
Acting
Otokar Levaj
Acting credits
NRThe last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.
Aretheus
1978
7.0Tena, a young Slavonian woman becomes aware of her own beauty which makes her fall into a state of moral decay. Her newly discovered promiscuity eventually makes her fellow villagers turn on her.
Tena
1975
6.3Life 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
7.0Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...
In the Camp
1983
NRDue to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment.
The Case of Filip Franjic
1978
7.0Kralj and Joke are small time crooks, with their unsuccessful attempts to get rich. They arrive at the small local fair with intention of selling smuggled cigarettes, but they immediately get into trouble. First they got into an argument with an old woman (who calls police) and then they force a group of former drug addicts to give them their booth with souvenirs. Soon, Kralj is caught by police and sentenced to 6 months of prison, while Joke manages to escape. Joke seeks help from a mutual friend Sporki to rescue Kralj, and together they forge a plan that will not go as smoothly as they expected.
Saints
2014
6.7A 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
6.4A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.
The Canyon of Dangerous Games
1998
7.8The 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
NRThe father dreams that at least his son Grga will return from Germany to his homeland because his second son is an employed Party member, lives in the city, and tries to push through some new projects in his village which traditional environment is opposed to.
The Liberanos
1979
6.8The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebre for the participants and equally infamous for its innumerable shortcomings ranging from the lack of coherent plot-line to the most basic elements of film making. However, in time, it has gained a somewhat cult reputation. A priceless insight into an odd culture and its lax sexual mores and follies!
Honeymoon
1983
6.1It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA… During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.
Lea and Darija
2011
NRThis 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
Filip lives in the small town of Samobor, which is near Zagreb. He works in the local library as a librarian. Even though he moved to the small town many years ago, he still misses the bustle of life in Zagreb. However, his boring routine is interrupted by the arrival of a new library manager, the pretty Elza. Soon, however, a series of strange deaths happen.
A Man Who Liked Funerals
1989
9.0A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.
Don't Give in, Flockey!
1986
NRThe 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
NRThe film deals with issues of life and work in self-governing socialist enterprises, i.e. the problems caused by the application of the Law on Associated Labor which passed several years before. The protagonists are the metal company workers who are launching a strike due to the reduction of salaries.
Strike in the Machine Factory
1980