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Tag Archives: Croatian
People’s hero Ljiljan Vidic (2015) Ivan-Goran Vitez, Kristijan Jaic, Stjepan Peric, Tena Jeic Gajski
This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Read More »
Fine Dead Girls (2002) Dalibor Matanic, Olga Pakalovic, Nina Violic, Kresimir Mikic
A lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Read More »
The Melody Haunts My Memory (1981) Rajko Grlic, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Mladen Budiscak
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito’s secret police. Read More »
The Last Will (2001) Zoran Sudar, Goran Visnjic, Alison Heruth-Waterbury, Stefan Lysenko
Bartul Burt Marinkovich, a Croatian emigree-turned millionaire, dies and unexpectedly leaves his millions not to his beautiful young wife Read More »
A Stranger (2013) Bobo Jelcic, Bogdan Diklic, Nada Djurevska, Ivana Roscic
When Slavko’s old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. Read More »
Projekcije / Projections (2013) Zrinko Ogresta, Jasna Bilusic, Polona Juh, Vladimir Jurc, Drama
Goran (2016) Nevio Marasovic, Franjo Dijak, Natasa Janjic, Goran Bogdan, Drama, Thriller
Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. Read More »
Tajna starog tavana / The Secret of an Old Attic (1984) Vladimir Tadej, Mario Mirkovic, Jirí Guryca, Nina Petrovic, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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Chico (2001) Ibolya Fekete, Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, András Fésös, War, Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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Snivaj, zlato moje / Sleep Sweet, My Darling (2005) Neven Hitrec, Ljubomir Kerekes, Ivan Glowatzky, Ines Bojanic, Comedy, Drama
This sentimental comedy, in turn delightfully amusing and tragicomical, tells a tale of a working-class neighborhood in Zagreb during a ten-year period after the end of the Second World War. It is a story of people who rely on humor and song to survive their anxious times, preserving their traditions and their way of life despite the tumultuous upheavals that surround them. A range of colorful characters create a unique microcosm of an old-fashioned way of life, in which it is as natural to burst into song as it is to talk, creating a film which at times resembles a musical.
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Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016) Bostjan Virc, Ziga Virc, Documentary, Drama
Cold War-era international intrigue, declassified top-secret documents, and a clandestine deal between John F. Kennedy and Yugoslavia’s president Josip Tito are just the tip of the iceberg in this absorbing directorial debut from filmmaker Žiga Virc. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Houston, We Have a Problem! explores the myth behind the origins of America’s race to be the first country to send a man to the moon, and a supposed multi-billion-dollar deal involving America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s space program in the early 1960s.
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Majka asfalta / Mother of Asphalt (2010) Dalibor Matanic, Marija Skaricic, Janko Popovic Volaric, Kresimir Mikic, Drama
The final straw in a marriage already on the rocks is when Janko hits Mare because she would not sleep with him. Although it is late at night Mare decides to leave her home with their 7 year-old son, and thus begins her search for a new beginning… Powerfully acted by actress Marija Škari?i? who has already won several awards for this role, the film follows her through increasingly challenging situations, which she desperately tries to present to her son as a game they’re playing. In stark contrast to the surrounding Christmas-time consumer bonanza, the young woman is left without money, friends, or even compassion. The only help she and her son are offered comes from the lonely nighttime security guard at the glitzy mall, Krešo.
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