Acting

Đuro Utješanović

Acting credits

I Want to Live poster
7.8

Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.

I Want to Live

1982

The Statuette poster
NR

In the center of the story is an old bachelor, honest man who is unable to prove his honesty because his only proof, a statuette, has been broken. The film is set in the earliest days of socialism after the WW2.

The Statuette

1972

The Accordion poster
9.0

The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.

The Accordion

1972

Thirty Horses poster
NR

An ambitious carpenter from Dalmatian village puts an old mill back in function in order to prove himself worthy among the locals.

Thirty Horses

1988

The Time of Warriors poster
7.5

Two friends, Fabijan and Dakar, each with their own murky past, decide to go on a fishing trip. However, a lazy spring afternoon becomes a fight for survival after they're attacked by group of mysterious strangers.

The Time of Warriors

1991

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

Every Time We Part poster
10.0

In Autumn of 1991, a Croatian soldier looses his wife and home to Serbian forces. Panicked, he grabs his daughter and, with nowhere else left to go, they leave for Zagreb, hoping to find shelter there. But, it turns out the streets of the war torn capitol are not much more safe nor pleasant than the village they had to leave behind.

Every Time We Part

1997

The Istrian Way poster
10.0

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

The Istrian Way

1985

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

Indulged poster
NR

A bad decision makes lots of conflict within a group of friends.

Indulged

1971

Daredevil Times poster
6.9

Sfaira (1971-1984) dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato is a homage to two of his favourite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun.

Daredevil Times

1977

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

Southbound Train poster
6.0

A power-cut in a great apartment building brings the tenants together.

Southbound Train

1981

Anno Domini 1573 poster
6.3

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.

Anno Domini 1573

1975

The Time For... poster
6.3

The seemingly pleasant life of Marija and her son Darko is broken when their village is attacked by the Serbian chetniks, forcing them to evacuate and look for new living and employment opportunites in the nearby city, with the former taking a job in the washroom of the local hospital and the latter, against his mother's wishes, deciding to join the Croatian Army. A few weeks later, Marija recieves the news of her son's passing and decides to head into no man's land to retrieve his remains and bury them in the village they both grew up in.

The Time For...

1993

The Pine Tree in the Mountain poster
7.4

Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.

The Pine Tree in the Mountain

1971

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 Rooster's Beak poster
NR

The story of the Partisan, understated idealists… who happily lives in post-war society. The problem arises when his comrades Sylvia wants to declare war memoirs where your credit stands out in an attack on a particularly important strategic enemy position called “The Rooster’s Beak”.

The Rooster's Beak

1971

Don't Give in, Flockey! poster
9.0

A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.

Don't Give in, Flockey!

1986

Carnival, Angel and Dust poster
8.0

Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.

Carnival, Angel and Dust

1990

Charuga poster
5.3

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.

Charuga

1991

When the Dead Start Singing poster
6.0

At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.

When the Dead Start Singing

1998

The Trojan Horse poster
NR

During the WWII, the communist resistance, with the help of a few local anti-fascists, makes sabotage and obstructs the actions of the Yugoslav quislings.

The Trojan Horse

1982

The Woman from Sarajevo poster
7.0

The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.

The Woman from Sarajevo

1980