Emil Glad

Acting

Emil Glad

Acting credits

A Doctor's Night poster
NR

Based on novel by M. Cihlar Nehajev, this TV drama testifies the position of intellectuals before the First World War. It raises several questions: what is the price of intellectual work, what’s the position of inteligentsia in the Croatian province, and what’s their role in the political movements.

A Doctor's Night

1990

The Magician's Hat poster
6.4

Thistle the magician and his forest friends take on the emperor Mrazomor and his horde of ice witches.

The Magician's Hat

1990

No artwork available
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

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

Lapitch the Little Shoemaker poster
5.5

Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.

Lapitch the Little Shoemaker

1997

Rifle at the Crack of Dawn poster
NR

The plot takes place in Croatia during and immediately after the April war in 1941. The protagonists are a group of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army of Croatian nationality, some of whom will join the Ustashas and the newly founded NDH after the war, and some the anti-fascist movement.

Rifle at the Crack of Dawn

1981

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

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

The Emperor's New Clothes poster
6.6

The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.

The Emperor's New Clothes

1961

The Golden Years poster
7.7

Twenty years after the Croatian Spring autonomist movement had been crushed by Yugoslavia's communist goverment, autonomist Jakov Petras returns to Zagreb from a self-imposed exile in Australia, determined to find the truth about the mysterious murder of his ex-girlfriend Sunčana and the disappearence of his younger brother Mislav.

The Golden Years

1992

The Ninth Circle poster
7.0

In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.

The Ninth Circle

1960

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

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

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

The Glembays poster
7.3

The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.

The Glembays

1988

The Third Woman poster
5.5

In the Autumn of 1991 Croatia is fighting for independence and the capital Zagreb is plagued by air raid alerts and blackouts. Hela Martinic is a reporter, who returns to her home town from Australia, called by her old friend Vera Kralj. Soon after arrival, she is told her friend was killed in a traffic accident. At the funeral she meets some people who Vera was involved in some sinister activities and she begins her own investigation.

The Third Woman

1997

No artwork available
5.6

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

Journalist poster
6.8

Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.

Journalist

1979

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

When Birds Sing poster
NR

In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.

When Birds Sing

1988