Ivo Gregurević

Ivo Gregurević

Born: October 7, 1952
Died: January 2, 2019
in Orašje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Movies for Ivo Gregurević...

The General
Title: The General
Character: Stevo
Released: August 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
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The Eighth Commissioner
Title: The Eighth Commissioner
Character: Toninov otac
Released: January 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, where he is tasked with the organization of local elections. The previous seven commissioners haven't succeeded.
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Agape
Title: Agape
Character: Biskup Anić
Released: November 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Miran is an unconventional priest who prepares children for the ceremony of confirmation. One of them is Goran, an orphaned teenage boy who enjoys Miran's attention. One day, a new boy moves into the neighborhood, and immediately becomes Miran's new pet student. Goran gets jealous and admits being in a sexual relationship with the priest, which sets in motion a series of unfortunate events.
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Men Don't Cry
Title: Men Don't Cry
Character: Josip
Released: October 5, 2017
Type: Movie
The armed conflicts of the 1990s not only visibly destroyed the land of the former Yugoslavia, but also left the deepest wounds in the memory of each of its belligerent nations. There are as many different interpretations of that bleak past as there are countries affected. It is therefore hard to expect absolute harmony when, less than two decades since the war ended, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel for a therapy session over several days. On the contrary, such a dangerously volatile situation can suddenly ignite by just one thoughtless word, or a seemingly dirty look. That’s because the former soldiers, obstinately holding on to their fundamental masculinity and their prejudices, refusing to expose the inhumanity of the atrocities perpetrated. However, this quietness is just about to be broken and hidden emotions are to be faced.
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Catalina
Title: Catalina
Character: Father
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
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Title: Guardian of the Castle
Character: Boris Bišćan
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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All the Best
Title: All the Best
Released: December 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A disillusioned opera star, a lonely pastry chef, and a divorced Don Juan with an amorous history offstage make for choice ingredients in this poignant romantic tale spiced with Christmas cookies, borscht, and an alarming quantity of deadly insecticide. Director Tribuson demonstrates a deft talent for juggling comic romantic disasters from a woman’s point of view as her characters negotiate the bamboozling ways of love. Middle-aged Verica (acclaimed actress Marinković) pours her heart into her café’s pastries, but she can’t seem to find a like-minded lover until a duplicitous handyman with pheromones to spare and an eye for the ladies sets off a chain of unforeseen adventures all tied together by one fateful plate of tasty treats.
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The Final Barrier
Title: The Final Barrier
Character: Ivo
Released: May 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A filmmaker from Austria experiences in a refugee camp in Serbia first hand the distress, anxiety but also hope of a group of refugees from Syria and their longing for a better life in Europe.
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Ungiven
Title: Ungiven
Character: Slavko
Released: June 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Determined to move on with their life violently interrupted by war several years ago, an elderly couple returns to their restored home. We follow their everyday life through the four seasons. Every day She becomes more absent and lost. Instead of helping her, He acts brutishly, sometimes even cruelly, towards his wife. However, the realization that something is wrong with Her will make Him question his behavior and values.
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The Reaper
Title: The Reaper
Character: Ivo
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.
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Hush...
Title: Hush...
Character: Zenko
Released: December 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Can the thread of bad luck, violence and suffering which is braided deeply into the generations of one family be broken? Beba's mother is a woman of poor health and weak character. Beba's father is sullen and violent. Beba's brother is possessive and problematic. Beba's boyfriend is from a correctional institution. Has Beba's daughter any chance to break this vicious circle, has she got any chance to become a beloved, happy person?
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The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Title: The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Character: Gazda
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...
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Sonja and the Bull
Title: Sonja and the Bull
Character: Antin otac
Released: July 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Sonja, a city girl from Zagreb, a vegetarian and a hardcore animal-rights activist, strongly opposes bullfighting in Dalmatinska zagora (Dalmatian Hinterland). People find this irritating and they conclude that no matter how passionately Sonja loves animals, she would never dare to stand in front of a bull. Bets are raised and Sonja faces a challenge in the form of Ante, known far and wide for his powers of persuasion.
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Ćaća
Released: November 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter’s last chance to have a talk with her father about everything that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the once deeply hidden dark family secrets start being revealed...
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Room 304
Title: Room 304
Released: October 20, 2011
Type: Movie
In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A hotel manager lost in despair. A wife abandoned by her husband. A receptionist with blood on his hands. People meet in the intimacy of hotel rooms, secrets are revealed and unexpected events merge into a dramatic tale of love and longing.
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Josef
Title: Josef
Character: Muđibar
Released: July 10, 2011
Type: Movie
It is a movie about survive in war time (WW1 East front). In dark colors, with interesting characters, mixture of ash and sand, puzzle of stories, cynic, precise, harsh, bitter, Rubick cube of times and events.
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Title: Tito
Character: Stalin
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: TV
Tito is a 2010 Croatian documentary television miniseries about Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. The first episode aired March 19, 2010. The series is a co-production by Croatian Radiotelevision and Mediteran film. The two first collaborated on the series Long Dark Night, which at a top audience of 1.8 million viewers was one of the most-watched domestic productions in history. After the announcement of the documentary, Broz's granddaughter Saša announced that she and her family would use all means possible to obstruct filming. Tito cost a reported 1 million euros to make.
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The Blacks
Title: The Blacks
Character: Ivo
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: Filipov otac
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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The Lika Cinema
Title: The Lika Cinema
Character: Joso
Released: July 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
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The Recollection Thief
Title: The Recollection Thief
Released: July 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Approximately a month before the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported missing. He is a doctor of French literature who returned from Canada in 1991. Gawain Skok, who took part in the War for Independence and defended Vukovar, starts a search.
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True Miracle
Title: True Miracle
Character: President
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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Black Horses
Title: Black Horses
Character: Vavan
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Fortunately, World War One has interfered and ended the rule of the Austrain emperors, but many wounds have remained, wounds that bore spite and on the basis of which the people began their struggle to find their identity, to gain their freedom and land and a better life. That kind of surroundings, full of those ready to exploit others and retort to violence, where a man is torn between honesty and fraud, was my inspiration to make a modern film focused on love "the thing a man can suffer for; a thing you can give your heart to; and a thing that can make your heart stop".
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The Melon Route
Title: The Melon Route
Character: Ćale
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: Movie
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
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The Ghost in the Swamp
Title: The Ghost in the Swamp
Character: Vučević
Released: June 25, 2006
Type: Movie
After Liptus arrives in a small village from the city, he calls his best friends, Miron and Melita, on winter holidays in Kopacevo. That same night, while they are all sleeping cozily, from their deep sleep Miron and Melita are woken by the disturbing sounds of villagers, carrying flares and disappearing into the darkness at the end of the street. At the docks, they find Halasz, a boy known for his bravery. He is cold, pale from shock, and babbling a white ghost. While most of the villagers don't believe Halasz's story, older citizens recall a long time ago when a forgotten spirit would scare people at night in dark and foggy swamps. Everyone locks themselves in their houses and Halasz ends up in a hospital where the doctors can't help him. Miron, Liptus, and Melita, now alone, take matters into their own hands, revealing the secret of the ghost and saving their friend.
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Don't Ask How!
Title: Don't Ask How!
Character: Abas
Released: April 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Iva and Saif are a young married couple who, despite constant attempts, fail to have a child. Zorica and Draka are a drug-addicted couple who always lack money for drugs, but that’s why they have a surplus baby. Bećir and Dudo are petty criminals whose entrepreneurial ventures go through transition.
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The Last Communion
Title: The Last Communion
Character: Darko
Released: October 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Croatian countryside. Middle of the night. Darko, owner of the local agricultural discount-shop wakes up the vicar of the small parish church to reveal his own dark secret to him. But that's not the only thing Darko is planning to reveal to vicar.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Otac
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
TV drama.
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What Is a Man without a Moustache?
Title: What Is a Man without a Moustache?
Character: Marinko
Released: July 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
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What Iva Recorded
Title: What Iva Recorded
Character: Božo
Released: July 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.
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Under Clear Sky
Title: Under Clear Sky
Character: Nasilnik
Released: February 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Martin is forty, living his common life with protective, invalided mother - no friends, no girl friend, no warm or friendly relationships with anybody - He works as a delivery boy for one bakery shop, so his working hours starts before sun rises, while the streets of the town are still empty. One clear autumn night, one strange girl approaches Martin - she is going through the drug crises and she needs help.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Major
Released: March 7, 2004
Type: Movie
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
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Below the Line
Title: Below the Line
Character: Mate Vranar
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A young man finds himself torn between the love for his girlfriend and his family's hardship.
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Infection
Title: Infection
Character: Muller
Released: July 22, 2003
Type: Movie
In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city authorities are helpless when it comes to revealing the evil and culprits behind it. In the center of this story is the writer Ivan Gajski, whose friend died under sketchy circumstances. Gajski reveals that those who most advocate democracy are not only the same involved in these crimes, but they also did some of the murders as a part of TV production. Gajski meets all kinds of characters through this quest of his, including the woman of his wife Sara, and professor Bošković who discovers the origins of present Evil - the dark past of European continent.
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Witnesses
Title: Witnesses
Character: Otac
Released: July 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities.
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Pula Confidential
Title: Pula Confidential
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
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Here
Title: Here
Character: Boris
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
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Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son
Title: Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son
Character: Serafinov otac
Released: July 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely.
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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Title: God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Character: Branko
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
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The Last Will
Title: The Last Will
Character: Mate
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: Movie
After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
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The Miroslav Holding Co.
Title: The Miroslav Holding Co.
Character: Šušnjara
Released: April 26, 2001
Type: Movie
In attempt to get rich, owner of a copy store designs a tastefully designed packaging that accompanies three bottles of wine which are to be sold to companies and business people during the upcoming Christmas time and New Year's Eve. In order to put this plan into effect, he borrows money from the owner of a recording studio, who agreed convinced that this is a great idea. However, things go wrong when they connect with an experienced con man.
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Alone
Title: Alone
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Minimalist, bizarre and surreal story that takes place in some sort of post-cataclysmic future, where the main hero collects tracks which were the only connection of his with the environment known today.
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Go, Yellow
Title: Go, Yellow
Character: Ušljebrk
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Ivek and Kruno are best friends, both passionate supporters of a suburban Zagreb football club. When a nouveau riche businessman Čabraja enters the club's managing board with ambitious plans, and soon becomes the club's president, the two friends are divided. While Kruno is enthusiastic over the club's newly found success, Ivek is distrustful towards Čabraja and does not approve of his shady methods. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained.
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Milky Way
Title: Milky Way
Character: Službenik
Released: December 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Two married couples of different religions and social status decide to swap their wives so they could all emigrate to New Zealand in an easier way.
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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Title: Is It Clear, My Friend?
Character: Slaviša
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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Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day
Title: Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day
Character: Predsjednik Runolista
Released: March 9, 2000
Type: Movie
It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.
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The Old Oak Blues
Title: The Old Oak Blues
Character: Ante
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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Celestial Body
Title: Celestial Body
Character: Škaričić
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.
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Red Dust
Title: Red Dust
Character: Kirby
Released: October 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.
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Marshal Tito's Spirit
Title: Marshal Tito's Spirit
Character: Luka
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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Madonna
Title: Madonna
Character: Rade
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
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When the Dead Start Singing
Title: When the Dead Start Singing
Character: Cinco Kapulica
Released: July 29, 1998
Type: Movie
At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
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The Three Men of Melita Zganjer
Title: The Three Men of Melita Zganjer
Character: Jura
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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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Character: Saša
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
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Each Time We Part Away
Title: Each Time We Part Away
Character: Melitin suprug
Released: November 30, 1997
Type: Movie
After his wife's murder and house burnt, a young soldier is in search for new home for his daughter. But coming to chaotic at the beginning of the war Zagreb is no place for hope...
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Christmas in Vienna
Title: Christmas in Vienna
Character: Gost
Released: July 24, 1997
Type: Movie
A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.
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Russian Meat
Title: Russian Meat
Character: Vuk
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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Recognition
Title: Recognition
Character: Policajac u civilu
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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My Dear Angel
Title: My Dear Angel
Character: Jozo
Released: November 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Dramatic tale of 7 year old Jerko who witnesses the destruction of family and village in 1991 during a Serbian attack of a peaceful Croatian village. He manages to escape and ends up in a war orphanage.
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The Seventh Cronicle
Title: The Seventh Cronicle
Character: Kapo
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...
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Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
Title: Grandpa and Grandma Are Getting Divorced
Character: Branimir
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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Washed Out
Title: Washed Out
Character: Ivo
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Jagoda is young woman who lives in poor section of Zagreb together with her disfunctional family. Mother is dying, father cares only about fishing, brother is an alcoholic and uncle is a war refugee. Her relationship with young soldier isn't any better because they can't find place to make love.
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Vukovar: The Way Home
Title: Vukovar: The Way Home
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.
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When Nobody Is Looking
Title: When Nobody Is Looking
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A suspicious cop tracks his own wife in this romantic thriller about hypertrophied jealousy.
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The Harbor
Title: The Harbor
Character: Slobodan Despot
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Next to a small Dalmatian town of Murvice oil was found, and politicians make a hasty decision to build a tanker port, although there is no oil in the quantities required for exploitation. Urged by his ambitious wife, the engineer Slobodan Despot becomes director of the port construction, which his wife's lover skillfully exploits to use Despot as scapegoat. The construction of unprofitable airport gradually destroys the patriarchal structure of Murvice, as well as Despot's personal life and ideals, which he tried to restore by having affair with the young and unspoiled girl.
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Charuga
Title: Charuga
Character: Čaruga
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: Movie
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
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Story from Croatia
Title: Story from Croatia
Character: Luka
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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Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Title: Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Character: Vinko
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: Mirkov tata
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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Countess Dora
Title: Countess Dora
Character: Maxo Vanka
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A pseudo biography of Dora Pejačević (10 September 1885 - 5 March 1923), a Croatian composer.
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Stela
Title: Stela
Character: Tomo Lončar
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.
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Death Diploma
Title: Death Diploma
Character: Guba
Released: July 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.
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Return of Katarina Kozul
Title: Return of Katarina Kozul
Character: Vinko Kožul
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
Character: Mrva
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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Sokol Did Not Love Him
Title: Sokol Did Not Love Him
Character: Toma
Released: July 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.
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The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Title: The Life of Stipe Zvonarov
Character: Stipe Zvonarov
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.
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My Uncle's Legacy
Title: My Uncle's Legacy
Character: Drug Radojica
Released: May 30, 1988
Type: Movie
In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.
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Ciao, Ciao Bambina
Title: Ciao, Ciao Bambina
Character: Mile
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 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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The Convicted
Title: The Convicted
Character: Ivo
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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King of Endings
Title: King of Endings
Character: Prodavac pića u vozu
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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Evening Bells
Title: Evening Bells
Character: Đurica
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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Title: Highlands
Character: Franješa
Released: June 19, 1985
Type: TV
Ignored by the stories of the hawks and their weapons, little Tugomil can not resist the desire to shoot from the shotgun shot by his father Tomo. The boy will realize that he was flawed only when the old Martin was surrounded by gendarmes.
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The Red and the Black
Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Alberto Sikora
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became strategically important for the new government. Domestic Croatian and Slovene population were disappointed by the method of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of selling foreigners. Accumulated social problems and the growing terror of Italians lead to great miners' strike, led by favorite union leader Ivan Pipan. The strikers will be join young miner Ive Blazina, who as commander of the Red Guard workers struggles for the mining republic and the love of beautiful Mary Brezac. The sudden intervention of the Italian army destroys their dreams, and resigned Pipan surrenders. But not everyone agrees with his behavior.
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Open Space
Title: Open Space
Character: Štimer
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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The Third Key
Title: The Third Key
Character: Marko
Released: March 28, 1983
Type: Movie
A young couple have settled in a new flat. Soon somebody begins watching them and they receive great amounts of money from an unknown sender.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Krele
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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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: Unconquered City
Character: Profesor Hrastinski
Released: February 21, 1982
Type: TV
In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Released: February 10, 1982
Type: Movie
The tragedy of human life is read from the personal conflict of man in which there are moments of self-deception, the pleasure of creation and dissatisfaction with achievement, like restlessness and calmness, conflict and catharsis.
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Drug Vlado
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: Netijak
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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Lost Homeland
Title: Lost Homeland
Character: Tona
Released: June 12, 1980
Type: Movie
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
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Liberanovi
Title: Liberanovi
Character: Božo
Released: October 22, 1979
Type: Movie
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Winning of Freedom
Title: Winning of Freedom
Character: Krga
Released: July 4, 1979
Type: Movie
WW2 has ended, but that doesn't mean the end of problems for an ex-Partisan who now must take care of reconstruction, as well as the building of a new society in a small Serbian town.
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Title: Devil's Due
Character: Pavle
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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Burning
Title: Burning
Character: Rajko
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
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Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Repica
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 Eye
Title: The Eye
Character: Iva
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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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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Snowstorm
Title: Snowstorm
Character: Ivan
Released: July 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
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Don't Lean Out the Window
Title: Don't Lean Out the Window
Character: Filip
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: Stylish in the Guests
Character: Marko Kosmički
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
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Title: Witnesses
Character: Otac
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
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Title: Traps
Character: Martin, major OZNA-e
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.