Stjepan Pisek

The story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of the final downfall of the Republic of Dubrovnik thus also becomes the story of the agony of an ancient aristocratic family.

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.

Three children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.

A group of old sailors demonstrate the Splendid sailing boat's qualities in comparison with dangerous steam boats whose number has increased and put their jobs at risk. One stormy night they refuse the steamer's help and are prepared for the worst. But they find a little boy on their boat and this persuades them to fight for their lives.

In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the hundred year old Maddona Makantuna, a dispossessed land owner.

A life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.