Marinko Prga

Marinko Prga

Born: January 1, 1971
in Split, Croatia

Movies for Marinko Prga...

Safe Place
Title: Safe Place
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: Movie
A traumatic event – a sudden suicide attempt – opens a gap in the everyday life of a family of three. Their lives change fundamentally, as if they've been pulled into a war invisible to everyone else. The plot is limited to the most acute, a short period of time and a situation that boils down to the most important thing – to save a loved one. The film was based on the personal experience of the director, who also plays the leading role.
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Title: Restless
Character: Dragić
Released: May 13, 2023
Type: TV
A complicated tangle of crimes. A female police inspector accidentally uncovers the connection between the state, the service and crime. A man who tries to prove that his brother is not guilty of the murder everyone claims he committed.
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The Moon of the Kurent: The Ritual
Title: The Moon of the Kurent: The Ritual
Character: Moški
Released: September 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A Slovenian horror short.
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The Moon of the Kurent
Title: The Moon of the Kurent
Character: Moški
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
A Slovenian thriller feature.
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Trust
Title: Trust
Released: July 18, 2021
Type: Movie
In a small town, in 2025, Krsto works for the Agency which offers to listen to people’s secrets. At one of the hearings, Krsto finds out that his client is holding a young girl captive. At the same time, the daughter of the director of a waste disposal company goes missing. Its workers have been on strike for months, with the town slowly drowning in trash. With his activist girlfriend Zora and local reporter Darko, Krsto begins to question his role of a silent witness.
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Title: Missing
Character: Ljubo
Released: February 3, 2020
Type: TV
After a military operation of limited operation, six Croatian soldiers (Prka, Sikira, Nervoza, Gradski, Delon and Pape) remained behind the enemy lines for 10 days before being cut off from the enemy lines. Soldiers have not known each other all their lives and have been brought together by war. People of different profiles meet.
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Dead Fish
Title: Dead Fish
Character: Stojan
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.
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Anka
Title: Anka
Character: Nikola
Released: February 23, 2017
Type: Movie
A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its mysterious creatures.
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National Hero Lily Vidic
Title: National Hero Lily Vidic
Character: Dostavljač
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.
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Walk the Dog
Title: Walk the Dog
Character: Ivin ljubavnik
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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Number 55
Title: Number 55
Character: Pero
Released: July 20, 2014
Type: Movie
In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
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The Priest's Children
Title: The Priest's Children
Character: Učitelj Vinko
Released: January 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
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Title: The Instructor
Character: Automehaničar
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: TV
A TV reporter goes to Vis to film the story about a driving instructor and his student.
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Seventy-Two Days
Title: Seventy-Two Days
Character: Pero
Released: July 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.
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Storm
Title: Storm
Character: Photographer
Released: September 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
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Love Life of a Gentle Coward
Title: Love Life of a Gentle Coward
Character: Miki
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.
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Remember Vukovar
Title: Remember Vukovar
Released: July 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Illustrates the story of the siege of the Croatian town of Vukovar by the JNA and Serbian paramilitary forces in the autumn of 1991.
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Three Stories About Sleeplessness
Title: Three Stories About Sleeplessness
Released: May 14, 2008
Type: Movie
It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby's crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law. In Spain, a young husband and wife are also wide awake in the dead of night: they are in the middle of a turbulent argument. She is Spanish, he is Croatian and their marriage is in crisis because they simply do not understand one another. Back in Croatia, the young man's elderly mother is also awake, plagued with indigestion pains. The old woman is also worried about her lodger, a young Spanish girl who happens to be the sister of the old woman's daughter-in-law in Spain. The young girl comes home with her new lover. He is a taxi driver who drifts aimlessly through the night while his own wife endures a sleepless night with a crying baby and a nagging mother-in-law.
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The Living and the Dead
Title: The Living and the Dead
Character: Mali
Released: July 20, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
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Tressette: A Story of an Island
Title: Tressette: A Story of an Island
Character: Kozle
Released: April 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.
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First Class Thieves
Title: First Class Thieves
Character: Guja
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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As a Bad Dream
Title: As a Bad Dream
Character: Transvestite #2
Released: September 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Story about people and their destinies, frustrated by war traumas who try to erase memories of their past.
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Witnesses
Title: Witnesses
Character: Vojo
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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24 Hours
Title: 24 Hours
Character: Đuro (segment "Sigurna kuća")
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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God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Title: God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
Character: Kartaš #2
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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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Title: Is It Clear, My Friend?
Character: Kristijan
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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Celestial Body
Title: Celestial Body
Character: Legija
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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When the Dead Start Singing
Title: When the Dead Start Singing
Character: Četnik
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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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Title: Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
Character: Zec (voice)
Released: October 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
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Title: Balkan Inc.
Character: Antun
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.
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Title: Stylish in the Guests
Character: Ante
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: Vojo
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.