Božidar Orešković

Acting

Božidar Orešković

Born — Died

1942-08-31 — 2010-07-10

Place of birth

Zagreb, Croatia

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

Is It Clear, My Friend? poster
6.7

Socialist 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

The Living and the Dead poster
5.9

Crne 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

The Horseman poster
6.9

In 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

No artwork available
NR

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

Sleep Sweet, My Darling poster
6.8

Zagreb, 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

Accidental Co-Traveller poster
7.0

Not 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

No artwork available
6.8

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

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.2

On 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

New Year's Eve Robbery poster
8.0

Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990.

New Year's Eve Robbery

1997

Delusion poster
7.0

A 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

Night for Listening poster
9.0

Classical 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

Eagle poster
8.0

Radovan 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

Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing poster
5.8

In 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

1970s · 6 titles

A Shot poster
7.5

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.

A Shot

1977

A Statement poster
NR

A 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

Three Poplars poster
NR

The 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

Big Shade poster
NR

The action takes place in the Dalmatian hinterland and displays how the effects of modern life disintegrate local population in the villages.

Big Shade

1978

The Girl from Zagreb poster
NR

Marijana, 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

The Parting Song poster
NR

The 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

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