Špiro Guberina

Acting

Špiro Guberina

Born — Died

1933-03-01 — 2020-11-27

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1990s · 6 titles

Christmas Fairy Tale poster
NR

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Christmas Fairy Tale

1992

Agony poster
7.0

To pay off his gambling debts, Lembach, an ex-officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, extorts money from his wife Laura and her lover Križovec. Križovec himself has a love affair with Russian countess Georgievna, who herself is also into romantic relationship with another Russian countess. This tetragonal love affair comes to its boiling point.

Agony

1998

The Canyon of Dangerous Games poster
6.4

The German Keller family pays a visit to their Croatian friends who live in a small village on the banks of the Cetina river. Inspired by the stories told to them by their fathers about the history of the area being used as the filming ground for the cinematic adaptations of German author Karl May's seminal Winnetou series of western novels, the children decide to play Cowboys and Indians. However, what they don't know is that the canyon they've picked as their play area, serves as the hiding spot of three ruthless Serbian chetniks, who had recently escaped from the nearby prison.

The Canyon of Dangerous Games

1998

The Murmur of the Shell poster
7.0

A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.

The Murmur of the Shell

1990

Transatlantic poster
7.8

The Croatian coast, 1914. Europe is in shambles and fear of the brewing military conflict of The Great War is slowly eating away at all facets of society. Fearing mobilization that had already cost the lives of many of his friends and aquaintances, a young man decides to flee to the United States and join many of his fellow townspeople in a recently established worker's colony in New York. However, upon arrival, he realizes that the only way to survive is for him to get involved with organized crime.

Transatlantic

1998

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 · 6 titles

The Hole poster
7.7

Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.

The Hole

1989

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

On Sale poster
NR

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Eduard Galić, starring Miljenko Brlecic, Željko Duvnjak and Špiro Guberina.

On Sale

1989

Cervantes from the Small Town poster
5.9

'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.

Cervantes from the Small Town

1982

The Secret of an Old Attic poster
5.6

During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.

The Secret of an Old Attic

1984

The Bizarre Country poster
6.0

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.

The Bizarre Country

1988

1970s · 10 titles

Istrian Rhapsody poster
NR

It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.

Istrian Rhapsody

1978

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

Giovanni poster
NR

Through the window of his old building, curious and idle Mr Piero "spies" the apartment across the street where lives Giovanni, an Italian soldier. Despite his wife's resentment and ridicule from the neighborhood, Piero cannot resist the temptation of dangerous surveillance. His curiosity is heated upon noticing that his neighbor returned from the war campaign in the hinterland with bloodied hands.

Giovanni

1976

No artwork available
NR

The titular character takes a trip by train while talking about himself and the dead language he’s teaching while interacting with other passengers.

Professor of Latin

1977

Timon poster
8.0

A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...

Timon

1973

The Rabbit poster
NR

Written in 1932 between the two world wars, this TV drama brings a critique of militarism and speaks of the meaninglessness of warfare and the tragedy of human lives and the tragedy of human lives in such an environment.

The Rabbit

1975

Old Fellas poster
NR

Stories about middle-aged Zagreb men, their merry adventures and those one should forget. Based on a theater play.

Old Fellas

1979

Man and Architecture poster
NR

The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.

Man and Architecture

1977

My Dear Benefactors poster
NR

The satirical story is about the abuse of provincial party managers in the 1970s.

My Dear Benefactors

1970

Tomo Bakran poster
8.0

A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.

Tomo Bakran

1978

Series credits

Bombing Process poster
NR

In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this miniseries was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.

Bombing Process

1978

Journey to Vucjak poster
7.3

With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.

Journey to Vucjak

1986

Baby Deer poster
7.5

A group of kids saves a baby deer from the woods and then they take care of it until it grows up. Original title: JELENKO

Baby Deer

1981

Unconquered City poster
8.0

In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.

Unconquered City

1982

Beggars and Sons poster
9.4

Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.

Beggars and Sons

1984

Balkan Inc. poster
NR

Based on the novels "Bijela jutra" (White Mornings) and "Marševski korak" (March Step) by Robert Naprta, who is also the writer of TV Series "Balkan Inc.". led by All Star Cast. The main character is a cop who browses trough the streets and city's underground where he finds himself in a series of unsolved murders, drugs, smugglers, corrupt government officials, sex, hookers and blackmail. His Name is Marko Prilika - called Cens (Chance). Even though he's a cop, he's no stranger in a world of cocaine use and hookers.

Balkan Inc.

2006

The File poster
NR

The four private episodes connect several people who keep appearing, such as Inspector Danilo and his assistants. The first case begins when the conductor of a night tram at dawn discovers the body of an unknown man under the underpass ...

The File

1986

Nikola Tesla poster
8.0

This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.

Nikola Tesla

1977

What Are We In This World... poster
8.0

The tragic characters of losers from the beginning of the 20th century are a precious record of the era.

What Are We In This World...

1973

The Big Town poster
9.0

This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.

The Big Town

1980

Our Father's Diary poster
9.0

The world of small people from the suburbs and the melancholic atmosphere of anxious everyday life that senses imminent catastrophe. While they see no way out of social troubles, these good-natured and somewhat eccentric loners find compensation in pubs, movie theaters and sex. Original title: DNEVNIK OČENAŠEKA

Our Father's Diary

1969

The Foreigner poster
9.0

Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.

The Foreigner

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