Zdenko Jelčić

Zdenko Jelčić

Born: August 8, 1946
in Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Movies for Zdenko Jelčić...

Good Times, Bad Times
Title: Good Times, Bad Times
Released: July 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.
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Carbide
Title: Carbide
Character: Vlado
Released: October 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Antonio and Nikola are inseparable friends who live across the road from each other, and share a love of pyrotechnics and mobile phones. Their families have been in dispute for years over an easily resolvable problem: the water that flows from the top house to the bottom house. The boys’ friendship, as they are about to enter puberty, is put to the test at Christmas time when their families uncover much more dangerous secrets and interests, and the water just carries the hate of the adults to the children.
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Manhattan Odyssey
Title: Manhattan Odyssey
Character: Jakov
Released: October 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Jacob, once famous but now retired seventy-year-old actor, is looking for a dog-walker for his adorable little black schnauzer, Mitzy, that he obsessively loves more than anything else in the world. Out of all the candidates he picks Daniel, seemingly the least suitable for the job, a young loser immersed in virtual games. Jacob teaches him 'the ancient art' of dog walking; the lessons are a funny, absurd mixture of memory, history, and fantasy. - Manhattan Odyssey is an unusual 'love story' between two men, a woman and a dog, if it is love story at all. It leads us from an everyday activity such as a dog walking to the liminal space of the human animal becoming either animal or human.
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Mare
Title: Mare
Character: Marin otac
Released: February 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing. When a chance encounter rekindles her libido, she does not hold back for long.
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What a Country!
Title: What a Country!
Character: Nikola
Released: December 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
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Mary
Title: Mary
Character: Svećenik
Released: June 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Marinko, an assistant worker in the tow-away service has had visions of Virgin Mary. He does not know what to do with her.
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Title: The Paper
Character: Blago Antić
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: TV
The last independent newsroom in the country is taken over by a construction magnate for the reasons that have nothing to do with love or respect for journalism.
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The Constitution
Title: The Constitution
Character: Pater Tomislav
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.
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Cannibal Vegetarian
Title: Cannibal Vegetarian
Character: Pukovnik
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series of fatal mistakes that result in the death of a patient. A crooked coroner and a corrupt police officer cover up his misdeeds, while Babic grows increasingly dependant on drugs and alcohol. He begins performing illegal abortions on prostitutes who work for Jedinko, a gangster who controls the local drug and sex trade.
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No One's Son
Title: No One's Son
Character: Simo
Released: May 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate for the Croatian Parliament. Then a face from the past re-appears: an impoverished Serbian refugee called Simo, who has recently returned to the town. As an ex-communist official, Simo imprisoned Izidor decades ago. He knows certain facts about Izidor that could destroy his reputation and wreck his political campaign. Simo demands money, in return for his silence and he also has a secret rendezvous with Ivan's mother, Ana. Soon a long-buried secret surfaces once more - with huge repercussions for Ivan. He starts to provoke hard-line Croatians by singing Serbian nationalistic songs, daring them to kill him.
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Warchild
Title: Warchild
Character: Dzigera
Released: November 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.
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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Title: Is It Clear, My Friend?
Character: Gazda
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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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Title: Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Character: Drug
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
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Eagle
Title: Eagle
Character: Milan
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. Faced with the fact that they actually knew very little about their friend’s recent life, they start meeting more regularly and try to find out the circumstances that led to Orao’s suicide or possibly even murder…
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Death Diploma
Title: Death Diploma
Character: Stipe
Released: July 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.
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Just Another Secret
Title: Just Another Secret
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
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Return of Katarina Kozul
Title: Return of Katarina Kozul
Character: Kum Luka
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
After her husband's death in Germany, an attractive young widow leaves his native village in Herzegovina to work abroad. There she starts an affair with an Italian worker that proves to be unsuccessful, yet she gets pregnant. She does an abortion, which is followed by another blow - her godfather Luka steals her hard-earned money.
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Hamburg Altona
Title: Hamburg Altona
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.
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Ciao, Ciao Bambina
Title: Ciao, Ciao Bambina
Character: Crni
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
A monotonous life of a timid clerk from Zagreb takes an unexpected turn when an easygoing slacker from Bosnia deliberately moves into his apartment.
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The Orchid Villa
Title: The Orchid Villa
Released: April 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Successful writer (Boris), accompanied with his fiancé, returns to place where he grew up in hope to find inspiration for new book. But memories are somewhat distracting, especially those of an old love...
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The Drinking Bout
Title: The Drinking Bout
Released: December 7, 1987
Type: Movie
A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into order are unsuccessful, so they hatch a conspiracy. But their revenge will have serious consequences...
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King of Endings
Title: King of Endings
Character: Kondukter
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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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Basara
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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Evening Bells
Title: Evening Bells
Character: Kuzma
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.
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Anticasanova
Title: Anticasanova
Character: Konobar
Released: June 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
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Out of Control
Title: Out of Control
Character: Carlos
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other visitors, and soon must fend for their lives against drug smugglers.
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
Character: Briškula
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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Small Train Robbery
Title: Small Train Robbery
Character: Cokulin žandar II
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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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Podnarednik
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
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Liberanovi
Title: Liberanovi
Character: Grga
Released: October 22, 1979
Type: Movie
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Occupation in 26 Pictures
Title: Occupation in 26 Pictures
Character: Ustaški ekzekutor
Released: June 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.
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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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Don't Lean Out the Window
Title: Don't Lean Out the Window
Character: Čikeš
Released: June 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.
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Title: The Bonfires of Kapela
Character: Komandant Ljubo
Released: November 30, 1975
Type: TV
Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
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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Ninth Miracle on the East
Title: Ninth Miracle on the East
Character: Siledžija
Released: July 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
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Title: Traps
Character: Bojnik Ante Vrban
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.