
Directing
Vatroslav Mimica
Born — Died
1923-06-25 — 2020-02-15
Place of birth
Omiš, Croatia
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 he joined Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and in 1943 he went on to join the Yugoslav Partisans, becoming a member of their medical units. After the war Mimica wrote literary and film reviews, and his career in filmmaking began in 1950 when he became the director of the Jadran Film production studio.
Known for
5.7Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
Alone
1958
5.8The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
1978
7.0The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…
The Inspector Is Back!
1959
8.0Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.
On the Meadow
1957
10.0A photographer tries to make his customer smile for the photo.
At the Photographer's
1959
NRThe Beauty of the Adriatic was created as a promotional tourist film, but through its unusual and even bizarre formal devices it overcomes the promotional function. The narrator of the film is constantly communicating with the viewer, exclaims and inserts jokes, and we also see him in the film as a guide entertaining us with various gestures and movements. In the film there are also interspersed humorous animated scenes, an interview with Hamlet, poetic sequences and stylized scenes such as one where the camera is "looking for" the lost guide.
The Beauty of the Adriatic
1962
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.7Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
Alone
1958
5.7Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
Alone
1958
5.8The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
1978
5.8The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
1978
7.0The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…
The Inspector Is Back!
1959
7.0The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…
The Inspector Is Back!
1959
8.0Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.
On the Meadow
1957
10.0A photographer tries to make his customer smile for the photo.
At the Photographer's
1959
NRThe Beauty of the Adriatic was created as a promotional tourist film, but through its unusual and even bizarre formal devices it overcomes the promotional function. The narrator of the film is constantly communicating with the viewer, exclaims and inserts jokes, and we also see him in the film as a guide entertaining us with various gestures and movements. In the film there are also interspersed humorous animated scenes, an interview with Hamlet, poetic sequences and stylized scenes such as one where the camera is "looking for" the lost guide.
The Beauty of the Adriatic
1962
9.0Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Suleiman the Conqueror
1961
9.0Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Suleiman the Conqueror
1961
9.0Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Suleiman the Conqueror
1961
5.7At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.
The Macedonian Part of Hell
1971
5.7At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.
The Macedonian Part of Hell
1971
5.0Banović 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.
The Falcon
1983
5.0Banović 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.
The Falcon
1983
10.0A poster announcing the opening night of an opera. A crowd of snobs, so called »music lovers« rushes in. The tenor, well aware of his magnificence, has some troubles in his wardrobe with his button refusing to fit in his collar.
Opening Night
1957
6.2Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.
The Fed One
1970
9.0A distinguished sculptor Mr Peacock laid an egg. Thrilled with himself and his work of art, he made it widely known.
The Egg
1959
8.0The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective.
Scarecrow
1957
8.0The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective.
Scarecrow
1957
6.5A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.
Prometheus from the Island of Viševica
1964
6.5A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.
Prometheus from the Island of Viševica
1964
NRShort animated film. The surreal routes and roads are combined with the late-night feeling of the short and cartoony cars designs.
Nocturno
1958
9.0After destruction of the world, life returns slowly and in convulsions. The being finds its home on the exact place where it was before the catastrophe, and this is the happy end.
Happy End
1958
9.0After destruction of the world, life returns slowly and in convulsions. The being finds its home on the exact place where it was before the catastrophe, and this is the happy end.
Happy End
1958
6.5A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.
Monday or Tuesday
1966
6.5A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.
Monday or Tuesday
1966
5.8A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate.
The Fly
1967
6.7A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
An Event
1969
6.7A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
An Event
1969
7.1An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.
Kaya
1967
7.1An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.
Kaya
1967
7.1An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.
Kaya
1967
7.0A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.
An Encounter in a Dream
1957
A man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
1955
A man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
1955
7.1Woodcut-style animation accompanying Jure Kaštelan’s famous Yugoslav partisan poem, depicting hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.
Typhoid Sufferers
1963
7.1Woodcut-style animation accompanying Jure Kaštelan’s famous Yugoslav partisan poem, depicting hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.
Typhoid Sufferers
1963
9.0The Romeo and Juliet story from caveman times to the present.
Romeo and Juliet
1958

