Directing

Eduard Galić

Born

1936-08-11 (90)

Place of birth

Trogir, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Eduard Galić is a distinguished Croatian film and television director and screenwriter, recognized as one of the most prolific figures in Croatian cinema. His career spans over five decades, during which he has directed numerous television dramas, series, documentaries, and feature films. Notable works include the television series Nepokoreni grad (The Unconquered City, 1981), which portrays the resistance movement in Zagreb during World War II, and the feature film Za ona dobra stara vremena (For Good Old Times, 2018), exploring the lives of two friends in post-war Croatia. Galić's contributions have significantly shaped Croatian television and film, earning him acclaim for his storytelli…

Known for

Sixth Bus poster
6.3

A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.

Sixth Bus

2022

No artwork available
NR

After several unsuccessful attempts to enroll in acting studies, the young high school teacher Matej decides to seek help from the famous drama actor Gabrijelo, who is also a regular professor at the academy. An unusual connection develops between the two of them, which gradually grows into a merciless rivalry. Matej is determined to become an actor and allows Gabriel, who is an imagined greatness and a crook, to insult and humiliate him in acting classes. Through the skillful interweaving of the comic and the dramatic, the emotional and the tense, and through numerous unexpected twists and turns, young Matej will finally get adequate satisfaction...

Forget Hollywood

1999

Building Up the Courage poster
NR

In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.

Building Up the Courage

1966

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

The Last of the Stipancics poster
9.0

Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.

The Last of the Stipancics

1968

Christmas Fairy Tale poster
NR

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Christmas Fairy Tale

1992

Behind the camera

Sixth Bus poster
6.3

A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.

Sixth Bus

2022

Sixth Bus poster
6.3

A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search.

Sixth Bus

2022

No artwork available
NR

After several unsuccessful attempts to enroll in acting studies, the young high school teacher Matej decides to seek help from the famous drama actor Gabrijelo, who is also a regular professor at the academy. An unusual connection develops between the two of them, which gradually grows into a merciless rivalry. Matej is determined to become an actor and allows Gabriel, who is an imagined greatness and a crook, to insult and humiliate him in acting classes. Through the skillful interweaving of the comic and the dramatic, the emotional and the tense, and through numerous unexpected twists and turns, young Matej will finally get adequate satisfaction...

Forget Hollywood

1999

Building Up the Courage poster
NR

In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.

Building Up the Courage

1966

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

The Last of the Stipancics poster
9.0

Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.

The Last of the Stipancics

1968

Christmas Fairy Tale poster
NR

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Christmas Fairy Tale

1992

Lead Communion poster
NR

On the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.

Lead Communion

1995

No artwork available
NR

On May 13 1990, Kizo, Filip, Buba and Tomo try to gather together a grouping in other to go and see the highly anticipated match between the soccer teams Dinamo from Zagreb and Crvena Zvezda (Red Star) from Belgrade. However, seemingly all of their fellow fans are in some way or another unable to come to the stadium. And unbenkownst to all of them, this game will trigger one of the darkest moments in Croatian history.

ZG90

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A Confession You Didn't Deserve poster
10.0

The usual atmosphere of a standard literary evening turns into a harsh drama of the conscience of the protagonist who took part in the betrayal and liquidation of his father in the World War II, which ended not so long ago.

A Confession You Didn't Deserve

1999

A Shokac Woman poster
10.0

A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard Galić, starring Vlasta Knezović, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.

A Shokac Woman

1996

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

No artwork available
10.0

The subject of the story is care and love of Vlajko, a lonely clerk, for an abandoned sick child. Through sacrifice, the main character finds the meaning of his monotonous life.

Vlajko's Secret

1976

Murtal's Case poster
7.0

The protagonist is a young man, a future scientist, who plans his future life with mathematical precision, but the calculation betrays him.

Murtal's Case

1976

The Last Cheers poster
8.0

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

The Last Cheers

1976

Benedictine Nuns poster
10.0

Documentary.

Benedictine Nuns

1971

Black Birds poster
5.4

WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.

Black Birds

1967

Black Birds poster
5.4

WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.

Black Birds

1967

No artwork available
10.0

Two arrogant amateur hunters invite a timid clerk (their colleague from the company in which they all work together) to release clay pigeons during their shooting exercise outdoors.

Shooting Exercise

1971

For Good Old Times poster
5.3

Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generation has their own reasons to leave. This is a story about a generation caught in the transition from socialism to capitalism, marked by a brutal war.

For Good Old Times

2018

Old Men poster
NR

Two old fisherman manage to invite two young tourists on a boat trip. Even though they don't understand each other, they set out on their dream adventure.

Old Men

2001

Svetozar Markovic poster
NR

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.

Svetozar Markovic

1980

Dramolett by Chiribilli poster
NR

A farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.

Dramolett by Chiribilli

1972

Horvat's Choice poster
5.8

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

Horvat's Choice

1985

White Angels poster
7.0

A film about the children’s choir “Vatroslav Lisinski” from the town of Janjevo in Kosovo.

White Angels

1971

No artwork available
NR

Two men meet through a car accident and they start a bit strange friendship. The screenplay was written by known Croatian author Zvonimir Majdak.

Bitterness in the Throat

1973

No artwork available
10.0

Two young “women from dreams” unexpectedly enter the senile longing and boring everyday life of two poor and aging Dalmatian fishermen. They cannot refuse their desire to row out to sea together, even though foreign women speak a language that these old men do not understand at all.

Old Men

1971

No artwork available
10.0

Two young “women from dreams” unexpectedly enter the senile longing and boring everyday life of two poor and aging Dalmatian fishermen. They cannot refuse their desire to row out to sea together, even though foreign women speak a language that these old men do not understand at all.

Old Men

1971

Hawk poster
10.0

A documentary on the life and death of Vladimir "Hawk" Đerek, a Croatian soldier whose perseverance in the face of the toughest challenges inspired many of his comrades during the events of the Croatian War of Independence told through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts.

Hawk

2025

Kvit posla poster
NR

After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.

Kvit posla

1983

No artwork available
10.0

The plot takes place on January 14, 1800 when American president’s wife Martha Washington (45) invites her husband’s long-time lover, Silvia Caver (35), over to the presidential estate.

Loves of George Washington

2001

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

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

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

Music in Grožnjan poster
7.0

A look at the music folklore legacy and instruments used in the small Istrian town of Groznjan.

Music in Grožnjan

1975

No artwork available
NR

Biopic of Augustin Kazotic (1260-1323), a Croatian humanist, a medieval Dominican friar, an orator and bishop of Zagreb. He was one of the first humanist figures to appear in southern Croatia.

Blessed Augustin Kazotic

2008

No artwork available
NR

Biopic of Augustin Kazotic (1260-1323), a Croatian humanist, a medieval Dominican friar, an orator and bishop of Zagreb. He was one of the first humanist figures to appear in southern Croatia.

Blessed Augustin Kazotic

2008

No artwork available
8.0

Two painters, the master and his apprentice, routinely do their job in apartment whose owners left for a summer holiday. Through conversation on everyday subjects and archetypal relationship of a teacher and his pupil, they reveal their true problems that bother them.

White

2001

Evening poster
5.9

Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.

Evening

1966

Evening poster
5.9

Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.

Evening

1966