Acting

Ivo Serdar

Acting credits

The Statuette poster
NR

In the center of the story is an old bachelor, honest man who is unable to prove his honesty because his only proof, a statuette, has been broken. The film is set in the earliest days of socialism after the WW2.

The Statuette

1972

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

The Chicken Stealers poster
NR

At the very end of the WW2, two Croatian Home Guard soldiers run home in German uniforms. They managed to save their lives and spent most of their time stealing chickens and eggs for their superior officer. Their uncertain journey ends with the last task: to escort the arrested partisan agent.

The Chicken Stealers

1968

Wet Skin poster
NR

In a construction company faced with the suspension of production due to lack of profitability, an engineer still believes in the effectiveness of his work in the province, however it affects the relationship with the girlfriend.

Wet Skin

1966

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

My Dear Benefactors poster
NR

The satirical story is about the abuse of provincial party managers in the 1970s.

My Dear Benefactors

1970

The Tamburitza Players poster
7.0

It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.

The Tamburitza Players

1982

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

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

Deps poster
6.5

A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.

Deps

1974

Find a Way, Comrade poster
8.0

Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.

Find a Way, Comrade

1981

Accidental Life poster
6.9

Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.

Accidental Life

1969

The Deer Hunt poster
7.4

I. S. returns after many years to his hometown, from which he escaped after WW II, fearing that, as a civil clerk of the NDH, could suffer prosecution from the new government. He has been falsely accused to be a member of Ustasha movement.

The Deer Hunt

1972

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

The Scar poster
NR

The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.

The Scar

1969

Master of His Own Body poster
7.1

Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.

Master of His Own Body

1957