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Kormoran (1986)
Character: Zdravnik
A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.
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Kiklop (1982)
Character: N/A
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
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Čovjek ispod stola (2009)
Character: Žuga
The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost souls, each with their own unique ideas, passion or mania. We follow the tragicomic, mutually intertwined mini dramas of each character, as they fight to save the marketplace itself, when city planners threaten to raze it to the ground and replace it with a skyscraper.
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Zagrebačke priče (2009)
Character: Pekar (segment "Kanal")
Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
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Karneval, anđeo i prah (1990)
Character: Magistar Budikovac (segment "Karneval")
Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.
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Povratak Katarine Kožul (1989)
Character: N/A
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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Ljubezni Blanke Kolak (1987)
Character: Minister
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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U sredini mojih dana (1988)
Character: Pijanac
A famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via intercessory from Mother of God.
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Crveno i crno (2006)
Character: Doctor
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.
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Ajmo žuti (2001)
Character: Torbarina
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.
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S.P.U.K. (1983)
Character: Vlado
A commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.
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Lopovi prve klase (2005)
Character: Divlji kapitalista
A travelling theatre troup is invited to perform in a unique penetentiary that offers full freedom and maximum rest and relaxation services to its innmates.
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Primer Feliks Langus ali Kako ujeti svobodo (1991)
Character: N/A
Felix Langus is increasingly obsessed with the idea of communicating with supernatural forces, which warn him of the great peril of danger. Attacks of obsession are triggered by aggressive media, which are constantly challenged by dangerous information in a graduated rhythm. At his job as a driver, he has more and more problems. He's moved to an undemanding workplace, but his obsession proves to be dangerous even there, which leads him to unpredictable and grotesquely funny complications. Together with his psychotherapist, he can not escape a common fate...
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Pont Neuf (1997)
Character: Slikar
February 1908. Unhappy with the education provided to him in Munich, Croatian artist Josip Račić moves to Paris, where he finds accomodation in a rather cheap hotel. There he meets the cabaret singer Mary and a slew of other strange individuals, creating a palette of experiances that he then transforms into unique paintings.
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Mećava (1977)
Character: N/A
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
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Balade Petrice Kerempuha (1988)
Character: N/A
Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.
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Blagajnica hoće ići na more (2001)
Character: Đurđin muž
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes and takes her daughter for a break at the seaside.
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Pušća Bistra (2005)
Character: Šef sale
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, deciding to blackmail the denizens of the small village of Pušća Bistra, seeing them as the sole culprits for his misfortune.
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Turopoljski top (1981)
Character: Plemeniti Miškec Bedeniković
Originally published in 1865, the novel's plot was inspired by Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, and is set in Turopolje after the recent abolition of Bach's absolutism, i.e. when the Croats in the Habsburg Monarchy began to exercise political rights that long had been denied to them.
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Soba za odmor (1983)
Character: Putnik u autobusu
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.
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Samac (1976)
Character: N/A
In this intriguing, bittersweet picture of the factory atmosphere from the era of socialist self-management, we follow the story of the factory porter Djuro who, unlike his colleagues, has been unable to get an apartment within “social ownership” for years.
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Rasprodaja (1989)
Character: Predsjednik opštine
A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Eduard Galić, starring Miljenko Brlecic, Željko Duvnjak and Špiro Guberina.
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Tečaj plivanja (1988)
Character: N/A
A married couple of intellectuals, who have reached their third age, are not ready to get involved and accept the cruel rules that life imposes on them...
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Leo i Brigita (1989)
Character: Gospodin Popović
TV movie about the life of a middle-aged Zagreb spinster in whose life quietly crept the man to whom she rented a room. Problems start when she realizes that her lodger does very strange and even bizarre job that police will not miss.
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Predsednik (1992)
Character: N/A
The government, led by Vladimir Mercin, is being dangerously shaken by the “horse affair”. The opposition has already managed to win over some government officials to its side. Mercin’s men decide on a redemptive move: to stage his own fake kidnapping.
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Ne dao Bog većeg zla (2002)
Character: Profesor kemije
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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Krvopijci (1989)
Character: Jurek
The streets of Zagreb are empty because of a rumored vampire who attacks lonely women. To the office of psychiatrist, Franjo Glogowetz, there arrives a strange visitor, Teobald Majer. He is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century, and tells Franz that the members of his family, Glogovac, were famous vampire hunters. Naturally, Franz does not take him seriously but his wife, Barbara, likes the stranger a lot and even believes his story. In the meantime, Franz's two relatives, Jambrek and Jurek, arrive and get caught up in the mess.
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Je li jasno prijatelju? (2000)
Character: Debeli
Socialist Croatia, sometime during the 1980s. After he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, Martin is sent to a high-security state prison where he accidentally becomes a target of a violent gang.
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Puška u cik zore (1981)
Character: N/A
The plot takes place in Croatia during and immediately after the April war in 1941. The protagonists are a group of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army of Croatian nationality, some of whom will join the Ustashas and the newly founded NDH after the war, and some the anti-fascist movement.
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Konjanik (2003)
Character: Džafer-beg
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.
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Transatlantik (1998)
Character: N/A
The Croatian coast, 1914. Europe is in shambles and fear of the brewing military conflict of The Great War is slowly eating away at all facets of society. Fearing mobilization that had already cost the lives of many of his friends and aquaintances, a young man decides to flee to the United States and join many of his fellow townspeople in a recently established worker's colony in New York. However, upon arrival, he realizes that the only way to survive is for him to get involved with organized crime.
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Snivaj, zlato moje (2005)
Character: Djed Ladović
Zagreb, 1941. A young Tomica Škrinjar grows up on the streets of the Trešnjevka neighborhood, blissfully unaware of the brewing war on the far off frontlines. Whilst Tomica is busy developing his first crushes and playing in the sandlofts, his parents decide to hide away an Italian fascist deserter, his aunt Nadica starts a whirlwind romance with a German soldier and the military conflicts between the communist partisans and the Croatian pro-nazi militia reach their doorstep.
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Šegrt Hlapić (2013)
Character: Gospodar vrtuljka
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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Ljeto za sjećanje (1990)
Character: N/A
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.
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Бановић Страхиња (1983)
Character: Tamnicar
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
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Kino Lika (2008)
Character: Miketov otac
A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and an obese girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum regarding Croatia's decision of joining 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 obese 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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Živi bili pa vidjeli (1979)
Character: Đuro
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.
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Mala pljačka vlaka (1984)
Character: Milindža
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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Duga mračna noć (2004)
Character: Lujo
"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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Manifesto (1988)
Character: Baker
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
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Čaruga (1991)
Character: Jatak Uroš
After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.
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Hitac (2013)
Character: Goran
One accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.
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