Irena Vrkljan

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.

Portraits and Encounters was a TV Zagreb documentary series created in the period from 1960 to 1971. It portrayed the life and work of the most distinguished Croatian painters, poets, and avant-gardists of the Croatian cultural milieu. Half a century later, the author reconstructs some of the episodes, while the screenwriter Irena Vrkljan meets with the past.

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Poetic documentary about the cityscape of Berlin.

A weathered portrait of Berlin: Irena Vrkljan has conversations at the social margins of the city, films as Wolf Biermann serenades the Wall, shows the trash of affluence at a dump in Grunewald, new housing developments on the periphery where commuters go to sleep and the student protests at the university.

A weathered portrait of Berlin: Irena Vrkljan has conversations at the social margins of the city, films as Wolf Biermann serenades the Wall, shows the trash of affluence at a dump in Grunewald, new housing developments on the periphery where commuters go to sleep and the student protests at the university.

Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.

Short experimental documentary about an abandoned town.

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.

Short documentary about a house that will soon be demolished.