Josip Marotti

Acting

Josip Marotti

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

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

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

Devil's Due poster
NR

During WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.

Devil's Due

1979

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NR

Axel convinces Bum that Bum is stranded and suggests that he puts his soul into a box and sells it to a pawnbroker. And really, Bum’s life changes… This is Yugoslav TV adaptation of the Wittinger’s novel.

Transmigration of Souls

1973

In the Registrar's Office poster
8.5

Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. 9 episodes in total.

In the Registrar's Office

1974

The Man Himself poster
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An adaptation of Ivo Kozarčanin's novel of the same name and consists of four episodes. The protagonist is a young official named Valentin, and the plot shows his childhood, growing up and a disastrous marriage that will end in murder.

The Man Himself

1970

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 4 titles

Charuga poster
5.4

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.

Charuga

1991

Tranquilizer Gun poster
7.0

Janko's life seemed to be in order. He had a great job and was in a steady relationship with his comissioner's daughter, whom he decided to leave after he falls for a pickopocket named Nana. However, even that relationship can't seem to fullfill his desires, so he starts a steamy affair with Marta Štajner, the widow of wealthy wartime-era crime lord Dragutin Karl Štajner. Wanting to impress his new fling, Janko decides to abuse his position as a police officer and starts getting further into criminal territory, but, he quickly gets in way over his head.

Tranquilizer Gun

1997

Every Time We Part poster
10.0

In Autumn of 1991, a Croatian soldier looses his wife and home to Serbian forces. Panicked, he grabs his daughter and, with nowhere else left to go, they leave for Zagreb, hoping to find shelter there. But, it turns out the streets of the war torn capitol are not much more safe nor pleasant than the village they had to leave behind.

Every Time We Part

1997

A Summer to Remember poster
8.0

Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.

A Summer to Remember

1990

1970s · 10 titles

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Axel convinces Bum that Bum is stranded and suggests that he puts his soul into a box and sells it to a pawnbroker. And really, Bum’s life changes… This is Yugoslav TV adaptation of the Wittinger’s novel.

Transmigration of Souls

1973

The Eye poster
NR

When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.

The Eye

1978

The Righteous One poster
8.0

The plot of the drama begins with the murder of an officer of the occupying forces. The town’s commander issues a strange order: let the locals choose a victim for revenge. This is how the righteous judge Blaz gets to the center of the action.

The Righteous One

1974

Aretheus poster
NR

The 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

Karmine poster
6.0

In the twenties of the last century, after funeral of the bank advisor, relatives gathered in a tavern near the Mirogoj cemetery, an opportunity to solve some old and uncleared bills .

Karmine

1978

Roko and Cicibela poster
6.9

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.

Roko and Cicibela

1978

Anno Domini 1573 poster
6.3

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.

Anno Domini 1573

1975

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

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Goran Massot is the author of this television drama about the “landloper of a good heart”. About a man who goes abroad, finds the wrong way and comes back to resell watches.

The Landloper

1978

The Rooster's Beak poster
NR

The story of the Partisan, understated idealists… who happily lives in post-war society. The problem arises when his comrades Sylvia wants to declare war memoirs where your credit stands out in an attack on a particularly important strategic enemy position called “The Rooster’s Beak”.

The Rooster's Beak

1971

1960s · 8 titles

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

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

The Naked Man poster
5.5

The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".

The Naked Man

1968

Martin in the Clouds poster
7.2

Martin and his girlfriend Zorica are two students who live as subtenants in separate flats. Since that situation has devastating effect on their love life, they yearn after the place of their own. When Martin's landlords go to the hollidays, it seems that their prayers, at least temporarily, had been listened to. However, the idilla is very short one, because other people also want to use the situation.

Martin in the Clouds

1961

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9.0

A satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods and bourgeois rituals done in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style that ingeniously mixes colour with black and white, and combines live action with animation and even bits of puppetry!

The Wedding of Mr. Marzipan

1963

No artwork available
6.4

Suspicious husband follows his wife and her male boss on their business trip.

Collision at the Paralels

1961

No artwork available
6.4

Suspicious husband follows his wife and her male boss on their business trip.

Collision at the Paralels

1961

No artwork available
10.0

A righteous party's committee secretary raises his voice against local politician in order to obtain recognition on workers' behalf regarding construction of the sports center.

The Fourth Companion

1967

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