officer, has taken a fancy to her and has assigned his fiancee to be Matilda's new roommate. Where Matilda is soft and rounded, Lilijana is hard, skinny, and given to revolutionary pronouncements rather than tender endearments. The lieutenant loves them both, though he naturally finds Matilda more attractive. His situation is simplified when Lilijana, though pregnant, is transferred to another post. However, his commander is horrified that he has a lover in addition to his fiancee and demands that he choose whether to continue his career or continue his affair.
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King of Endings
Title: King of Endings
Character: Psihijatar
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half empty train. Kralj goes to a far away compartment for a game of chess, and leaves Visnja alone. Three men take advantage of the lone woman in her compartment and rape her.
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The Convicted
Title: The Convicted
Character: Ujo
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm in an abandoned village. The duo has different plans of what to do with the captives.
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Don't Give in, Flockey!
Title: Don't Give in, Flockey!
Character: Djed
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.
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In the Camp
Title: In the Camp
Character: Brigadir Heinrich
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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Cervantes from the Small Town
Title: Cervantes from the Small Town
Character: Predsednik mjesne zajednice
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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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Inženjer Marek
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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Turopolje Cannon
Title: Turopolje Cannon
Character: Plemeniti
Released: January 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Originally published in 1865, the novel's plot was inspired by Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, and is set in Turopolje after the recent abolition of Bach's absolutism, i.e. when the Croats in the Habsburg Monarchy began to exercise political rights that long had been denied to them.
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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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The Four Seasons
Title: The Four Seasons
Released: June 25, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.
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Journalist
Title: Journalist
Character: Odvjetnik
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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Journalist
Title: Journalist
Character: Liječnik
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Kapsula
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: TV
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
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Violet
Title: Violet
Character: Zlatkov otac
Released: April 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Ljubica is a middle-aged woman who lives in Zagreb and works as an audio pedagogue with deaf-mute children. She herself has a small child, while her husband she hardly communicates to, works in Germany. Coincidentally, she starts an affair with Zlatko, a much younger yet a man from a wealthy background. Although Zlatko is not much concerned about bourgeois views of his parents and has sincere love for Ljubica, it seems that their relationship has no future...
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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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Fliers of the Open Skies
Title: Fliers of the Open Skies
Character: Petar
Released: June 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
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Three Poplars
Title: Three Poplars
Character: Redatelj u kazalištu / Ustaški satnik
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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Title: Don't Give in, Flockey!
Character: Djed
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A TV series made as an extended version of the eponymous film about a stray dog who tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.
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Title: Traps
Character: Logornik Kozarić
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.