Edo Peročević

Edo Peročević

Born: October 3, 1937
Died: April 28, 2007

Movies for Edo Peročević...

Recognition
Title: Recognition
Character: Milan
Released: November 5, 1996
Type: Movie
During the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.
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Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
Title: Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
Character: Franjo
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
An old couple who live in a remote village lose touch with their children who live in the city and who are too busy to visit them. In order to get their attention, they get divorced...
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The Price of Life
Title: The Price of Life
Character: Tuco
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: Ilija
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 Time of Warriors
Title: The Time of Warriors
Character: Ribočuvar
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Two friends, Fabijan and Dakar, go fishing on a calm river close to Zagreb. In his youth, Fabijan was a Partisan, and Dakar a member of the Foreign Legion. Suddenly, while fishing, they are attacked by unknown assassins. While fighting for their lives, they wonder if this is revenge for unsettled accounts from their past. Fabijan and Dakar set off on a quest for the assassins and motives for their attack...
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Story from Croatia
Title: Story from Croatia
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Jakob Lukač
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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Promised Land
Title: Promised Land
Character: Jakov, kolonist
Released: March 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
Character: Jokaš
Released: April 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely based on true events, depicts the manhunt that followed.
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Horvat's Choice
Title: Horvat's Choice
Character: Jakob Lukač
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
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The Secret of an Old Attic
Title: The Secret of an Old Attic
Character: Inspektor
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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The Falcon
Title: The Falcon
Character: Turski razbojnik
Released: March 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
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Visitors from the Galaxy
Title: Visitors from the Galaxy
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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Title: Smoggies
Character: Damir Travica
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: TV
The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.
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I Want to Live
Title: I Want to Live
Character: Veterinar
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.
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The Tamburitza Players
Title: The Tamburitza Players
Character: Mika
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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You Love Only Once
Title: You Love Only Once
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Title: The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Character: Kolman Czito
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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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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Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Rukljac - komesar čete
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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The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
Title: The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
Character: Žnidaršić
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.
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The Rat Savior
Title: The Rat Savior
Character: Policajac
Released: October 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.
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Train in the Snow
Title: Train in the Snow
Character: Kondukter
Released: June 10, 1976
Type: Movie
One class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. One of the boys gets sick and the class is forced to go home. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.
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The House
Title: The House
Character: Vlado
Released: July 9, 1975
Type: Movie
The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
Character: Božo
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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Title: In the Registrar's Office
Character: Mladi Illustrissimus
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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To Live on Love
Title: To Live on Love
Character: Nastavnik tjelesnog
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: Bačuga
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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Lone Wolf
Title: Lone Wolf
Character: Rankov otac Nikola
Released: July 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with the food.
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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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The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Title: The Pine Tree in the Mountain
Character: Ustaša
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 Macedonian Part of Hell
Title: The Macedonian Part of Hell
Character: Dime Pavtar
Released: August 2, 1971
Type: Movie
At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population. The movie is based on true events,
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Handcuffs
Title: Handcuffs
Character: Baletić
Released: November 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
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Ann and Eve
Title: Ann and Eve
Character: Farmer
Released: August 3, 1970
Type: Movie
The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
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The Fed One
Title: The Fed One
Character: Piro
Released: July 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.
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Love and Sometimes a Curse
Title: Love and Sometimes a Curse
Character: Luka, kraljevski oficir
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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An Event
Title: An Event
Character: Kockar
Released: July 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
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Accidental Life
Title: Accidental Life
Character: Kondukter
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
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Title: The Foreigner
Character: Žandar Vasić
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: Suradnik OZNA-e
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.