Mustafa Nadarević

Mustafa Nadarević

Born: May 2, 1943
Died: November 22, 2020
in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mustafa Nadarević (2 May 1943 – 22 November 2020) was a Bosnian and Croatian theatre and television actor. He starred in over 70 films; some of those films are: The Smell of Quinces (1982), When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Reflections (1987), The Glembays (1988), Kuduz (1989), Silent Gunpowder (1990), The Perfect Circle (1997), Days and Hours (2004), Mirage (2004), and Halima's Path (2012).

More recently, Nadarević was best known for playing Izet Fazlinović in the Bosnian sitcom Lud, zbunjen, normalan since the beginning of the series in 2007.

Movies for Mustafa Nadarević...

Bato
Title: Bato
Character: Himself
Released: August 14, 2021
Type: Movie
A biographical film about director Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić and his contribution to Bosnian cinematography.
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Title: The General
Character: Janko Bobetko
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: TV
TV show about general Ante Gotovina.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Janko Bobetko
Released: August 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
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For Good Old Times
Title: For Good Old Times
Character: Krcko
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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The Society of Jesus
Title: The Society of Jesus
Character: Kaštelan
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
It is the mid 17th century. The Jesuits spread their influence in Central Europe. Maria, a young Countess lives in the castle. Father Had is a honest and ardent servant of the Society of Jesus. He is dedicated to his life's mission, and as such he is an ideal tool in the hands of his superiors, who have their own plans. Had becomes Maria's confessor. Her woman's charm, intelligence and energy, as well as her beauty, are a constant temptation to him. Jesuits are making pressure on Had to finally realize their plans. Will the Jesuits, at last, achieve their goals and take the castle?
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The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Title: The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker
Character: Dobri košarač
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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Chefurs Raus!
Title: Chefurs Raus!
Character: Čiča
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV presenter doesn't notice him and because his father Radovan is going to beat him up for quitting basketball. Adi is irritated by the fact that his brother Sanel is a drug addict and because his father Mirsad prefers to shang waitresses somewhere in Austira rather than to deal whit this. Makarovicka chefur girl gives a hard time to Aco and he would like to tak a revenge on Damjanovic - bus driver. Dejan is anxious because his mother Sonja wants to move to Slovenske Konjice. Policemen stop the boys one night and their world starts to disintegrate.
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When Day Breaks
Title: When Day Breaks
Character: Miša Brankov
Released: August 17, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
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Halima's Path
Title: Halima's Path
Character: Avdo
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
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Cannibal Vegetarian
Title: Cannibal Vegetarian
Character: Patolog Marelja
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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An Early Frost
Title: An Early Frost
Character: Verebeš
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: Movie
An Early Frost (Serbian: Kao Rani Mraz) is a Serbian movie. Movie is dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous Balašević song.
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Piran-Pirano
Title: Piran-Pirano
Character: Veljko
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Piran - Pirano tells a story about three individuals and how their destinies are unusually intertwined. An Italian Antonio, a Bosnian Veljko and a Slovenia girl Anica face the terror of war as children and each of them become war's victim in their own way. Half a century later their paths cross again and last days of war, fear, despair, love and inexplicable emotions live up again - this time because Antonio returns to Piran to see his place of birth once again before he dies.
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No One's Son
Title: No One's Son
Character: Izidor
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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Title: Crazy, Confused, Normal
Character: Izet Fazlinović
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: TV
The show's plot revolves around humorous situations involving three generations of the Fazlinovic family living in a Sarajevo apartment. The oldest of the family is Izet. Izet has a son Faruk, who in turn has a son Damir.
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Nafaka
Title: Nafaka
Character: Marks
Released: October 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Sarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have "nafaka", the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. They have enough gallows humor and courage to believe in freedom and happiness.
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The Other Side of Welles
Title: The Other Side of Welles
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles
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Days and Hours
Title: Days and Hours
Character: Idriz
Released: August 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.
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Mirage
Title: Mirage
Character: Učitel
Released: July 19, 2004
Type: Movie
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
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Long Dark Night
Title: Long Dark Night
Character: Španac
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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In the Mountains
Title: In the Mountains
Character: Miki
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Sani, a boy in puberty, and his elder brother Amir spend their summer holidays as usual in Slovenia to visit his uncle and his wife. The summer is beautiful, long and hot. Sani enjoys meeting new people, he likes the girls and the carefree fun. However, he does not realize that this is more than a vacation, namely, that he would stay in Slovenia. When he finds out about these plans that his relatives made for his life Sani is distressed and shocked. Under the pressure of these new and unexpected circumstances, his puberty turns into a wild chase.
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Going Home
Title: Going Home
Character: Vlado
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Thirty-five old Nikola comes back home after he had left a year ago, in a quarrel. His father Vlado and mother Anica came to Germany when they were young, looking for happiness.
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Winter in Rio
Title: Winter in Rio
Character: Grga
Released: July 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A homeless man who lives in abandoned bus finds out that his daughter comes from Germany to meet him for the first time in twelve years. Ashamed of his present situation and unable to cope with it, he breaks into apartment of his rich ex-friend who is involved in criminal activities.
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Queen of the Night
Title: Queen of the Night
Character: Tomin otac
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Osijek in 1968. Seventeen-year-old Tomo is the greatest hope the town of Osijek has for winning the Junior Cup of Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito himself is expected to come to Osijek to open the competition. Nevertheless, Tomo is more interested in girls than in rowing. The beautiful prostitute Betika and a lovely girl named Jasna have captured his heart. Unfortunately, he has impotence issues of which even his doctors are unaware. Therefore, is unable to realize his sexual fantasies. Finally, he ends up in a hospital where local members of the political elite persuade him to compete in the cup. These pressures come to a head when his father is taken to prison as a political suspect.
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Slow Surrender
Title: Slow Surrender
Character: Bankar Parac
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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No Man's Land
Title: No Man's Land
Character: Older Serbian Soldier
Released: May 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Title: Is It Clear, My Friend?
Character: Nikola
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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Hop, Skip & Jump
Title: Hop, Skip & Jump
Released: February 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Two former lovers worlds collide during the tragic background of The Bosnian War.
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Living with Cockroaches
Title: Living with Cockroaches
Character: Gazda Mladen
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Film about two sisters, Morana and Ela.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
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The Perfect Circle
Title: The Perfect Circle
Character: Hamza
Released: September 10, 1997
Type: Movie
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
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A Rifle for Sleeping
Title: A Rifle for Sleeping
Character: Karlo Štajner
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Janko, a police officer/veteran of the war, who is suffering from insomnia caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, now works as a guard in front of the Russian embassy in Zagreb. Having abandoned his former paramour, the daughter of his police chief, he marries a kleptomaniacal hairdresser named Nana, whom he once caught in the act of picking pockets. He then embarks on an affair with the beautiful Marta, the widow of the war profiteer Dragutin Karlo Stajner, who has left behind him a bankrupted firm, a worthless limousine, several bastards, and at least one angry woman. While Janko and Marta persistently try to divvy up what loot remains before any number of others can claim it, Karlo unexpectedly turns up alive and jumps into the middle of a fray between Marta; Karlo's lover, Julija, a Czech bar-singer; and Julija's husband Vlado, a former henchman of Karlo's who is now trying to lay claim to Stajner's limo.
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Recognition
Title: Recognition
Character: Anin otac
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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Washed Out
Title: Washed Out
Character: Otac
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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Virgin Mary
Title: Virgin Mary
Character: major Stovic
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
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Nausicaa
Title: Nausicaa
Character: Inspektor Stevović
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Matija Remetin is young man who is studying drama in Zagreb just before the outbreak of WW2. He rents the room at Marija Slajner, widow who's three previous tennants had commited suicide. Remetin begins to notice beautiful and mysterious girl on the other side of street and begins calling her Nausikaja.
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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 Queen of Hearts
Title: The Queen of Hearts
Character: Boris
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
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Djuka Begovic
Title: Djuka Begovic
Character: Mata
Released: July 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives. Djuka's personal life was marked by constant conflicts with his father.
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My Brother Aleksa
Title: My Brother Aleksa
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family from Mostar, in conservative social environment, in controversial times in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. As a young man, he falls in love with the Slavonian girl, Anka Tomlinovic, daughter of poor photographer, leaving her under pressure of his family. Later, he meets Zorka Solina, young and rich girl from Mostar who, again because of the interests of her family, leaves the poet. In his mature years, Aleksa Santic engages himself passionately in social and political life of his age. Disappointments, poverty, sickness and loneliness follow. And the certainty of early death. His older brother tells the story of poet's life, while he is dying.
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Holiday in Sarajevo
Title: Holiday in Sarajevo
Character: Avduka „Avdo“ Lipa
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of thieves return from Western Europe to Sarajevo during Christmas and New Year holidays. Back home they meet some old friends, their families, their lovers, but they also have to ...
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Story from Croatia
Title: Story from Croatia
Character: Andrija
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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Silent Gunpowder
Title: Silent Gunpowder
Character: Španac
Released: March 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
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Countess Dora
Title: Countess Dora
Character: Tuna, vozač
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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Return of Katarina Kozul
Title: Return of Katarina Kozul
Character: Silvio
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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Kuduz
Title: Kuduz
Character: Policajac Šemso
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills her and her lover and runs into mountains, thus escaping law for months. This film is based on the true story about Junuz Kečo, last Bosnian outlaw.
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The Glembays
Title: The Glembays
Character: Leone Glembay
Released: June 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.
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The Forgotten
Title: The Forgotten
Character: Martin
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
The story about two boys and a girl escape from a home for abandoned children for a wild weekend. TV series (11 episodes) with the same name and same story was released 1988.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Saša
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
One night in a hotel room spent with unknown woman throws young man into hard nightmare, from which he wakes up only to fall asleep again and fall back to it. He dreams about escaped soldier who breaks in the mountain cottage on New Year's Eve where he meets two couples in orgy. Soldier's fear and despair grow, just like madness of drunken couples. The soldier suddenly sees his picture on the TV's monitor, and terrified realizes that he's the prosecuted one. A severe impact on the door frightens him, and he starts shooting. Only one of them he leaves alive. And then he kills himself. He wakes up distraught in a hotel room, in horror he looks at the woman next to him - a woman from his dream, gets dressed and leaves.
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Small Doorway
Title: Small Doorway
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A family drama about a group of Sarajevo boys from the same block, who do childish pranks and spend their time in one of the basements.
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Blanka Kolak's Love
Title: Blanka Kolak's Love
Character: Pavel
Released: May 29, 1987
Type: Movie
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
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Reflections
Title: Reflections
Character: Mihailo
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Mihajlo, an introvert piano teacher starts romance with a pretty careerist who teaches modeling at the university in Belgrade where they both work. His feelings are awakened after a long period, but this relationship makes him see the flashbacks, as well as yet unseen images that remind him of his troubled childhood - as if he experienced this already. When their university wins a contest to hold public TV performance, Mihailo fails to play the piano on the decisive night and she dumps him. The boiling point is about to come.
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Title: Journey to Vucjak
Character: Vinko Benčina
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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Volunteers
Title: Volunteers
Character: Ginekolog
Released: July 20, 1986
Type: Movie
In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures
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The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway
Title: The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway
Character: Mungo
Released: June 30, 1986
Type: Movie
The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
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Evening Bells
Title: Evening Bells
Character: Matko
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: Stories from the Factory
Character: Filip
Released: September 22, 1985
Type: TV
Works and private lives of 800 female employees in the textile factory named "Star".
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Premeditated Love Letters
Title: Premeditated Love Letters
Character: "Papageno"
Released: June 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
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Nobody Will Laugh
Title: Nobody Will Laugh
Character: Milan
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.
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When Father Was Away on Business
Title: When Father Was Away on Business
Character: Zijah 'Zijo' Zulfikarpašić
Released: January 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.
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Horvat's Choice
Title: Horvat's Choice
Character: Vinko Benčina
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.
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The War Boy
Title: The War Boy
Character: Mill manager
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
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Title: Inspector Vinko
Character: Petar
Released: December 2, 1984
Type: TV
Inspector Vinko is a 60-minute comedy series starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević.
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Small Train Robbery
Title: Small Train Robbery
Character: Paragraf
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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Zadar's Memento
Title: Zadar's Memento
Character: Bepo Marini
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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Kvit posla
Title: Kvit posla
Character: Fabijan
Released: March 28, 1983
Type: Movie
After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.
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Title: You're Lying, Melita
Character: Profesor Vadovec
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
"You're lying, Melita" is a Croatian television series from 1983. about a little girl who thinks there's nothing wrong with choosing not to tell the truth. Based on a short novel by Ivan Kušan.
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Cyclops
Title: Cyclops
Character: Don Fernando
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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Crime at School
Title: Crime at School
Character: Bartol
Released: June 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.
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Title: Unconquered City
Character: Brko Serdar
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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Scent of Quinces
Title: Scent of Quinces
Character: Mustafa
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Thanks to his friendliness towards Nazis, Sarajevo businessman gets more and more rich during WW2. However, his infatuation towards the Jewish girl causes his downfall.
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Title: The Big Town
Character: Duje
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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Old Fellas
Title: Old Fellas
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Stories about middle-aged Zagreb men, their merry adventures and those one should forget. Based on a theater play.
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Title: Cat Under a Helmet
Character: Komesar 1. bataljona
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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Bombing Process
Title: Bombing Process
Character: Vangard
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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Title: Nikola Tesla
Character: Fred
Released: September 11, 1977
Type: TV
This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.
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Three Poplars
Title: Three Poplars
Character: Nenad
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
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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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Timon
Title: Timon
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Flamur
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Gravitation
Title: Gravitation
Character: Blaja
Released: July 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After completing his military service, Boris Horvat finds himself at the crossroads. He thinks about enrolling at the faculty, but the job of a clerk at a bank where his father worked is already waiting for him. Boris falls in love with a female artist, but soon gets involved in another love affair, this time with his female colleague at work.
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Title: The Foreigner
Character: Doktor Mirko
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.
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Title: The Forgotten Ones
Character: Martin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.
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Title: Balkan Inc.
Character: Bero Filipović
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.