
Acting
Branko Meničanin
Born
1964-05-03 (62)
Place of birth
Karlovac, Croatia
Known for
Acting
Credits
20 titles
Branko "Pjer" Meničanin (1964) is a Croatian actor, whose extensive experience includes appearances in film, television, animation dubbing, and over eighty theater roles.
Known for
9.0A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964.
The Diary of the Great Perica
2021
7.2A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.
The Last Socialist Artefact
2021
Daša, a succsesful entrepeneur, returns to Croatia to take care of her dying mother after years of working abroad, learning to value her family and take the wheel as the new head of the household.
Mum, Dad and I
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6.5Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
The Priest's Children
2013
NRAfter discovering corruption among the school administration, three seniors and a freshman break into their high school to obtain evidence that would bring the perpetrators to light.
Placement Exam
2025
3.5In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown disease they have a closer look at the military's activities...
Project Alien
1990
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRAfter discovering corruption among the school administration, three seniors and a freshman break into their high school to obtain evidence that would bring the perpetrators to light.
Placement Exam
2025
6.3A road trip comedy about a pig that is about to lose her virginity amid a brewing war.
Even Pigs Go to Heaven
2022
2010s · 4 titles
6.5Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
The Priest's Children
2013
5.9A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
What a Country!
2018
NRThe third part of "Zagreb Stories" franchise that connects short films about Zagreb into one whole. The plot of six short stories takes place during public holidays.
Zagreb Stories 3
2015
5.8One accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.
One Shot
2013
2000s · 5 titles
8.0Croatian countryside. Middle of the night. Darko, owner of the local agricultural discount-shop wakes up the vicar of the small parish church to reveal his own dark secret to him. But that's not the only thing Darko is planning to reveal to vicar.
The Last Communion
2005
After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge, deciding to blackmail the denizens of the small village of Pušća Bistra, seeing them as the sole culprits for his misfortune.
Pusca Bistra
2005
7.0It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.
Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day
2000
7.0The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
2002
5.1After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes and takes her daughter for a break at the seaside.
The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
2001
1990s · 5 titles
3.5In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown disease they have a closer look at the military's activities...
Project Alien
1990
9.0Vojvodina, 1991. A Croatian civilian POW named Ivan manages to escape a Serbian prison camp. Finding nowhere else to go, he spends the night on a seemingly wealthy plot of land. The next morning, he's discovered by its owner, a Serb named Stevan, who offers him two choices. Either Ivan stays and does Stevan's dirty work, or he surrenders him to Serbian paramilitary authorities. During his stay he meets Ana, Stevan's daughter-in-law, whose trapped in a loveless marriage with his violent son Dušan, whose currently situated on the frontlines somewhere in Croatia. Finding company in each other's sorrow, the two Croats slowly begin to fall in love.
The Price of Life
1994
5.4After 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
10.0In 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
8.0Garcia, a young Argentinian Croat, tries to find out the truth about the motives behind the seemingly politically motivated murder of his father. But, when signs start pointing to his mother's new husband Mihovil, he begins to doubt his cause.
Garcia
1999
Series credits
9.0A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964.
The Diary of the Great Perica
2021
7.2A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.
The Last Socialist Artefact
2021
9.0Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.
The Foreigner
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