Acting

Etta Bortolazzi

Acting credits

Mad House poster
NR

A new unpleasant tenant is moving into a Jewish apartment. One of the old tenants decides to scare him away with the help of the ghost of the Jewish family's patriarch.

Mad House

1972

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer poster
5.5

Protagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer

1998

Tena poster
7.0

Tena, a young Slavonian woman becomes aware of her own beauty which makes her fall into a state of moral decay. Her newly discovered promiscuity eventually makes her fellow villagers turn on her.

Tena

1975

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

Lead Communion poster
NR

On the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.

Lead Communion

1995

The Istrian Way poster
10.0

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

The Istrian Way

1985

Psychopaths poster
8.0

A TV film based on Chekhov’s 'Ariadna'.

Psychopaths

1974

No artwork available
NR

"The Emperor is Having Fun" is a Yugoslav black-and-white television drama produced by RTV Zagreb and broadcast in 1975. It was directed by Berislav Makarovic, and the screenplay was written by Gojko Sobota. The protagonist is the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, and the plot shows how he decides to direct a theater play and forces the courtiers to act in it in order to show their true colors.

The Emperor Is Having Fun

1975

Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing poster
5.8

In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather, who had been labled as an enemy of the state and sentenced to a prison camp, was actually been innocent all along.

Fragments: A Chronicle of a Vanishing

1991

Man and Architecture poster
NR

The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.

Man and Architecture

1977

Recognition poster
8.0

During the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.

Recognition

1996

Illusion poster
7.0

The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.

Illusion

1967

High Voltage poster
6.0

After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.

High Voltage

1981

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

The Enchanted Prince poster
NR

A mouthy frog gets his wish when a princess’s kiss turns him into a human. But just because he’s got a voice doesn’t mean he has much to say.

The Enchanted Prince

1978

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.3

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

How the War Started on My Island

1997

Three Girls Named Ana poster
5.8

A retired tram driver tries to find his daughter named Ana whom he lost in the Second World War.

Three Girls Named Ana

1959

No artwork available
NR

The story follows two journalists from Zagreb who go to a Pannonian town to report on wild radio stations. There they discover an unusual radio station that broadcasts news that is not usually released to the public. As they are collecting information about it, they get drawn into local affairs more than they hoped and wanted.

Ether

1985

Zadar's Memento poster
5.5

The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.

Zadar's Memento

1984

The Dangerous Journey poster
5.8

In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.

The Dangerous Journey

1963

Two Stories from the Seaside poster
NR

The first story is about the wife and the daughter of a sailor, and various ties that connect him to the people in his homeland. The second story takes place on a ship that has just been delivered to the cutting room where the old sailor and his faithful dog are.

Two Stories from the Seaside

1979

Whole World Is Silly! poster
NR

During the days of carnival festivities, two gentlemen from Split become victims of their own ambitions. While looking for a husband for the widow Redja, Piero gets entangled in his own webs, while his friend Niko does everything he can to avoid getting a mother-in-law along with his future wife.

Whole World Is Silly!

1971

The American Yacht in the Split Harbour poster
NR

Based on the play by Milan Begović. One day a stunning yacht enters the Split harbor, the owner is an American who served as young boy in local aristocratic household.

The American Yacht in the Split Harbour

1969

The Organ and the Firemen poster
NR

A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.

The Organ and the Firemen

1974