Franjo Dijak

Franjo Dijak

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Escort
Title: Escort
Character: Škaričić
Released: July 18, 2023
Type: Movie
For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.
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Illyricvm
Title: Illyricvm
Character: Lucius
Released: July 21, 2022
Type: Movie
The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.
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Kid
Title: Kid
Character: Frenki
Released: July 20, 2018
Type: Movie
After spending four years in prison, a drug dealer will do anything to keep custody over his son.
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I Act, I Am
Title: I Act, I Am
Character: Helmer
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
While researching or playing a role, an actor decides to quit acting and live the life of their character instead.
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Title: Guardian of the Castle
Character: Kapetan Uzelac
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: TV
Croatia in the 1980-s: in terms of politics, things are happening that will change the map of the Europe by the end of the century. The National Security Service (UDBA) is still one of the most active and most effective intelligent communities in Europe. Boris Biscan, UDBA's old employee, is a witness to all the changes going about - the professionals are replaced by the criminals from UDBA, who are willing to deal with political emigrants, offering them political protection in return for their services. Boris is lost in this new world, and the old one has obviously come to its end.
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Half a Man
Title: Half a Man
Character: Mirko
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Croatia, 1991. Two sisters prepare a special homecoming for their father on the day he’s set to return after three months as a prisoner of war.
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Goran
Title: Goran
Character: Goran
Released: August 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.
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Zagreb Stories 3
Title: Zagreb Stories 3
Character: (segment "Dan otpora")
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The third part of "Zagreb Stories" franchise that connects short films about Zagreb into one whole. The plot of six short stories takes place during public holidays.
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Cure: The Life of Another
Title: Cure: The Life of Another
Character: Ivo
Released: August 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Teens Linda and Eta are inseparable friends, though they have plenty of disagreements, but one horrific argument has unexpected consequences.
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Walk the Dog
Title: Walk the Dog
Character: Janko
Released: July 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A persistent rain falls on Zagreb. That day Janko finally decides to take the threads of his life in his own hands. For him this means, before anything, an attempt to establish a relationship with Iva who he has wanted to approach for some time followed by dealing with his aging father Franjo, a miserable translator who needs an escort to an award ceremony where he will receive an award for lifetime achievement. Iva and Franjo have their own secrets that they don't want to keep to themselves and also ideas of how this rainy day should go. Someone should, in the end, walk the dog.
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Adria Blues
Title: Adria Blues
Character: Damir
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Aging Bosnian rocker Toni Riff hasn’t written a single song in twenty years; suffering from depression, he relies on financial support from his wife Sonia. The latter decides to make a last-ditch attempt to salvage Toni’s talent – and their marriage.
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Koko and the Ghosts
Title: Koko and the Ghosts
Character: Drago
Released: July 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Young Koko has just moved with his parents from his idyllic countryside home to a big city. There, with the help of his new friends and a neighbour he investigates the mysterious case of a dead old man who used to live in the flat he has just moved into. Koko and the Ghosts is a family film based on a popular Croatian series of young-adult novels written by Ivan Kušan.
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Mother of Asphalt
Title: Mother of Asphalt
Character: Alen
Released: July 21, 2010
Type: Movie
An abused wife leaves her husband, takes her child away and goes to live in a car.
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The Blacks
Title: The Blacks
Character: Franjo
Released: July 19, 2009
Type: Movie
War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the 'Blacks', who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect - inside themselves.
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Metastases
Title: Metastases
Character: Filip
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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Behind the Glass
Title: Behind the Glass
Character: Majin brat
Released: July 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
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True Miracle
Title: True Miracle
Character: Ante
Released: July 16, 2007
Type: Movie
It is no wonder for a son to have the miraculous powers of his father, but when he discovers love, that's the true miracle.
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All for Free
Title: All for Free
Character: Josip
Released: December 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A 30 year old, carefree man who lives off his parents' inheritance is untouched by war that affected most of his friends, but only until one of his friends died. This throws him completely off his routine, and he decides to sell all his belongings and start doing something memorable.
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The Border Post
Title: The Border Post
Character: Budišćak
Released: March 22, 2006
Type: Movie
At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.
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First Class Thieves
Title: First Class Thieves
Character: Glumac
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.
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Sex Drink and Bloodshed
Title: Sex Drink and Bloodshed
Character: Njonjo
Released: November 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Three loosely connected stories about football fans in Zagreb, Croatia, during the day of the country's biggest derby between Zagreb's GNK Dinamo and Split's NK Hajduk.
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24 Hours
Title: 24 Hours
Character: Deni
Released: July 25, 2002
Type: Movie
A two-part omnibus consisting of b/w comedy about a group of friends who try to cover up a murder, and thriller set in an abandoned warehouse where three policemen guard their witness-collaborator who claims "they" will come and shoot them all.
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Queen of the Night
Title: Queen of the Night
Character: Švabo
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Osijek in 1968. Seventeen-year-old Tomo is the greatest hope the town of Osijek has for winning the Junior Cup of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito himself is expected to come to Osijek to open the competition. Nevertheless, Tomo is more interested in girls than in rowing. The beautiful prostitute Betika and a lovely girl named Jasna have captured his heart. Unfortunately, he has impotence issues of which even his doctors are unaware. Therefore, is unable to realize his sexual fantasies. Finally, he ends up in a hospital where local members of the political elite persuade him to compete in the cup. These pressures come to a head when his father is taken to prison as a political suspect.
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Great Housekeeping
Title: Great Housekeeping
Character: Igor
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: Movie
A veterinary student moves away from his possessive mother and lives alone in a rented apartment. While the entire nation is in euphoria over the soccer World Cup, he is trying to prepare for the exam. Like the apartment he lives in, his life is quite a mess.
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The Old Oak Blues
Title: The Old Oak Blues
Character: Robert Novak
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
On the eve of Yugoslav war in 1991, English ecologist Henry comes to the city of Osijek in order to save the world's oldest oak. After many dangerous and funny adventures, they finally arrive to nearby village where the oak is located.
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Mondo Bobo
Title: Mondo Bobo
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Bobo, a young man, kills two criminals in self-defense. Afterwards, upon his lawyer's advice, he turns himself to the police. He ends up in a mental hospital from which he soon escapes and meets with his girlfriend. The police and a young ambitious reporter pursue him.