Acting

Etta Bortolazzi

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Known for

Operation Barbarossa poster
10.0

Operation Barbarossa is a kids TV show, based on the novel The Mysterious Boy by Ivan Kušan. It is a story about a boy who for some time lives in the belief that he is to blame for the death of a friend, a peer, who drowned in the Sava river. In order to cover up his death, the boy takes his name (because he had just come to Zagreb when he disappeared) also goes to another school. Thus, in two shifts (before noon - afternoon), he tries to be a student in two schools and gets into many dramatic situations. The riddle is, of course, solved by Kušan's main character Koko.

Operation Barbarossa

1990

Beggars and Sons poster
9.4

Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.

Beggars and Sons

1984

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 Big Town poster
9.0

This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.

The Big Town

1980

Psychopaths poster
8.0

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

Psychopaths

1974

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

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

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 Three Men of Melita Zganjer poster
5.5

Melita is a young, perky and plumpy pastry shop worker who spends her evenings avoiding social gatherings, watching Latin American telenovelas, putting up with the constant romantic rendez vous of her roommate Višnja and fantasizing about, one day, being in a happy relationship with a mysterious and exotic stranger. What she doesn't realize, however, is that she has a secret admirer, the pastry shop's delivery driver Janko.

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer

1998

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.2

On a small island in the Adriatic, tensions rise between the local population and the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army. The locals try to fight the enemy with song, dance, music and motivational speeches, but, major Aleksa, the head of the batallion situated on the island, threatens to blow their barracks up with everyone inside them if the civilians don't retreat.

How the War Started on My Island

1996

Stela poster
6.0

Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.

Stela

1990

Recognition poster
8.0

During the Croatian War of Independance, Ana's home was raided, her family killed and she herself raped by a Serbian soldier named Mihajlo. Years have gone by, Ana had moved to Zagreb, found a boyfriend and managed to atleast partially get over her trauma. However, when she recognizes Mihajlo from the dozens of patrons in a bar, her painful memories flood right back. She tries to turn to bother her boyfriend and the police for help, but, when neither of them believe her, she's forced to take the situation into her own hands.

Recognition

1996

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

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 10 titles

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

Psychopaths poster
8.0

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

Psychopaths

1974

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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