Dragan Despot

Dragan Despot

Born: July 14, 1956
in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Movies for Dragan Despot...

For Good Old Times
Title: For Good Old Times
Character: Theatre director
Released: July 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generation has their own reasons to leave. This is a story about a generation caught in the transition from socialism to capitalism, marked by a brutal war.
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Dead Fish
Title: Dead Fish
Character: Profesor
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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Title: The Paper
Character: Ludvig Tomašević
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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National Hero Lily Vidic
Title: National Hero Lily Vidic
Character: Josip Broz Tito
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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Flower Square
Title: Flower Square
Character: Branko
Released: April 11, 2013
Type: Movie
An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.
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Title: Rest in Peace
Character: Mate Susnjara
Released: January 4, 2013
Type: TV
When journalist Lucija Car is sent to report on the demolition of Croatia’s oldest prison, she stumbles across a graveyard of unclaimed bodies and senses that there are more secrets to be unearthed. An absorbing crime thriller that interweaves the story of each newly discovered victim with Croatia’s dark political history.
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Sucks
Title: Sucks
Character: Tajkun
Released: May 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
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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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Pusca Bistra
Title: Pusca Bistra
Character: Tajkun
Released: July 17, 2005
Type: Movie
After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge. People he holds responsible are randomly chosen citizens of the Pusca Bistra village. After he accidently finds out certain facts, Pero finds irrefutable evidence about unhonorable acts of Pusca's citizens and accidently blackmails the entire village.
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Below the Line
Title: Below the Line
Character: Josip Genc
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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The Horseman
Title: The Horseman
Character: Veliki
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
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Slow Surrender
Title: Slow Surrender
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Petar Gorjan is a 40-year-old successful propagandist and cynical strategist of consumerist society that is faced with family and identity crisis. He embarks on a journey from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, transporting humanitarian aid in his off-road vehicle, and on his way he will be accompanied by slightly mentally troubled Lukas and a vagabond girl.
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The Seventh Cronicle
Title: The Seventh Cronicle
Character: Friend
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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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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Story from Croatia
Title: Story from Croatia
Character: Ilija
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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The Silk, the Shears
Title: The Silk, the Shears
Character: Branko Miljković
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Stjepan Borić
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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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Niko
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
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Title: The Foreigner
Character: Stanko Lukavac
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.