Vanja Drach

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Ženidba gospodina Marcipana
1
A satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods and bourgeois rituals done in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style that ingeniously mixes colour with black and white, and combines live action with animation and even bits of puppetry!
Drama
Bombaški proces
1

Bombaški proces

Jan 01, 1978
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.
Drama
Svjedoci
6.5

Svjedoci

Jul 20, 2003
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities.
Drama
Juste entre nous
5

Juste entre nous

Mar 10, 2010
Juste entre nous est une histoire contemporaine à huis clos sur les passions érotiques et les secrets bien gardés de la bourgeoisie. Sous la forme de portraits, ce film est une brève incursion dans les vies à Zagreb de deux frères, leurs femmes, leurs maîtresses et leurs enfants. Doubles vies et relations amoureuses parallèles sont mêlées dans cette histoire douce-amère sur la quête incessante de l’amour et du bonheur, sur la passion qui ne cesse d’exister, et sur les terribles conséquences qui en émanent.
Drama
Tajna Nikole Tesle
6.1

Tajna Nikole Tesle

Feb 19, 1980
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Drama
H-8...
7.4

H-8...

Jul 14, 1958
A bus traveling from Belgrade to Zagreb is involved in a tragic accident when a reckless driver causes a catastrophic collision on a rainy night, leading to the tragic deaths of several passengers.
Drama
Infekcija
5.2

Infekcija

Jul 22, 2003
In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city authorities are helpless when it comes to revealing the evil and culprits behind it. In the center of this story is the writer Ivan Gajski, whose friend died under sketchy circumstances. Gajski reveals that those who most advocate democracy are not only the same involved in these crimes, but they also did some of the murders as a part of TV production. Gajski meets all kinds of characters through this quest of his, including the woman of his wife Sara, and professor Bošković who discovers the origins of present Evil - the dark past of European continent.
Horror
Mor
4.5

Mor

Jan 01, 1992

Mor

Sue, the only daughter of a squire comes back from a fashionable European resort where she spent vacation. Arno, an impoverished nobleman wins her heart and they soon get engaged. But in the farm is the manager's son named Mor whom Sue spent her childhood with. Their reunion flare up old emotions, but soon strange things begin to happen. The stories about a werewolf start to circle around.
Drama
Carevo novo ruho
6.2

Carevo novo ruho

May 28, 1961
The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.
Fantasy
Sedmi kontinent
6.4

Sedmi kontinent

Jul 12, 1966
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
Family
Zlatne godine
7.2

Zlatne godine

Jan 01, 1992
The crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971, causes a violent separation of its three participants: A member of student leaders Jakov, his brother Mislav and Jakov's girlfriend Suncana. Jakov escapes abroad, while Mislav and Suncana remain in Zagreb believing that nothing bad can happen to them. Meanwhile, Mislav is getting arrested and Suncana stays alone. 20 years later, Jakov returns from Australia looking for a new beginning. He stays at Mislav's who married a girl from a rich family, after being released from prison and became a dentist. Soon, the brothers discover that the scelator from the past were not buried after all. The case of Suncana Krizic, who got killed in 1972 under mysterious circumstances, becomes Jakov's obsession in finding the truth.
Drama
Sve dzaba
6.2

Sve dzaba

Dec 01, 2006
A 30 year old, carefree man who lives off his parents' inheritance is untouched by war that affected most of his friends, but only until one of his friends died. This throws him completely off his routine, and he decides to sell all his belongings and start doing something memorable.
Drama
Jagoš i Uglješa
1

Jagoš i Uglješa

Dec 27, 1976
At an ordinary construction site in Germany, Jagos forms a strong bond of friendship with an African immigrant and remains loyal even when things go into the wrong direction
Drama
Svanuće
7

Svanuće

Jan 01, 1964
Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found themselves in.
Drama
Libertas
5.2

Libertas

Jul 01, 2006
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.
Drama
Iluzija
7

Iluzija

Jul 11, 1967
The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
Drama
Ključ
7

Ključ

Jul 09, 1965
Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.
Drama
Bogorodica
1

Bogorodica

Jan 01, 1999
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
Drama
Crne ptice
5

Crne ptice

Jul 17, 1967
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Drama
Kad čuješ zvona
5

Kad čuješ zvona

Jan 01, 1969
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
War
Usporeno kretanje
3

Usporeno kretanje

Jul 03, 1979
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.
Drama
Akcija
1

Akcija

Jul 07, 1960
Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.
War
Visoki napon
5.7

Visoki napon

Feb 23, 1981
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
Romance
Iza stakla
5.7

Iza stakla

Jul 22, 2008
Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
Drama
Doktor Mladen
6.2

Doktor Mladen

Jan 01, 1975
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
Drama
Volio bih da sam golub
1
The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.
War
Tri četrtine sonca
1

Tri četrtine sonca

Jul 18, 1959
A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.
Drama
Minuta za umor
1

Minuta za umor

Oct 14, 1962
An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.
Crime
Ljubavna pisma s predumišljajem
5
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…
Drama
Timon
1

Timon

Jan 01, 1973
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...
Drama
Pucanj
5

Pucanj

Jun 27, 1977
In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Drama
Godišnja doba Željke, Višnje i Branke
7
The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.
Drama
Opasni put
5

Opasni put

Feb 13, 1963
In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
Drama
Druga strana medalje
7

Druga strana medalje

Jul 09, 1965
A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.
Thriller
Čaruga
4.8

Čaruga

Apr 11, 1991
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Adventure
Garcia
1

Garcia

Jan 01, 1999
Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.
Drama
Obećana zemlja
6.3

Obećana zemlja

Mar 20, 1986
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
Drama
Krhotine
5

Krhotine

Jan 01, 1991
A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
Drama
Nastojanje
1

Nastojanje

Jun 30, 1982
A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.
Drama
Košarkaški Mocart
1

Košarkaški Mocart

Jan 01, 1996
Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.
Documentary
Soba za odmor
1

Soba za odmor

Jan 01, 1970
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.
TV Movie
Eter
1

Eter

Sep 30, 1985
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.
TV Movie
Ožiljak
1

Ožiljak

Apr 21, 1969
The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.
TV Movie
Samac
1

Samac

Nov 22, 1976
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.
TV Movie
Kanarinčeva ljubovca
1

Kanarinčeva ljubovca

Oct 30, 1988
The story retrospectively returns to the past of the noble Lenić Remetinski family through the stories of the last descendant, old woman Amalija. The novella talks about a frequent subject of 19th century prose, which is the decline of the nobility during the industrial revolution.
TV Movie
Živjeti
1

Živjeti

Jun 01, 1969
An unknown traveler disembarks from a steamship on a rainy day in a small and deserted coastal town, where he will spend the night and find a girl who will remain in his heart forever.
TV Movie
U registraturi
8.3

U registraturi

Apr 16, 1974
Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. 9 episodes in total.
Drama
Zamke
1

Zamke

Feb 08, 1983
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.
Drama
Svjedoci
1

Svjedoci

Feb 06, 2003
The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
Drama
Kapelski kresovi
8.3

Kapelski kresovi

Feb 22, 1976
Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
Action & Adventure