Miroslav Krleža

Writing

Miroslav Krleža

Born — Died

1893-07-07 — 1981-12-29

Place of birth

Zagreb, Croatia

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

In Agony poster
9.0

After Laura's husband commits suicide, her lover Ivan Krizovec and her spend a torrid night together.

In Agony

1982

In the Camp poster
7.0

Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...

In the Camp

1983

Aretheus poster
NR

The last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.

Aretheus

1978

Masquerade poster
NR

A drama in one act by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, published in 1914. The plot takes place during one carnival night when three masked protagonists – a husband dressed as Don Quixote, his wife dressed as Colombina from commedia dell’arte and her lover Pierrot – observe their relations.

Masquerade

1981

No artwork available
NR

Based on Krleza’s essay written in 1935 which warned about the rise of fascism and Nazism in pre-WWII Europe.

Grunts of Intellectual Sows of Europe Today

1993

Petar Dobrovic poster
6.0

Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.

Petar Dobrovic

1957

I Saw a Stretch and Mud poster
8.0

Short by Z. Bourek.

I Saw a Stretch and Mud

1965

No artwork available
NR

A TV film based on single act drama written by Miroslav Krleza, that belongs to his expressionist phase. It was first published in 1922, and then regularly as a part of collection of plays called "Legends". By giving them this primordial biblical names, in this drama Krleza speaks about the intricate relation between two lovers, while interweaving reality and unreality, giving wider context of human relations to everything.

Adam and Eve

1969

The Way to Paradise poster
5.5

A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there.

The Way to Paradise

1970

No artwork available
NR

Actors play out scenes and conversations based on Cengic’s biographical book Dance over Volcanoes (Ples na vulkanima) about Krleza as well as Krleza’s own poetry about his struggles, work, national myths and ethics.

Nightfall, Full of Skepticism

1988

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh poster
NR

Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

1988

Resting Room poster
NR

By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment.

Resting Room

1983