Žarko Potočnjak

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Male

Birthday

03-Feb-1946

Age

(80 years old)

Place of Birth

Pakrac, Croatia

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Žarko Potočnjak

Biography

Žarko Potočnjak was a Croatian and Yugoslavian actor, known for The Rat Savior (1976), The Glembays (1988) and Crime at School (1982). He was married to Asja Jovanović. He died on October 21, 2021 in Zagreb, Croatia.


Credits

Prijeki sud Prijeki sud (1978) Character: Mario
Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.
Usporeno kretanje Usporeno kretanje (1979) Character: Svećenik
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his school friends he graduated with, only to find out that things are more complicated than he first thought.
Crveno i crno Crveno i crno (2006) Character: Charli
A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
Ajmo žuti Ajmo žuti (2001) Character: Kruno
There's two things Ivek and Kruno have been since childhood: best friends and fans of the neighborhood soccer team The Yellows. However, when The Yellows recieve a new manager in the form of wealthy businessman Čabraja, the friendship between Ivek and Kruno is put to the test, as the former wants things to remain as they always were, Kruno believes that Čabraja's methods will lead the team into new heights.
Doktor ludosti Doktor ludosti (2003) Character: Ignjac Dobrohotić
Doctor Emil Hofbauer has a motto: "Everyone's crazy until proven otherwise". And a group of patients in his waiting room are just about to find out that this might be more true than they originally thought.
Libertas Libertas (2006) Character: Lukarević
The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy maritime republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) managing to maintain its independence through diplomatic agreements.
Večernja zvona Večernja zvona (1986) Character: Kruno
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.
U logoru U logoru (1983) Character: Feldkaplan Anton Boltek
Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...
Soba za odmor Soba za odmor (1983) Character: Pijani gost
By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment.
Eter Eter (1985) Character: N/A
The story follows two journalists from Zagreb who go to a Pannonian town to report on wild radio stations. There they discover an unusual radio station that broadcasts news that is not usually released to the public. As they are collecting information about it, they get drawn into local affairs more than they hoped and wanted.
Slučaj maturanta Wagnera Slučaj maturanta Wagnera (1976) Character: Franjo Puceljski
This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.
Slučaj Filipa Franjića Slučaj Filipa Franjića (1978) Character: Miško Palec
Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
Obustava u strojnoj Obustava u strojnoj (1980) Character: N/A
The film deals with issues of life and work in self-governing socialist enterprises, i.e. the problems caused by the application of the Law on Associated Labor which passed several years before. The protagonists are the metal company workers who are launching a strike due to the reduction of salaries.
Prikupljanje hrabrosti Prikupljanje hrabrosti (1966) Character: N/A
In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.
Novogodišnja pljačka Novogodišnja pljačka (1997) Character: Franjo Matek Fantom
Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.
Prijatelji Prijatelji (1972) Character: N/A
An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.
Trešeta Trešeta (2006) Character: Šime
Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.
Zločin u školi Zločin u školi (1982) Character: Profesor likovnog
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.
Vlastiti aranžman Vlastiti aranžman (1982) Character: N/A
A group of upper class people celebrate New Year's Eve in a house seemingly possessed by ghosts.
Pjevajte nešto ljubavno Pjevajte nešto ljubavno (2007) Character: Strujin otac
The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
Konjanik Konjanik (2003) Character: Fratar
In the mid-18th century, the modern day border between Bosnia and Croatia, wasn't just a border between two countries. It was a border between two political powers,The Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, and their respective religions, Christianity and Islam. But, in the midst of that passionate conflict between the East and the West, a romance blossoms between Ivan Revač, a young Croatian assasin working for a local aristocrat, and Leyla, the daughter of an Ottoman bey.
Vukovar se vraća kući Vukovar se vraća kući (1994) Character: N/A
Eastern Croatian front, sometime during the 1990s. A group of civilian refugees from Vukovar try to establish a somewhat normal life in a camp established on the train station in Sokolovica. One of them is Vinko, a disabled man whose psyche is slowly decaying with paranoia, PTSD and physical pain. After he learns that his wife Jelka had befriended Klaus, a young and handsome German voulonteer, his mind begins to spiral further into darkness.
Gosti iz galaksije Gosti iz galaksije (1981) Character: Robert
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.
Ufuraj se i pukni Ufuraj se i pukni (2019) Character: N/A
The Prišt brothers are at a crossroads, preparing for their acting studies. Krešo, the older brother, has a hump and too much confidence. The other brother, Kruno, who can’t properly pronounce some words, finds out he has failed his entrance exam at the Faculty of Forestry and his girlfriend has left him. They chose their neighbour Črček, who lives in the same building, to supervise their preparations for studying acting. Črček is one of those characters who can’t do anything right, but at the same time he is likeable, chatty and ready to help.
Ljeto za sjećanje Ljeto za sjećanje (1990) Character: Zubar
Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
Živi bili pa vidjeli Živi bili pa vidjeli (1979) Character: Maks
A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.
Šesti autobus Šesti autobus (2022) Character: Edo
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.
Duga mračna noć Duga mračna noć (2004) Character: Alojz
"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.
Glembajevi Glembajevi (1988) Character: Puba Fabriczy
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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