Boris Buzančić

Boris Buzančić

Born: March 13, 1929
Died: October 9, 2014
in Bjelovar, Croatia
Boris Buzančić was a Croatian actor and politician. From 1990 to 1992 he was mayor of Zagreb, and from 1992 to 1995 member of the Croatian Parliament.

Movies for Boris Buzančić...

Kotlovina
Title: Kotlovina
Character: Dida
Released: July 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A big family reunion at the weekend cottage around traditional food preparation "kotlovina" (pig on a spit and lots of drinking) with quaintly amusing and earnest situations revealing what is stronger: ties of blood and background or culture and the way of living.
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In Four Rows
Title: In Four Rows
Character: Senjak
Released: December 7, 1999
Type: Movie
The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
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Marshal Tito's Spirit
Title: Marshal Tito's Spirit
Character: Jakov
Released: January 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Stipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism. Written by Anonymous
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Russian Meat
Title: Russian Meat
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Determined to find her sister's killers, Ida Palamar decides to become a prostitute in an elite Zagreb brothel where the murder probably took place. The brothel is run by Vuk, violent and drug-crazed arms smuggler, protected by the police. Ida's only ally in her quest is a young bouncer.
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Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Diana McGowin is a successful middle-aged legal secretary. Upon her realization that she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Diana courageously attempts to hide her affliction from her husband, Jack, and her children, but it isn't long before the truth becomes painfully obvious.
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Title: Operation Barbarossa
Character: Profesor Gavrić
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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Officer with a Rose
Title: Officer with a Rose
Character: Franjo Gostruški
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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The Convicted
Title: The Convicted
Character: Inspektor Serdar
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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Nobody Will Laugh
Title: Nobody Will Laugh
Character: Košutek
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.
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Small Train Robbery
Title: Small Train Robbery
Character: Austrijski major
Released: July 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Lika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by sergeant Cokula. The area is controlled by a group of outlaws led by Todor nicknamed "The Terrible". Sergeant Cokula and Todor did not bother each other, until bandits robbed the emperor's inspector.
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The Tamburitza Players
Title: The Tamburitza Players
Character: Cvjetko Palin
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.
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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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Turopolje Cannon
Title: Turopolje Cannon
Character: Velečasni
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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Title: The Big Town
Character: Dotur Vice, šjor Načelnik
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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Summer in the South
Title: Summer in the South
Released: October 20, 1980
Type: Movie
The story describes a staid and apparently very ordinary Austrian teacher on holiday on the Southern Adriatic coast. The sensation of renewal and refreshment from the sea, sun and salt air is described in physical terms.
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Title: The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Character: Robert Johnson
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 Return
Title: The Return
Character: Šjor Berto
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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Old Fellas
Title: Old Fellas
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Stories about middle-aged Zagreb men, their merry adventures and those one should forget. Based on a theater play.
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Slow Motion
Title: Slow Motion
Character: Jura
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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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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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Title: That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Character: Branko Sečan
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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Roko and Cicibela
Title: Roko and Cicibela
Character: Sudac
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.
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Title: Nikola Tesla
Character: Thomas Alva Edison
Released: September 11, 1977
Type: TV
This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.
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Motel Moonlight
Title: Motel Moonlight
Released: March 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Middle-aged couple is going back from shopping in Trieste. They decide to spend the night in a romantic motel “Moonlight”, but there, their trouble will begin…
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The Republic of Užice
Title: The Republic of Užice
Character: Bora
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
In 1941, a few months after German tanks forced Yugoslav Royal Army to capitulate, organized resistance is turning into massive uprising against occupying forces. Partisans, led by the Communist party, manage to chase Germans from huge territory later known as the Uzice Republic. However, forces loyal to King have some other ideas.
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Timon
Title: Timon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Title: The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Character: Ivo Jurica
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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The Way to Paradise
Title: The Way to Paradise
Character: Profesor Bernardo Leander
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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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Title: Love and Sometimes a Curse
Character: Gile
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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When You Hear the Bells
Title: When You Hear the Bells
Character: Vjeko
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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Protest
Title: Protest
Character: Šef pravne službe poduzeća
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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Holiday in St. Tropez
Title: Holiday in St. Tropez
Character: Julio
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A hotel needs to be fixed up by its guests.
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Men and Not
Title: Men and Not
Released: October 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s novel.
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In Conflict
Title: In Conflict
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The conflict between a reactionary surgeon and his progressive son over new methods of surgery.
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We'll Meet Tonight
Title: We'll Meet Tonight
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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Adventure at the Door
Title: Adventure at the Door
Character: Ženskaroš
Released: July 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Ispovjednik
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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Partisan Stories
Title: Partisan Stories
Character: (segment "Povratak")
Released: July 26, 1960
Type: Movie
The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Husa
Released: July 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
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H-8...
Title: H-8...
Character: Novinar Boris
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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It Was Not Useless
Title: It Was Not Useless
Character: Jure
Released: February 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent Buzančić's new-fangled methods. Gradually, he proves his worth and wins their confidence. The clincher comes when Buzančić rids the community of a despotic villain.
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The Siege
Title: The Siege
Character: Krešo
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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Tzi-goo-lee Mee-goo-lee
Title: Tzi-goo-lee Mee-goo-lee
Character: Predsjednik omladinskog saveza
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Ivan Ivanović, a party functionary, arrives in a provincial town as a temporary replacement for a cultural official. The newcomer is fanatically eager to reform the town's cultural life in accordance with socialist ideals. He abolishes all five music societies and orders a monument of the town's most revered native, late composer Ciguli Miguli, removed from the main square. Ivanović's actions, however, meet stiff resistance from the townspeople, especially the youth.
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Title: 67 Days: The Republic of Uzhitze
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
TV series which serves as an extended version of the film of the same title.