
Acting
Božidar Orešković
Born — Died
1942-08-31 — 2010-07-10
Place of birth
Zagreb, Croatia
Known for
Acting
Credits
32 titles
Known for
NRThe story begins when we learn that the lives of the main characters, although quite different and seemingly unrelated, are actually intertwined on multiple levels. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, a great friendship and business partnership of Matko and Zoran rudely ended.
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
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8.8Based 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.
The Bonfires of Kapela
1975
7.0Inspector Vinko is a comedy miniseries starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević.
Inspector Vinko
1984
NRThe series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.
Traps
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NRA Croatian crime television mini-series by Roman Majetic. The plot begins with the assassination of the Croatian Prime Minister and follows efforts to uncover the perpetrators, with the help of police and other security services from neighboring Serbia and Montenegro.
Conspiracy
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6.7Socialist Croatia, sometime during the 1980s. After he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, Martin is sent to a high-security state prison where he accidentally becomes a target of a violent gang.
Is It Clear, My Friend?
2000
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
NRA film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Sucks
2012
One hundred years after the invention of film, Croatian film icon Mr. Fulir, who serves as the author’s alter-ego, comes up with the Faustian idea to bring back his youth. With a group of famous actors, he enthusiastically attempts to remake lost Croatian films from the silent era.
Syndrome Halla, the Inception of Croatian Professional Film – Born to Die
2017
2000s · 7 titles
6.7Socialist Croatia, sometime during the 1980s. After he's accused of a crime he didn't commit, Martin is sent to a high-security state prison where he accidentally becomes a target of a violent gang.
Is It Clear, My Friend?
2000
5.9Crne Vode, Western Bosnia, 1993. Whilst being cornered on all sides by Serbian and Bosniak forces, a small squad of Croatian soldiers stars experiancing strange phenomena in the form of spectral apparitions from the past, not realizing that, fifty years prior, a squadron of the Croatian pro-nazi milita had an equally mysterious experiance on the same spot.
The Living and the Dead
2007
6.9In the mid-18th century, the modern day border between Bosnia and Croatia, wasn't just a border between two countries. It was a border between two political powers,The Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, and their respective religions, Christianity and Islam. But, in the midst of that passionate conflict between the East and the West, a romance blossoms between Ivan Revač, a young Croatian assasin working for a local aristocrat, and Leyla, the daughter of an Ottoman bey.
The Horseman
2003
A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.
Red and Black
2006
6.8Zagreb, 1941. A young Tomica Škrinjar grows up on the streets of the Trešnjevka neighborhood, blissfully unaware of the brewing war on the far off frontlines. Whilst Tomica is busy developing his first crushes and playing in the sandlofts, his parents decide to hide away an Italian fascist deserter, his aunt Nadica starts a whirlwind romance with a German soldier and the military conflicts between the communist partisans and the Croatian pro-nazi militia reach their doorstep.
Sleep Sweet, My Darling
2005
7.0Not shy of her beauty, intelect and charm, twenty-year-old Vanja Barbarić decides to leave her job in a small-town ironworking firm and goes on a cross-country roadtrip in search of her own place in Croatian society.
Accidental Co-Traveller
2004
A successful but also hedonist young man gets afflicted with HIV by accident, eventually being abandoned by everybody around him. He becomes a problem for society until meeting another unfortunate person like him.
I Love You
2005
1990s · 6 titles
6.2On a small island in the Adriatic, tensions rise between the local population and the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army. The locals try to fight the enemy with song, dance, music and motivational speeches, but, major Aleksa, the head of the batallion situated on the island, threatens to blow their barracks up with everyone inside them if the civilians don't retreat.
How the War Started on My Island
1996
8.0Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.
New Year's Eve Robbery
1997
7.0A truck driver comes across a prostitute hitchhiking on the side of the road, offering her a ride from Zadar to Zagreb. During the drive, their personalities initially clash, but, soon they find out that they might be more alike than they initially thought.
Delusion
1998
9.0Classical music program on one Zagreb radio station is suddenly interrupted when disturbed war veteran, armed with hadngrenade and explosives, breaks in with strange demands and convincing threats.
Night for Listening
1995
8.0Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. Faced with the fact that they actually knew very little about their friend’s recent life, they start meeting more regularly and try to find out the circumstances that led to Orao’s suicide or possibly even murder…
Eagle
1990
5.8In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather, who had been labled as an enemy of the state and sentenced to a prison camp, was actually been innocent all along.
Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing
1991
1980s · 3 titles
NRKreso is in the eighth grade of elementary school and loves motorcycles and playing pinball. Because of his hobbies, he has a reputation as a bad boy, and he doesn't fare any better with grades either. His single mother is torn between jobs and has no understanding for his problems, so the boy is left to manage on his own.
Scenes from the Life of a Cheet Sheet
1987
NRAfter getting into conflict with the head of the construction company, the party secretary and even majority of his fellow workers who took the management’s side, Perisa writes a letter to the Central Committee asking for his labor rights. Just before the arrival of the press, an accident occurs.
Two Coffins of Dynamite
1980
8.0Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Find a Way, Comrade
1981
1970s · 6 titles
7.5In 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.
A Shot
1977
NRA story about a hard-working man who earns his piece of bread honestly. But this time, his attempt to become head of the workers’ syndicate and his statement will change his and the lives of many workers in the company.
A Statement
1976
NRThe film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
Three Poplars
1976
NRThe action takes place in the Dalmatian hinterland and displays how the effects of modern life disintegrate local population in the villages.
Big Shade
1978
NRMarijana, a young woman from Zagreb, is a medical student from Tuškanac who fell in love with a worker’s son from Dubrava. But in socialism, class differences make it difficult for those in love… Based on the eponymous bestseller by Branislav Glumac.
The Girl from Zagreb
1979
NRThe 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.
The Parting Song
1979
Series credits
NRThe story begins when we learn that the lives of the main characters, although quite different and seemingly unrelated, are actually intertwined on multiple levels. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, a great friendship and business partnership of Matko and Zoran rudely ended.
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
—
8.8Based 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.
The Bonfires of Kapela
1975
7.0Inspector Vinko is a comedy miniseries starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević.
Inspector Vinko
1984
NRThe series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.
Traps
—
NRA Croatian crime television mini-series by Roman Majetic. The plot begins with the assassination of the Croatian Prime Minister and follows efforts to uncover the perpetrators, with the help of police and other security services from neighboring Serbia and Montenegro.
Conspiracy
—
8.0A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Cat Under a Helmet
1978
10.0Works and private lives of 800 female employees in the textile factory named "Star".
Stories from the Factory
1985

