Writing

Ivo Brešan

Born — Died

1936-05-27 — 2017-01-03

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Ivan "Ivo" Brešan was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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 Secret of Nikola Tesla poster
6.2

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

1980

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 Rat Savior poster
6.3

A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.

The Rat Savior

1976

The Donator poster
4.6

A war drama about a German officer's search for a priceless art collection.

The Donator

1989

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.2

On a small island in the Adriatic, tensions rise between the local population and the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army. The locals try to fight the enemy with song, dance, music and motivational speeches, but, major Aleksa, the head of the batallion situated on the island, threatens to blow their barracks up with everyone inside them if the civilians don't retreat.

How the War Started on My Island

1996

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja poster
6.8

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.

A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja

1974

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

Promised Land poster
7.0

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.

Promised Land

1986