Etta Bortolazzi

Etta Bortolazzi

Movies for Etta Bortolazzi...

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer
Title: The Three Men of Melita Zganjer
Character: Valika
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Protagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.
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How the War Started on My Island
Title: How the War Started on My Island
Character: Baba
Released: August 31, 1997
Type: Movie
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
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Recognition
Title: Recognition
Character: Baka
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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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Title: Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Character: Drugarica
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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Title: Operation Barbarossa
Character: Teta Ruža
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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Stela
Title: Stela
Character: Baka
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.
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The Istrian Way
Title: The Istrian Way
Released: September 19, 1985
Type: Movie
An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.
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Zadar's Memento
Title: Zadar's Memento
Character: Gospođa Cekić
Released: May 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
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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Title: The Big Town
Character: Baba Mara
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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The Eye
Title: The Eye
Character: Kata
Released: July 7, 1978
Type: Movie
When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.
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Man and Architecture
Title: Man and Architecture
Character: Domina
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.
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Tena
Title: Tena
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Tena, a young Slavonian woman becomes aware of her own beauty which makes her fall into a state of moral decay. Her newly discovered promiscuity eventually makes her fellow villagers turn on her.
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The Organ and the Firemen
Title: The Organ and the Firemen
Character: Jerolima
Released: April 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.
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The American Yacht in the Split Harbour
Title: The American Yacht in the Split Harbour
Character: Kontesa Kate De Milesi
Released: October 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the play by Milan Begović. One day a stunning yacht enters the Split harbor, the owner is an American who served as young boy in local aristocratic household.
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Illusion
Title: Illusion
Character: Marica
Released: July 11, 1967
Type: Movie
The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
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The Dangerous Journey
Title: The Dangerous Journey
Character: Milicina majka
Released: February 13, 1963
Type: Movie
In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
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The Ninth Circle
Title: The Ninth Circle
Character: Camp inmate
Released: April 21, 1960
Type: Movie
In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.