Acting

Vjera Žagar-Nardelli

Acting credits

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7.0

The play is set in a painter's studio, where we find Nobel Prize author Wolfgang Schwitter, who has died and come back to life, as he will a second time in the course of the play. Declared clinically dead, Wolfgang Schwitter has fled the hospital, with its doctors and gadgets, to Nyffenschwander's studio, where years before he had begun his literary career and where he now wants to die, yet cannot.

The Meteor

1969

Klara Dombrovska poster
NR

It tells about mutual conflicts and the decline of the once rich and prominent Zagreb family Dombrovski. In this large family, women have always been in charge of decisions. The plot takes place immediately after the death of the founder and owner of the company, Vladimir Dombrovski.

Klara Dombrovska

1976

Whatever You Can Spare poster
5.8

Zoran is a graduate student of psychology and she gets a motorcycle as a present from his father. Being an unskilled driver, he stumbles upon a girl Biba and she breaks her leg. To prevent a possible lawsuit, he visits her in the hospital. They continue to see each other, and soon fall in love. Biba is a girl from suburban shanty, while Zoran comes from a well-to-do family, and his parents refuse to accept the girl. Young couple gets married and lives temporarily in Biba's home, where they drove out Biba's brother, a petty criminal. While looking for a new apartment, the marriage breaks down. Zoran shines at his exam with thesis on "People from socially broken families", while Biba gives birth to their child in the hospital.

Whatever You Can Spare

1979

Ana and Nives poster
NR

It follows the lives of two women: real-life painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović and editor Ana who’s just working on editing of documentary on Nives.

Ana and Nives

1980

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

Psychopaths poster
8.0

A TV film based on Chekhov’s 'Ariadna'.

Psychopaths

1974

Angel poster
NR

The tragedy of human life is read from the personal conflict of man in which there are moments of self-deception, the pleasure of creation and dissatisfaction with achievement, like restlessness and calmness, conflict and catharsis.

Angel

1982

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10.0

Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.

Crime at School

1982

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NR

Drama of Nobelist Ivo Andric shown in retrospective way that tells a story of a woman who abandoned her wealthy and prominent husband because of his increasingly schizophreniac behaviour, known only to her.

Domestic Abuse

1970

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

Christmas in Vienna poster
9.0

A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.

Christmas in Vienna

1997

Tender Infidelities poster
NR

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Dario Vince, starring Relja Bašić, Bozidar Boban and Ana Karić.

Tender Infidelities

1988

The House poster
7.8

The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.

The House

1975

To Live on Love poster
6.6

A story about a couple whose problems start when she takes a job as a teacher in order to financially support his education.

To Live on Love

1973

Nobody Will Laugh poster
8.0

A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.

Nobody Will Laugh

1985

Official Position poster
7.2

The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.

Official Position

1964

Go, Yellow poster
5.8

Ivek and Kruno are best friends, both passionate supporters of a suburban Zagreb football club. When a nouveau riche businessman Čabraja enters the club's managing board with ambitious plans, and soon becomes the club's president, the two friends are divided. While Kruno is enthusiastic over the club's newly found success, Ivek is distrustful towards Čabraja and does not approve of his shady methods. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained.

Go, Yellow

2001

Lidija poster
NR

Lidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.

Lidija

1981

The Case of Graduate Wagner poster
NR

This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.

The Case of Graduate Wagner

1976

God of the Play poster
NR

The plot depicts lives of several young people from Zagreb from the perspective of a girl carrying a “god of the play” doll.

God of the Play

1975

Early Frost in Munich poster
6.0

A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his 20 year old son back in their country of origin. However the son plans to marry his German girlfriend, and doesn't even think of returning to their land.

Early Frost in Munich

1984

Three Poplars poster
NR

The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.

Three Poplars

1976