Krešimir Zidarić

A filmed theater play by acting troupe Histrion.

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.

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.

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.

After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.

Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.

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.

In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.

The last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.

In the twenties of the last century, after funeral of the bank advisor, relatives gathered in a tavern near the Mirogoj cemetery, an opportunity to solve some old and uncleared bills .

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.

"The Emperor is Having Fun" is a Yugoslav black-and-white television drama produced by RTV Zagreb and broadcast in 1975. It was directed by Berislav Makarovic, and the screenplay was written by Gojko Sobota. The protagonist is the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, and the plot shows how he decides to direct a theater play and forces the courtiers to act in it in order to show their true colors.

A farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.

The satirical story is about the abuse of provincial party managers in the 1970s.

The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.

A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.

A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.

The play is set in a painter's studio, where we find Nobel Prize author Wolfgang Schwitter, who has died and come back to life, as he will a second time in the course of the play. Declared clinically dead, Wolfgang Schwitter has fled the hospital, with its doctors and gadgets, to Nyffenschwander's studio, where years before he had begun his literary career and where he now wants to die, yet cannot.

A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.

A group of juvenile delinquents go to a coastal resort town after successful robbery.

In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.

The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.

A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner befitting this stylised, slap-stick satire. - MIFF

The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.