Writing

Mirko Kovač

Known for

Writing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Evening Bells poster
5.5

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Evening Bells

1986

No artwork available
9.0

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

Sons

1975

No artwork available
10.0

The subject of the story is care and love of Vlajko, a lonely clerk, for an abandoned sick child. Through sacrifice, the main character finds the meaning of his monotonous life.

Vlajko's Secret

1976

Occupation in 26 Pictures poster
6.5

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

Occupation in 26 Pictures

1978

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

Under Investigation poster
8.0

A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.

Under Investigation

1977

Behind the camera

Evening Bells poster
5.5

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Evening Bells

1986

No artwork available
9.0

After his wife’s death, a widower gathers his family of six sons in their house.

Sons

1975

No artwork available
10.0

The subject of the story is care and love of Vlajko, a lonely clerk, for an abandoned sick child. Through sacrifice, the main character finds the meaning of his monotonous life.

Vlajko's Secret

1976

Occupation in 26 Pictures poster
6.5

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

Occupation in 26 Pictures

1978

A Sinful Child poster
10.0

It tells about Aleksa, an adolescent from a poor provincial family who came to the big city to scrap his life as servant in other people’s houses.

A Sinful Child

1976

Under Investigation poster
8.0

A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.

Under Investigation

1977

Libertas poster
6.2

Dubrovnik, February 1551. After a performance of his latest masterpiece Uncle Maroje recieves a strongly negative reaction from Dubrovnik's elite, playwright Marin Držić and his theatre troop find themselves at the mercy of a powerful censor.

Libertas

2006

The Last Adventure poster
10.0

A young journalist is trying to get an interview at any cost – a true life story from a famous actor who retired from public life. But to him, nothing is more valuable than it used to be, neither women, nor jobs. Everything became a thing of the past and went into deep oblivion.

The Last Adventure

1984

The Last Cheers poster
8.0

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

The Last Cheers

1976

Tattoo poster
5.6

After a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he'll find himself locked in a prison with several other, mostly innocent people. The true horror begins only then.

Tattoo

1991

Introduction to Another Life poster
5.7

A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and talks to him about his writing and her father. After she leaves, her father, an ex officer of the military and ex communist party member, rings the doorbell. After a tense introduction, the father starts to retell his life in order to try to explain why he did things that his daughter hates him for. It is not clear if writer's girlfriend and her father are part of writer's fiction, memories or reality.

Introduction to Another Life

1992

Murder on the Night Train poster
6.5

An old and a young man are travelling together. The old man reminds the young of his father, and the young man reminds the old of his wasted and meaningless life.

Murder on the Night Train

1972

Cobweb's Night poster
NR

Sometimes during the war, a train station master receives an apprehended prisoner from army officer to keep an eye on him. During the talk, the station master finds out that the youth was a resistance member, empathy grows in him but in the dawn he hands him over to military transport.

Cobweb's Night

1978

Escape to the Sea poster
NR

A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.

Escape to the Sea

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Handcuffs poster
6.7

Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Višnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.

Handcuffs

1970

Burning poster
5.7

Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.

Burning

1979

The Fall of Italy poster
5.8

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.

The Fall of Italy

1981

Playing Soldiers poster
6.6

After the end of WW2 a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of Partizans or people being killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy's parents were Nazis but conceals that fact from others, fearing violence by vengeful children. He invents the boy's life story, but the other children get suspicious.

Playing Soldiers

1967

Passion According to Matthew poster
6.0

Split shipyard worker's Mate, lives with his elderly mother and wife Mara, and trying to prove himself as a boxer. At the same time, his younger brother Luka drunk sex and fantasize about trip in Germany, embarks on a passionate love relationship with a young girl Orom, which was a bit sexually satisfied only him, his step father who thought he was father. The tense atmosphere seasoned with sea waves,can only bring tragedy.

Passion According to Matthew

1975

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy mocking the self-management system - the workers become owners of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast.

Guests and Workers

1976

The Father of Loneliness poster
7.0

It is a sentimental story about the father-son relationship, reminiscent of a photo from an old family album, over which one feels some sort of deep nostalgia. The focus of the plot is a poetic story about a father who lives in the village and his son who visits him regularly.

The Father of Loneliness

1978