Božidar Orešković

Acting

Božidar Orešković

Born 1942-08-31 · Zagreb, Croatia

Acting credits

Sucks poster
NR

A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.

Sucks

2012

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

The Horseman poster
6.9

The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.

The Horseman

2003

Wild Angels poster
7.3

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

Wild Angels

1969

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

Is It Clear, My Friend? poster
6.7

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.

Is It Clear, My Friend?

2000

Scenes from the Life of a Cheet Sheet poster
NR

Kreso 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

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 Living and the Dead poster
6.0

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.

The Living and the Dead

2007

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

Two Coffins of Dynamite poster
NR

After 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

No artwork available
NR

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

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.3

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

How the War Started on My Island

1997

Find a Way, Comrade poster
8.0

Based 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

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

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

Sleep Sweet, My Darling poster
6.8

A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.

Sleep Sweet, My Darling

2005

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

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

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

Joza, a middle-aged professional driver, offers Stella, a young and attractive prostitute, a ride from Zadar to Zagreb. Joza remembers his traumatic war experiences and his son who returned from combat with a severe disability. Underneath her seemingly cold and calculated demeanor, Stella is also a grieving parent. During the ride, the two develop a special relationship.

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

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

Accidental Co-Traveller poster
7.0

The story of a girl who works in a foundry and leaves the job due to difficult working conditions and decides to go away from home. On this quest for happiness she meets a rich football manager whom she robs, as well as number of other people who all mostly have sexual or other intentions about her.

Accidental Co-Traveller

2004